The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-11-01
ABOUT The STATE
News Of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Happenings OF the Week Briefly Told
for tho Convenience Of the
Busy Reader


Michael Cottey, a pioneer farmer OF
Rosemount, is dead, aged f1fty-eight.
The states fire loss for May totaled
$55S,523. A year ago tho May loss
was $549,523.
Nearly 1000 delegates attended the
sessions of tho grand lodge, I. O. q.
F., at St. Paul.
More than 5000 persons attended
the Olmsted county community pic
mic at Rochester.
The summer term Of the state nor
NAL school at Mankato opened with
$50 students enrolled.
Oscar Skoog, the cartoonist of the
St. Paul police force, is dead. He was
forty-nine years OF age.
Gustava Sundquist of Minneapolis
was drowned when his boat was upset
while fishing in Lake Minnetonka.
Nols Sandquist, car repalrer, waa
crushed to death between freight cars
IN the Omaha yards At Mankato.
Mrs. Catherine G. Lofstdt, a pioneer
Of Minneapolis, is dead. She reached
the Mill City from Sweden in 1S4s.
F. A. Krch, aged seventy-hve, Civil
war veteran and once prominent in
Ramsey county politics, ID dead at st.
Paul.
Martin, nfteen-year-old son of Ole
johnson Of Kasota, was fatally injured
by tho explosion of gunpowder in his
pocket.
Teaching 4 friend how to swim cost
the life of Ben Arnold of Brainerd at
Clark lake. His companion struggled
to safety.
Mrs. Marian A. Bear Is dead at
Eyeta, aged eighty-eight years. She
had lived in that section since the
carly hfties.
The Minnesota Baptist summer a..
sembly will hold its eighteenth an:
nual meeting ut Mound, Lake Mime
tenka. July 20 to 80.
Mrs. Margaret T. Heating 10 dead
on farm near Kellogg taken up as a
homestead sixty years ago. She wes
eighty-one years Of age.
Frank g. Williams, president of the
Central State bank of Minneapolis
died suddenly at his home in that
city. He was sixty-one years Of age
Il. c. stringer, prominent St. Pau
attorney and former United States
district attorney for Minnesota, is
dead. He was sixty-four years of age.
Mrs. Elsie Warner, formerly a nurse
At the Minneapolis city hospital, died
ct her homo at Candy from burns re-
esivsd while cleaning clothes with
gasoline.
Rev. William F. Trussell and his
four-ysar-old daughter Marjorie were
drowned in Elm creek, a small stream
that flows past the Trussell home at
Champlin.
Albert Il. Nelson, a member of Com
pany H, Second Minnesota cavalry,
during the Indian outbreak, is dead
1t kankato, whore he had resided for
many years.
J. N. Davis, formerly division ST.
psrintendent OF the Great Northern at
Breckenridge, has been promoted to
vice president of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad.
John Grommissch was nearly killed
when his auto overturned near Barnes
Vile. William Tully also was badly
hurt. The car hurtled into a ditch
and turned over.
James Lawthsr, Red Wing capital
ist, whose benefaetions public and pri-
vets have been many, 1s dead ut his
estate in ireland. He was rsputsd to
b worth moro tAaa 100000, hav-
Ing became wealthy through invest
meat in Red Wing and Goodhue coun-
ty realty. He had crossed the ocean
Atty times. but has resided in Ireland
since 1911.
The strike Of teantsrs at Minneapo-
liz 10 assuming serieus proportions.
Practically every kind OF hauling is
Dssalyssd. HssDitals, hotels, whole
sale and retail merchants and commits.
sion men are forced to do their own
hauling. Retailers arc forced to use
private automobiles, push carts and
other inpzovissa vehicles to serve
their customers.
A plea for tho voluntary exclusion
fren Minnesota Of importations Of
white pine, curvant and gooseberry
D)Anti1gs from other states has been
IipA0tnd IN all Minnaaota nNpaarvn, an
By r. l.. WashburA, state entomolo-
Sist. The reason 10 the menace of the
whtte pine blister. prevalent in some
ssct1oas Of the country but 80 far ex.
tPoQoly rare In this state.