Little Falls herald., 1906-11-23
NEWS IN MINNESO
EVENTS or. A WEEK THROUGH.
- &
ouT THE STATE.

Patrick Gillen, one Of the pioneer
residents of st. Paul, is dead, aged
eiehty-three years.
Nels Nelson, aged sixty-f1ve, car
penter, was crushed to death at the
Great Northern shops, st. Paul.
John J. Miller, aged eighty-two, a
president Of St. Paul since 1856, is
dead. He was veteran of the Civil
war.
Elections in which voting machines
are used are legal, under a decision
handed down by the state supreme
court.
Hendrick Erickson, one of the old
est residents Of Douglas county, is
dead from the effects of injuries re-
ceived in fall.
DR.. George B. Moore, for three years
surgeon for the st. Paul police de-
partment, is dead of pneumonia. He
was thirty,five years Of age.
Louis King, an engineer employed
| by the Cross Lake Logging company,
north Of Brainerd, was fatally shot
by William Butchette, who was hunt.
| ing deer.
Mayor-Elect Haynes of Minneapolis
has issued a positive statement to the
effect that he will compel saloons to
remain closed on Sunday after he as
sumes Office.
A states prison term of year and
a day and fine of $S95.11 was the
sentence meted out to Edwin D.
Holmes, former Detroit postmaster, in
the federal court at Fergus Falls.
Matthew D. Flanagan, foreman of
| a switching crew, was killed between
an engine and car in the Omaha
| railway yards at st. Paul. His neck
was broken and his chest crushed.
| Charles A. Nelson, the young man
who was charged with robbing the
postotfice at Dahl, Becker county,
pleaded guilty in the federal court at
Fergus Falls and was sentenced to
one year in the reformatory.
Moses Ward, young Indian char
ged with stealing a check for $3.50
| and cashing it after he had erased
| the cipher so that it would not be 50
large as to arouse suspicion, pleaded
guilty at Fergus Falls and was SEN
fenced to one year in the reformatory.
Section 16, the now famous Lydick
allotments at Cass Lake, will hence
forth be known as West Cass Lake.
An enthusiastic meeting of the di-
| rectors of the town was held recently
and the town was Incorporated under
the laws of the state with a capital Of
$4,000.
Hunters returning from their fa.
vorite hunting places in the northern
part of the state say that the geese
! are scarce this year as yet and few
are starting on their flight South
They attribuate this to the fact of the
exceptionally fine weather Of the fall,
and prophesy a 1ong continuation of
the mild temperature
While answering call to fire W.
A. ROdecker, assistant chief of the st.
Paul fire department, was seriously in
iured by being hurled into the exca-
yation Of the new Y. NJ. c. A. build
ing. His skull was fractured by strik-
ing on the rock bottom Of the exca-
/ vation and it is feared that he re-
ceived internal injuries.
The sawmill Of the Winona Lumber
company at Winona will not. open
again next season, having closed down
permanently, This is the third saw
mill at Winona to close in the last
few years, and there remains only the
| mill Of the Empire Lumber company,
which will remain in operation for
two or three years more.
Ben Guy, twenty-five years old, an
emDloye of the Crookston Lumber COM
pany at Bemidjf, was killed in a pc.
culiar manner. Guy was working on
a lath machine and raised the rolls
to look at the machine, when one of
the lath bolts flew through the air
| and hit him in the abdomen. He died
In a hospital several hours later.
While driving wagon from Madel;a
to. his home, three miles east of that
city, John w. Yeager, farmer, was
thrown out by wheel going into a
rut. He was caught in the running
gear and dragged backward for mile,
| the horses having taken fright when
! the driver fell out Yeager sustained
| injuries from which he died few
days later.
Theodore, the ten-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. T. Gottwalt, near Rice,
stearns county, probably fatally shot
his four-year-old sister Leon The
mother of the children had gone to
town and the father was out in the
field. The boy put his little sister in
q chair and taking thirty-two-c caliber
rife aimed it at her breast and fired.
The bullet passed clear through the
body Of the little girl, piercing her
lungs
The officials of the United States
land Office in Duluth have received Of
fetal notice that the Marshall land
district, with its Office at st. Cloud,
will be discontinued after Dec. IL and
the business of the district transfer
red to and consolidated with that of