Askov American., 1915-04-08
| What's Doing
in Minnesota

Caledonia. The Caledonia high
school debating team will meet the
dehaters of the Ancka high scnooi at
Anoka on Friday evening. April To-
Caledonia will support the negative OF
the state question, the government
ownership OF all telephone and tele-
graph lines.
New Ulm. Alfred Relnke. fl years
o.d. has been arrested Oh charge OF
having stolen 500 from an aged couple
who, II Is said, asked him to help
them coun; $500 which thes had in
The house and showed him where
they kept II, Later II liz alleged young
Reinke stole part OF the money.
Northiield September %, ~ and %
were the dates chosen for the forty.
alnth annual Rice county fair In this
city at j meeting OF the directors OF
the fair, Plans are being made for a
larger fair. special attention being paid
TO the exhibits Of farmers clubs, which
we're d feature OF the fair last year.
Marshall Lyon county will be one
III The first In the state 10 vote on the
,,cense question. The election has
been called for April 26. While pre-
iicsioTs are the county will 80 dry.
he vets say they have fighting
chance. as II Is thought parts OF ths
'onnty, especially around Ghent and
Taunton, will 20 for license
Br1inerd We'll. ! sure was lucky
when ! enlisted In the navy" wrote
francis Hnghsen, enc OF the men who
est bis life on the Inflated r marine
"a, to Wilbur l. Bissonetse u Brain,
ard Just a week before the craft was
submerged Off Honolulu. Hughson
vas 23 years old and Il machinist oil
sae first class. His home is at I.oa
Angeles.
Minneapolis, Minn.--At least twenty
horses were burned to death and ten
other, are believed to have been say.
I'd when FIRE destroyed the stables of
he Twin City Transfer company.
John Whitman. Harry Johnson and
fred Williams suffered bad burns In
hnrating the horses Incendiarism In
suspected, as ii was the third fire in
wo weeks.
81. Peter Declaring that the Min.
lescta Merchants & Manufacturers as.
ociatson is distorting facts In circu.
ting through its April bulletin figures
supporting TO show that violations oi
Liquor laws have increased In st. Peter
since the town went dry, II. g. Ander
son. court commissions of Nicollet
co.aty, has issued statement deny.
ms violations have increased.
Winoaa James A. Tawney. former
congressman, has left for Washington
to attend regular meeting OF the In.
ternational Joint boundary commits.
sion. He lis the chairman of the Ameri.
can section. Mr.. Tawney said that he
viii be absent about three weeks. A
number OF important matters are
scheduled for consideration, including
the Lake OF the Woods controversy.
Minneota. The Josephson bridge I'm
Westerhe'm township collapsed when
two teams were passing. William Van
.altyorst and his team were hurled into
Yellow Medicine river, which was high
and full of floating Ice The wagon
box vas new and foated abou, 20
rods and served its owner as boat,
thus saving his life. The center span
OF the bridge which gave way was
abo.fl so feet.
st. Cloud. Emil Maeder, who, Ii is
alleged. attempted suicide, intensed to
blow up his house, the police are dis
posed to believe, following discovery
Of twelve sticks Of dynamite, yards OF
fuse and dynamite caps i'm his home.
Maeder burned his old clothes a week
age, declaring that he was through
with work. He is under guard in d
LEGAL hospital, pending examination ar
to his sanity.
Staples. Lewis Reichel was burned
to death in his home in Thomastown
Reichel was about 30 and lived with
his mother. Mrs. Reichel spent the
&tternoon in this place and upon re-
turning to the farm found her home
in ruins and the body OF ner son half
consumed by fire. Neighhors believe
that lamp exploded and threw oil
over the young man as he sat by a
table reading.
Crookston. annual meeting
and banquet Of the Crookston Auto.
mobile club were attended by e mem.
bers. Adopting the report of the nom.
mating committee. the following OF.
fieers were unanimously elected:
Presiden., G. A, Morely: vice presi.
dent. c. c. strander. secretary treas
urer, G. NJ. Lumpkin, board of Cover.
nors, the above Officers and w. r,
Lowe, Ed Peterson, r. C. Pasiie, w.
T. Carlisle and Lee r.. Boyd.
Fergus Falls. An anti-saloon rally
was held at local theater Addresses
were delivered by Senator r. Fl. Peter.
son, author Of the county option law;
Representative Elmer e. Adams,
Mayor Cole. former Mayor Mcbride
and D. b. Ristad. principal of the
Synodicai Lutheran college here. The
anti-liqnor forces feel tE at the loss OF
this city. which has been dry for two
years. would be serious blow TO the
county option caase in the county,
while an increased majority would be
an almost certain guarantee Of county
victory
International Falls. Politics in this
siyv haya raa he'd am ttp,.1s,aI heat nvar