Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1906-02-16
NE VS. in ] NESOl a
EVENTS or q WEEK THROUGH
OUT THE STATE.

Edward McGulpin, laborer for the
Minneapolis Street Railway company,
was killed by being run over by
street car.
The bill for a new federal building
1t Alexandria, to cost $4,000, has been
favoraDly acted upon by the senate
committee
H. Heiwig, q resident Of Lockhart,
was SO severely frozen in the recent
blizzard that no hope is entertained of
his recovery
Thomas Johnson, steam engineer
from Duluth, was shot and killed at
Denver by Policeman Charles Secrest
IN quarrel over dice game.
A new high school building costing
$4,000 will be erected at Willmar in
the spring and will be pushed to COM
pletion before the fall term begins.
| The fund raised for the benefit of
the family of Captain John Berwin,
killed in the West hotel fire at Mime
apolis, has passed the, $4,000 mark.
The thirty~second annual convention
Of the Young Mems Christian associa-
ton of Minnesota was held in Austin
| last week. Three hundred delegates
| were in attendance
Senator Nelson has introduced a
bill to reimburse the state OF Mime
sofa i'll the sum of $40, 1000 for payment
of interest On bonds issued in 1862 to
suppress the Sioux outbreak.
Major Joseph P. Masterman, aged
thirty~seven years, who was with the
Thirteenth Minnesota in the Philip
pines, is dead at saltwater. The i'm
mediate cause of his death was Brights
disease
In a sensational manner Edward
Moore, a prominent farmer residing
near lie Sueur Center. committed sui
eide by throwing himself in front of a
freight train, being literally cut in two.
He died instantly.
A small fire in the wholesale dry
goods house Of Finch, Young G. NC
Conville in st. Paul created property
loss of about $4,000, mostly due to the
automatic sprinhling system put into
operation by the fire ~,
That there are more wolves in Polk
county at the present time than ever
before since the organization of the
county is shown by the fact that the
hounties paid by the state for them
have doubled in the last year.
Joseph K. Moore, a veteran Mime
sofa newspaper man, who had lived in
Los Angeles, Cal, since 1895, is dead
in that city. He was private secretary
to the late R. A. McGill during his
term as governor from 1887 to 1889.
In one of the most intense and pene-
trating snow storms of the season a
sectionhand working for the Great
Northern at Benoit, supposed to be
John Anderson, was struck and in
stantly killed when hit by a snowp1ow.
Bids will be called for in few DAYS
for the extension of the Duluth Rainy
Lake and Winnipeg road from its pres
ent northern terminus, Ashawa, to
Beaudette, on Rainy river, where It
will connect with the Canadian North
ern. :.'.
The bOilermakers' strike which has
been in progress in Duluth and Supe-
r1or for the last two weeks has been
settled by the employers conceding
the demands of the men for &c cents
an hour Nearly $50 journeymen and
helpers were out
Many of the Mile Laos Chippewas
have signifed willingness to remove
to the White Earth reservation early
In the coming spring and Agent Mich
elet is having lumber manufactured
and hauled preparatory to the build
Ing OF homes for these Indians.
Representative Buckman has called
the attention Of Indian Commissioner
LeupD to letters to the effect that
members OF the Pillager band of IN
dtans in minnesota are starving. Com
missioner Leupp has promised to start
an inquiry to ascertain the facts.
Edward Q. Fellows, formerly fuel
dealer at Minneapolis, has been con
vlcted in that city of grand larceny in
the first degree. The charge against
Fellows was made by F. H. Peavey
Co., who alleged that Fellows apprn-
priated $4,000 while acting as their
agent
Judge Williston, at Red Wing, has
filed an order denying the motion for
a new trial ia the case of Henry Pro-
low. sentenced to hang for the murder
of Charles Zemke. The case NAV be
carried to the supreme court, but this
depends whether enough money can
be raised
A Northern Pacific train, eastbound
ran into some cars engaged in dis.
tributing cinders along the right OF
way twelve miles east of Fergus Falls,
Iver Hansno. at work on enc Of the
cars, fell and was ground to death un-
der the wheels. The passengers were
badly shaken UP. but uninjured.
John H. Kennedy OF Minneapolis. a
wealthy retired business man, was in
stantly killed at Scranton, Pa,
Wednesday by the accidental dis
charge of a revolver which he had
been cleaning. He was a member OF
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