Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1906-04-06
NEWS IN MINNESOTA y
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

pubic duullOIlulu Was lalu SATURDAY
with imposing ceremonies.
Frank Carlson was killed and sew
eral other workmen injured in a col.
lision in the Milwaukee yards at Min
neapolis.
The pope Friday received in private
audience Archbishop Ireland of st.
Paul and Right Rev. James McGol-
rick, bishop of Duluth.
8. A. Chalman, superintendent Of
the city schools at Montevideo, has
been elected state graded school in.
spector to succeed A. w. Rankin.
JEROME Pelkey is dead at the home
Of his daughter, Mrs. John Hood, near
Paynesville. Had he lived until April
II he would have been 101 years old.
Thomas A. Prendergast, who has &C.
cupied position of prominence in st.
Paul civic and political circles for
twenty years, died suddenly from
heart failure.
Henry D. Powers, one Of the Oldest
conductors on the Great Northern road
In point of service and prominent
member of the Railway Conductors
association, is dead at st. Paul after
long illness.
Johannes O. Stensrud, a prominent
and wealthy farmer residing near Min
neota, sustained a fall which resulted
in his death about thirty hours after
ward. Mr.. Stensrud was seventy
years of age.
Mas Patterson committed suicide by
taking morphine at the farm of Jens
J. Peterson near Hayfeld. He was
eighty-four years old and was despond-
ent over adverse financial conditions
He had no known relatives.
A commercial club has been organ.
lied at Mankato with 800 members.
The membership fee is $40 year and
the merchants are hopeful for good
results in the matter of freight rates
and securing new industries
The citizens of Minneota have or
gained stock company and will put
In local telephone exchange. The
company will be incorporated with a
capital stock of $4,000 and the city
will be asked to grant a franchise.
Governor Johnson has appointed
Carlos E. Avery a member of the
state game and fish commission to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of
Uri l.. Lamprey. Mr.. Avery is the
editor of the Hutchinson Independent.
George R. Exley, who has been a
mail carrier in st. Paul for seventeen
years, pleaded guilty to a charge of
robbing the mails when arraigned be-
fore United States Commissioner Don
ahue. When arrested by postoffice in
spectors Exley had two letters con-
tanning money in his pockets.
An important point of insurance law
was established in a decision handed
down by the supreme court last week.
It holds that If an applicant for insur-
ance answers in good faith as to his
physical condition even If the answers
IRE found to be erroneous his heirs
are entitled to the amount OF the pol
icy taken out
The trial of Thomas Hartman
against the 500 road to recover $685.
for the loss of a leg came to a sudden
stop in the courtroom of Judge Kelly,
st. Paul, when one of the jurors de-
clared that he had been offered a
bribe. He turned the $50 over to the
court and a warrant was issued for the
alleged briber.
Governor johnson has issued the
annual Arbor day proclamation of the
chief executive, setting aside Friday,
April 81, as the day to be observed in
the schools throughout the state. The
proclamation calls particular attention
to the great natural beauties and re-
sources of Minnesota and urges their
more thorough care and. preservation.
Attorney General Young has reaf-
6rmed the opinion given two years ago
by former Attorney General Douglas
that street railway lines, even if built
outside the limits of any city, do not
come under the jurisdiction of the
state railway commission and that it
has no power to receive complaints or
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charges.
The case of Ethel, the six-year-eld
daughter of Benjamin Johnson of Bow
string, Itasca county, is puzzling the
physicians. The child has just recov-
cred from trance of six days dura-
ton and although at one time during
the catalepsy life was thought to be
extinct the little girl now is appa-
rently In good health except for a nat
ural weakness resulting from her long
last.
AS two boys we're passing the house
Of Charles e. Clark at Aitkin they
saw smoke issuing from the windows.
They at once sought to alarm the
sleeping inmates, but had much diff
Guilty In doing SO. They finally man.
aged to enter the house and found
Mrs. Clark and her children almost
overcome by the smoke They sue
ceeded In getting the woman and chill
dren out through a window just in
time to save their lives.