New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-08-09
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Minnesota Readers.
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NappenIngs OF the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience Of the
Busy Reader.

Vera May Hardwick, five years old.
is dead at Winona of infantile paraly'
sis, the second to succumb to the
disease in that city.
Andrew Redeem, fifty years old, was
drowned at North Beach, Lake Mime
tonka. While working on boathouse
he fell into the lake.
Building operations in Minneapolis
for the first seven months Of 1916 were
more than $3,00O,0OO ahead of the sim
dlar period last year.
Minneapolis postoffice receipts for
July were $212,14001. compared with
$1ga, 210.64 in July last year, an in
crease of S67 per cent.
A. L. White. aged twenty-eight, is
dead at Winona Of infantile paralysis.
He Is the first victim reported from
TIM section of the state.
an4e Insurance Commissioner s. D.
W&s reports $12,617,159 of insur-
suce In force on state property. The
aahlal premium is $74,3S1.
After an unsuccessful attempt to
Mu1Q in Lake Pepin, William Pres
dllAr ended his life at Lake City by
hanging himself in the city jail.
S. G.. Iverson, former state auditor,
wnv aected president of the st. Pau
manch of the Minnesota Peace society
nt4Rs annual meeting at st. Paul.
~, Paul has a population of 2S7, 140,
acGaGding to the new city directory,
This is gain of 1900 over last year,
wien the population was given at
skad4O.
III, Carl G. Gay of the University
oRennsylvania has wired his accept
ance OF the position of head of the
naE department of animal industry at
heoState Agricultural college.
Bruno Keuhn, thirty years old, a
Hneenan employed by the St. Paul Gas
Light company, was electrocuted while
working on an electric light pole by
coping in contact with high voltage
wire.
The annual state convention of the
CHRISTIAN Endeavor societies will be
hefd at st. Cloud Aug. II to 20. About
so delegates to the convention from
various parts of the state are ex-
pocted.
Robert W. Hargadine, state fire
marshal, has condemned as dangerous
fire hazards forty-eight buildings in
Duluth, mainly in the business Sec
ZION. and thirty-three in other Mime
sofa towns.
Harry Williams Of St. Paul, after
being shot three times in the legs by
a Sioux City Qa.) policeman, rolled
over forty-foot embankment into the
railroad yards at Sioux City and es-
fsHped death. ....., ,.~.
p, T. Sullivan, formerly prominent
lin Western Minnesota politics and for
fifteen years chief of police of Moor
head, is dead of appendicitis at Moor
,head. Mr.. Sullivan was a director of
several Clay county banks.
Five sxperts under direction of Pro-
aseaoIsF. L. Washbuff, state entomol-
og1st, are trying to eradicate the white
pine blister rust in the eastern part
Of the state The work is being done
from Hudson to Taylors Falls.
George Fortwingler, ninety three
years old, one of the early settlers of
Heunepin county, is dead. Mr. Fort
wang1er came to the United States
from Germany in 1854, resided in Ohio
e.o .vo,~ orl fbon cono IN Minnosofo
The state OF Minnesota had $685.
946:6e cash on hand at the close of the
fiscal year July 81. The volume of
bua1ness transacted in the year, both
receipts and disbursements, was $780,
57RDO2.30, as against $45, 43S,690.33 for
1915.
Thomas McCabe and Maurice J.
Hatnett, st. Paul firemen, were seri-
ouAy injured when McCabe, driver of
a motor truck, wrecked the machine
TO save the life of boy. Several
other firemen were less seriously in
AuBd
An emergency fund of $4,000 to fight
infa1r1le paralysis and prevent it's
by Governor Burnquist, State Treas
urG Gooding and State Auditor Preus
under the statutes relating to public
calanities.
More than s1,O0O,OOO will be dis
trtbuted among the Chippewa Indians
of Minnesota this year, according to
the announcement made by the de-
paNment of the interior. 1t is expect
ed chat the distribution will take place
in October.
Mil1ers at interior points in Mime
sofa have filed complaint with the
interstate commerce commission at
lacking the lake and rail rates on
grain and grain products to Wiscon.
sin points and to the seaboard for ex.
port The complaint is general, is
DIRECTED against a number of rail and
lake lines and alleges that the rates
are excessive in themselves and that
the CARRIERS have Disseminated agains,
the interior milling points in favor OF