The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-10-04

Products made in St. Paul increased
in value more than $10,000,o00 in the
five-year period between 1909 and
1914. The United States department of
commerce announced an increase OF
$15,543, 900 in capital and $1,S44,000 in
wages.
The Minnesota Red River Valley De-
!, velopment association, the Red River
Valley Live Stock Breeding associa.
ton and the Minnesota Live Stock
Breeders association will hold their
conventions at Detroit on June Is, 16
and II.
DR.. Charles w. Wheaton, prominent
St. Paul surgeon, is dead, aged sixty
three. For many years DR.. Wheaton
taught didactic surgery at the Univer-
sity Of Minnesota and was professor
emeritus of surgery there at the time
of death.
William Cook, owner Of the steamer
Mudhen, accused by United States Off
GERS of running floating bar on Red
lake, pleaded guilty in federal court at
Fergus Falls and was sentenced tc
five months in the county Jail at Be-
midi and to pay a fine of $500.
Governor Burnquist has appointed
Judge William L. Parsons of Fergus
Falls to hear the appeal of the Great
Northern railway from an order of
| the railroad and warehouse commits
sion requiring the company to run 8
night train from Browns Valley to.
Morris.
Two indictments charging J. A.
Weare, night captain of police at Min.
neapolis, with accepting two brides OF
500 each from Arthur Rowe, formerly
one of the proprietors of chain of
| vicious hotels in the Mill City, have
been returned by the Hennepin county
grand jury.
Gundborg Sund, a sixteen-year-old
Minneapolis girl, was struck in the
head by bullet fired through a win
dow at her home. A rejected boy ad.
mirer has been arrested on complaint
Of the girls father charged with the
shooting. 1t Is feared the wound may
prove fatal
Vivian R. Irwin was elected mayor
of st. Paul over Major w. G. Handy
by majority of 5000. Jesse Foot was
chosen city comptroller. Messrs Kel-
Ter, Goss, Farnsworth and McColl
were reelected city commissioners and
John D. Hyland and Albert Wunderlich
! replace two former members.
! Anton, five-year-old son of Jacob
Korpi, manager of the Tower Mercan-
i tile company, was fatally crushed
| when an automobile owned and driven
by Charles Lundstrom of Virginia ran
amuck. George, five-year-old son OF
Alderman Albert Wienzirl, also was
seriously crushed in trying to save
his playmate.
Robert C. Wiley, eighty-nine years
old, Minnesota pioneer, is dead at
Los Angeles, CAL Mr.. Wiley was born
in New York in 1927 and came to Min
nesota in 1858, stalking out claim on
| the shores of Lake Minnetonha, near
the present site of Excelsior. He re-
moved to st. Paul in 1870, although
ter, being employed on the erection OF
the first state capitol. He was mem
Der of the legislature in 1878.
Governor J. A. A. Burnquist has is.
sued a proclamation calling upon the
mayor In every city and town in the
state to appoint a committee Of one
or more to solicit and collect funds
for the Minnesota national guard regi
ments, the collections thus made to
, be forwarded to A. G. Gooding, state
treasurer, who will turn the money
over to committee of five which IL
to be appointeS by the governor. This
committee will distribute the collec.
lions among the companies and regl
ments as required.