Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1906-11-30
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

Henry Wilt, aged twenty-nine years,
was killed by street car at Duluth.
Lee Raymond of st. Cloud was kill
ed by an explosion near Brandon,
Man.
Christian E. Popp, who had re-
sided in st. Paul ffty-two years, is
dead.
The gate receipts of the Carlisle
Minnesota game at Minneapolis we're
$31, 900.
Lathrop and William A. Musetter,
former st. Paul men, lost their lives
In a fire at Regina, Canada.
Mrs. Maria L. Hawthorne, aged
ninety-three years, is dead at st. Paul,
where she had resided for forty-seven
years.
Five residents of Shakopee have
been sent to the Pasteur institute at
Chicago as the result of being bitten
by rabid dog.
Miss Gertrude Hill, youngest daugh-
ter of James J. Hill, was married at
St. Paul last week to Michael Gavin
of New York city.
The steamer Bun Hersey burned to
the waters edge while tied up at Still
water. A Waterman, the only person
on the boat at the time, escaped.
Gran receipts at Minneapolis from
Sept. 1 to Nov. 20 Of the present year
are 21,2S6,470 bushels short of the fig.
ures for the corresponding period Of
1905.
A.. w. Thompson, deputy state au-
ditor, has resigned his position and
G. S. Brown, land clerk in the Of
fee, has been appointed to fill the
place.
Jacob Frank of St. Paul cut his head
almost from his body during a fit of
dependency. He had been melan-
choly, it is said, since the death of his
wife two years ago.
Edwin E. Dowesland of Sank Rap
ids is dead after having lived for more
than fifteen years with a broken back.
His case is said to be without paral-
lei in medical practice in this coun.
try.
The Industrial Mercantile company,
a stock company composed of labor
union members that has been conduct
ing a dry goods and novelty store in
Mankato since July last, has filed a
petition in bankruptcy.
William Beauhart, the homesteader
who shot and killed Louis King at
Lake Emily, Cass county, a week or
more ago, mistaking him for a deer,
has been indicted for manslaughter
by the grand jury Of Cass county.
DR.. H. H. Wilcox of Albert Lee, one
of the Oldest practicing physicians in
that part of the state, has been ten
dered and has accepted the position
of surgeon-in.chief of the National Sol.
diers' home at Hot Springs, s. D.
Louis Brunnelle, the two-year-old son
of Albert Brunnelle of Red Lake Falls,
Is dead as the result of injuries in.
f1icted by toy tin whistle. The boy
was playing about the yard with the
jagged end in his mouth. He fell and
the jagged edge, where the mouth
piece was broken off, was driven into
his throat, severing an artery.
Accused of having started a fire in
one Of the dressing rooms of the Ly'
ceum theater at Minneapolis in an
effort to conceal an alleged theft OF
furs valued at $3.50 Evelyn Mars, one
Of the employees of the theater, is un'
der arrest on charge of arson. The
| police say the young woman has con
fessed that she took the furs and
started the fire.
| Thomas Edgerton, residing near
Garden City, while walking to the
home Of his married daughter, drop
| ped dead and was found by a neigh
Dor who was driving to town. Mr.
Edgerton was prominent farmer and
veteran Of the Civil war, being a
prisoner for several months in the
Cahawba (Ala.) prison. He settled in
Blue Earth county nearly fifty years
ago.
| Frank Quinn, one of the officers OF
the municipal court at Minneapolis
rescued Mrs. Henry Dutton, a negro
woman, and her two small children
from death In the old building at L.
Central avenue, Nicollet island. The
stairway by which Quinn carried the
two little children to the ground floor
was all ablaze when he descended
with his burden and collapsed as he
reached the bottom.
Norman Plufke, farm hand about
twenty-four years old, was killed by a
railroad train near Rochester. He and
a man named James Clarke, both
working for Gus Nelson of Rock Dell
visited town for a shaft for q corn
shredder. Returning, at dusk they
tried toscross the, track ahead OF thu
train going south near the old fair
grounds. Plufke was killed. but Clarke
was only stunned. Bath horses were
killed&and the buggy smashed.
! Lower street car fares, are ~ being
sought by st. Paul, Minneapolis, Du.
luth and Superior, wis., city officials.
At joint meeting in committee room
No. 1 OF the Hennepinr county court.
house officials Of the four cities, In.
! al,