The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-07-05
News Of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Happenings Of tho Week Briefly Told
for tho Convenience Of the
Buoy Reader.

The states fire loss for May totaled
$55S,523. A year ago the May loss
was $549,523.
Nearly 1000 delegates attended the
sessions Of the grand lodge, !. O. o.
F., at St. Paul.
More than 5000 persons attended
the Olmsted county community pic
mic at Rochester.
The summer term of the state nor.
NAL school at Mankato opened with
$50 students enrolled.
Oscar Skoog, the cartoonist of the
st. Paul police force, is dead. He was
forty-nine years of age.
Gustave Sundquist of Minneapolis
was drowned when his boat was upset
while fishing in Lake Minnetonka.
The strike Of Mankato plumbers and
steamfitters has ended after seven
weeks. both sides having made con-
cessions.
William Batke, eighteen years old,
student at Luther seminary, St.
Paul, was drowned in Lake Phalen
while bathing.
The Minnesota Association of Short
horn Breeders met in annual conven-
ton at Kenyon. The attendance was
unusually large.
Marie Howe, three years old, daugh.
ter of Mr. and Mrs. William Howe of
Minneapolis, was run down and killed
by street car.
A severe hail storm covered large
section of Southern Minnesota and
caused considerable damage to corn
and small grain.
A haul of more than $500 was made
by burglars who blew the safe at the
Colonial theater at Winona and got
away with two days receipts.
Oscar Scoberg, Lakeville, this state,
is included in the list of killed in &C.
ton just published by the Canadian
military authorities at Ottawa.
Ruth Buttenhoff. aged two years,
was run down and killed by an auto
mobile driven by her father, H. c.
Buttenhoff of Baker, Clay county.
Samuel Poison, holding the record
of thirty-hve years continuous service
on the Northern Pacific railroad as
an engineer, is dead at Brainerd.
Weyne Jenkins, nineteen years Of
age, is dead at his home near Lewis
ton as result of tetanus. He had
stepped on rusty nail on May 81.
DR.. J. J. Hillmer, dean of the faculty
and instructor in German and French,
has completed his fortieth year as q
teacher in the Winona high school.
The Fraternal Order of Eagles, in
annual session at Duluth, elected John
Ward OF Eveleth president and Sc
lected Faribault as the meeting place
for 1917.
Elks of Minnesota. $500 strong, at
tending the twelfth annual state con-
vention at Duluth, joined in street
parade, the largest ever seen In the
Zenith City.
Mrs. Catherine Stumpf, resident
of PierZ for nearly half century, is
dead at the home Of her daughter at
Little Falls. She was seventy-five
years of age.
Bishop Charles B. Mitchell, newly
assigned to the St. Paul Methodist
Episcopal district, has been given the
degree of LII. D. by Lawrence college,
Appleton, Wis.
Margaret Witherow, nine-year-old
daughter of Attorney and Mrs. James
Witherow Of Moorhead, was burned to
death when her clothing caught fire
from gas stove.
Miss Margaret Corcoran, a teacher
In the st. Paul public schools since
1873. is dead. For the past twenty
years Miss Corcoran was principal of
the Sibley school.
Samuel D. Catherwood of Austin
has been appointed by Governor Burn.
quist as district judge in the Tenth ju.
dicial district to succeed Nathan
Kingsley, resigned.
The fortieth annual convention OF
the Women's Christian Temperance
Union will meet at Owatonna on Aug.
22 to rs, inclusive. At least 500 dele
gates are expected.
Charles Waldeck of Montevideo was
elected president of the State Fire.
mems association, in session at
Chisholm. Montevideo will entertain
the next convention.
William M. Merriam, fifty-six years
old, chief geologist of the United
States Steel corporation and for its
predecessor, the Minnesota Iron com.
pany, is dead at Duluth.
George Turner, aged seventy-two, q
resident of Minneapolis since 1857, IL
dead. Mr.. Turner enlisted In the Sec
ond Minnesota cavalry in 1853 and
served until the end of the war.
Sioux and Chippewa Indians cele.
brated the thirty-seventh anniversary
of the signing of peace treaty be-
tween the two tribes in big gather
Ing on White Earth reservation.
Professor J. N. Kildahl of st. Paul
was reelected vice president Of the
United Norwegian Lutheran Church OF
America at the annual convention of