New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-09-20
ABOUT: the STATE.
News Of Especial interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Happenings Of the Week Briefly Told
for tho convenlence Of the
Busy Reader.

Bank deposits at st. Paul have
gained $5,0S9, 695.67 since the first of
the year.
Republican state headquarters have
been opened in the st. Francis hotel
at st. Paul
Mrs. Charles F. Plow was burned
to death when fire destroyed her home
at st. Paul.
Joseph Hines, four years old, was
run down and killed by an automobile
at Rochester.
Fred J. Babcock, for twenty years
a prominent business man of South
St. Paul, is dead.
Duluth is in the race for the loca-
ton of the governments proposed
$11 100000 armor plant.
John Hage, butcher of Climax.
was killed when the automobile which
he was driving ran into ditch.
Michael Kane, eighty-five years old,
one of the earliest pioneers Of Winona
county, is dead of heart disease.
John F. Brouwey-Ancher, resident
Of Minneapolis for forty years and
prominent in mercantile circles In the
Mill City. is dead.
Alpheus B. Stickney, railroad build
er, who died at St. Paul Aug. 9. left
an estate of. $4,000, according to a
will Just admitted to probate.
The st. James mine at Aurora,
where the strike of Mesabi range min
ers started about three months ago,
is again working two shifts.
Dependency over III health is be.
Heved to have caused Ralph Walters
of Minneapolis to end his life by
jumping into the Mississippi river.
Monroe Matthews lost his balance
while at work ON the roof of an ele-
vator under construction at Minneap-
oils and fell 100 feet to instant death.
Mrs. Leonard Kimball, wife Of Leon
ard Kimball of the Kfmball-Storer
company, is dead at Minneapolis,
where she had resided for half cen
fury.
Since Jan. 1, 1858, when it became
a state, Minnesota has received 1885,
S92,383 and disbursed $311,435, 434.4S
in cash. Available cash now totals
$5,456,94S.52.
Proving too heavy for con-
demned seventy-five-foot bridge at Pill
lager traction engine fell forty feet
into the Crow Wing river No one
was injured.
The janitor at the Aitkin high
school rang the school bell the other
evening when the night blooming ce.
reus blossomed out in it's first appear.
ance in four years.
Monday, Oct. 9, the forty-fifth ami
versary of the big Chicago fire, will
be officially designated as Fire Pre-.
venton day in Minnesota, Governor
Burnquist announces.
George Fontaine, ninety-four years
old, is dead at st. Paul. Mr.. Fon-
taine reached that city from Canada
in 1s4s. For many years he was asso.
ciated with James J. Hill.
Four men were injured, one perhaps
mortally, when an automobile owned
and driven by Charles Hauser OF
White Bear overturned and dropped
from a ten-foot embankment
Miss Bertha Reuper of Minneapolis,
nineteen years old, mistaking a can
containing rat poison for soda, mixed
the material in pancakes and ate one.
Death followed in few hours.
William H. Rainsford, who made his
mark in the drama as leading man for
Olga Nethersole and other stars, is
dead in Minneapolis, where he con.
Quoted a motion picture studio.
Mrs. William Irving and her six
year-old son were found dead in their
home near Kelliher with bullet holes
through their heads. The coroner's
jury decided it was a case of murder
and suicide.
John Haisley, eighty-two years old,
a pioneer of st. Paul.. was knocked
down and fatally injured when struck
by a street car. He died at the St.
Paul city hospital several hours after
the accident.
Shot through the abdomen by the
accidental discharge of his revolver,
Hywood Fraser, seventeen year old
Duluth boy, was wounded fatally while
fishing in Cloquet river and died fol.
lowing an operation.
Another state ticket is in the field
in Minnesota, entered by the Indus
trial Labor party, which is the Min.
nesota name for the Socialist Labor
party. John P. Johnson of st. Paul
is the nominee for governor.
John Devereaux, a resident of Min.
neapolis since 1866 and one of the
we'll known contractors in the early
days of the Mill City, is dead. Mr..
Devereaux was ninety years of age
and was native Of Ireland.
Minnesota will receive approx.
mately $1,250,00O as an inheritance