The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-12-30

Frank Houle, farmer living near
Hugo, was instantly killed when struck
by a Northern Pacific train at cross
ing while driving home from St. Paul.
Two Russian wolf hounds entered
Schell's deer park at New Ulm,
killed four domesticated deer and in
t1lcted injuries on three others before
assistance could be given to the ami
mails confined in an enclosure.
A resolution to submit to the people
proposed constitutional amendment
reducing legislative membership to
forty senators and sixty house mem
bers was adopted by the state eff
cheney and economy commission.
Plans have been completed for
campaign to raise 100000 for Ham
line university. 1t is the intention to
use half of the amount for new build
ings and the other $250,0OO will be
added to the permanent endowment
fund.
Nicholas F. Hilbert, lightweight
years old, resident of Minnesota
since 1855, died of old age at St. Paul
eleven hours after his son Otto, thirty
four years old, was killed at Ironton,
this state, while at work as spotter of
ore cars there.
Leo Wermerskichen, twenty one
years old, was drowned in Fish lake,
near Little Falls, while skating with
Miss Cresente Faust. The girl also
fell into the water, but was rescued
by other skaters, who formed hui
man chain along the ice.
Carlos Avery, state game and fish
commissioner, says that approximately
1000 deer were killed in Minnesota
this fall. Mr.. Avery said this esti-
mate was based upon incomplete re-
ports of county auditors. It is about
the same number as was killed in
1914.
The legality of the order of the
state railroad and warehouse commits
sion, issued Nov. 26, establishing a
common freight base for shipments
in st. Paul, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Transfer, Hopkins and St. Louis Park
will be tested by the ten railroads in
volved.
Joseph T. Nelson and Gust L. We
dan, former cashier and assistant
cashier, respectively, in the Office of
the treasurer of St. Louis county, were
sentenced by Judge Dancer at Duluth
to seven years each in the state prison
at Saltwater. They confessed embez-
element.
w. H. Smallwood was declared
Judge in the Duluth municipal court
by the state supreme court and w. L.
Window, who has been battling with
Mr.. Smallwood for the office since
April, is ousted. The action of the
court upholds the stand of Governor
Hammond.
Frightened from their plumber by
woman's screams three men engaged
in robbing a Minneapolis jewelry
store ran through downtown streets,
firing random shots that endangered
lives of pedestrians. Loot to the value
of $4,000 was taken, part of which has
been recovered.
The state supreme has decided that
statements sent by the Anti-Saloon
league to various papers of the state
convicting Representative l.. A. Lyd-
lard OF Minneapolis as the leader of a
movement to get the brewers in con-
troll of the lower house of the legisla-
ture, were not libelous.
Because his daughter seemingly ig-
nored his objections to sutton for
her hand Edward Voyt, a farmer near
Flnlayson, shot the girl through the
shoulder and fired a bullet into the
body of his wife. Then he turned the
weapon upon himself All are alive,
but the wife probably will die.
A decision handed down by the
state supreme court frees dead man
from paying damages found against
him for the death of girl, killed by
his automobile on May 8, 1914. The
defendant was Assistant Fire Chief
Fred E. Granzow of Duluth, who was
killed In an auto collision Sept. 10 last.
The court finds that fire department
Official cannot be regarded as exceed
Ing the speed limit when responding
to call.