Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1906-04-27
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF a WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

Newton Meyers, q sW1tchman IN the
Willmar railroad yards. was killed BY
= box car passing over him. He WAS
twenty-three years old and unmarried
Death followed the accidental taking
Of an overdose Of cough syrup BY
James William, the three-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. James W. Falk Of
Eveleth.
James Grafton. q pioneer settler OF
Carver county and for fourteen years
a member of the Minneapolis police
force. shot and killed himself at Seat
tie, Wash.
Frank Walton, a wealthy tobacco
grower from Allensville, KY, dropped
dead from heart failure at Rochester
as he was conversing with q friend In
hotel lobby. ...
Anthony Blebos was probably "a
tally injured by falling from scaffold
at the Schmidt brewery at St. Paul
and M. Marien was seriously hurt IN
the same accident.
An epidemic of measles has broken
out in Red Wing and some of the
schools have very small attendance.
Vigorous steps are being taken to stop
the spread of the disease.
While William Molander, painter,
| and Arne Sampson were rowing on the
Red Lake river at Crookston the swift
current capsized the boat, throwing
| both men into the river. Sampson
swan to the shore, but Molander went
| under.
St. Paul is to be the headquarters of
Norwegian consulate for the entire
! Northwest, embracing the states OF
Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, South
Dakota, North Dakota, Wyoming, Mon
lama and Idaho. Colonel E. H. Hobe
has been appointed consul for Norway
in this district.
The largest cargo of flax ever float
ed on fresh water was carried out of
the th-Superior harbor last week
On the steamer Joseph G. Butler. It
consisted of 353,S46 bushels and was
taken on at tho Great Northern steel
elevator. The ship and cargo repre-
sent fully $S50,00o.
| The little daughter of George Brun-
| dette, farmer living east of jenkins,
| Grow Wing county, was accidentally
shot, the bullet from 22-caliber rifle
penetrating the brain. Death ensued
in twenty-four hours. A five-year-old
brother was carrying the rifle when it
was accidentally discharged.
Link Thayer, James c. Hall, Homer
S. Minot and Charles Hoffman, the
| four men convicted of the Great North
ern train robbery near Carlisle in 1898,
have been given a full pardon by the
state pardon board. Evidence secured
since their conviction indicates that
they were not the perpetrators of the
holdup.
Rolla Newton, prominent young
man of Fergus Falls, fell in front of an
engine and was horribly crushed The.
engine passed completely over him,
cutting off his legs, breaking his arm
and collar bone, crushing his chest
and gashing his head, but he remained
conscious for twenty minutes and
lived for two hours.
The condition of Mrs. Elsie Spencer
who was shot at Minneapolis April 16
by her husband, Harry Spencer, the
we'll known restaurant man of St.
Paul, is reported to be much improved
It is now believed she will recover.
al trace Of Spencer has been lost, but
he is thought to be hiding somewhere
in either Of the Twin Cities
4 yagrant by the name Of McManus,
who was jailed at Little Falls Friday
morning for drunkenness, afterward
being held for trial on a charge Of
stealing $50 from local man with
whom he had been seen, was found in
he afternoon dead in his cell at the
city Lookup Heart disease and excess
sive use of alcohol was the cause
AN entirely new iron ore region was
opened last week when State Auditor
lverson sold six prospecting leases for
tracts in the southwest part of Bel.
trami county. The leases were taken
by w. c. Robinson of Duluth. The
tracts are located near Farley, small
town on the Northern Pacific. It is
supposed that there are vast deposits
OF the ore in that section and great
activity is expected there.
Judge Lewis Of the Ramsey county
district court has decided that the
state game and fish commission has
full authority to regulate streams dur
ing the pike spawning season. The
decision came in dismissal of the
demurrer of the Tower Lumber and
Boom company, against which the
commission asked 322,70O damages for
the killing Of 47,500,OO0 pike spawn
last April in the Rum river by mis-.
handling of logs and RATS during the
spawning season.
Minnesota in all probability will
celebrate it's golden jubilee in 1908
with an exposition which in extent
and general interest will more than
eclipse that of the Lewis and Clark
exposition. The commission, which
held joint meeting with the state
fair managers at the Merchants hotel,
| st. Paul, last week, practically admit
ted that it will recommend to the next
Legislature an exposition to he hold in