New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-01-12
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Happenings Of the Week
in Minnesota.
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August Beise, eighty years old, a
pioneer of Mapleton, is dead.
Ramsey county tax collections dur
ing 1915 amounted to $4,911,878.57.
Soren R. Nelson of Owatonna, aged
sixty, has just been admitted to the
bar.
Richard Fleming, five years old, met
death in a coasting accident at Min
neapolis.
Mrs. Josephine Ries, resident of
Shakopee since 1856, is dead, aged
eighty years.
Edward Hullsiek, born in St. Paul
in 1852 and a resident of that city all
his life, is dead.
The national Prohibition convention
will meet June 10 in the Auditorium
building, st. Paul.
Stanley Toczko, seven years old, is
dead at st. Paul from injuries re-
ceived while coasting.
Insanity increased 10 per cent in
Hennepin county in 1915 over the rec
ord of the preceding year.
Edward E. Witchie, practising at
torney at Minneapolis for forty years,
is dead. He was sixty-two years old.
Paul just residing near Echo, is
dead following an accident in which
one of his legs was torn off below the
knee
Peter Nelson of Red Wing may be
the Democratic nominee for governor,
in the opinion of many St. Paul Dem
ocrats.
Leonard Simonson, cashier of the
Great Northern depot at Benson, was
killed while attempting to alight from
train.
DR.. w. w. Dawley, at one time pas
tor of the Woodland Park Baptist
church at St. Paul, is dead at SYRIA
cuse, N. Y.
Charles K. Leonard, aged ninety
seven, who reached Minnesota in 1855,
is dead at his home in Maple Grove,
11Suucplu COCuty.
Edward D. Barness has been ap-
pointed sheriff of Clearwater county
to fill the unexpired term of G.. A. An
derson, deceased.
James P. Allen, probably the best
known druggist in Minnesota and a
resident of st. Paul since 1853, is
dead, aged seventy-one.
jeremiah Burlingame, ninety one
years old, an early settler of Big Stone
county, is dead. Six children and
twenty grandchildren survive.
Ten counties will participate in the
Farm Crops show at Crookston dur
ing the week of Feb. 7 to H. Five
thousand dollars in prizes are offered.
The population of the state of Min
nesota today is estimated at 2,263,1S2,
compared with 2,O75,7O3 in 1910. The
increase for the past year was 32,842
The estate of the late Samuel G.
Brown of Luverne, amounting to
about $4,000, has been left to the
state school for the blind at Faribault.
Deposits in the national and state
banks and trust companies in St. Paul
are more than $1OO,00O,O0O, the largest
in the history of banking in St. Paul.
The Democratic state executive
committee has called a state confer
ence for Feb. 3 to select delegates and
alternates to the national convention.
The will of the late Thomas L.
Shevlin of Minneapolis bequeaths an
estate valued at $3,5O0,OOO to Mrs.
Shevlin, the widow, and her two chill
dren.
jeremiah c. O'Leary, an Omaha
road locomotive engineer, whose good
nature won him the nickname of
Smiling jerry is dead at his home
in st. Paul
Mrs. Sam Hokenson of Minneapolis
decapitated her five-days-old baby and
then attempted to cut her own throat
after stabbing herself Her condition
is critical.
Fines totaling $4,S36.51 were COL
lected during the year 1915 by the
dairy and food department for VIOLA
ton of the food and sanitation laws
of the state.
Mrs. Augusta Weide, eighty-seven
years old, resident of St. Paul since
1856 and whose husband established
one of the first grocery stores in the
city, is dead.
Almost 5000 less barrels of beer
were consumed in Minnesota in De-
cember, 1915, than in December, 1914,
according to the United States inter-
nal revenue Office.
During the first semester of the col
lege year students of the University
of Minnesota earned $24,63975 by
work obtained through the university
employment bureau.
Clark w. Gilmore, attorney and
judge of the municipal court, is dead
at Pipestone. He was captain of Com
pany M, Fifteenth Minnesota, iii the
Spanish-American war.