Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1906-11-23
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH.
CUT THE STATE.

oA6AIy-tuIee years.
Nels Nelson, aged sixty-five, a car
penter, was crushed to death at the
Great Northern shops, st. Paul.
John J. Miller, aged eighty-two, a
PRESIDENT of st. Paul since 1856, is
dead. He was a veteran of the Civil
war.
Elections in which voting machines
are used are legal, under decision
handed down by the state supreme
court.
Hendrick Erickson, one of the old
est residents of Douglas county, is
dead from the effects of injuries re.
| ceived in fall.
DR.. George B. Moore, for three years
surgeon for the st. Paul police de-
partment, is dead of pneumonia. He
was thirty,tive years Of age.
Louis King, an engineer employed
by the Cross Lake Logging company,
north Of Brainerd, was fatally shot
by William Butchette, who was hunt.
ing deer.
Mayor-Elect Haynes of Minneapolis
has issued a positive statement to the
effect that he will compel saloons to
remain closed on Sunday after he as
sumes Office.
A states prison term of a year and
sentence melted out to Edwin D.
Holmes, former Detroit postmaster, in
the federal court at Fergus Falls.
Matthew D. Flanagan, foreman of
switching crew, was killed between
an engine and car in the Omaha
railway yards at st. Paul. His neck
was broken and his chest crushed.
| Charles A. Nelson, the young man
who was charged with robbing the
pOstot1ce at Dahl, Becker county,
pleaded guilty in the federal court at
Fergus Falls and was sentenced to
one year in the reformatory
Moses Ward, young Indian char
ged with stealing a check for $3.50
and cashing it after he had erased
the cipher so that it would not be so
large as to arouse suspicion, pleaded
guilty at Fergus Falls and was SEN
fenced to one year in the reformatory.
Section 16, the now famous Lydick
allotments at Cass Lake, will hence
forth be known as West Cass Lake.
An enthusiastic meeting of the di-
rectOrs of the town was held recently
and the town was incorporated under
| $4,000
Hunters returning from their fa-
| yorite hunting places in the northern
| part of the state say that the geese
! are scarce this year as yet and few
ere starting on their flight South.
| They attribuato his to the fact Of the
| exceptionally fine weather Of the fall,
and prophesy g long continuation of
the mild Temperature.
While answering q call to fire w.
! A. Rodacker, assistant chief of the st.
| Paul fire department. was seriously in
l1red by bein" hurled into the excA-
walton Of the new Y. VI. G. A. build
| ms. His skull was fractured by strih-
ing on the rock bottom Of the exca-
| walton and it is feared that he re.
| ceived internal injuries.
The saw1l:ll Of the yTinona Lumber
| company at Winona will not open
again next season, having closed down
permanently. This is the third saw
mill at Winona to close in the last
| few years, and there remains only the
mill of the Empire Lumber company,
which will remain in operation for
two or three years more
Ben Guy, twenty-five years old, an
emDloye of the Croolston Lumber COM
pany at Bemidji, was killed in a Pc
culiar manner. Guy was working on
a lath machine and raised the rolls
to look at the machine, when one of
the lath bolts flew through the air
and hit him in the abdomen. He died
in a hospital several hours later.
While driving wagon from Madel;a
to his home, three miles east of that
| city, John w. Yeager, farmer, was
thrown out by wheel going into a.
nut. He was caught in the running
gear and dragged backward for a mile,
the horses having taken fright when
the driver fell out Yeager sustained
injuries from which he died few
| days later.
| Theodore, the ten-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. T. Gottwalt, near Rice,
Stearns county probably fatally shot
his four-year-old sister Leon. The
mother of the children had gone to
town and the father was out in the
field. The boy put his little sister in
a chair and taking thirty-two-caliber
! rifle aimed it at her breast and fired.
The bullet passed clear through the
body Of the little girl, piercing her
lungs.
| The officials of the United States
land Office in Duluth have received Of
fetal notice that the Marshall land
district, with it's Office at st. Cloud
will be discontinued after Dec Is and
the business of the district transfer
red to and consolidated with that of
the Duluth district. The Duluth dis.
trict will then comprise practically all
of that part of the state south of
line running west from nu1uth IN tho