Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1906-02-23
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE,


decided in favor of Bagley.
Grain stocks now at the Head of the
Lakes amount to 17,750,000 bushels,
the largest total on record.
Swan 3. Molander of st. Paul has
announced his candidacy for the Re-
publican nomination as secretary of
state.
Matt Lafisto, aged twenty-five years,
was instantly killed at McReavey's
logging camp near Akeley while fell
ing tree.
Owen Ryan was burned to death in
fire that destroyed his home at Hal
lock, kittson county. Mrs. Ryan and
five children escaped.
Retail grocers of the state, in ses.
sion at Rochester, went on record as
being bitterly opposed to the premium
schemes of some manufacturers.
Rev, H. c. Cheadle, a Presbyterian
minister who has served in various
cities of the state since 1872, is dead
at Blue Earth City, aged seventy-seven
years.
BY using gasoline in mistake for
kerosene to light fire Mrs. Katherine
Bach of Minneapolis was so severely
burned that she died within a few
hours.
The Minnesota conference of the
Swedish Lutheran church, in session
at St. Paul, reelected Rev. ]. A. Krantz
of Duluth president and reelected all
the old officers.
Governor johnson has decided that
the law restricting the number of per-
sons that may witness an execution
was not violated at the hanging of
William Williams in St. Paul.
inconsistencies and worry over the
condition of her parents, who live in
Russia, wrecked Ada Brooks mind
and she committed suicide by hang.
ing at her home in Minneapolis
After attempting to take the life of
a woman with whom he had been liv.
Ing George Wilson, aged thirty years.
well known character about Ten
Strike, committed suicide by shooting.
Edward O. Fellows, the former Min
neapol is fuel man found guilty Of
grand larceny In tho first degree by a
jury in the district court, has been
sentenced to one year in the state
penitentiary.
Mrs. A. M. Pierce of Bemidji mar.
row1y escaped death as a result of be.
Ing poisoned by eating adulterated
candy and had it not been for the
timely arrival of a physician undoubt
eddy would have died. ..'
Carl Arthur Johnson, charged with
being one of the murderers of Charles
Otto Bader at Minneapolis several
weeks ago, has been discharged by
Judge Smith of the police court upon
motion of the county attorney.
According to their statements the
three banks in Albert Lea have com.
bined capital stock and surplus of
$247,5 500 and the nine in Freedom coun-
ty $s50,300. The total deposits for the
nine banks foots up $1,4S6,68S97.
Charles Pearson died at the st. Paul
city hospital Thursday from injuries
received in fall On the sidewalk an
hour previously. Pearson was fifty.
one years Of age and had been a resi-
dent of ST. Paul for twenty-five wears
Receivers have been appointed for
the Widell-Finley company, contrac
tors of Mankatc. The liabilities are,
estimated at over $500, 000, with assets
of considerably less. The concern has
contracts in eleven states aggregatine
81 100000.
The supreme court has upheld the
amendment passed by the last legis
latnre in the Hennepin county salary
law of 1908, with the result that GER
tain Ramsey county officers will con.
time to enjoy their fee Offices until
after the census Of 1910.
The shooting and killing of Edward
Dickens at Minneapolis last week has
been declared an accident by the
grand jury. Mrs. Mary Dickens, the
wife, who has been held charged with
the killing, has been indicated by
the jury and released from Jail.
Leeds Greene of Sheboygan, Wis.
has filed notice with the Hennepin
county probate court of a protest of
the will Of his mother, the late Ella F.
Switzerland. The son, Leeds Greene,
who is nineteen years of age, is al
lowed only 81 in the will now pending
In the probate court. the value of the
estate being $6,400.
Sixty-f1ve head Of cattle have been
killed at country points throughout
the state in the past fifteen days by
the live stock sanitary board in it's
fight against tuberculosis The herds
from which the affected cattle were
taken belong to dairies which supply
milk to the Twin Cities and the ami
mails were tested at the request of the
owners.
Charles A. Moody, a prominent bust
ness man of Warroad and until re-
Gently deputy collector of customs at
that place, was given a hearing in St.
Paul Saturday morning before United
States Court Commissioner Spencer m