Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-11-08
NEWS in MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

brutally assaulted and robbed in front
OF his own residence in Minneapolis.
Leech Lake Indians Saturday re-
ceived their annual payment from the
government, the total a%ggregating
$125, 900.
Mike and Joe Cantillon have pur-
chased the Minneapolis baseball team.
The price paid is said to be in the
he%ighborhood of 100000.
Frank A. Johnson, aged sixteen,
was hit by a street car at Minneapolis
and sustained a fractured skull. His
injuries are considered fatal.
Thomas WEIGH, sixty-three years
old, was killed by a train at the rail-
road crossing In Minneapolis where
he had for years been flagman.
A ten-pound daughter has been born
to Mrs. Kataro Nakahara at the st.
Paul city hospital. 1t is the first Japa-
nese baby eve born in st. Paul.
John G. Ryan, aged %sixty-one, a st.
Paul blacksmith, was run down by a
street car at Minneapolis and sus-
tanned injuries which resulted in death
several hours later.
John E. Layne, a contractor, tried at
Minneapolis for manslaughter for
causing the death OF Henry Steven
son, another contractor, during a quar-
rel, has been acquitted.
While hunting at Long lake, nea
Grove City, Anton Swanson and Carl
Rosander were tipped into the lake
and the latter vas drowned. Swan
son managed to cling to the boat and
was rescued.
A genuine epidemic Of swamp fever
Is reported to have broken out among
the horses in the town of Meadows,
fifteen miles west of Fergus Falls.
Eleven of the animals have died and a
great many are sick.
Sun Lee, Chinese laundryman, was
robbed of Sis in Minneapolis Friday
night. Lee left the laundry to deliver
a package and on returning found a
man rifing his trunk. The latter
Jumped through a window and es-
capped.
One of the most daring burglaries
of the season at Minneapolis occurred
Thursday night when Williams cigar
stand, on the ground floor of the city
hall, not more than fifty feet from po-
lice headquarters, was broken into
and looted.
Six horses and three mules were
shot on the farm of Gibson Bros, just
north Of St. James, by the state au-
thorities. The animals were affected
with CHAMBERS. This Is the first case
of CHAMBERS in Watonwan county In
ONE years.
w. P. Mason, promoter for the Min
neapolis, Rochester and Dubuque Trac-
tion company, is in Chatfield with a
corps of engineers and surveyors. Mr.,
Mason says that there is no doubt that
electric cars will be running through
Chatfield next summer
An ore train on the Duluth and Iron
Range at Mile Post As ran over and
killed Frank Lord, an old time woods
man in the employ of Abner Smith. 1t
is said that Lord undertook to ave a
dog from being run over and sacrificed
his own life in the attempt.
Hog cholera has again made an ap-
pearance in Watonwan county and is
literally reaping down the hogs. 1t
first nude it's appearance. near Ma
} della and in the short space of two or
three days brought a loss of about
s26, 900 to the farmers of that com.
. munity.
DR.. Henry Dixon Jones, formerly
rector of the Church of the Messiah,
st. Paul, died suddenly in Portland,
Ore. When his wife awoke in the
morning she found him dead in bed.
A physician was summoned and pro
nounced the cause of death as heart
failure.
John Roehl, a carpenter, was killed
by a rapidly moving car at Minneap'
oils. A heavy rain was falling at the
time, which obscured the motoneer's
vision. Roehl was very deaf and did
not hear the car approaching. His
skull was fractured and he died within
two hours.
An increase of $S,00O,0O0 over the
returns of the county boards and an
increase of nearly $780, 00,0 900 over the
values fixed on personal property by
the state board last year are shown by
the completed figures on the increases
and decreases ordered by the state
board of equalization this year. The
total value as determined by the board
is s189, Ass, 270.
Joseph Smith, whose home is in
Chicago, met a warm reception on his
arrival in Minneapolis last week. Nc
sooner had he stepped off the train at
the Union station than he was robbed
of s13 and while walking to a police
station in company with a young man
who had volunteered to show him the
way the guide turned traitor and took
the rest Of lis money.
Believing that Lemuel Hill, an aged
bachelor who died in Winona a week
z went to his grave with a secret re
garding a fortune which relatives sup