Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1906-06-15
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OUT THE STATE.
Robert A. Smith has been sworn In
% mayor Of st. Paul for the eighth
time.
Mrs. Dorothy King, a resident Of
saltwater for many years, is dead,
aged seventy-six.
John Pavelka, aged eighty-six, killed
himself at Chatheld with a shotgun
while respondent over Ill health.
Sanford Swanson was instantly
killed at st. Paul by an electric light.
wire that had been broken by the
wind.
Thomas Sexton, st. Paul fireman,
while walking in his sleep fell through
q trapdoor and received serious In
juries. LIE. s.
An avalanche of ore crushed out
the life Of Louis Amato, an italian,
twenty-four years Of age, in the Mon
roe mine near Chisholm.
william Brown of Chicago, one of
the best known experts on horses in
the country, dropped dead at South st.
Paul during an auction sale Of horses.
Fred q. Hunt, the brilliant dramatic
critic of the Milwaukee Journal, who
was formerly one of the best known
newspaper writer's in the Twin Cities,
10 dead.
The steamer Park Bluff, one Of the
boats owned by Ex-Governor Van SAINT,
struck q bunch Of hidden piling in.
Lake st. Croix just below Saltwater
and welt to the bottom.
The bi-state convention of the Ger
man Methodist Epworth league and
Sunday schools of Minnesota and
North Dakota had a three days ses-
sion at New Ulm last week. --,-
James c. Morrison, for forty-four
years an employee of the Great North
srn road, is dead at st. Paul, aged sew
enty. He was the Oldest locomotive
engineer in the Twin Cities.
The state has commenced suit
against the Duluth and Northern Min
nesota railroad and the Minnesota and
Northern Wisconsin railroad to collect
the per cent gross earnings tax for
1905.
Despondent over fear that strong
desire for liquor would cause him to
backslide after his conversion Louis
Larson, young Swede living with his
parents near Osakis, committed sui
eide by hanging.
The recount in the st. Paul mayor
atty contest has been completed and
Mayor Smiths plurality of 1901 was
cut down sixty-eight. There were few
incidents during the recount which at
tracted public attention.
Andrew Carnegie has pledged $780,
900 toward the endowment fund of
Manchester college at st. Paul provided
the college will raise 100000 from
other sources. OF this amount $780,"
600 has already been raised.
Eighty-nine young people graduated
from tho Mankato normal school last
week. Governor Johnson made the
address and the diplomas were con-
ferred by Ell Torrance of Minneapolis,
a member Of the state normal board.
w. H. Dunwoody and wife have pre-:
scented their old home at 81 West
Tenth street, Minneapolis, TO the Wo-
mems Christian association of that
city to be used as boarding home for
girls. The property IL worth more
than 100000.
While. his mothers attention was
engaged in her household. duties at
Minneapolis Peter Ha1set, an eighteen
months-old baby, secured possession
Of bottle Of carbolic acid and drank
. quantity of the deadly fluid. He died
almost instantly.
With a bullet wound in the right
temple and e. broken watch chain
hanging from the vest the badly de-
composed body Of an unidentified man
was found in Minnehaha creek within
few rods of It's junction with the Mis-
sissippi river at Minneapolis.
Magnus Sampson, a switchman en-
ployed in the Northern Pacific yards
at Duluth, was instantly killed by the
blowing out of cylinder. head Of
locomotive. He was riding on the foot
board Of the engine, which was in mo-
ton, when the accident happened.
Fearing that he was becoming blind
John Rosie, a wealthy farmer living
near sBurtrum, Morrison county, COM
mitted suicide by shooting. He was
not instantly killed, but died day
later from the effects of his self-inflict.
ed wounds. Rosie was about forty
years old. .
George r. Exley, the st. Paul letter
carrier who was indicted on charge
of larceny from the mails, pleaded
guilty when 'arraigned before Judge
Lochren in the United States circuit
court and was sentenced to fourteen
months at hard labor in the state
prison at, Saltwater. I'D =