New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-02-16
News Of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
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happenings Of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience Of the
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rabbits near Long lake.
Mrs. Julia Presley, a resident of
Mankato for forty-six years, is dead.
aged seventy-eight years.
Mrs. Mary Lair, a resident of Min
nesota for f1fty-nine years, is dead at
st. Paul, aged seventy-eight.
The retail hardware dealers of Min
nesota will hold their annual conven-
ton at st Paul Feb. % to Is.
John Rees, ninety years old, pio-
neer of Cambria, Blue Earth county,
is dead. He was a Civil war veteran.
Roy D. Herrick of Minneapolis, aged
forty-6ve, is dead in Bermuda, where
he had gone for the benefit of his
health.
Red Lake county, the only wet"
ground in Northwestern Minnesota.
will hold a county option election on
Feb. %.
Slippery walks caused two deaths
In Fillmore county, John Harland of
Henrytown and Alfred Bowman of
Lenora being the victims.
William F. Bevers, seventy years
old, dropped dead at his home at Zum-
brota He was born in Illinois and
came to Minnesota in 1856.
Charles H. Slime, for twelve years
secretary of the St. Paul Commercial
club, has been elected secretary of
the Seattle Commercial club.
Joseph Kowalewski, twenty five
years old, was fatally burned in an
explosion inside of a seventy-five-
barrel vat at the Bub brewery at Wi
mona.
Mrs. Philena Boomer, aged ninety
six, is dead at St. Paul. Until few
months ago the aged woman was
active and in full possession of all her
senses.
Superintendent G. A. Patchin of
Worthington was elected president of
the Southern Minnesota Educational
association at it's recent meeting at
Mankato.
John W. Norton is the legal owner
of the st. Paul American association
baseball team, according to a decision
of Judge Orr of the Ramsey county
district court.
Clifford A. Wilder, twenty-five years
old, of Austin, this state, who had
been married just week, died at Be-
lott, Wis, while visiting relatives on
his wedding trip.
The postal savings bank in St. Paul
had $775,659 to the credit of the depos-
itors at the beginning of 1916 There
were SOP depositors and the average
account was $15273.
An inheritance tax of $53,395 has
been imposed on the estate of James
S. Bell, Minneapolis miller, who died
in April, 1915, leaving an estate val
ued at nearly $2,000,000
Mrs. John Weiss, mother of c. A.
Weiss, editor and proprietor of the
Duluth Herald and pioneer of West
ern Minnesota, is dead at North Red
wood, aged seventy-fve.
Leo Treacy of Grand Forks was &C.
quilted at Crookston of a charge of
manslaughter as the result of the
death of M. F. Hall of Austin follow
ing a saloon row in East Grand Forks
Nov. 9.
Last year s4,722,925 worth of prop
erty in Minnesota was DESTROYED by
fire. Three-fourths of this loss was
attributable to carelessness, accord.
ing to Robert W. Hargadine, state fire
marshal
While alone in his yard Frank Nav
ratil, Swan Lake pioneer, was at
tackled by bull. While fighting the
animal with a spade near a water
tank he was knocked into the tank
and drowned.
Charles Annison, aged thirty-three,
died at the St. Paul city hospital re-
fusing to tell the name of the man
who shot him. II never squealed in
my life and I won't now" he told sur
geons and nurses.
The state game and fish department
will bear the expense of the propaga-
ton of native birds on the Big Island
game farm at Lake Minnetonka. Ruff:
fled grouse, quail and prairie chicken
yards are being completed.
Benedict Bangerter, ST., a pioneer
business man of Mankato, is dead at
the age of eighty-one. At the time of
the Sioux Indian massacre he fed with
his family to New Ulm and assisted
in the defense of that place.
G. E. Belin, pioneer riverman and a
resident of Red Wing for more than
half century, is dead. Mr.. Belin
was familiar figure on the Missis-
sippi river for fifty years and was
known by all steamboat men.
In the presence of Vice President
Marshall, Senators Nelson and Clapp,
the Minnesota delegation of the house.
former Governors Merriam and Lind,
District Commissioner Newman and
some hundreds Of invited spectators
the statue of former Senator Henry
Mower Rice of Minnesota was un-