The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1906-03-02
IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

Sldlh, q pioneer resident
VI Ahoka, Is dead, aged eighty-three
years.
Chlef Justice Charles M. Start of the
state supreme court has announced
ma he will be a candidate for re.elec.
ton.
Fred Ueckert, for many years a resi-
uent OF Sibley county, is dead at his
nome In Henderson, aged eighty.nine
years.
The plant of the Cereal Products
company at Columbia Heights, near
minneapolis, has been completely de.
stroyed by fire.
More than 500 delegates attended
tne thirteenth annual meeting of the
Minnesota grand lodge, A. o. u. w, in
st. Paul last week.
n lat stock show, which was a
feature OF the live stock department
OF the Minnesota state fair last year,
Will be continued this year.
v. L.. Rice, father-in-law of Judge
H. u. Dickinson of the Hennepin
county district court, is dead at Mime
apolls as the result Of injuries re-
'elVed In an automobile accident.
Harry Plumb of Austin, a Chicago.
Milwaukee and st. Paul freight brake
man, was knocked from a boxcar.
thrown under the wheels and instant
~ killed while switching in the yards
at Leroy.
n Laird-Norton company has sold
It's saw mill, building and machinery
IN W1nona to the Ingram-Day Lumber
company and the mill will be removed
to Gulf Port, Miss, where the Ingram
company has extensive pine holdings.
George Probeck, a Duluth real estate
owner and contractor, died suddenly
last week after an Illness of but one
day. Mr.. Probeck removed to Duluth
from Buffalo twenty-five years ago and
has beer prominently identified with
many business enterprises.
BY the death of an aged uncle in
Toronto. Can, Perry Clute, a working
ma OF Elk River, has become heir to
$4,000. The money is in a bank in
Toronto. Mr. Clute knows little about
his deceased relative and the inherit.
ance came as a great surprise.
Peter Daniels, a we'll known resi-
dent of Saltwater, was found dead in
his woodshed, death being due to
heart failure. He had suffered sew
eral paralytic strokes, but was in ap.
parent good health shortly before his
demise. He was sixty-two years old.
Despondent because of the death of
her husband two weeks ago and made
desperate by the fear that she was
left destitute Mrs. Anna Larson of
Minneapolis swallowed the contents
of a two-ounce bottle of carbolic acid
and died later at st. Barnabas hos
pital.
The timber. t%respass suits ordered
by the state timber board two weeks
ago have been filed in Hubbard,
Becker and Clearwater counties. The
suits are against Bonness G Howe of
Minneapolis and there are thirteen
distinct causes for action. The dam
ages asked aggregate $~63,481.58.
A vicious rooster attacked little
Johnnie Molanditch, three years old,
at st. Paul and seriously injured the
child before he could be beaten off.
The child's lower lip was badly torn
and the vicious bird drove one of his
spurs into the child's cheek. His
hands, neck, shoulders and face we're
badly lacerated.
Eugene T. Marshall Of Madison,
Wis, a negro, has commenced suit in
the Ramsey county district court
against George r. Kibbe, as lessee of
the St. Paul Union Depot company
restaurant, for $500 damages for vio-
lation Of his civil rights. He claims
that he went into the restaurant and
he was denied service there.
The supreme court has confirmed
the right Of the Minneapolis municipal
court to try cases involving the viola
ton of the Sunday closing law. The
action of the court nails the lid down
tighter in Minneapolis and confirms
the authority of the municipal court to
take care Of the cases which may
arise through the violation of the law.
Five residents Of Triumphia, Martin
county, James Meehan, Abraham Cat
lin, John D. Hildengorff, P. R. Stiles
and Henry Groth, were arraigned be-
fore United States Court Commission.
err Eberhart at Mankato charged with
making false afidavits to final proofs
in homestead entries at Chamberlain,
S. D., in June, 1904. Each gave bond
for $1,000 to appear for trial April 3.
M. A. Mason of Grasston, Kanabec
county, has committed suicide by hang
ing. About six months ago, while in
toXicated, Mason kicked and pounded
his wife nearly to death. He was
bound over to the grand jury on the
charge of manslaughter. He has
brooded and worried v the matter
ever since and the above tragedy is
considered the result of his worry and
fear.
New records for weight in live stock
for Southwestern Minnesota are
claimed by William H. Riffel, a farmer