The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-09-20
News Of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Happenings of tho Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience Of the.
Busy Reader.

Byron J. Mosier has been appointed
postmaster at Saltwater.
S. X. Keith Of Minneapolis was
drowned while fishing in Willow river
near Hudson, Wis.
The National Editorial association,
in session at New York, selected Min
neapolis as it's place Of meeting next
year
Albert Barry, a homesteader Of the
Togo region near Hibbing, reports the
discovery Of rich iron ore on his
claim.
The John Addison Porter prize OF
$500 was awarded to DR.. Richard J.
Purcell of Minneapolis at the Yale
commencement.
BY majority of sixty-six the city
Of Virginia voted to reduce the mum.
Der of saloons from forty-nine to
twenty by Jan. 1, 1917.
Frank Jackson, an old resident OF
Hitbtng, was instantly killed by the
accidental explosion of eighteen sticks
OF dynamite he was carrying.
NJ A. Smith OF St. Paul, aged thirty
seven, was drowned in White Bear
lake He was reaching for fallen
oar when he fell out of the boat.
Mrs. Rebecca Plummer, who reached
Brooklyn Center, this state, in 1854, is
dead at Minneapolis She was mem
Der of the Territorial Pioneers asso-
ciation
Robert Seiberlich, minneapolis in
surance man, has been appointed state
boxing commissioner to represent Min.
neapolis in succession to Michael L.
Nolan, resigned.
William Kaiser, one of the proprie-
tors Of the Faribault Journal and
postmaster of Faribault from April l,
1899, until last February, is dead at
Eagle Rock, CAL
John kovrik OF St. Paul, fifty-three
years old, stopped a runaway team
headed toward a group of children
but he received injuries which re
suited in his death.
Police Captain J. A. Weare of Min
brides for the protection of vice, was
acquitted by jury in the Hennepin
county district court
A near tornado swept over Crooks.
ton and vicinity, causing considerable
damage. Sios on several farms were
blown down and the grain warehouse
at Shirley was wrecked.
Martin H. Clapp of St. Paul, super
intendent Of telegraph of the Northern
Pacific railway, has been chosen pres
ldent Of the Association Of Railway
Telegraph Superintendent.
For the second time within year
burglars broke into the supply house
Vt Parke, Davis & Co., wholesale drug
gists Of Minneapolis, and took mar
cotics worth probably $4,000.
Governor Burnquist gathered in the
largest number of votes in the Henne:
pin county primary, his official total
being 27,SO5, and his majority over
Samuel G. lverson being 22,4S4.
An electrical storm, accompanied by
a high wind, swept over the north
western part Of Rock county, demol
ishing barns and moving silos from
their foundations.
While attending her usual house
hold duties Mrs. Nicholas Johnson of
Pelican Rapids was suddenly stricken
blind. Physicians have been unable
to relieve the trouble
More than $4,000 will be spent on
good roads work in Clay county this
year by the individual Townships
aside from the amount to be spent by
the county and state.
John w. Olsen, state superintendent
Of public instruction from 1901 to
1909, now in the land business in Min
neapolis, has filed as a candidate for
the Mill City school board.
A score of street car passengers
barely escaped death or serious injury
at Duluth when steam shovel struck
the car, tearing out the entire side
and smashing half the seats.
Swan lake. Ntcollet county, famous
hunting resort, is to be drained into
Minnesota river, retaining 10000
acres Of land, which will be divided
among farmers owning abutting prop
erty.
At a special election Staples voted
$4,000 toward the erection of a new
high school building to take the place
of the one recently destroyed by fire.
The new structure will cost about
100000.