New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-02-06
BRIEF MINNESOTA ITEMS.

Thief River F'alls.-Martin Helgeson
was almost instantly killed by being
buried under load of wood which
toppled over on him.
Thief River FallS.-Tbe city schools
are suffering from severe attack OF
matrimony-six Of the teachers en-
ployed last fail have resigned to be
married
st. Paul-Mr. and Mrs. Caspar Fritz
$50 West University avenue, who were
married seventy years ago., died within
a few hours of each other and Will be
buried in the same grave
Eeveleth -Israel Humango. aged 81
years. picked friendly scuffe with
Nick Honula in the latter's saloon,
and in falling under his opponents
weight his neck was broken
Granada-Fire destroyed the F. C.
Stone general store, postoff1ce and tele-
phone exchange at. Northrup. six miles
northwest Of this place. Nothing was
saved. The loss is about $4,000, with
but little insurance.
St. Cloud-Plans have been fornll1-
lated for big joint meeting of the
Tri-County Good Roads Association
and the Farmers Club of Stearns.
Benton and Sherburne counties in ST.
Cloud on Feb. % and 30
Minneapo lis.-Little headway has
been made in solving the mysterious
disappearance of Miss Stewart Of
Bemidji, who, on her way to visit her
sister in DEBORAH, Iowa. stopped in
Minneapolis and vanished.
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St. 'Paul-Over 500 was received in
fines by the state game and fish com
mission during December The sum
Will be increased when all the war
aens nave sent in their reports. Most
OF the fines were collected for illegal
fishing and hunting. This is the larg-
est amount ever received during De-
cember by the commission
Minneapolis-A small sized small
pox scare threatens to break out at
the university as several students have
been exposed to a case discovered
among the dodgers at the College Inn.
A dental student named Peterson was
taken from his room in the building
to the detention hospital suffering with
a mild attack of the disease.
ST. Paul. J. Iacilac, auditor Of
Rice county, sent State Auditor Iyer-
son the states share of the yearly for
fixture sales in his county, the amount
being represented in a Cancelled 2
cent stamp. Auditor Iachac stated
that the total sales in his county for
the year amounted to 80 cents and that
the states share was 2 cents.
Minneapolis. - The second annual
convention Of the Northern Pine Manu-
facturers closed after re-electing r. M.
Weyerhauser of Cloquet, Mimi, as
president, and recommending that con-
gress take some action toward estab-
fishing a wood-testing laboratory
in the agricultural department of the
University and calling for a uniform
grade on lath.
Austin-F'ire at Dexter village about
eighteen miles east Of Austin. destroy
ed the fine double brick block belong
ing to Medberry Brothers, general ner-
chants. The building and contents are
total loss save for partial insurance.
The Masons. whose hall was upstairs.
lost all their furniture and rapher-
MALTA. The fire is supposed to have
started from the furnace The aggre-
gate loss is estimated to be $4,000.
Neutrality-suspicious. who were en-
gagged in dressing ducks for a Fair
mont concern were astonished to find
legs was fully developed, with a foot
that had been used to some extent by
the bird in running about the barn
yard. The other two legs were unde-
veloped and after the feathers had
been removed were found to be about
an inch and a half long
Ada.-Lilliam Adams and Ralph
Jewell, the former doing a vaudeville
stunt and the latter advance agent for
the Nye Repertoire Company, are held
here on complaint of the landlord of
the Hotel Ada, for having made a gen
eral clean up of the jewelry of the
establishment during their stop. A
jewel casket was found in the trunks
of Miss Adams, who stated that it was
presented to her by Jewell who was
located in Bemidji.
Wjnona.-Capt W. A. Thompson,
WIG IS in charge Of river Improvement
work on this section of the Mississippi.
is pleased at the increase of appropria-
ton to half million dollars for upper
IlNcI WOIh. sIlt Says llldt IL Cl6 Dill
containing this appropriation is passed.
it will bring the addition of new
barges and boats to the present fleet
There also will be more money avail
able to make changes in the river
channel. A large part of the work
this year will be done in the vicinity
of Winona.
Virginia. Emil La Fortune. a
F'renchman, thirty-five years old, en-
ployed as a top loader in a camp of the
Virginia Lumber company, was killed
While engaged in loading cars. The
boom broke and the end fell, striking
him on the back of the head. He lived
but few moments
st. Paul.-County Auditor Edward
G. Krahmer paid a wolf bounty of
$3.50 to Peter Olschefski Of Mounds
View. who shot full grown gray wolf
on the farm of A. H Skiba. Mounds
View, on Jan. "a. This is the second
wolf bounty paid in Ramsey county
this winter. the first bounty being paid
to Ben Jervais for a wolf killed at
White Bear on Dec. H. 1906