The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-12-30
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STATE NEWS BITS.
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Happenings Of the Week
in Minnesota.

SICldu Ol OtapleS, expired suddenly.
Fire in the Great Northren round
house at Minneapolis caused $4,000
damage.
| Osman Temple, Mystic Shrine, will
build a 100000 mosque temple in
St. Paul.
John Gradl, one of the earliest farm
ers in Winona county, is dead, aged
ninety years.
Charles Carlson, a building work
man, was killed at Minneapolis when
a derrick arm fell on him.
Cal e. Stone has been appointed as
the first traffic passenger manager Of
| the Great Northern railroad.
N. H. Watson, ninety years of age,
who had been identified with the lum-
bering business at Winona for half
century, is dead.
Clyde Gilmer, three years old, son
of John Gilmer of Brainerd, fell into
a dishpan of hot water and was
scalded to death.
The depot of the Minnesota and In.
ternational railroad at Laporte, to-
gether with the freight on hand, was
destroyed by fire.
DR.. Arthur w. Dunning, fifty-fve
years old, one of the best known ply
sicians in St. Paul, died suddenly from
an attack of heart trouble.
Pennington county is dry, the
twelve saloons at Thief River Falls
having closed as the result Of the re-
cent county option election
Mountford S. Lloyd has been ap-
pointed deputy clerk of the United
States court at Duluth to succeed the
late Captain T. H. Pressnell
Mrs. e. NJ. La Penotiere, one of the
best known women in Minneapolis and
prominent in the Minnesota Fedora
tion of Women's Clubs, is dead.
From the ministry to the vaudeville
stage is the sap bridged by William
I1ainsworth, former pastor of the
Methodist church at Mountain 1rons
Bernice Brodkorb, sixteen months
old, died at Little Falls from burns on
the face and abdomen suffered when
she fell against stove while at play.
Tree bounties paid for 1915 total
$3,723.54. A total of Ats persons will
divide the amount. A bounty of $3.50
an acre is paid those who plant trees.
Archibald Curtis, aged seventy-six,
who was a member Of Company D.,
First Minnesota regiment, in the
charge at Gettysburg, is dead at Os-
SEQ.
Minnesota postal savings banks
number sos and at the close of the
fiscal year there were 1903 deposit
tors, with aggregate deposits of ST.
44,145.
Thomas Egan seventy-fve years of
age, dropped dead near his home near
Finlayson while returning from a
church service in McGrath, six miles
distant
The supreme court has just decided
that county auditors cannot sell lots
forfeited for nonpayment of taxes un-
less authorized by the state auditor
to do so.
w. II. Sandon and Bert Derby cap
tured silver gray fox in a corn field
near Winnebago City. The market
quotation for the fur is quoted at ST.
500 to $4,000.
Mrs. Caroline Petrowske, aged
eighty-eight years, is dead at St. Paul
from injuries sustained when she fell
down the cellar steps at the home of
her granddaughter.
BarneSville went dry on Nov. 20 and
from that date until Dec 20 there was
not a single arrest. During the thirty
days previous to Nov 20 there were
seventy-nine arrests.
A jealous impulse prompted Benja-
min Arbuckle, thirty-four years old,
Of St. Paul to shoot his wife and at
tempt suicide. He probably will die,
but the woman will live.
Edward Rasmussen, a patient at
the asylum for the insane at Fergus
Falls, was killed when he fell on his
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asylum with another inmate.
Elbridge O.. Parker, a resident of
Minneapolis for siXty-four years, is
dead. His father was the first man
to run a steamboat on the Mississippi
river above st. Anthony Falls.
State Auditor Preus has just dis.
tributed $4,000 among county agri-
cultural societies, in which ninety-six
participated. The counties are allowed
a maximum Of $1,500 under the law.
Mrs. John l.. Merriam, widow of
John l.. Merriam, pioneer St. Paul
capitalist, and stepmother Of William
R. Merriam, former governor of Min
nesota, is dead, aged eighty years.
All the street cars on the $40 miles
Of track in st. Paul and Minneapolis
stopped for five minutes during the
funeral of G. G.. Goodrich, president
Of the Twin City Rapid Transit CON-
pany.