Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1907-03-08
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

Kittson county, is dead.
S. S. Drake, an old settler and prom
tnent business man of Echo, dropped
dead while standing in the door Of his
harness shop.
Secretary of War Taft has definitely
accepted the invitation to deliver the
commencement day Grafton at Mime
sofa university June Is.
Mrs Herman Leudtke, aged seventy
eight, committed suicide by drinking
carbolic acid while standing beside
the grave of her husband in Crystal
Lake cemetery, Minneapolis.
William Magnivny, secretary of the
Sioux City Stock Yards company, has
been appointed president of the South
St. Paul Stock Yards company to sue
coed the late General M. D. Flower.
Plans for reconstruction of the
West hotel at Minneapolis are now in
preparation and the extent of the
work projected may be inferred from
the estimated cost, which is $2O0,0Oo
Joseph Burial committed suicide at
the Steele county poor farm at Owa-
tonna by hanging. Burial was about
seventy-six years old and had been an
inmate of the poorhouse for some
years.
The three-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Keuthe of Pickerel
Lake, near Albert Lea, accidentally
got hold of some medicine prepared
for her mother and ate part of it and
died in great agony before antidotes
could be administered.
By a decision of the state supreme
court the firm of J. E. Wells & Co. Of
minneapolis is estopped from posting
In its place of business any quota
lions originating on the floor of the
Minneapolis chamber of commerce.
The firm is not member Of the cham.
Der.
Thomas Foley, vice president OF
Foley Bros. & Kelly, wholesale gro.
GERS of st. Paul, known throughout
the Northwest and over Canada from
Quebec to Vancouver as a member of
the firm of Foley Bros. railroad con.
tractors, is dead at st. Paul, aged
sixty-six.
The Mankato city council has passed
resolution limiting the number OF
saloons to twenty-eight, the number
now existing. Several years ago
there were thirty-three saloons with
the same license fee, $1,000, but while
all other lines of business have in.
creased this one has fallen off.
construction on the extension OF
the Minnesota and International from
Big Falls to International Falls is be.
Ing pushed and it is estimated by
those in a position to know that 80
per cent of the grading will be com.
pleted by March 20. The prospect is
that trains will be running over the
road by July 4.
While his mother was sweeping
snow off the porch not twenty feet
distant from her child little Albert
Rinehart, the fourteen-months-old son
of Albert Rinehart of Minneapolis
took several pills containing bella
donna and strychnine. The dose
proved fatal despite the efforts of the
FAMILY physician.
Walter Murphy, nineteen years old
was accidentally killed while at work
on farm near Pipestone. The acct
dent was the result of the breaking
of tumbling rod which connected a
feed mill with the power A piece OF
the rod was hurled through the ali
and struck young Murphy on the
head, crushing his skull.
The thirty-two railroads operating
In Minnesota will pay into the stats
treasury in taxes for 1906 the sum OF
$3,380,8S1.14, an increase of 1871.
2O4.20 over 1905. The total gross earn
1ngs for the roads in 1906 was $751;.
741 ,S48.O3, while the total earnings in
1905 were $75,391, 924.S3, making an
increase for 1906 of $9,249, 923.2O.
Sewage in the artesian we'll which
supplies the whole school with water
for both drinking and cooking is the
cause of the mysterious malady which
has been epidemic at the state agricul
tural school at St. Anthony Park fo1
the last three weeks to such an extent
as almost to bring work to standstill.
The source of the trouble has been
located by the state board of health.
w. l.. Hixon and H. e. Hance OF
Mankato have returned from the East,
where they arranged for the financins
OF the Mankato Traction company.
which is to be organized this month
to build an electric street railway in
that city. Chicago and Milwaukee cap.
italists have agreed to carry the con.
struction Of the road through pro.
vided that about $4,000 in preferred
stock is placed among the citizens OF
Mankato.
P. M. Ringdahl, chairman of the
state board of control, has filed
charges of malfeasance in office
against Sheriff Alexander B. Biddell
OF Cass county. Mr.. Ringdahl alleges
in his complaint that Sheriff Biddell