Little Falls herald., 1906-08-24

Iuey were Tlulng.
Alexander B. Lyon, for thirty years
q conductor on the Hastings and Da-
kota division of the Milwaukee road,
10 dead at Minneapolis.
Rue M. Riegel, fifteen years old,
only son Of Mr.. and Mrs. J. M. Riegel,
was drowned in the Mississippi river
at st. Paul while bathing.
Frank Hodmarck, an eightyear- old
boy, was drowned while bathing in a
pool OF water in a deserted quarry on
the outskirts of Minneapolis.
The explosion of a mold used by
the city railway company in Welding
rails at St. Paul injured several people
by shower of molten metal.
James T. Mcmillan, aged sixty.
seven, one of ST.. Paul's pioneer citi-
zens and the first man to establish a
packing plant in that city, is dead.
Monday, Sept. 3, has been desig-
mated as Labor day by Governor John
son in a proclamation in which he
pays a high tribute to the laboring
man.
w. r. Alexander of Two Harbors, a
brakeman on the Duluth and Iron
Range road, fell from engine No. 76
at Eveleth as the result of a sunstroke
and was killed.
Frank Wenver is the first Blue
Earth county farmer to finish thresh-
Ing and reports yield of twenty-five
bushels of No. wheat to the acre and
torty-fve bushels of oats.
Mrs. Augusta Windhorn, eighty-two
years old, was fatally burned at her
home in the town of Stark, Brown
county, as result of attempting to
start fire with kerosene.
Estimates furnished by PASSENGER
officials show that the railroads hauled
In approximately $4,000 people to the
Twin Cities last week on account of
the G.. A. R. national encampment.
While on his way home from work
at Minneapolis Fred krouse, eighteen
years OF age, was run into by a sup
ply car on the street railway tracks
and was so badly crushed that he died
within few hours.
William Wakefield, aged eighty-one,
Tor fifty years a resident of St. Paul
and one of the best known old set
tiers In the city, is dead. Mr.. Wake
field had been i'll but short time and
his death was due to old age.
The saloon of Albert Zinsky, West
st. Paul, was held up at o'clock in
the afternoon by lone highwayman.
The bartender, Joe Gilowsky, was
beaten into insensibility and the cash
register was robbed of all it con-
tanned, amounting to SIS.
While trying to avoid a collision
with buggy containing woman and
two children Kenneth Rand, the
eighteen-year-old son of A. T. Rand of
Minneapolis, was thrown from his auto.
mobile at Excelsior and received in
juries that may prove fatal.
August Bernhardt, prominent
farmer, committed suicide while in a
field on his farm in the town and
county of Nicollet. Death evidently
resulted from poisoning, but the kind
Of drug used is not known The body
was found in the field after the man
had been dead some time.
George Lally, who has had charge
OF the Minnesota Mailing company's
elevator at Rice station, Goodhue
county, was found dead in the pasture
where he had gone to milk the cow.
He was forty years old and is sur
vived by family. It is presumed
that death was due to heart failure.
A. l.. Cole & Co. of Akeley have
closed deal with the Red River Lum-
Der company for forty-acre tract of
land one and half miles south of
Akeley and at once will begin the con-
struction Of packinghouse. It is said
that the firm intends to buy up all of
the available cattle in Northern Min
nesOta.
popular appeal for campaign con-
tr1butions has been sent broadcast
throughout the state bE the Repub-
lican state central committee. The
appeal is signed by Chairman A. B,
Cole and Secretary c. H. Warner and
calls upon every. voter in the state to
contribute as generously as he can to
the funds for the Republican battle
this year.
In a circular to county auditors At
torney General Young advises that
women had better be allowed to vote
at the primaries for school superin-
tendents. He does not withdraw his
opinion recently given that women
have no right to vote at the primaries.
but since there has been some contro-
veTsy on the question he advises that
they be allowed to vote and the votes
be kept separate.
Governor Johnson has ordered the
railroad and warehouse commission to
compel the three Northern roads to
put into effect the grain rate which
they proposed as a compromise early
last week. The governor is of the
opinion that if these roads were will.
Ing to make a reduction of.10 per cent
on grain, which they can afford to do
Dy their own. statement thov should