New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-02-09
ABOUT The STATE
News Of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
happenings Of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience Of the
Busy Reader.

DR.. A. L. Laliberte, widely known
Minneapolis physician, is dead.
Rev. William Rogers Lord, pastor
of the Unity church OF st. Paul for
several years, is dead at Dover, Mass.
More than $1,000 worth of silks and
kid gloves were stolen from the L. O..
Vessel company's store at Little
Falls.
w. F. Donohue of Melrose has filed
for nomination as delegate to the Dem
ocratic national convention from the
Sixth district.
Ole Hofs, car repairer for the St..
Paul road, was run over and instantly
killed by a switch engine in the COM
pany's Minneapolis yards.
DR.. Leonard l.. Bennett, president
of the National Farmers bank of Owa-
tonna and pioneer resident of that city
and Steele county, is dead.
Henry C. Flannery of Minneapolis
has been appointed assistant attorney
general of Minnesota and will have
charge Of railroad litigation.
Tetanus resulting from frostbitten
feet caused the death of John Hizer,
twenty-seven years old, at the Univer-
sity hospital at Minneapolis.
George A. Clark, one of the pioneer
implement jobbers in Minneapolis, is
dead, aged seventy-one. Mr.. Clark
was a veteran of the Civil war.
Despite subzero weather crowd es-
timated at 100000 lined the streets of
st. Paul to view the big carnival pa
rade, 10000 marchers being in line.
Thirty thousand carp were taken
from Lake Elysian by Lipinsky & Co.
of Winona with one draw of the seine.
They were shipped alive to New York
The Polk county grand jury which
has just adjourned made a record by
returning almost fifty indictments,
practically all for the illegal sale Of
liquor
The intercollegiate Prohibition asso-
citation of Minnesota will meet in Min
neapolis in annual convention March
q and g. About 300 delegates are
expected.
Fred c. Stevens filed as a candidate
for delegate at large to the Repub-
lican national convention. He is one
of those picked by the Cummins or
ganization.
Hiram Rise of St. Bonifacius, this
state, a brakeman on the Chicago
Great Western, was run over and
killed in the company's yards at Ches-
ter, Mont
The fish in many lakes of Northern
Minnesota are smothering to death,
according to reports reaching w. T.
Cox, state forester, from rangers in
that section.
John Mcdonald, aged twenty-six,
foreman of a Great Northern switch
ing crew, was killed in a collision of
two switch engines in the Union depot
yards at St. Paul.
The name of Senator A. B. Cummins
of Iowa has been filed with Secretary
of State Schmahl for the Republican
presidential nomination. The petition
contained 1000 names.
J. J. Regain of St. Paul, former ma
tional president of the Ancient Order
of Hibernians, has been appointed
chief clerk under S. D. Works, state
insurance commissioner.
Federal improvement of the Duluth
Superior harbor by charging the Su-
periOr harbOr basin at an estimated
cost of 100000 has been recommend
ed to congress by the war department.
Frank Pikal, aged forty-four, com
mitted suicide at St. Paul when he
saw the police coming to his home to
answer call of his wife for help. The
police say Pikal threatened to shoot
his family
Joseph Desmond, thirty years old,
is dead at st. Paul as the result of a
blow on the head with a wagon stake.
John Jewell, under arrest charged
with the assault, alleges he struck the
blow in self-defense.
Maurice I. Flagg, director of the
state art commission, has been an.
pointed superintendent of the woman's
department fer the 1916 exhibit at the
state fair, succeeding DR.. Clara M,
Luther of Minneapolis.
The Northwestern Telephone com
pany, in an amendment to it's articles
of incorporation filed with Secretary
of State Schmahl, increases it's capital
stock from $15,0O0,OOO to $4,000, 900.
The filing fee was $4,000.
M. S. Winthrop, chief clerk in the
office of S. D. Works, insurance com.
missioner, has resigned to become dis
trict head consul of the Modern Wood.
men of America in the First, Third
and Eighth congressional districts.
Iron ore royalties cannot be taxed
as money and credits" according tc
decision of the state supreme court
involving the attempt of St Louis
county officials to tax the Royal Min
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