New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-12-01
STATE NEWS BITS.
Happenings Of the Week
in Minnesota.
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= Peter Peterson. one Of the pioneers
of Murray county and father of Ira C..
Peterson, deputy state insurance COM
missioner, is dead at Tacoma, Wash.
Mr.. Peterson reached this country
from Norway in 1848 and served in
an Iowa regiment during the Civil
war.
Peter ]. Giesen, pioneer publisher
and bookbinder of st. Paul, organizer
of the Mozart club and promoter of
musical interests among German
Americans of that city, is dead, aged
eighty-two years. Mr.. Giesen had been
a resident of St. Paul for sixty years.
Minnesota's oat crop for the sea-
son just ended will yield 146,116,355
bushels, the farm value of which, bas-
ing the calculation upon present
prices, is s43,S34,9O6.50, according to
figures given out by Fred D. Sherman,
state commissioner of immigration.
George H. Richards, secretary of
the State Bankers association, has
sent out notice to 1,13O member banks
that the association is taking active
measures to break up the practice, re-
Gently alarmingly prevalent in the
state, of passing worthless checks.
George Stelzle, German educator,
who for fourteen years has been state
organizer of the German Roman Cath
Ole, Aid association of Minnesota, is
dead at Minneapolis. He was an ora
tor or national fame in German Cath
Ole organizations.
Nicholas Hoffman, twenty years old,
son of pioneer Duluth parents, is dead
as result of the carelessness of an
unidentified hunter, who shot the boy
in the right leg accidentally and hur-
ried away to secure help, but never
returned.
Edward ]. Poole, negro, who shot
his common law wife at Duluth on
Aug. 81, the woman dying three weeks
later, has been found guilty of MUIR
der in the second degree and SEN
fenced to Saltwater prison for life.
A petition directed to the charter
commission asking an amendment pro-
viding for the city manager form of
government is in circulation at ST.
Cloud. The annual city election will
take place in April.
Carlos Avery, state game and fish
commissioners. announces that he will
shortly open new game preserve in
Pine county. The preserve is eighteen
miles east of Hinckley and comprises
about 1000 acres.
DR.. D. Tufte, PHI stefan of Pelican
Rapids, this state, is dead in Germany.
DR.. Tufte was studying medicine in
that country when the war broke out
and joined the medical staff of the
German army.
While hunting with five companions
at Bush lake, near Shakopee, William
Heating, nineteen years of age, was
shot and so seriously wounded that
he died in a Minneapolis hospital sew
eral hours later.
Being unable to sell the old prison
at Saltwater the state board of con-
troll has decided to wreck the building.
Bids for the work will be received by
the board until 2:3O p m. Dec. 20.
Henry c. Belden, aged seventy
seven, at one time judge of the Hen
nepin county district court and a
prominent member of the Minneapo-
lis Bar association, is dead.
Fire at Candy destroyed the First
National bank building, including q
number of Offices. Other structures
were saved after long fight.
Carl Bjorkan, three years of age,
was choked to death at Minneapolis
when he swallowed a wooden button.
Otis Kinkade, rural mail carrier,
was killed when his auto overturned
at the bottom of hill few miles
outside of Litchfeld.
William P. Bracket, a resident of
Minneapolis since 1858, is dead.
Joseph Haag, sixty years resident
of st. Paul. is dead.