Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1906-05-25
NEWS IN MINNESO TA
1vEhTs OF 4 WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE. STATE.

The president has reappointed Dis
trict Attorney Houpt of Minnesota.
A terrific rain storm caused consid.
cradle damage to crops in Otter Tail
county.
w. w. Dewey, aged ninety-six,
pioneer resident of Otter Tail county,
is dead.
Captain Edwin Bell, aged ninety, a
pioneer resident Of st. Paul, is dead
at Portland, Ore.
Henry J. Vaughan, aged eighty,
who laid out the boulevard system at
Minneapolis, is dead.
Justus Lyon, aged ninety-two years,
was run down and killed at st. Paul
by an Omaha passenger train.
DR.. Richard Burton will probably re.
turn to the University of Minnesota
40 head Of the English department..
. Cyrus Arnsberg, an inventor resid-
Ing at st. Louis Park, near Minneap-
oils, committed suicide by shooting
himself in the head. -
Hiram Kenna was blown to pieces
by an explosion of dynamite while
clearing stumps from his land two
miles south Of Pine City. ~
Frank Jelinek, eighteen years old,
is dead at st. Paul of lockjaw, the re.
suit Of stepping On NALL, which pene-
trated the sole of his left foot.
A party of 100 physicians and sur
geons, many of them from st. Paul
and vicinity, will start July p on an
Oriental trip, which will occupy three
months.
James T. Teare, on trial at Still.
water, has been convicted of arson in
the third degree. Teare's son and
daughter were the principal witnesses
against him. IT,.
Michael Monson, seventy-one years
OF age, was struck by an incoming
passenger train at Minneapolis and so
badly injured that he died within
few minutes.
A heavy thunder shower visited
the vicinity Of Sparta Thursday. Rain
pelted down in sheets and put out
numerous threatening forest fires that
had been burning fiercely.
The third interurban line of the
Twin City Rapid Transit company be-
tween st. Paul and Minneapolis began
operations Monday. It is known as
the Selby avenue-Lake street interur-
ban
The annex building to the plant of
the Union Fiber company of Winona,
used for the storage of the finished
product, was destroyed by fire Friday
A high wind carried the sparks and
for a time a portion of the city was
threatened. 49, -,
Twenty-seven county superintend-
ents from different parts of Minnesota
met at St.. Cloud last week and organ
lied the State County Superintend-
ents' association. It is proposed to
extend the membership so that it will
include every such officer in the state.
One of the heaviest fires of it's class
In Northern Minnesota took place at
Cross Lake last week. Between 5000
600 and 100000 feet Of logs, nearly
all white pine Of high grade, the prop
erty Of the Northland Pine company,
were destroyed. The less is estimated
at t120, 900. 9!s1. -:r-,:ae4 ss@ss:es:::. -
G. Gunderson, farmer residing
northeast of Pipestone;;s committed sui
eide by taking strychnine upon return
ing home from town. He went to the
barn, mixed drink Of the poison,
which he kept for the purpose Of KILL
ing rats, and after drinking it he
dropped dead.
A vigilance committee of citizens of
the st. Anthony hill district of st.
Paul has been formed for the purpose:
Of trying to put stop to the many
depredations and even assaults which
have been carried on of late by a
gang Of boys who hold forth on the
streets of that section.
Forty men employed in wrecking
operations on the stranded steamer
Crescent City, nine miles from Duluth
on the north shore of Lake Superior,
have been made sick by something
they have eaten. The symptoms are
those Of ptomaine poisoning. Two or
three OF the men are seriously sick.
: A herd of sixty four COWS, which
had been condemned on account of
tuberculosis, has been shipped from
the insane hospital farm at Fergus
Falls to the stock yards at South st.
Paul, where the animals will be
slaughtered and examined and any
that are not infected will be used for
meat.
After q voyage of 8,204, miles the
Measure yacht Wacoutah, owned by
John H. Rich, has returned to It's har-
Dor in Red Wing. About Christmas
Nine the Wacoutah, having on board
III. Rich and his family, went down
tie Mississippi to the Gulf. then for
hundreds Of miles along the Florida
coast and across the Gulf stream to
the Bahamas, where the family spent
the winter.
Louis Jungbauer has been sentenced
TO the st. Cloud reformatory by Judge