The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-12-16
STATE NEWS BITS,
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Happenings Of the Week
in Minnesota.
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Timothy Reardon, one of the pic.
neer residents of St. Paul, is dead,
aged seventy-eight MIR. Reardon came
to this country from Ireland in 1885
and lived in New York until June 10,
1855, when he moved to st. Paul,
where he has lived since. He was
contractor by occupation and had
constructed hundreds Of buildings in
the Capital City during his long res
idence there.
With horns locked, killed as they
fought, two buck deer were taken into
Duluth by Peter Deloyia. According
| to Deloyia he was with three compan-
ions when they heard sounds of ami
NAL conflict. They approached and
| watched the conflict until the horns
| became locked, then fired.
Mrs. William Woodbridge, seventy
four years old, leading civic worker,
! is dead at Duluth, where she arrived
as a bride in stage coach in 1870.
! Every movement for permanent i'm
| provement in the city since it's earliest
|
Robert and Edward Neymeister, fif-
teen and seventeen years of age, re-
spectively, sons of Joseph Neymeister
a farmer living near Hopkins, Henne-
pin county, broke through the ice
| while skating on Glenwood lake and
| were drowned.
Henri r. Buquet, French consular
| representative in St. Paul and for
many years president of the local AL
lance Franchise, is dead, aged fifty
years. Mr. BuQuet had been resi-
dent of St. Paul for fourteen years.
Earl Kruger, an early resident of
| Otter Tail county, was found dead in
| his home in the town of Elizabeth.
Kruger was a bachelor and lived alone
He is believed to have been dead
| nearly two weeks when found.
The executive committee Of the
Second District Editorial association
has outlined program for the an
nual meeting to be held at Mankato
Jan. 49, A business session will be
held in the afternoon.
Rev. Jacob Kolb, aged eighty four,
is dead at St. Paul. Rev. kolb had
been pastor of German Presbyterian
churches in Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Illinois and other states for more than
fifty years.
| Miss Esther Lawson. thirty years
of age, sister of V. E. Lawson, editor
of the Willmar Tribune, was drowned
in a mill pond at New London when
| the ice on which she was crossing
gave way.
Only $4,000 has been invested by
962 state banks of Minnesota in the
only few of the state banks allying
| themselves with the federal reserve
| system.
! Benjamin G.. Eaton, aged fifty-seven,
for twenty-one years principal of the
| Hendricks school at St. Paul, was
stricken with apoplexy at the close
of his days work and died an hour
later.
Clarence Jaqua, twenty-three years
Of age, was drowned near Hardwick
He had gone for tank of water for
a threshing engine and while stoop-
ing to get drink slipped under the
ice.
Fire at St. Paul Quilted the four
story wholesale paper house of F. G.
Leslie & Co. and damaged the ad
Joining building occupied by Barrett
& Barrett, causing loss of $4,000.
| w. E. Verify of Wadena, who is try
ing to reorganize and rejuvenate the
Republican league of Minnesota, has
established his headquarters at the
Saint Paul hotel at St. Paul
John C. Hermann, sixty-two years
old, who came to Minnesota when four
years old, is dead at st. Paul. With
his parents he was survivor of the
Now Ulm massacre.
Fred r. Van Strum, a resident of
Minneapolis since 1865, widely known
as a merchant, grain man and real
estate dealer is dead.