Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1906-10-19
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

OUT THE STATE.
Simon Eustis, eighty years old, was
killed by a street car at Minneapolis.
Theodore Voss, pioneer settler Of
Chisago county, is dead, aged ninety
gears.
Nearly dozen holdups occurred In
Minneapolis during the first two weeks
Of October.
August Plebuch, a tailor, ended his
life by gas asphyxiation at St. Paul
while Respondent.
Milo Carrier, who was a scout dur
ing the Civil war, is dead at St. Paul,
aged seventy-three years.
The Tenant & Hoyt -four mill at
Lake City has been destroyed by fire,
causing loss aggregating $63,500.
After many years of litigation the
Amherst H. Wilder estate of st. Paul
has at last begun its charitable work.
Frank B. Bass, the second white
American boy born in st. Paul, is
dead in that city. Mr.. Bass was born
In 1848.
Mrs. Henry M. Rice, widow of a for
mer senator from Minnesota, is dead
at st. Paul. Mrs. Rice was a pioneer
resident Of the state, coming here in
1s49.
An unidentified man, who had
sought shelter from the cold at the
= city jail in South st. Paul, was found
dead in ono Of the cells the following
morning.
Burglars robbed the postoffice and
general store of Richner & Summins
at Wyoming. The safe was blown
open and $500 and an unknown
amount of stamps taken.
Peter Lindell, prominent citizen
Of Red Wing and owner Of the post
Office business block, is a prisoner in
the county Jail for refusing to comply
with the compulsory education law.
DR.. Carl Wenchele, a pioneer of
New Ulm, is dead at the age of sew
enty-f1ve years. He had resided in
that city since 1850 and was mayor Of
New Ulm continuously for eighteen
years, from 1878 to 1894.
While playing with revolver which
she had discovered in a bureau draw
er, Irene, the eleven-year-old daughter
OF Village President Robinson of Big
Falls, was instantly killed by the &C.
cidental discharge of the weapon.
James Kennedy, an employee Of q
saw mill near Cass Lake, was caught
between the resaws and was so badly
injured that It Is expected he will not
recover. One arm was cut off at the
shoulder and the other at the wrist.
DR.. Walter J. Marcley, superintend-
ent OF the Massachusetts sanatorium
for consumptives, has been appointed
Professionally to take charge of the
Walker sanatorium for consumptives,
which Is now being erected by the
state.
The Austin Progressive league has
just completed arrangements with out
side parties for $4,000 opera house.
The building will have a seating Ca
pacity of $50 and is to be completed in
first class handsome style before
Feb. 1.
A number of Fergus Falls sportsmen
have beer arrested for hunting on
Sunday and local sportsmen are up in
arms over the matter, as nearly all of
them hunt and fish on Sunday. One
hunter says he can raise $1,000 to
fight the case If necessary.
Robbers blew open a safe at the Of
fee of the Twin City Coal company
at Minneapolis, but in doing so they
made such noise as to arouse the
nefghborhood and were forced to make
hasty escape, leaving $4,000 in cur
rency in the wrecked strong box.
H. NJ. Lamberton of Winona has
been appointed by Governor Johnson
as a member of the capitol commits
sion. He succeeds John Ludwig, de-
ceased. He is son of the late H. w.
Lamberton, who at the time of his
death was member of the capitol
commission.
The steamer B. J. Jones of the
Jones & Laughlin fleet last week car
ried out Of the Duluth Superior har-
Dor the largest cargo of wheat that
ever was moved on the Great Lakes.
It consisted of 370,273 bushels of
Durum wheat, shipped by the Ames-
Brooks company.
The stockholders and board of d.
rectors OF the Minneapolis, Rochester
and Dubuque Traction company,
which proposes to build an electric
line from Minneapolis to the city of
Dubuque, met last week in Minneap-
oils to decide on the route to be used.
According to the plans accepted the
principal towns touched will be North
field, Faribault, Rochester, Preston,