The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-10-11

Mankato, is dead from injuries re.
ceived when he slid down the chute
in his fathers barn and was impaled
on the handle Of scraper.
Shippers of lumber in Minnesota
can recover approximately 100000
from the railroads operating in the
state If decision in test case by
Judge o. B. Lewis of the Ramsey
county district court is upheld in the
supreme court.
Tending bar is an extra hazardous
occupation, in that it renders the en-.
ploye peculiarly exposed to assault,
and he is entitled to recover for in.
juries sustained under the workmen's
compensation act, according to a de-
cision of the supreme court.
Two boys, Levi Erickson, son of Vic
tor Erickson Of Cambridge, and Ken.
meth Pickens of Minneapolis, each
twelve years old. were drowned while
swimming in the Rum river at Cam
bridge. Pickens got beyond his depth
and Erickson went to his aid.
Minnesota receipts to the federal
treasury from the payment of corpora.
ton and individual income taxes
amounted to 1921, 005.15 for the fiscal
year ended June 80. OF this amount
corporations paid $1,S54,447.24 and in
dividuals contributed 1856, $3.50.
Carlo Tresca, F.. H. Little, Joseph
Gilday, ringleaders of the l. w. w.,
and four striking miners are locked
up in the St. Louis county jail at Du-
luth charged with murder. They were
brought from the range on a special
train by direction of County Attorney
Green.
Policemen and firemen Of Minnesota
cities are workmen within the mean
ing of the workmen's compensation
act and they or their heirs are enti-
tied to recover from cities under that
statute when they are injured or killed
on duty, according to decision of the
supreme court.
City commissioners of Duluth have
decided to call an election in August
to have the charter amended so that
the tax levy limit may be raised from
13 to 16 mills. This is believed nee
essary to take up the deficit that is
felt certain to come as result of vot.
ing the city dry.
Roy Manley, member of the Min
nesota Boat club of St. Paul, was
drowned in the Mississippi river when
he lost his balance on one of the run.
ways to the club dock and fell into
the water. In his death struggle Man.
ley almost carried down with him
James Wray, the club coach.
Five hundred hotel and restaurant
proprietors of Minnesota have been
notified by William G. Nee, state no.
tel inspector, to remit their 81 license
fee Immediately or stand prosecution
The fees were due Jan. / and since
that time 4,3O9 establishments have
paid total of $8,618 in fees.
Louis w. Hill has been named ad-
ministrator of the estate of his father,
the late James J. Hill, by Probate
Judge Bazille Of Ramsey county. The
action was on petition Of Mrs. Mary
T. Hill, the widow, and the eight other
heirs, who signed a waiver of bond
The court fixed the bond at 100000.
Farmers of Minnesota will pay from
2 to cents a pound more for their
binder Irvine next year, because of the
increase In the price of sisal, accord
ing to c. J. Swendsen, chairman Of
the state board of control Quotations
show an advance in the price of the
grass from Z cents to 10 cents per
pound.
For eleven years the wish of Cox
swain V. D. Burnell of Minneapolis
gun pointer on the cruiser Boston, has
been that he might die at the guns"
His desire has been fulfilled, having
been accidentally killed by a prema
ture explosion while directing a SUM-
rise salute of nine shots. The ninth
shot was the fatal one.
William Alcock of Kenyon was
killed near Faribault while returning
with a party of eight young people
from dance at one of the lakes. The
party was in an automobile and the
car went into a creek. Alcock was
riding on the running board and was
pinned under the car and drowned
The others escaped injury.
Miss Thekla Nicolin, bookkeeper
for the Purity Baking company of St.
Paul, was shot and severely wounded
by Adolph Guindtner, a baker at the
plant, who was recently released from
the asylum for the insane at St. Peter
Miss Nicolin declares she had never
seen the man before and believes he
mistook her for someone else.
Michael Breslauer, for thirty-seven
years prominent in the display adver-
Using business in the Northwest and
leader in Democratic politics, is
dead at his home in Minneapolis. He
was sixty-One years of age. Mr.. Bres-
lauer was widely known as a sport
promoter twenty years ago and made
Minneapolis the center of sporting
events at that time.
An unlimited guest at Polish wed
ding in Northeast Minneapolis started