Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1906-11-02
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE,

M. Plouf, eighty years Of age, was
brutally assaulted and robbed in front
of his own residence in Minneapolis.
Leech Lake Indians Saturday re-
ceived their annual payment from the
government, the total aggregatlng
$125, 900.
Mike and Joe Cantillon have pur-
chased the Minneapolis baseball team.
The price paid is said to be in the
neighborhood Of 100000.
Frank A. Johnson, aged sixteen,
was hit by a street car at Minneapolis
and sustained a fractured skull His
injuries are considered fatal.
Thomas Welch, sixty-three years
old, was killed by 4 train at tho rail-
road crossing in Minneapolis where
he had for years been hagman.
A ten-pound daughter has been born
10 Mrs. Kataro Nakahars at the st.
Paul city hospital. It is the: first Japa-
nese baby ever born In st. Paul.
John c. Ryan, ased sixty one. = St.
Paul blacksmith, was run down by a
street car at Minneapolis and sus-
tanned injuries which resulted IN death
several hours later. -.
John e. Layne, q Contractor, tried at
Minneapolis for manslaughter for
causing the death of Henry Steven.
son, another contractor, during a quar-
rel, has been acquitted.
While hunting at Long lake, neal
Grove City, Anton Swanson and Carl
Rosander were tipped into the lake
and the latter was drowned. Swan:
son managed to cling to the boat and
was rescued.
A genuine epidemic Of swamp fever
Is reported to have broken out among
the horses in the town of Meadows,
fifteen miles west of Fergus Falls
Eleven Of the animals have died and a
great many are sick.
Sun Lee, Chinese laundryman, was
robbed of $115 in Minneapolis Friday
night. Lee loft the laundry to deliver
a package and on returning found a
man rif1ing his trunk. The latter
Jumped through a window and es
capped.
One of the most daring burglaries
OF the season at Minneapolis occurred
Thursday night when Williams cigar
stand, on the ground floor of the city
hall, not more than fifty feet from po
lice headquarters, was broken into
and looted.
Six horses and three mules were
shot on the farm of Gibson Bros, just
north Of st. James, by the state au
thoritfes. The animals were affected
with CHAMBERS. This is the first case
Of CHAMBERS in Watonwan county In
some years.
w. P. Mason, promoter for the Min
neapolis, Rochester and Dubuque Trac
ton company, is in Chatfeld with q
corps of engineers and surveyors. Mr.
Mason says that there is no doubt thai
electric cars will be running through
Chatield next summer.
An ore train on the Duluth and Iron
Range at Mile Post Is ran over and
killed Frank Lord, an old time woods
man in the employ of Abner Smith. II
Is said that Lord undertook to save a
dog from being run over and sacrificed
his own life in the attempt.
Hog cholera has again made an ap
pearance in Watonwan county and is
literally reaping down the hogs. Il
first made it's appearance near Ma
della and In the short space of two OF
three days brought a loss of about
$4,000 to the farmers of that com
munity.
DR.. Henry Dixon Jones, formerly
rector Of the Church Of the Messiah
st. Paul, died suddenly in Portland
Ore. When his wife awoke in the
morning she found him dead in bed
"a physician was summoned and pro
nounced tho cause Of death as heart
failure.
John Roehl, a carpenter, was killed
/ by rapidly moving car at Minneap
oils. A heavy rain was falling at the
time. which obscured the motoneer's
vision. Roehl was very deaf and did
not hear tho car approaching. HI.
|ekdn Wa1 fractured and he died within
two hours.
An increase Of $8,000.o0o over thu
returns Of the county boards and ar
increase Of nearly $20,000,0o0 over thu
values fixed on personal property BY
the state board last year are shown By
the completed figures on the Increases
and decreases ordered by the state
board Of equalization this year. The
total value as determined by the board
is $189, 459,270.
Joseph Smith, whose home is IL
Chicago, met a warm reception on his
arrival in Minneapolis last week. Nc
sooner had he stepped off the train al
the Union station than he was robbed
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