New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-07-05
ABOUT The STATE
News Of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
happenings Of tho Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience Of the
Busy Reader

Atwater.
B. B. Smith, agent of the Omaha
railway in Saltwater for thirty years,
died suddenly of heart disease, aged
fifty years.
The Eighth division of Minnesota
United States marines at Lindstrom
has received orders to be in readiness
to move to the front at any time.
Christ Tromburg of St. Paul is dead
and Waldemar LARSEN of St. Paul
was seriously injured as result of an
automobile accident near White Bear.
The Minnesota camp of the order of
Maccabees has gone on record in ia
Tvor of extending the insurance bene-
fits to all members who are national
guardsmen.
The first gun of campaign to vote
st. Louis county dry will be fired at a
meeting at Virginia July 9. The Anti
Saloon league will cooperate with To-
cal workers.
The university of Minnesota rife
team tied for eighth place in the Ma
tional Rifle associations intercollegi-
ate outdoor rifle tournament at Wash.
ingtOn, D. G.
Twenty-Five nationalities were rep
resented in the night school classes
FOR the instruction of aliens which
were conducted by the Virginia public
schools last year.
While carrying flowers to her grand
children Mrs. Fred Johnson, aged
sixty, of Albert Lea, was decapitated
by train. The flowers were found
scattered about her body.
]. w. Gaver of st. Paul was elected
president of the National Wholesale
Saddlery association, in session at
Milwaukee. and Buffalo was selected
las the next meeting place.
The third annual Minnesota Rural
Life conference is scheduled to begin
its five days session at University
Farm, st. Paul. July "a. Many speak
ers of note are on the program.
Wages Of machinists and boilermak-
grs at the Northern Pacific railway
shops at Brainerd have been increased
~ cents an hour. The men work
'nine hours a day and the increase
dates from May l.
Stocks on the coal docks at the
mead Of the lakes are becoming de-
pleted, particularly in soft COAL for
e1he demand from the interior is the
heaviest at this time of year that coal
dock men remember.
Rufus Clapp of st. Paul, nephew of
United States Senator Moses E. Clapp
and student at Yale, is dead as the
result of ptomaine poisoning several
weeks ago at a class banquet He
was twenty-three years of age
One thousand delegates, including
Ehirty pastors from out Of town and
fifty denominations, were
in attendance at the convention at
Minneapolis Of the Young Peoples
societies Of the mission church.
Three hundred Thousand feet of
logs inithe Mississippi and Rum River
, 2een esf'npanys boom belQW the gov
5rnmeht 51::..nm tetween the Twin Cities
went down river with rush when
sudden rise carried out the boom logs.
The fourth annual tennis tourna-
ment of the Southern Minnesota Ten
mis- association will be staged at Wi
mona July II, Is and 10. The events
are open to residents Of Minnesota
south of and not including the Twin
Cities.
Kenneth P. Gregg, has written A
Setter to Julius Schmahl, secretary of
state, asking that his name be with
drawn as an elector on the Progress
asive ticket. He is the first of the
twelve Progressive electors to take
such action.
Chippewa Indians of Northern Min
nesota have offered to organize bat
dalion Of warriors for service in Mex
SEQ if call for volunteers is made by
1he president. Twenty Indians at Red
Yake reservation are in charge of the
sentative recruiting.
John Hanson. farmer near Thief
River Falls, was shot and killed by
Eslis son Louis. aged twenty-eight. The
young man is declared to be insane.
When questioned he admitted that he
shot his father and dragged the body
into woodshed.
Eric l.. Thornton of Benson has
been chosen chairman of the new Re-
publican state central committee and
will manage the party's campaign IN
Minnesota. Mr.. Thornton is a young
attorney and never was prominent In
politics until this year.
Official tabulation of the vote in the
Ninth congressional district reveals
Halvor Stevenson Of Crookston a
winner over A. G. Anderson Of Fergus
Falls by better than a two to one
vote Becker was the only county
that went for Anderson.
While driving COW with rope at
tarhed to the animals head and tied
around his waist. George Muenkel, six
year~old son Of Mr.. and Mrs. George
Maenkel OF Caledonia. was killed whe1
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