Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1907-03-01
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

WI oSo1SA CII 1SOS14O0lC1, 10 OSdu vi OtG
age.
The municipal gas plant at Renvil1e
has been destroyed by fire. The loss
will exceed $4,000.
Warren G. Stearns, twenty-threa
years old, member of the Junior
class at Manchester college, is dead at
st. Paul from ptomaine poisoning.
John Wilson, convicted for the
fourth time for robbery in MinneaD-
oils, has been sentenced to serve thir
ty-fve years in the state penitentiary
George Peterson, fifty-four years old
living about four miles from Chisholm
is dead of hydrophobia. He was bit
ten in the face some time ago by a pet
dog.
The annual meeting of the Mime
sofa grand lodge of the Ancient Order
of United Workmen was held in Min
neapolis last week with upwards of
500 delegates In attendance.
Washington county has sent eight
persons to the hospital for the insane
at Rochester within month and three
of them were men confined In the
county jail on alleged otfenses.
Mrs. Margaret Lotus of Winona
the insane at Rochester because of
mental condition brought about by
loss Of sleep following the extraction
of some teeth.
Matthew G. Norton, a millionaire
lumberman, has announced a gift to
the Winona General Hospital associa-
tiCn of $4,000 in New York city
bonds running for fifty years and
bearing per cent interest.
Charles F. swanander, nineteen
years OF age, employed as q helper at
the Northern Pacific roundhouse at
Gladstone, had his life squeezed out
by being caught between an engine
and the wall Of the roundhouse.
Wooden manufacture, a new indus
try in the Northwest, is to be intro
duced in Minneapolis with the cree
ton Of plant by the American Ker-
sey company. The plant will have a
capacity of 100000 yards year.
The Bem1dji Electric Light and
Power company has let contract for
the machinery to develop the water.
power in the Mississippi river eight
miles east OF that city, which will op-
crate manufacturing plants in Bemidji.
At the city election at Moorhead
S65 votes were cast. The race for
mayor was very one sided, f. Wheeler,
the business mems candidate, receiv-
ing $50 votes and A. J. Rustad, the
open policy candidate, receiving 252
votes.
Chris Hansen, who was struck on
the head by highwaymen while he
was walking through the Milwaukee
railroad yards at Minneapolis several
nights ago, is in critical condition in
the city hospital and probably will not
recover.
After an exceptionally hot cam
paign Mayor A. A. Carter of Bemidji
was defeated for reelection by John
Pogue, head Of the Reform" party.
The vote for mayor stood $50 to 223, a
ratio which was closely followed
throughout the ticket
Clyde King, who recently was con-
vlcred at Minneapolis OF having COM
mitted murder in the second degree in
the killing of his brcther-in-law, Elias
Jobes, at Osseo, on Christmas eve,
has been sentenced to imprisonment
in the state prison for life.
A. w. Laymanr of Duluth, special
agent for the general land office at
Washington, has made a seizure Of a
quantity of logs on the Mississippi
river about twelve miles southwest
of Bemidii. The logs had been cut
from a stand of Norway and white
pine on a fraudulent homestead near
Bootleg lake.
Mayor Haynes has attached his sig
nature to the ordinance requiring the
Minneapolis Street Railway company
to furnish six street car rides for q
quarter. In returning the signed Or
dinance to the council Mayor Haynes
accompanied it with a special message
recommending further action along
the same line.
Rev. Edwin NJ. Moore is dead of old
age at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
Or. qaugh Of Granada. He was nearly
ninety years old. He was Presby-
ter1an minister until 1891, when he
retired OH account of his health. He
had held charges in the states of New
York, Ohio and Missouri and was pas
tor Of the Third Presbyterian church
at Chicago.
D.. L. Wellman, an old and widely
known pioneer, is dead at his home in
the town of Hobart, Otter Tail county.
Mr.. Wellman was a prominent men,
Der of the G. A. r. and served as CAP
tain Of Company I, Fourth Minnesota,
during the Civil war. He was a fire.
quent contributor to the columns of
Twin City papers and his articles on
crops were widely read.
After hearing many witnesses Judge
Kingsley at Albert Lea ordered the
proposed judicial ditch No. / for Free
born county. 1t is said that 10000
acres will be more or less affected by
the ditch much Of which land ic nou,