New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-06-28

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catfish ever caught in the Minnesota
river was landed recently by Joseph
| Winkler. The fish weighed forty-eight
pounds and was caught a short dis
| lance above Fort Ridgely.
Two years ago Fred Jeffries, Ia
| borer, left England to escape enlist
| ment The other day he was en-
quilted by twelve tons of sand while
at work in a sandpit at St. Paul ana
| was dead when taken out
When the petition for a county op-
| ton election for Beltrami county is
fled on July 1 it will bear the names
| Of about 1,400 citizens. The southern
| part of the county, it is believed, will
~eturn go per cent dry vote.
John Radish was found guilty of
murder in the first degree in the Hen
| nepin county district court. He was
! charged with the murder of Joseph
| 6reining, Minneapolis butcher, dur
ing an attempted holdup last January
Joseph w. Bragdon, wealthy Mime
apolis clubman, convicted of assault
| upon fourteen-year-oldg girl, was SEN
fenced to seven years in state prison.
Stay of execution was granted until
Sept II and Bragdon was released on
bail.
A Northwestern road freight car,
while being switched in the yards at
Marshall, ran over an automobile be-
ing driven by Willis Gillett. The auto
vas reduced to junk, but Gillett es-
capped with cuts on the head and mi
nor bruises.
Senator Clapp has appointed Len
tilhon Wheeler, son of Captain Charles
B. Wheeler, cadet at West Point
under the extra cadet law passed by
congress. Captain Wheeler, who is
stationed at Watertown, NJ Y, is a
native of Fergus Falls, MINI.
One man is dead at Duluth and an
other is being held on charge of as
sault as the result of terms in which,
the police say, the former expressed
his opinion of national guardsmen at
the Union station at Duluth as the
militia were leaving for Fort Smelling.
When a miniature tornado struck
Thief River Falls and vicinity the dog
OF Ole Svennek, farmer, was picked
up bodily and hurled fifty feet, land
ing in the crotch of a tree, where it
renl2ined, bowling and shivering, un-
&. @c:aEl from the farm rescued it,
In pitched battle between striking
~: nd fx1rn ,s1,%xy
Mining company policemen at Vir-
ginia, John Alar, a striker, was killed
and Vincent Elias, a grocery store
proprietor, was shot through the thigh
and an unidentified miner was wound
ed in the shoulder.
President w. ]. Olcott Of the Oliver
Mining company, which operates a
majority of the mines on the Mesabi
range, announces operations will be
stopped in all underground properties
soon if the strike of miners continues.
He said the mines will not be re-
opened this year, if closed.
In two days more than five miles OF
road between Staples and Motley was
rebuilt and put in passable condition
for automobiles, ali by volunteer la
Dor. The first day 1876 men and forty
six teams were engaged in the work.
and on the second there were fifty
men and twenty.six teams.
Robert c. Pickit, former clerk Of the
state investment board, has been made
defendant in a suit for absolute d.
vorce fled in the Ramsey county dis
trict court by Mrs. Mary Pickit |
Fickit and Walter J. Smith, former
state treasurer, are in the state prison
at Saltwater as a result OF their loot
ing the state treasury of $2G,0G0
The rapid development Of manufac-
turing in Minnesota during the five
year period between 1903 and 1914 is |
shown in a bulletin issued by the fed |
eral census bureau The value OF
products was $493,354, 900 in 1914, as
compared to $409,420,OO in 1909, a
gain OF IS? ,934 900, or 20.5 per cent.
Tie average for each plant was $685.
900 IN 1914 and $4,000 in 1909.
Addie Meme, thirty-eight years old,
2 business man Of Winton, was
drowned and his wife and two small !
children narrowly escaped a similar
death On Fall lake when a motor boat
n which the family was riding crash
ed into partly sunken log and cap
sized. Mrs. Meme saved herself and
six-months-o!d baby by turning on her
back and swimming to shore with the
baby held to her breast
Employees Of state institutions under
:harge OF the board Of control who
desire to become members OF tbs
United States army viii be granted
lie leave OF absence by the superin
.endent CT the institution and their
positions will be open to them upon
heir return, according to resolutions
passed by the state board Of control
The resolution also provides that the
Monthly salary Of those with families
dependent On them shall be paid to
heir families during their absence.