New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-12-22

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DR.. Falk Tennyson. we'll known Min.
neapolis physician, is dead.
A runaway near Pine City resulted
In the death of Charles Rebholz.
Jules Rochat. an early settler of
Hennepin county. is dead. aged eighty.
four.
The first steel has been turned out
by the Duluth plant of the Minnesota
Steel company.
Henry P. La Chappelle, pioneer res
ident Of Winona, was found dead in
his home. He lived alone.
Rural schools in Freedom county
will teach forestry principles for the
preservation Of timber In that county.
The legality of the roadhouse law
passed by the last legislature has
been sustained by the state supreme
court.
John Delaney. fifty years old, was
struck and killed by 500 line pas
senger train near the Merriam Park
station.
1nheritances taxes from FIVE Mime
apolis estates. aggregating $67.927.
have just been paid into the state
treasury.
Life insurance underwriters in Min
nesota and adjoining states will meet
in the Twin Cities in May for q big.
congress.
The herd Of elk given to the state
by J. J. Hill year ago for the 1tasca
state park has increased from four
teen to twenty.
Otter Tail county is dry for the
first time since it was organized, the
last saloon in the county, at Eliza
beth, having closed.
Streets and residences Of Rochester
again are enjoying electric lights, fol-
lowing the burning Of the municipal
light plant in October.
william A. Brendemuhl was found
guilty of murder in the first degree at
Moorhead for killing Ole Norby, his
brother-in-law Sept. 16.
Samuel H. Dyer, seventy years old,
resident of st. Paul for thirty years
and well known for his interest in
musical affairs, is dead.
A winter buttermaking contest will
be held by J. J. Farrell. state dairy
and food commissioner, during Jan
! uary, February and March.
Explosion of gasoline stove used
by workmen in the new building of
the Moorhead normal school caused
damage estimated at $1,000.
Allison H. Rogers, fifty-five years of
age, committed suicide at St. Paul by
jumping from a fifth story window
He had been ill for month.
Mrs. c. Mckinney of Kimball, a
widow, eighty-four years of age, per-
ished in fire that destroyed her
home, where she lived alone.
Roman STRAIN, aged forty, and Mrs.
Ella STRAIN, aged thirty-two, husband
and wife, died at st. Paul within
twenty hours of each other of pneu-
m0nia.
Mrs. Mamie Hoppe was shot and
killed at st. Paul by her husband, w.
H. Hoppe, who then killed himself.
Jealousy is believed to be the cause
of the tragedy.
H. w. Otos, Minnesota switchman,
has been given verdict of $4,000
against the Gerat Northern railroad
by decision Of the United States
supreme court.
Crop production in this state this
year aggregates in quantity about 10
per cent more than last year. Prices
on Dec. averaged per cent higher
than year ago.
The quarterly meeting of the Blue
Earth County Equity society adopted
resolutions favoring government own
ership of telegraphs, telephones. rail
roads and money.
Miss Lillian Rieke of Fairfax drove
twelve nails into beam in thirty-five
seconds, thereby winning the cham
pionship of the Minnesota school Of
agriculture at the annual field meet.
Frederick Leuthge, eighty-fve years
old, a member of the Odd Fellows
lodge for ffty-eight years, is dead at
Red Wing. He was born in Germany
in 1880 and came to America in 1885,
After three tie votes between Red
Wing and Rochester the latter won
out on the flip of coin as the next
convention city for the bricklayers,
masons and plasterers' state organiza-
ton.
Conrad w. Nelson, engineer, Min
neapolis, was crushed to death when
the Northern Pacific engine he was
driving was tipped over in a collision
with another freight train at Park
Junction.
Fifteen hundred oyhihitc IF. corn