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The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-01-13
St. Paul Customs House IS
Robbed Of $600,000.
MAIN BOOTY IS IN STAMPS
Thieves Blow Door Of Vault, Getting
Away With $4,000 Cash Big Sum
in Negotiable Stickers.

st. Paul, JAM 8.-Three thousand
dollars in cash and internal revenue
stamps aggregating nearly 100000 in
value were stolen from the office of
the collector of internal revenue in
the old postof1ice building when the
vault door was blown.
The robbery sets record for gov.
eminent loss of documentary stamps.
The only previous theft of large pro-
portions was the notorious robbery at
Peoria, ILL.,, in 1898, when $4,000
worth of war stamps were taken.
Rush B. Simmons, postof1ice inspec-
tor, said that the usual method of
getting rid of postage stamps is to
sell them in bulk to stamp brokers in
New York, Chicago or St. Louis. Ac-
cording to past records, he said, post
office burglars usually got Is per cent
of face value.
Deputies in the internal revenue Of
flee checked over their books with the
bundles of stamps left by the thieves.
Their totals, which have not yet been
proved up with second check, show
ed the total amount of stamps taken
to aggregate in value $576,077.51.
The stamps weighed about 300
pounds and it is believed the robbers
carried them downstairs in sacks and
had an automobile waiting outside in
an alley.
In addition to this the burglars oh.
tanned cash estimated at between So,
900 and $4,000. The money was taken
from a small safe. inside the .vanlt
from which the revenue stamps were
obtained. This was all the cash in
the offices with the exception of $50
in currency which had been slipped
into an envelope.
The burglars planned their visit
most fortunately for themselves, be-
cause the vault was packed to capaci
ty, having many thousands of dollars
In stamps more than ordinarily.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-01-13
Annual Commissioners Meeting

The adjourned annual meeting OF
the County commissioners was held
OH Saturday afternoon. The board
reelected Hans Engelsen as chair
man and Ole J. Allen as vice-chair.
man.
DIR. F. B. Hicks was appointed
county physician at the same salary
as last year.
There were three applications for
the position of janitor, John New.
ton, Sam Zimmerman and Ole An
derson, the latter receiving the ap-
pointment at the same salary as last
year.
The annual report OF the county
auditor for 1915 was received. The
county Revenue fund was enriched
by the transfer of about $4,OOO.OO
by resolution, from the county poo,
fund and the building fund.
Grand and petit jurors to serve
during 1915 we're selected. The
board also reviewed the books O
the county treasurer.
The reports of the county officer.
showing the fees and salaries re-
ceived by them during the yea,
were read and were as follows: II
l. Carter. county auditor $l577. 20
l.. H. Lien, sheriff $l5l3 20; S. C
Murphy, county attorney and exa
miner of titles $1785.O0; A. V
johnson, register of deeds and re
gistrar of titles $1372.58; Georg,
Leng. clerk of court $1O26 83; Geo
II. Durfee, Judge of Probate 1908.
Oo' and Louis Engelsop, count,
treasurer $4,000.
Several applications for reductio,
OF taxes were acted upon.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-01-13

The estate of the late Samuel G..
about 100000, has been left to the
state school for the blind at Faribault.
Deposits in the national and state
banks and trust companies in St. Paul
are more than $780, 100000, the largest
in the history of banking in St. Paul.
! The Democratic state executive
committee has called a state confer
ence for Feb. to select delegates and
alternates to the national convention.
The will of the late Thomas L.
Shevlin of Minneapolis bequeaths an
estate valued at $3,500,000 to Mrs.
Shevlin, the widow, and her two chill
dren.
jeremiah c.. O'Leary, an Omaha
road locomotive engineer, whose good
nature won him the nickname of
"Smiling jerry" is dead at his home
in St. Paul.
Mrs. Sam Hokenson of Minneapolis
decapitated her five-days-old baby and
then attempted to cut her own throat
after stabbing herself. Her condition
is critical.
Fines totaling $4,836.51 were COL
lected during the year 1915 by the
dairy and food department for viola
tion of the food and sanitation laws
of the state.
Mrs. Augusta Weide, eighty-seven
years old, resident of St. Paul since
1855 and whose husband established
one of the first grocery stores in the
city, is dead
Almost 5000 less barrels of beer
were consumed in Minnesota in De-
cember, 1915, than in December, 1914.
according to the United States inter-
nal revenue Office.
During the first semester of the col
lege year students of the University
of Minnesota earned $24,639.75 by
work obtained through the university
employment bureau.
Clark W. Gilmore, attorney and
judge of the municipal court, is dead
at Pipestone He was captain of Com
pany NJ, Fifteenth Minnesota, in the
Spanish-American war
Daniel B. Truax, Dakota county
pioneer, is dead at Hastings, aged
| ninety-eight years. Mr.. Truax was one
of the founders of Nininger and a
! member of the legislature in 1855.
| Mrs. H. E. Sloane, fifty-three years
old, for six years president of the
Minneapolis branch of the Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society Of the
Methodist Episcopal church, is dead
One thousand lakes and streams of
Minnesota were stocked with 190,Oz7,-
| 442 fish from state fish hatcheries dur
ing 1915, according to the report of
| Carlos Avery, game and 2ah commits.
| sioner
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-01-13
BRITISH BATTLESHIP SUM
Entire Crew Of the King Edward VII
Is Saved, ... r, ~~

London, Jan. 10.-The British bat
tleship King Edward VII. has been
sunk as the result of striking a mine.
The entire crew was saved.
The sinking of the King Edward
VII. was announced by the admiralty
in the following statement:
"The H. M. S. King Edward VII. has
struck a mine. Owing to the heavy
sea it had to be abandoned and sank
shortly afterwards. The ships COM
pany was taken off without loss of
life. Only two men were injured"
The King Edward VIII represented
an investment of nearly &1,600,O00
and was one of the finest of the last
class of predreadnoughts, correspond.
ing in general to the American ships
Of the New Jersey and Nebraska type.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-01-13
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STATE NEWS BITS.
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Happenings Of the Week
in Minnesota.
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August Beise, eighty years old, a
pioneer of Mapleton, is dead
Ramsey county tax collections dur
ing 1915 amounted to $4,911,87857.
Soren R. Nelson of Owatonna, aged
sixty, has just been admitted to the
bar.
Richard Fleming, five years old, met
death in coasting accident at Min
neapolis.
Mrs. Josephine Ries, a. resident of
Shakopee since 1856, is dead, aged
eighty years.
Edward Hullsiek, born in St. Paul
in 1852 and resident of that city all
his life, is dead
The national Prohibition convention
will meet June 19 in the Auditorium
building, St. Paul.
Stanley TocZko, seven years old, is
dead at St. Paul from injuries re-
ceived while coasting.
Insanity increased 10 per cent in
Hennepin county in 1915 over the rec
ord of the preceding year.
Edward E. Witchie, a practising at
torney at Minneapolis for forty years,
is dead. He was sixty-two years old.
Paul Just, residing near Echo, is
dead following an accident in which
one of his legs was torn off below the
knee.
Peter Nelson of Red Wing may be
the Democratic nominee for governor,
in the opinion of many St. Paul Dem
ocrats.
Leonard Simonson, cashier of the
Great Northern depot at Benson, was
killed while attempting to alight from
| a train.
DR.. w. w. Dawley, at one time pas
tor of the Woodland Park Baptist
church at St. Paul, is dead at Syra.
| cuse, N. Y.
/ Charles K. Leonard, aged ninety
seven, who reached Minnesota in 1855
| is dead at his home in Maple Grove
Hennepin county.
Edward D. Barness' has been ap
| pointed sheriff of Clearwater county
to fill the unexpired term of c. A. An,
derson, deceased
James P. Allen, probably the best
known druggist in Minnesota and a
resident of St. Paul since 1853, is
dead, aged seventy-one.
jeremiah Burlingame, ninety one
years old, an early settler of Big Stone
county, is dead. Six children and
twenty grandchildren survive.
Ten counties will participate in the
Farm Crops show at Crookston dur
ing the week of Feb. to 12 Five
thousand dollars in prizes are offered
The population of the state of Min
nesota today is estimated at 2,263,182,
compared with 2,075,703 in 1910 The
increase for the past year was 32,S42
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-01-13
Ford Party at The Hague.

London, Jan. 9.-The Ford peace
party has arrived at The Hague, says
a. Reuter- dispatch, and was welcomed
on it's arrival there by reception
committee headed by Jonkheer K. No.
BILE. a member of the second cham
ber, in a brief speech in which friend
" sentiments toward America were
expressed. He hoped the party
would achieve its expectations. Even
II it does not, added tho speaker, its
Intentions are laudable.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-01-13
LID" IS FATAL TO SEVEN

Four Men Die From Drinking Wood
Alcohol.
Seattle, Jan. 10.-Since the prohi-
bition law went into exect Jan. 1,
there have been seven deaths from al
coholism in Seattle, according to rec
ords kept by the coroner. Of this
number the death of four men was
due to drinking wood alcohol.
One woman and two men died of
overindulgence in whisky.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-01-13
Mrs. J. NJ. Woodard of the Re.

Mrs. J. M. Woodard of the Re.
seryatlon is quite sick.
The Norwegian Ladies Aid will
| meet with Mrs. Hans Holte next
Thursday afternoon.
A fire was seen by several about
2 o'clock this morning IN the nei gh-
borhood of the RosebusE settlement.
Up to the time of going to press we
have been unable to learn the
whereabouts of the fire.
The program at the Princess thea.
tor this week consists of ''The Vir-
tuoso," the Line Rider" western
drama in two parts, and "Close to
NATURE. On account of the stormy
weather there was no show Wednes-
day evening.
On Saturday night the o. S. l. S.
Club enjoyed a sleigh ride to Maple
Hill, whore they were entertained
as the guest of Miss Ella Gilbertson.
After lunch at the Gilbertson home
they danced at the town hall. A
very enjoyable time is reported.
Last Monday morning as Alex
Reginbal was returning to the Sleep
ing camp in Arvid Erickson's log
ging camp in Colv'll, he opened the
door TO find the interior in flames.
AS far as we are able to learn moth.
ing but the sleeping camp and coll
tents was burned. Alex Reginbald
was burned about tho face and
hands when he opened the door.
We were treated to a genuine
blizzard on Wednesday and continu-
ing to this morning. The lowest
temperature recorded during the
night was 25 below here in the viii
lage. The great velocity of the
wind swept most of our sidewalks
clean Of loose snow and made a few
mammouth drifts just as reminder
of the strength of the storm. The
west bound stage was delayed
slightly and the east bound stage
was held up at Hovland by the
storm.
For Sale-A soft coal heating
stove IN good condition.
MpC E17,rJ0n
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-01-13

For Sale-A soft coal heating
stove IN good condition.
MRS. METHOD.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-01-13
Topics Of a Week

Geo. Brisson returned from a trip
to Sandstone last week.
DR.. F. B. Hicks is in the eastern
part of the county on professional
business.
J. w. Schoen returned from a
business trip to Duluth on the Cres-
cent on last Friday.
Chas. Gannett spent Saturday af-
ternoon and Sunday morning in the
village on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. O. Backlund are
the proud parents of baby boy,
born last Monday morning.
Rev. Rlpon will preach next Sun
day evening on the "Theology of
Jesus" Don't miss this modern
discussion on the fundamental teach
ings of Christ.
Olson Bros. shot a valuable horse
last Tuesday, same being crippled
as result of an attack OF spinal
meningitis last fall
Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Kirkwood re-
turned on the Tuesday stage having
spent the holidays with relatives
and friends in Duluth.
Miss Elizabeth Hicks departed on
Monday morning for Wadena where
she will spend the winter with her
sister, Mrs. John Temple.
Andrew Larson returned from a
trip to Kasson and St. Paul. While
in Kasson he was the guest of Rev.
G. G. Eidnes, formerly of this VII
lage.
S. c. Murphy, Geo. I.eng and
Sheriff Lien departed on Monday
morning for Duluth with A. Paten-
aud. who will plead guilty of the
ofense he was held for in Justice
court recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. E. Aim enter
tanned the Willing Workers and
their husbands at "Five Hundred"
on Monday evening. About twen-
ty-tive were present and an enjoy
able evening is reported.
V. N. Johnson IS wiring several
buildings in the village preparatory
to furnishing electric lights in the
near future. The Princess theatre,
Peoples Supply and Peoples Cloth
ing Company stores and James
Woods barber shop being among
those first completed.
Chas. Boostrom, who is living
with his family at Moose lake, came
in on Tuesday night with his fur
catch. His trip at this time was
primarily to get some medicine for
Frank Kugler, who is sick at his
trapping camp. Mr.. Boostrom re-
ports travel very difficult on account
of the amount of water on top of the
ice in the lakes, necessltating going
around most of them.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-01-13
FIVE MEN ARE DROWNED

Accident Occurs in Delaware River at
Bristol, Pa.
Philadelphia, Jan. 10.--Tive men
were drowned in the Delaware river
at Bristol, near here. when their skif
was capsized by cakes of ice. With
the exception Of Irwin Schwan. ma
chinist of Cincinnati. all the victims
lived at EddingtOn, Pa.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-01-13
HOUSE CONFERS WITH GREY

Wilson's Representative Holds Long
Session With British Minister.
London, Jan. 10-As the first step
in his trip of investigation into war
conditions in Europe Colonel E. M.
House, personal representative Of
President Wilson, conferred at length
with Sir Edward Grey, the British
minister of foreign affairs.
No statement was given out of the
matter discussed.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-01-13
TEUTON PRISONERS OF
WAR TOTAL 100000.

Berlin, Jan. 6.-The armies
Of the central powers have TAX
en- 2,400,000 prisoners since the
beginning of the war, accord
ing to estimates made here.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-04
PLOTS T0DYNAm|TE new YORK
SUBWAY STATIONS DISCLOSED
FOIL OWING ARREST OF SIX MEN
Police Captain Tunney Says Evidence Points Furnish
ing Funds to Purchase Explosives A. uner Later
Assumes Responsibility

New York. Nov 3.-Plots to dyna-
mite two stations on the Interborough
Rapid Transit Co. systems were dis
closed. according to the police, by the
arrest today of six men, several of
them strikers, charged with bringing
dynamite into the city and with caus-
ing the dynamite explosion which &C.
Cured in the 10th street station on
Oct. "a
A confession which detectives say
they obtained from one of the men I'M
der arrest. sets forth that the station
at 59th street and Broadway was to
have been blown up today and the
station at City hall, later.
Detectives Patience Rewarded
Several of the prisoners, according
to the police, appeared at powder
factory at Kenvil. n. j., yesterday and
purchased so sticks of dynamite, 100
caps and 100 feet of fuse.
Detectives were watching at the fac
tory as a result of clue obtained dur
ing the investigation of the explosion
last month. Two sticks of dynamite
found in Central Park at that time bore
the name of a kenvil Co. as the ma
ker.
James A. Murna, a former subway
guard. and Thomas J. Mcclure, q
chauffeur of Caldwell, N. j.. visited
Kenval yesterday and purchased the
explosive to have been used in today's
explosion. according to the police. and
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-04
NATIONAL HOME

Officer Of the day. Capt. Frank w.
Mckee.
Frank Matthews, late Co. f, 4th N.
H. Inf, and Thomas J. Somers, late
Co. E. 143rd Pa. Inf, have been grant
ed discharges from the Home.
David A. French of Bath, late Co.
u. list Me. H. A, and Joseph Godfrey
Of Haverhill, late Co. B, 18th Mass.
Inf. former members, have been re.
admitted.
Religious services at the Home chap
Ell Sunday morning will be held as fol-
lows: Mass and sermon by Rev. FIR.
Mclaughlin at 9 and Protestant SER
vices by Rev. c. H. Temple at 1925
A. M.
The remains Of the late Edward F.
Morang have been sent to Boston for
burial.
me funeral of the late Frank Baker
Will be held from the Home chapel at
> A. M. Saturday, Rev. FIR. McLaush-
lin officiating.
Theodore ]. McNally, a former mem
Der. has applied for re-admission 70
tho Branch. -
burroughs were granted Friday to
~AAiaih 3. Davis to Hartford and
Danlei Z. White to New York Citv.
Capt: Thomas s. Brigham of Buck
neid. the local manager, returned Fri.
Jay TO his home after an official visit
to this Branch. ''o''
me returns from furloughs FRIDAY
were: Joseph BouNette from Diver
~. H. zebina N. Annis from Man
CHESTER. N. H.. and Owen H. Moran
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-04
New York Welcomes
Hughes Home ID Most
Gratifying Manner

in the Brownsville section. district
which his advisers told him was strong
~ Socialist in its politics. Here the
streets were choked. Traffic was blocked
and the services Of more than 80 police
men were necessary to get the nominees
car through the crowds and to the en-
trance of the hall.
At this meeting Mr.. Hughes reiterated
his endorsement of the Republican plat
form plank declaring for treaty with
Russia that will recognize the right OF
expatriation.
The third address of the evening was
at Kismet hall. On his way there Mr..
Hughes passed the house where he was
married He found the hall crowded with
an audience that had waited two hours
to hear him and hundreds standing IN
the street.
1T has been my good fortune dur
ing the past few weeks to speak in
many states" Mr.. Hughes said, land
everywhere there has been this mani
festation Of a deep patriotic feeling, Of
an intense interest in our vital con-
Germs; but there is something about
the generosity Of this welcome in my
native state. which l had the good for
tune to serve four years. that makes it
more gratifying to me than any other
welcome could possibly be.
II hope and expect that next Tues
day we shall have a triumphant victory
in both nation and state"
The Hughes special reached New
York Is minutes late and was met at
the Grand Central station by a dele
cation of hundreds of members of the
Hughes College Mems League, CARRIED
for parade and equipped with every
noise making device. They filed through
the runway leading to his train, es-
corted him to his car and then fell in
behind. waving flags and footing horns.
The big concourse Of the station was
crowded and the nominee was cheered
as he made his way to his car.
Mr. Hughes expected to remain in
the city until after election. He will
receive the returns at the hotel where
he has made his headquarters since his
nomination.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-04
CONVICT ELUDES
SHERIFF after
ESCAPING SHOTS

Bath Me-, Nov. 3-Joseph Zacowsky
who escaped Monday from the States
prison at Thomaston, where he was a
trusty employed in the stable, by means
Of free ride on a west-bound freight,
was discovered when the train was
passing through Damariscotta and
chased by sheriff Merrill who emptied
his revolver at the man who, however,
escaped. Guards visited Bath and
watched the road and ferryboat and
posses were hunting the man in the
woods from Damariscotta but up to
latest information he had not been dis
covered. He has been heard from on
roads branching through the country
to the east of the Kennebce and is
doubtless seeking his native Canada,
whence he came to Portland some years
ago and there he was arrested for
breaking into an apartment and was
given sentence of from to Is years
two and one-half years ago He is
said to be a native of Sweden. One
party from Damariscotta was looking
for him at Friendship on Wednesday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-04
PORTLAND PLANS
PROTEST PARADE
AGAINST BAKER

Portland, Me-, Nov. 3-Arrangements
are practically completed for hte "Spir-
it Of '76" parade in Portland Saturday
evening as protest against the as
pensions cast by secretary Of war New
ton D. Baker upon Washington and the
Continental soldiers and protest also
against the administration which. toll
crates such aspersions on the nations
heroes. In this parade Portland will
be joining the protest which will be
voiced on that might by hundreds of
thousands all over the country against
the comparison Of the Revolutionary
soldiers and the Villistas and other
Mexican bandits. Indications are that
Portland's parade will be big one riv-
alling in size the huge parades that
were held here in honor of Charles
Evans Hughes and Carl E. Milliken.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-04
Whirlwind Day Today

Tomorrow, the last day of his cam
paign, was to have been a day Of rest
with a big rally at Madison Square
Garden at night. Instead, it will be
vyhirlwind day of more speaking in
New York City. When the nominee ar
rived here tonight, he found that the
National Committee had speeded up
the campaign SO that he will spend
virtually the entire afternoon touring
the city. Five speeches are on his pro-
gram.
Is Confident
In almost every speech today and to-
night the nominee told his audience
that he was confident of victory next
Tuesday. He told them there was lit
tie new he could say with regard to
the issues Of the campaign. On his trip
down the Hudson river valley he made
the tariff one of his chief themes; here
tonight he spoke chiefly of American
ism.
"You Will Bel"
LET me say to YOU" he told an au-
dience in Brooklyn, the last he address,
ed tonight, that if am elected Presi-
dent, as l expect to be" He got no
further for the moment. A man in the
gallery yelled: You Will be-" and the
entire audience rose and roared it's ap-
prevail of the interruption, waving
hundreds of American flags. IF 1 am
elected President" the nominee con-
tinued, I'VE shall have an American
administration with exclusively Amer
lean policies, without any detection to
serve any other interests. Supreme
must be Americas interests in the
thoughts of the American people and
supreme will be Americas interests in
an administration in my charge"
In his tour through Brooklyn tonight,
Mr.. Hughes campaigned over ground IA
miliar to him as a boy. The first meet
ing he addressed in the Green Point Sec
ton was within three blocks Of the
Union Avenue Baptist church. where his
father once was pastor. The streets
through which he passed were those on
which he had played as boy, he told
the audience and familiar faces were
among those before him. 800
II had many generous welcomes. and
many a manifestation of enthusiasm on
my long trip" he declared. but the
best of all is the welcome home"
The second meeting OF the evening was