New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-08-30
ABOUT / Ne STATE
News Of Especial Interest TO
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SEC IONS
Happenings Of the Week Briefly Told
FOR the Convenience of the
Busy Reader.

George J. Reichart has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Long Prairie.
A 100000 project, which will give
st. Cloud a civic center, has been
launched.
J. D. Sims, retired pioneer lumber
man, is dead at Minneapolis, aged
seventy-eight.
Norman Potter, twelve years old, OF
Minneapolis was killed when his bicy-
Gle collided with street car.
Rye sold for $1.20 on the Duluth
board of trade Tuesday, the hightst
price ever recorded in that city.
Martin Olson, Moorhead city alder
man, paid SIS fine when found
guilty of violating the prohibition law.
Charles E. Ely, the first white boy
to thread what now are the streets
of Winona, is dead at De Smet S. D..
Frederick w. Stevens, for many
years identified with the lumber bust
ness in Minneapolis, Is dead at Seat.
tle
Minneapolis has been selected for
the 1917 meeting place Of the Mime
union.
J. w. Houle, president of the Forest
Lake State bank and chairman of the
Washington county board of commits
sioners, is dead.
Mrs. Katherine Pfeifer, one Of St..
Pauls pioneer women, having reached
that city in 1857. is dead. She was
Lightweight years of age.
Alfred L. May, for fifteen years
prior to 1910 manager Of the st. Paul
branch of the American Press Associ-
alton, is dead at st. Paul, aged sixty
three.
Governor BurnQufst has announced
the appointment Of twenty-nine Min
nesota delegates to the Farmers Ma
tional Congress, Oct. II to 20, at In
dianapolis. ...
Twenty head of cattle were drowned
in Lake Winnipegosis, near Dauphin,
when a barge on which they were be-
ing transported was capsized by a
huge wave.
There are 79S,S04 acres of unappro-
priated public lands in Minnesota, &C
cording to official figures just made
public by the interior department at
Washington.
J. J. Farrell, head of the state dairy
and food commission, announces that
the sale of cigarettes on the Mime
sofa state fair grounds this year will
be prohibited.
A narrow strip of wood was hurled
from ripsaw at the plant of Schroth
& Ahrens at Winona and penetrated
the abdomen of Robert J. Frey. His
condition is critical.
Rev. Ignatius Tomazin, aged sew
enty, who resigned his pastorate at
Albany, this state, month ago,
jumped to his death from the sixth
floor of a Chicago hotel.
G. H. Drew, farmer living near
Elk River, died in a hospital at Prince
ton from injuries received when he
was thrown from his rig when the
horses became frightened.
Creation of game refuge embrac-
ing 1850 acres along the west bank
of the Minnesota river south of St.
Peter is announced by Carlos Avery,
state game and fish commissioner.
Rev. James c. Byrne, pastor of St.
Mary's church at st. Paul, has been
selected by Archbishop Ireland to sue
coed Rev. Thomas J. Gibbons as vicar
general of the archdiocese of St. Paul.
George Sanprizos, ten years old, was
drowned in the Mississippi river at
Minneapolis. Four playmates of the
same age tried to reach him, but
feared to follow him into the deep
water.
An automobile driven by Hunroe
Shande1ing and carrying eleven per-
sons, mostly children, to a Jewish
picnic at Ely lake, turned over, killing
one child and injuring most of the
others.
Joseph Tibault forty years section
foreman of the Northern Pacific at
White Bear, died of heart disease on
a train en- route to the railroad hos
pital at Brainerd. He was sixty-four
years of age
Two young, small and well dressed
youths tried to hold up Charles Mel
son, Minneapolis cabinetmaker, and
when Nelson ran fired three shots
that struck him in the right shoulder.
arm and side.
According to statement issued by
State Auditor Preus a new high rec
ord will be set this year in Minnesota
production of iron ore despite reduc.
tons attributed to the strike on the
Mesabi range.
Rev. Thomas H. Cleland, d. D.. pas
tor of Knox Presbyterian church at
Minneapolis and one of the leading
ministers in his denomination. is dead
at Minneapolis. He was seventy.
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