Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1906-05-11
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH
OUT THE STATE.

Thomas Jones, resident Of St.
Cloud since 1857, is dead.
Liquor licenses at Anoka have been
Increased from $500 to $500.
Norman A. Sprong, a well known
business man of Minneapolis, is dead.
Arne Green, aged eighty-two, com.
mitted suicide at Minneapolis by in
haling Illuminating gas.
Miss Lillian Russ, twenty-five years
Of age, committed suicide at Mime
| apolis by taking carbolic acid.
The twelfth annual meeting of the
ministers of the Minneapolis district
| OF the Episcopal church met at New
Ulm last week.
While fishing near the Little Can
non mill at Cannon Falls NARROW An
derson fell over the high bank into
the river and was drowned.
Hunters in the vicinity of Rushford
are playing havoc with the wolves.
No less than forty.one have been cap
tured during the past week.
Minneapolis seems to be in the
throes of a mad dog scare. No less
than four cases have come to the at
tention of the police within the last
week. ~,
The village OF Zimmerman, ten
miles north Of Elk River, suffered a
fire loss of about $4,000, the stores
Of Harry English & Co and J. w. Mode
& Co. being destroyed.
John Goodnow, formerly United
States consul general at Shanghai and
! q we'll known Minneapolis man, has
been made adviser to the central for
| eign Office of Kiangsu and Anhui,
China.
Fred w. Somers, custodian Of the
new state capitol, has sent his resig-
| nation to the capitol commission to
| take effect May Is. Mr.. Somers has
| been connected with the capitol for
seven years.
Labor Commissioner Williams is
preparing a circular letter to be sent
! out to all Of the factories and large
industrial establishments in the state
| setting forth suggestions for first aid
to the injured.
Simon Madison, newspaper writer
| of Phillip, Kan, and Miss Louise
! Keene, trained nurse whose home is
! in Olivia, this state, were drowned
| while boating on Rock Island lake near
! the former place.
Uttering the words. Il believe am
going to die" Mrs. Edwin ]. Chellis of
Minneapolis expired among strangers
in house at 3345 Bryant avenue, that
! city. She had gone into the house to
| escape a sudden rainstorm.
The body of August Krumpelman of
st. Paul, who disappeared April IA,
has been taken from the Mississippi
river. There were no marks of VIC.
j lence on his body and it is thought he
either fell or jumped into the river.
The grand jury at Duluth has in.
dicted John Spejar and Joseph Ser
itch, young Austrian miners, for the al
legged murder Of Charles Peterson, an
other miner, for his money at Aurora,
on the Meaaba range, 2 few weeks ago.
The annual report of the railroad
and warehouse commission shows that
/ the total number Of miles of main line
! Of railroad operating in Minnesota at
the present time is 7,791.85 as against
, 7,476.24 q year ago, an increase for the
year Of 324.24.
| Plans for the annual biennial con-
vention of the General Federation of
, Woman's Clubs, which will be held in
st. Paul in June and will bring over
5,0oo women from all parts of the
i United States to the city, have been
! practically completed.
Mrs. Lars w. Holmer, twenty-eight
years old, drank carbolic acid at her
, home in Minneapolis and died within a
! short time. Members of the family
state that the woman took the acid by
mistake for cough medicine. The two
stood side by side on shelf.
DR.. William Turner, a former pro-
lessor at the St. Paul seminary and
at present in charge of St. Luke's par
ish in st. Paul during the absence of
Rev. Ambrose McNulty, has been ap-
pointed professor of philosophy at the
Catholic university at Washington.
Although Florence johnson, an aged
woman, has been begging about St..
Paul, according to those in charge of
the Bethel hotel, where she roomed,
between $500 and $500 was found un-
der the mattress Of her bed after she
was taken to the city hospital, seri-
cusly Ill.
Approximately 100000 will be
spent this year by the Chicago Great
Western in the purchase of additional
freight equipment. Orders have been
placed for 700 box, furniture and stock
cars, to be delivered this summer and
400 cars are to be built by the COM
pany itself. .r
J Allan Campbell, one of the younger
| members of a well known North Min
J neapolis family, was given sixty days
IN the workhouse for throwing nitric
acid upon Marian Phillips, who had
rejected his attentions. The girls
| face, hands and arms are severely