Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1906-06-29
NEWS N MINNESOTA
EVENTS or A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

OUT THE STATE.
Timothy Hennessey, a resident Of
Saltwater since 1852, is dead, aged
sixty eight.
About 500 teachers and others are
attending the summer school at the
Winona normal.
Over 400 Minnesota bankers met in
seventeenth annual convention at
Lake M1nnetonka last week.
o. X. stromme of vasa is dead in a
Red Wing hospital as result of in
juries sustained in a runaway.
The annual convention of the Min
nesota State Medical association was
held at Minneapolis last week.
Patrolman Louis Calvin of st. Paul
has been suspended pending investi-
cation Of the charge that he robbed
butcher shop.
i. Albert Dewey, cousin of Admiral
Dewey, died at Duluth while on his
way from Forman. N. D.. to his home
N mVASQeAAeI, W.
D. K. ]. Clark, one of the Oldest
and best known residents of Big
Stone county, is dead at Ortonville,
aged seventy-eight years.
Herman H. Chapman, graduate
Of tho st. Paul Central high school,
has accepted q position as lecturer in
the school of forestry at Yale.
liver Thompson, an aged farmer uv.
Ing three miles west of Climax, was
drowned In Sand Hill river as the re-
suit of the oyerturning Of buggy.
Gregor Mcneil, a pioneer resident
u Minneapolis and for a generation
one Of her most honored citizens, is
dead at Tacoma, WASH, aged seventy
nine. 90
A complete census of the city of
Demidu has just been completed and
shows the population now to be 5,191.
This Is an increase Of 1891 over the
census Of 1905.
The Superior and Pittsburg Copper
company, capitalized at $4,000, 900,
has fled articles of incorporation with
the secretary of state. Duluth men
are behind the company.
Dfedrich Anderson, employed in the
lumber mill of Brooks Bros. at st.
Paul, was caught in the betting of a
gang saw and died a few minutes
later from fracture of the skull.
Chester Messimer, private in the
Tenth battery, stationed at Fort Smell
ling, was drowned at Eden Prairie
last week. It is thought Messimer
was kicked by his horse and fell of
while the troop was fording the river.
The fourteen-months-old daughter
OF Mr.. and Mrs. William Ringhand of
Ramsey, Anoka county, drowned in a
pail containing only four inches of
water. The little tot lost her balance
and fell in head first When found
she was dead. ....
A. G. Almquist, an employee at the
Minneapolis Steel and Machinery com
pany's plant, was struck in the head
by falling beam while at work in
the cOmpany's yards and so badly
hurt that he died few hours later at
st. Mary's hospital.
Five days in the workhouse, with
no chance to evade Imprisonment by
the payment Of fine, was the sen
tence pronounced in the Minneapolis
police court upon George Gagne, who
had confessed to having driven his
automobile faster than the limit al
lowed by law.
Mary Bertha Homme, who sued Ia
Dor Thurston, a wealthy farmer, for
alleged breach of promise of marriage,
was given $4,000 by a Crookston jury
Miss Homme sued for $4,000 The suit
was the outgrowth of an advertise
ment for a wife inserted by Thurston
In a CrOokston paper
The state supreme court has af-
firmed the findings of the Ramsey
county district court in the suit of
Clara Raasch against the Elite Laun-
dry company of St. Paul. Miss Raasch
was badly injured while operating a
machine in the laundry and the jury
awarded her damages of $500.
Excitement at Santiago, Sherburne
county, over the discovery of iron is
on the increase. Parties of mining
men have arrived from Chicago and
Duluth and drills at once will be put
In. operation to determine the depth
Of the iron vein. It is believed the
deposit covers territory several
miles in extent.
The contract for grading the first
three miles out of Albert Lea for the
Duluth, st. Cloud, Glencoe and Man.
kato, generally known as the alpha
bet" line, has been let to H. F. Balch
& Co. Of Minneapolis and the work is
to begin at once. The grading is to
be completed in ninety days or less
and the management is anxious to get