Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1906-05-18
NEWS ~ Mn NES()TA

NEWS y Mn + lEs0TA
9vENTs or 4 WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.
Arson Blake. prominent resident
Of st. Anthony Park, is dead, aged
eighty. eight years.
Next years meeting Of the national
conference of charities and correc-
lions will be held in Minneapolis.
The twenty-fourth national conven-
ton OF the Woman's Relief Corps will
be held In Minneapolis Aug. IL and II.
A recount has been demanded in the
g. Paul mayoralty election, although
Robert A. Smiths plurality was 1901.
An outbreak of smallpox in Otter
Tail county has been reported to DR..
Il. u. Bracken, secretary Of the state
health board.
Nearly $50 graduates will receive
degrees at the university commence
tJfnt 70 be held in the university
ifn4rysJune II.
B4thlel Sutherland, aged ninety-four
Year,, who, asa contractor. built many
bridges throughout the Northwest, is
dead at st. Paul.
Abln Johnson, a homesteader in
northern Itasca county, shot and killed
Fred Hemming. Johnson says he shot
A6mming IN elf.defense.
The year-old baby Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Matt Olson Of Duluth was drowned by
hlliae. held foremost into a tub con
taiihs Isix inches OF water.
Martin Settler, loftman In the EN-,
ploy of Barnett & Record, who have
the contract for building the new Me.
saba ore dock at Duluth, fell from near
the top of the dock and sustained in.
juries that caused his death an hour
later.
Because Of the valuable body of ore
which is known to underlie the present
site of the village of Sparta it now
seems certain that the village will be
removed bodily to point just east Of
=
future.
The state can no longer offer re-
wards for the capture of criminals.
Although $4,000 is appropriated for
this purpose by the legislature of 1905
no provision is made for it's disburse-
ment and the old law regarding this is
repealed by the new code.
A small bantam rooster attacked
Elizabeth Hartigan, three years old, in
the yard of her home at St. Paul,
scratching out one of the child's eyes.
The little girl was taken to the hos
injuries were extremely serious.
The state supreme court, in an opin-
ion rendered in suit brought by four
Indians of the Mile Laos tribe against
Gus H. Beauleau, holds that an Amer
lean Indian in the state of Minnesota
may maintain an action In the courts
OF this state the same as a civilized
person. III, .-.....
Building Inspector Kiehly Of Duluth
has notified the church societies there
that exits must be provided SKI feet in
size for every 800 seating capacity, to
be used in case of fire Or panic from
any cause. There are about fifty
churches that win be affected and
which must make the improvements.
The city council Of Minneapolis has
voted to set aside out ~ the; water,
works fund the sum Of 100000 for =
filtration plaHt and 'has Voted to- sub
NIT the issuance Of bonds IN the
amount Of @1,p00,O00 Tor the construo-
ton Of . filtration plant to. the legal
voters Of the city az The next election
O,dub-e-naun- e.quay,,+ the venerable
queen Of the Mississippi Chippewas. is
dead at her home near White Earth
agency, aged eighty years. She was a
sister of ENTHUSIASTICALLY, hered-
itary head chief of the Minnesota
(MississippD Chippewas and thu. pres.
ent reigning head chief of the White
Earth Chippewas.
William Wallace White, who was for
many years county auditor of Fari-
bault county and since a resident of
Todd county, died at Wells one day
last week while visiting at the home
OF his daughter, Mrs. G. e. Ford. He
was seventy eight years of age. Later
in the day his brother, Mortimer l..
White, living in the same house, died,
aged seventy six.
After being out but five hours the
jury in the Jordan murder case at Fer
gls Falls returned a verdict of not
guilty. The verdict was a great sur
prise as the state introduced some
very strong evidence and it was gen.
orally thought the Indian would be
convicted. Jordan was on trial for
shooting his wife in their home on the
White Earth reservation" -..
Lightning struck and instantly
killed Raymond Beard, prominent
young farmer residing near Pipestone,
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