Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1906-12-07
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF 4 WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

The ticket sales at the last Mime
sofa state fair amounted to S152,541.72,
as against $134,736.s5 in 1905, a gain
of 317,774.S7.
The deposits In Minnesota state
banks have increased from approx.
mately $4,000, 900 in 1904 to over $780,
100000 in 1906.
Twelve valuable horses were burned
to death in fire which destroyed the
stable of the Minneapolis Omnibus and
Transfer company.
Robert G. Hine, former judge of the
municipal court at St. Paul, is dead at
Charleston, S. c., after an intermit-
tent illness of long duration.
Agitation for the division of Polk
county has again been started by Foss-
ton men and petition is being cir
culated asking for the creation of Mel
son county
S. s. johnson Of Iosco township,
Waseca county, claims to have seen
an antelope on his farm and to have
chased 1t with gun, but was not able
to get close enough to shoot.
Representative McCleary of Man
kato is being talked of as a possible
applicant for the position of commits
sioner Of the general land office in the
place Of Commissioner Richards.
William Olson, a lad nine years of
age, was almost instantly killed at
Duluth while coasting. He ran into a
street car at q crossing and sustained
injuries that resulted In death in a
few minutes.
Miss Anna Thompson, one of the
most beautiful and popular young
ladies of Moorhead, was struck by a
Northern Pacific train in front of the
Northern Pacific depot in that city and
instantly killed.
After taking a quantity of carbolic
acid John Johnson Lang hanged him
self from one Of the Orders of the via
duct on Nicollet island, Minneapolis.
Dependency over his wife's illness
was the cause Of the suicide.
Judge Searle of st. Cloud has ten
dered his resignation to Governor
Johnson because of i'll health. His
term expires next January and Gov
ernor johnson has appointed M. D.
Taylor Of st. Cloud, judge-elect, to fill
out the unexpired term.
Hector Mclean. farmland, was
found dead in the stable on the farm
belonging to Jehn Rae near Glyndon
1t Is thought that he was killed by a
kick from a COW. The COW was stand.
ing over him IN the stall and the mans
body was severely bruised.
Tom McGinnis and his sister, In
dams, we're drowned in the Rainy
river near Laurel while fishing. Their
birch bark canoe was struck by an ice
foe and sank. The floating ice in
the river prevented them from reach
ing shore and both persisted.
Frank Veigel. one of the earliest
residents of Blue Earth county, is
dead at his home In West Mankato.
He was eighty years old. He located
on farm in Blue Earth county in
1852, residing there until three years
ago, when he moved into the city.
Rev. J. N. Henry Of Champlin, a
Civil war veteran and prominent in
G. A. r. circles, Is dead. aged eighty.
five. DR.. Henry came to Minnesota in
1872 and settled in Champlin five
years later. He Alled the pulpit in the
Methodist church and practiced medi-
cine for Twenty-Five years.
Charlie Ums, q Chinese 1aundryman
of Spring Valley, faces the danger of
deportation at any time on account of
the loss Of hts passport. This and
other valuable papers were stolen from
his laundry one night last week. All
of them were in his pocketbook, which
also contained $3.50 in money.
Little Albert Bower, whose father is
a farmer near Lake George, is lying at
st. Anthony hospital, Bemidji, In a
critical condition as the result Of swal-
lowing short lead pencil, including
the brass tip and rubber. The pencil
is lodged in the right bronchial tube
of the lungs and the possibility of it's
abstraction is remote.
Mrs. August Niebel, convicted at
Mankato Of having assaulted Paul
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moving stoves, was sentenced to pay
fine of $50 and costs. When she
handed over the amount she remarked
that Kintze had the punishment COM
ing and that it was worth all it cost
to her to give it to him.
Mrs. Anna Goodnow of Akeley was
wounded in the arms and legs with
1ine gunshot, the result Of putting a
loaded stick of wood into the stove.
Some ono had been stealing fuel and
by accident one Of the loaded sticks
was thrown into the IRE. Mrs. Good
now was before the stove when the
gunpowder or cartridge exploded and
how her life was spared is Z miracle.
The Mankato Commercial club, by
4 unanimous vote, has "most earnestly
requested" the senator ana three rep
resentatives from Blue Earth county
to refuse to accept passes from the
railroads. This action was taken after
an address by DR.. J. w. Andrews. who.
said the reason there had been no