New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-11-22

TWO sons OF George Wilson of Ball
club, eight and eleven years old, and
Bonnie Tibbetts, nine years old, were
drowned in Ballclub lake while play
Ing on the ice during recess from
school.
| ]. w. Engel of Pratt, Steele county,
is the champion buttermaker of the
United States. Mr.. Engel won the ma
tional championship at the recent Min
neapolis meeting of the National But
termakers' association.
Carbon monoxide gas; formed when
a cold automobile engine was sud-
denly started In tightly closed ga
rage at Minneapolis, caused the death
Of B. A. Schmidt and the partial as
phyxiation of H. J. Bates.
Fred Stees, aged twenty.eight, was
killed and three other workmen in
jured in an explosion at the Brown
Sheet Iron and Steel company's plant
at Minneapolis. The accident hap
pened when an acetylene generator
| exploded. 49,.
While attempting to rescue canary
Mrs. Frances Potter, seventy.twe
years old, fell unconscious in: her
home at Minneapolis and was suffo.
Gated by the smoke of Are that start
ed in the kitchen. The bird also was
| suffocated.
Horace Jackson, <sixty-three years Of
age, wealthy member of the Chicago
| board of trade, was found in the
woods north of Ely, this state. where
he had been lost several days. He
was In an exhausted condition. but
will recover.
Samuel P. Feinberg. aged fifty-one.
widely known among the Jewish peo-
pie Of Minneapolis for his charitable
work and support OF charitable institu-
tons, is dead at Chicago. He was =
resident of the Mill City for more
than thirty years.
Mrs. Burton Peck of St. Louis Park,
a suburb of Minneapolis, who had been
| i'll since the death of her husband,
| who was killed in an automobile acct
dent near Brushtown, N. Y, Aug. 8,
is dead of broken heart. She was
fortytwo years of age.
The state supreme court has upheld
| the constitutionality of the statute ex-
| empting public cemeteries from taxes
| and assessments, in an opinion in the
! action of the City of St. Paul against
| the Oakland Cemetery association in
| connection with sewer assessment.
Compensation of s1,S65,064 was
paid Minnesota workmen for injuries
and to cover medical costs between
Oct. 1, 1918, when the compensation
act went into effect, and June 80, 1915,
the period covered by a report just
made public by the state department
Of labor.
Irene, the five-year-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Schanen, farmer
living at the junction of the Fort
Smelling road and Mankato, smothered
to death in her mothers arms in an
automobile. She was snugly bundled
up in heavy blankets to protect her
from the cold.
Edward Baker was killed instantly
and James Gardell was perhaps NOR
tally wounded in a revolver duel at
| Minneapolis. The trouble between the
| men grew out of attentions both paid
to Mrs. Lucretia Gray, at whose home
| Gardell roomed, according to his state
ment to the police.
Mrs. Charles A. Van Duzee, fifty
eight years old, wife of Colonel Van
Duzee, formerly commander of the
Fourteenth Minnesota volunteer infan-
try, was stricken suddenly on a St.
! Paul street while on the way to a re-
ception at the home of friend and
died in a few minutes.
| Eleven months ago Frank Tate, a
Winona teamster, was kicked in the
face by a horse. While convalescing
he went for an automobile ride and
the machine turned over, injuring him.
Recently he went to work. While load.
ing a wagon with rock huge stone
fell on him. One leg was broken.
The soldier vote on the border was
about equally divided between Wilson
and Hughes, according to returns so
far received by Secretary of State
! SChmahl. The Democrats had hoped
to. secure large enough majority OF
the soldier vote to overcome the plu-
rality of Hughes among the civilians.
Patrick M. Hennessy, pioneer con-
tractor Of st. Paul, died suddenly at
the Angus hotel in the Capital City.
| At the time of his death Mrs. Hen
Messy YVES in an adjoining-room crit
ally i'll. Mr.. Hennessy, who was sew
anty years old, was one of the best
known contractors in the Northwest.
Guy RACER, aged thirty, Chester,
Mont, ard E. R. Spiers, Minot, N. D.,
| stockmer en- route to South St. Paul,
asleep in the caboose of the first train,
we're killed in a rear end collision Of
Great Northern freight trains in the
Cedar Lake yards near Minneapolis.
The caboose and five cars we're demol-
ished.