Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1907-01-04
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

anemia. He was forty-six years old.
Edward Henry Judson, aged sixty
four, pioneer resident of St. Paul
and veteran Of the Civil war, is dead.
The Minnesota State Educational
association held its forty-fourth annual
convention in Minneapolis last week.
Dr. Charles Griswold, seventy-four
years of age, for many years a prac-
ticing physician of North St. Paul, is
dead
| DR.. Emanuel L. Hess, for eleven
years rabbi of Mount Zion temple at
St. Paul, died suddenly last week of
heart trouble.
! DR.. Cyrus K. Bartlett, a well known
hlienist and physician who ranked
high in the state, is dead at Minneap-
oils, aged seventy-seven.
Captain P. H. Ryan, resident of
St. Paul since 1853 and veteran of
the Civil war. is dead. He was sew
enty-eight years of age.
| At a special election last week the
village Of Battle Lake voted $4,000
bonds to buy an acetylene lighting
plant and waterworks system for the
village.
Thomas Cochran, prominent in st.
Paul business circles and well known
as public spirited citizen, orator and
| scholar, is dead after an illness of
two months.
Chester Tracy, the two-year-old son
OF Edward Tracy of Minneapolis, fell
into tub of boiling water and was so
| severely scalded that he died a few
hours later at the city hospital.
Dependent because of the death of
his wife year since and his own i'll
health Peder Medic, a contractor,
choked himself with small piece of
rope in the timber near Minneapolis.
Samuel G.. Iverson, state auditor,
last week distributed $4,405.50 in &C
cumulated claims against the state for
wolf bounties. The payments cover
bounties on SCI full grown wolves and
1913 cubs
Six children were badly burned,
two perhaps fatally, and number of
people were bruised and trampled on
as the result of mishap at a Christ
mas celebration at the United Breth-
rem church at LIE Sueur Center.
A prisoner convicted of larceny at
Mankato escaped from the sheriff of
Blue Earth county while being taken
to Saltwater by jumping through a
window of railroad coach. The pris-
his escape.
! George Hare is dead at Rochester as
the result Of an accident which hap
pened to him on Dec. II. On that day
he was at work on corn shredder
when the sleeve of his coat became
caught in the machinery, drawing his
arm into the feeder
DR.. l.. w. Babcock Of Wadena, a
physician and a leading politician,
died at st. Luke's hospital, St. Paul,
| of complication Of nervous diseases.
He was sixty-six years of age and was
speaker of the lower house of the
Legislature during the session Of 1903.
Minneapolis is to have a new pas
senger station to occupy the site of the
present Union depot and considerable
additional land. The work of tearing
down the old building will be begun
In the spring and when that is out of
the way building operations will pro-
coed.
State Treasurer Block, in his an
nual report, recommends that the low
interest bearing securities of other
states held by the state be disposed
to meet the increasing demand for
loans from municipalities within the
state.
G. L. Benedict will succeed himself
as postmaster at Mankato, MINI. The
Recommendation for his reappointment
has been filed by Representative Nc
Cleary. Mr.. McCleary also recon-
mended the reappointment of J. E.
Haycroft as postmaster at Madelia
and c. E. Fuller at St. James.
Fayette Tyler, a brakeman on the
Northwestern railroad, was caught
between two cars at GAINESVILLE and
his breast was badly crushed. A spe-
cial train hurried him to Rochester
and he was operated on at St. Mary's
hospital, but died on the operating
table. His home was in Rochester.
The entire town of Ulen, which is
located in the northeastern part OF
Clay county, has been almost entirely
wiped out by fire. All of the business
section was destroyed and only the
hardest kind Of work on the part OF
the volunteer fire department saved
the residence portion from destruc.
ton.
Edward T. Young, attorney general
Of the state. has transmitted to the
governor his annual report in which
he recommends important changes In
the laws, covering antitrust laws, tim
Der matters, the Inheritance tax ano
public service corporations and rec
ommends an appropriation for extra
help in his Office:
Fred Zimmerman Of Owatonna,
whi1o inf0viooto6 chof thro,,o1, q xui,,