The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-01-27
News Of Especial Interest to
| Minnesota Readers.
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happenings Of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience Of the
Busy Reader.

Civil war veteran, is dead at St. Paul
Trappers at work in Northern Min
nesota declare wolves are slaughter
ing deer by the hundreds.
When Charles Burridge Of Duluth
awoke the other morning he found two
big timber wolves on his doorstep.
George w. Freeman, aged seventy,
president of the Freeman-Patterson
Shoe company Of St. Paul, is dead.
Rev. A. H. Koerner, we'll known in
the Methodist Episcopal ministry of
St. Paul for twenty-six years, is dead.
The annual poultry show of the
Cannon Valley Poultry association
will be held in Faribault Jan. IS, 10
and 20
J. J. Mahoney, for fifteen years q
prominent horse dealer in the South
st. Paul market, is dead, aged fifty
one years.
c. P. Craig of Duluth has been re-
elected president of the State Agricul-
tural society. No candidate appeared
in opposition.
Thomas Frankson of st. Paul, who
formerly represented Fillmore county
in the legislature, has announced his
candidacy for lieutenant governor.
James M. Schofield of Nashville
township, Martin county, is dead as
the result of fall from sleigh. Con.
cussion of the brain caused death.
John Ryan, a resident of st. Paul
for forty-seven years and for twenty
seven years member of the St. Paul
police force, is dead, aged sixty-seven.
e. J. Luther, auditor of Itasca coun-
ty, would increase the bounty on
wolves instead of abolishing it, as
suggested by State Forester William
T. Cox.
Ebert N. Goodhue, district court re-
porter for twenty-five years, died sud-
denly at Winona. He was president
Of the Minnesota Court Reporters as
ISOLATION.
Mrs. Jennie Fraser, said to be the
oldest member of the Sioux tribe of
Indians on Prairie island, near Red
Wing, is dead. She was about ninety
years of age.
The jury trying Frederick T. Price,
on trial at Minneapolis charged with
the murder of his wife, returned a yer.
dict of guilty after being out about
twenty hours.
Minnesota will honor the memory
of Henry Mower Rice, it's first United
States senator, at the unwilling of his
statue in the Hall of Fame at Wash
ington Feb. 8.
The state highway commission is
preparing to ask legislation prevent.
ing bridges built under its direction
from being used as billboards by coun.
try merchants.
Eight thousand acres of Minnesota
land, part of the Red Lake Indian
reservation, known as Mud Lake bot.
tom, will be thrown open to entry and
settlement next spring.
Ole o. Solem, indicted for poison,
ing his mother-in-law, pleaded not
guilty at Jackson to a charge of muir
der in the third degree and was re-
leased on $25, 900 bonds.
Martin Ross, residing near Crook
ston, was smothered to death when
load of oats he was hauling in a
grain tank overturned. He was to
have been married soon.
At a meeting of the National Rifle
association at Washington Adjutant
General Fred B. Wood of Minnesota
was elected first vice president of the
association for the coming year.
Horace Tyler, aged forty-eight, and
an unidentified man about thirty-five
years of age were found dead in a
gas filled room in the rooming house
of Mrs. J. G. Munderwiler at St. Paul.
The Saltwater board of education
has decided to have military training
in the high school. w. G. Braden,
formerly military instructor at Shat.
tuck school, Faribault, has been en-
gagged.
Martin A. Gullickson of Fertile, this
oI0IO, liza Q" AAAA0CAl Ill l1OAL VI d lOCO-
motive at Minneapolis and was killed
instantly. Letters in his pocket re.
vealed that he intended to commit
suicide.
w. A. Clark, an early settler of Mic.
ollet county, is dead. He was born in
Pennsylvania in 1928 and came to
Minnesota in 1855. He served through
the Civil war in Company H, Second
Minnesota.
Duluth will observe Feb. 20 as Pros
perity day. Mayor Prince has set
aside the odd day of the leap year
for celebration of the return OF
good times. There will be a public
ice carnival.
A game with South Dakota State
college at Northrop field will open
Minnesota's 1916 football schedule on
Oct. Z. Both Illinois and Wisconsin
will play on the Minnesota grounds
this season.
The people of Rochester will vote
on Jan. rs on the question Ct issuing
100000 in bonds for the purchase of
f1owage rights and for the construc.
4.