The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-04-20

The recount of votes cast at the city
election of March IA in Owatonna
ended in a finding of 759 dry votes,
807 wet ballots and eight blanks
Herbert Hoffman. foreman on
farm near Brainerd, committed sui
eide while brooding over a love affair.
He was twenty-eight years of age.
Jesse R. Hubbard, forty-five years
old, one of the best known railroad
conductors Of Northern Minnesota, is
dead at Duluth following an operation.
Private Lester K. Spaulding, a Min
nesotan, has been awarded the first
distinguished conduct medal in Can
ada for unusual acts of bravery at the
front
Arian Paulson, two-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Paulson of Roches-
ter, drank carbolic acid found in
pile of rubbish while playing and died
an hour later.
Herbert Emery, thirty.four years
old, committed suicide. at Austin by
cutting his throat. Illness and finan-
cial trouble are supposed to have
prompted the deed.
A daughter just born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Stewart, residing near
Sherburne, is said to be the first baby
girl born in the Stewart family in
more than 100 years.
Sale of small tracts of land in the
coded portions of the Chippewa reser-
vations in Minnesota is provided for
in a bill introduced in congress by
Representative Stevenson.
Henry Tipp, alias kid" Scully, con-
victed at Minneapolis for an offense
against young girl, was sentenced
to Saltwater penitentiary for term
of from one to seven years.
Jean Duluth farm at Duluth has
sold the thoroughbred Guernsey bull,
May King Linda Vista, for $4,000, said
to be the highest price ever paid for
a Guernsey bull in the United States
Peter Cromberg, a member of the
Great Northern section crew at Itch
field, was struck by fast mail train
and almost instantly killed. Cromberg
was attempting to push Martin Mar
tinson from the tracks when he was
struck.
J. T. Johnson of Fergus Falls, who
has been member of the legislature
for several years and who has fire.
Quently been mentioned as probable
dry candidate for speaker of the next
house, pleaded guilty to charge of
illegal liquor selling, and paid a fine
of SIS and costs. Mr.. Johnson is a
druggist.
Eight rural school districts around
Delevan are considering the advisa-
bility Of consolidating with the village
Of Delevan and erecting high school.
II the plan carries the new district
will have valuation of about $780,
900 and ten school buses will be re-
quired to carry the children.
The case against William Rufus Ed
wards, wealthy st. Paul lumberman
on trial at Chicago on the charge OF
violating the Mann act in transporting
Miss Ada Cox from Chicago to the
Twin Cities, was taken from the jury
by Judge Anderson and a verdict OF
not guilty entered on the records.
When Mrs. Louis NJ. Morissette of
Minneapolis killed herself by opening
four gas jets in her apartments she
also caused the death Of Charles Row
man, a man whom she had never seen
until a few hours before the tragedy.
-Why she desired to kill Rowman, too,
is a mystery that battles the police
and coroner.
Judge Oscar Hallam of the state
supreme court has declared he will
not be candidate for the United
States senate. He takes. the position
that q man holding q judicial position
should not be candidate Tor 4 polit-
ical office, and = member Of the ju-
dietary should not resign TO became a
candidate for another Office,
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