Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1906-11-16
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF "A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

OUT THE STATE.
Mrs. Emma M. Jensen, a resident Of
st. Paul since 1856, is dead.
The proposition to divide Itasca
county carried at the recent election.
John Lofgren is dead at St. Paul of
Iockjaw caused by stepping on a rusty
nail.
Otto Larsen, a stranger, fell from
the bluff at the foot of Cedar street,
St. Paul, and was killed.
Mrs. Caroline C. Auxer was elected
superintendent of schools of Becker
county at last weeks election.
South st. Paul aldermen have
passed a resolution demanding en-.
forcement Of the laws regulating sa-
looms and gambling.
Oscar Jensen, the seventeen-months-
old SOL OF Anton Jensen of Minneap-
| oils, was drowned in a washtub full of
water in the yard at the rear Of his
home.
Alfonso Gelisan, twenty-five years
Of age, took an overdose Of choral
hydrate in his room in Minneapolis.
He died fifteen minutes later. It is
supposed to be a case Of suicide.
Minnesota university football team
defeated the University of Chicago
eleven by a score Of 4 to 2. Thou
sands of Minnesotans journeyed to
Chicago to witness the contest.
Deeds conveying some large timber
tracts to the Rainy Lake company
have been filed with the register of
deeds at International Falls. The total
consideration named is $1,422,792.
The South Saltwater council has
| elected Charles Dahlin village treas
urer to succeed julius Eckert, who
mys%teriously disappeared and is now
known to be living in Washington.
Daniel A. Kemp, one of the earliest
settlers of Minnesota, is dead at Lang
don, aged seventy-ffve years. Mr..
| Kemp reached Minnesota in 1854 and
settled on a farm, where he has since
resided.
William Kleinfelter of st. Paul, EN-.
ployed as a switchman, was run down
by a switch engine in the Payne ave-
nue. yards of the Omaha railway and
died a short while afterwards from his
! injuries.
J John Carlson, sixty-one years of age,
; who has been working on a farm neal
! M~ianetonka committed suicide by
! placing ar old shotgun against his
breast and ehoutiAg the charge of
; shot into his heart
There are several cases OF dfph-
liberia at Elk Rfvsr and in order to
prevent It, spread the board Of educa-
ton has closed the schools for a week,
or as much logger as may prove to be
necessary. So Tar there have been
nine oases. all Of them Of a very mild
nature.
At the monthly meeting Of tho trus-
tees Of the Massachusetts, state san
itartum, Dr. waller J. Marcley, super
intendout Of the sanfta1um, resigned
to become superintendent of the
Minnesota state sanitarium for tuber-
culosts patients now being built at
Walker.
An epidemic of influenza which
broke out among tho horses in Ben
ton county a few weeks ago has
spread rapidly and apparently has Sc
cured a firm fsothold. About 500 ami
mails now are affected and although
there have been but a few fatal cases
the horses are rendered unit for use.
Captain J. ". Lawrence, aged sixty,
head OF the government secret service
for the st. Paul district, was found
dead in bed at his lodging house in
st. Paul Saturday. Death was due to
heart disease. Captain Lawrence had
been stationed a. q government post
Office inspector in St. Paul for many
years.
Determined to make certain his at
tempt to end his existence Philip
Smith Of Cloquet, aged sixty years,
weighted his body with heavy stones,
waded into the river and fred a bullet
into his head. Death probably was
instantaneous and the body sank at
once to the bottom of the river, where
it was found several days later.
AL last weeks election the question
of dividing Norman county was voted
upon and carried by a majority of 500
or 600. The White Earth Indian reser.
walton portion Of Norman county, con
sisting Of sixteen townships, will con
stitute the new county, to be known
as Mahnomen county, with the village
Of Mahnomen as the county seat.
Word has been received At Winona
from Cameron, Mo-, Of the death Of H.
J. O'Neill, a former millionaire of the
former city. At one time he owned all
the grain elevators in Southern Min.
nesota and bought most Of the barley
raised in that section. He was known
all ~ the country as the BARLEY
king" He wes hftyn'ae years old.
Hearings under the resolution of the
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