Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1906-03-30
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

Alfred Scheffer, prominent st.
Paul business man, is dead, aged forty
six.
+ Louis <Schilling, city clerk of New
ulm for twenty years, is dead, aged
seventy-one years.
A dozen cases of smallpox have
been found at Eagle Lake, small vii
lage just outside Mankato.
Hamline university is to have a
$4,000 Carnegie library as soon as it
raises an endowment Of $1,000 for it's
maintenance.
w. ]. Connolly, a merchant of Ben.
son, was found dead in his bed in the
Grand Central hotel in st. Paul from
accidental gas poisoning.
William Priebe, twenty-one years
old, living enc mile north of High
wood. a st. Paul suburb, was killed
Instantly by falling tree. les.
H. G. Coykendall, for more than
twenty years resident of Merriam
| Park. st. Paul, and one of the veteran
railroad builders of the Northwest, is
dead. 5,:fs5fS$$*s
Charles A. Elmendorf, for ten years
Twin City manager of the w. w. Kim
ball Piano company and one Of. the
most prominent piano men Of the
Northwest, is dead at Minneapolis.
Erin Dunlap, a pioneer of Minnesota,
IL dead at Duluth at the age of sixty
six. He served throughout the Civil
war as orderly sergeant of Company
Of the Forty-third volunteer infantry
Charles Peterson, a switchman in
the employ of the Northern Pacific
Railroad company, slipped and fell un-
der a switch engine Sunday at Min
neapOlis and was run over and killed.
A bill has been introduced by Rep
resentative Fletcher providing for the
! erection at Fort Smelling of an armory
and arsenal, the plant to manufacture
and supply small arms to the troops
In the Northwest.
Henry W. Wheeler. a wealthy real
| estate owner of Duluth, is dead at the
! age of eighty-five. He had been a resi-.
dent of Duluth for fifty-one years and
| was closely identified with the early
growth Of the city.
By the will of the late BARNARD
| Meyer Of Mankato, who died during
the winter at. the age of ninety-seven,
years, all OF his property, with small
exception, will go to the German Cath.
olic institutions in that city.
Suit has been. brought by the state
against the Western Union Telegraph
company to recover the balance al
legged to be due on the taxes for the
years 1901, 1902, 1903 and 1904,
| amounting in the aggregate to $685.
s31.3g.
At q meeting of the Minneapolis
Team Owners union it was decided to
raise the scale for teams for the year
1907. The rates will be 500 per
month for sprinlling carts and gar
bage wagons and so cents an hour for
day work.
Representatives Stevens, VOlstead
and Davis appeared before the house
| committee on claims last week and
claim of Minnesota for reimbursement
for expenses incurred in connection
| with Indian uprisings in the state.
A note Of issue was filed with the
| clerk Of the Hennepin county district
court Saturday in the case of Grace
Hayward Ferris against Richard Fer
r1s, the we'll known actor. The plead
| 1ngs have not been filed and the attor-
,, neys refuse to make public the grounds
for the divorce prayed for
The Great Northern and the North
ern Pacific have made an agreement
whereby they will use jointly their
tracks on the east side of the Missis-
s1ppi between st. Paul and St. Cloud.
This will give the roads a double track
service between the two points, for
the two tracks are parallel all the way
A four-year-o old son of Emil Asp of
South saltwater was burned to death
and the frame dwelling of the family
burned to the ground late Thursday
afternoon. The boys mother was Sc.
verely burned about the face and her
hair. was burned off in an attempt to
enter the door Of the flaming building
to rescue the child.
Articles OF incorporation have been
filed with the secretary of state by the,
W1llmar Peat Fuel company, which
was organized in Willmar last week,
with a capital stock of $4,000. The
company is making preparations to
erect a factory near the peat bogs
about two miles south of Willmar for
the manufacture of peat fuel.
The village of Lakefield has filed
petition for the removal of the county
seat of Jackson county from Jackson
to Lakefield. They have obtained
2.040 names on the petition, 1900 be-
Ing necessary. Jackson people will
seek to get Withdrawals enough from
the petition to nullify it and to pre-
vent the question from coming to
vote. 81
The papers in the 5000 libel suit