Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1906-11-09
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

C4ICAeS IL 81. raul, Is QedO, dSeu uIty-
seven.
Captain Road Amundsen, the Arctic
explorer, was rendered a banquet in
st. Paul last week by the Norden club.
The twentieth meeting Of the South
ern Minnesota Teachers association
was held at Mankato Friday and Sat-
urday.
The two-year-old child of Mr.. and
Mrs. Denfield, living near Paynesville,
was scalded to death by upsetting a
Fail of boiling water upon itself.
Since the state free employment bu-
reau was opened in Minneapolis June
], 1905, 1t has secured employment for
S,272 men and 6,986 women, total of
1853.
The St. Paul police commission has
decided that hereafter saloons must
close at midnight; also that the order
In regard to allowing minors in sa.
looms be more strictly enforced.
Three murders occurred in Minneap-
qlis during the month of October.
seventeen citizens suffered violent
deaths in the community either as the
result Of accident, suicide or murder.
On Nov. Is 400 stonecutters from
all over the Northwest will assemble
IN st. Cloud for 4 big meeting. The
national secretary, Mr.. Duncan, of Bos.
ton, Mass, will be present and pre-
side.
William Scherck was run down by
street car near South Park, a St.
Paul suburb, and killed. His body
was horribly mangled. His skull was
fractured, his right arm was ground to
a pulp and his ribs were fractured.
The total value of real property this
year, as fixed by the state board of
equalization, is $751, GIL and per:
sonal property $1s9,459,2 79. The val
ues year ago were $701, 036,777 on
real estate and S170,202,S45 on per-
sonal property.
Foxes are becoming 80 numerous in
W1nona county and are causing so
much damage to the farmers by TAX
Ing poultry and committing other dep
rotations that the county board has
been petftioned by many farmers to
offer bounty.
Olaf skrukrud Of Holt township,
Fillmore county, has brought to Pres
ton the skin Of . Canadian lynx which
no caught In trap set tor fox. The
animal was AZ large as shepherd dog
and the first one seen in Fillmore
county In twenty-five years.
Ars. Hilda Carlson Of Cannon Fails
wes given verdict Of $500 TN the
district court against John Judge of
that place. Mr.. Carlson claimed she
was injured by Judges team, which
ran away, and says the cause OF the
accident was negligence and careless
ness In hitching up the team.
While oiling the self feeder of a
threshing machine near Springfield
I'D Heir, blinded by smoke from the
engine, slipped into the self feeder and
had his legs terribly lacerated by the
knives, 1t was only by the best of
good luck that by an almost super
human effort he was able to save his
life.
Russell Daily, . prominent young
man of Saltwater, engaged with his
father In manufacturing stoves, has
been arrested by Chief of Police
Barnes charged with stealing many
diamond rings and pins, the practice
having extended over a period of more
than year. Daily IL said to have ad-
mitted the charge.
While Ed Nintz, a young farmer in
the town of North Star, Brown county.
was on a load Of grain and about to
start for Springfield his wife handed
him basket Of eggs. In reaching for
the basket his team started, he lost
his balance and, falling from the
wagon, the hind wheel passed over
him, instantly killing him.
Bessie Squires, stepdaughter of John
+. Quirk, the man held for trial at
Minneapolis for the murder of w. A..
Dowell, has recovered so slowly from
the shock attending the tragedy, of
which she was witness, that it has
been found necessary to send her to
sanitarium. She is being held by the
authorities to testify in the case.
BY means of injunction proceedings
just begun in the Hennepin county
district court the Minneapolis cham
Der of commerce is striving to choke
of all opposition from the so-called
independent brokerage firms. This
action is a part of the same old fight
OF the chamber against the outsiders,
but 1t is more sweeping in it's Dur.
poses than any previous movement of
the kind,
The Minnesota earnings Of the rail-
reads doing business In this state have
increased over 100000 during the
fiscal year elestns June 80, an increase
of about IL per cent. The gross earn.
lngs taxes afe 1ot bassd On TIE basi-
ness for the fiscal year, but the earn.
ings for the calendar year, but II the
same proportion of Increase is main
tanned for the remainder of the cal
ondar year the state will3receive $780,
600 more taxes than It did last JAN