The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-12-06
GATHERED FROM ALL Sec
TONS Of minnesota
Happenings Of tho Week Briefly
Told for the Convience Of tho
Busy Reader

mer OF FrebOrn county, committed
suicide by hanging.
Neil Cove, of Waseca, fourteen
years, old, was drowned when he
skated into an open place on Clear
lake.
Charles LOTUS, eleven years old,
is dead at Minneapolis as result of
being run down by an ice wagon.
O. o. johnson, fifty years old, a
retired farmer, was asPhyxiated by
illuminating gas in his room at St.
Paul.
Two women were killed and three
men were injured in five automobile
accidents in the Twin cities Monday.
Dan w. Lawler, in his campaign
statement, says he spent $2,776. 80
trying to be elected United States
senator.
Minnesota will have a population
of 2,296,O24 on Jan. /, 1917, accord
ing to an estimate issued by the fe-
deral census bureau
David D. Whitney, the first trunk
manufacturer and retail trunk deal
err, in Minneapolis, is dead at Sawtel-
lie, CAL, aged seventy.
Chris Boehme, aged fifty, architect
and civic worker is dead at Minnea-
polls. He was one of the best, known
men in North Minneapolis.
Nicholas Franciscus, and alderman
Of LIE Seur, is dead at Mankato,
where he went to undergo an opera
ton for a complication of diseases.
Thomas H. Garfield, of Lake Park,
newly elected secretary Of the Min
ncsota Agricultural society, will
take charge Of the office Dec. 18th.
Marion Haynes, aged forty, mem
berof Duluth plumbing firm, is
lost or dead in the woods. He dis
appeared several days gao while
hunting.
Albert Gabrielson, dredging en-
gineer was accidentally shot and kill
led by his brother-in-l law, Peter Sas-
trand, while hunting near the Deer
river.
The Minnesota supreme court has
upheld the right of residents of
other states to bring personal in
jury suits in Minnesota against rail-
road companies.
Miss Esther O'Leary and Frank
Kline, each eighteen years old, were
drowned in Wongensteen lake near
Lake Park when they skated thru
hole in the ice.
At an average expense to the state
of 16 l/3 cents each 5,2O2 Jobs were
supplied at state free employment
agencies in St. Paul, Minneapolis
and Duluth in the past fiscal year.
Captain James Ferguson, one of a
score Of the oldest firemen in the
service of the city of St. Paul, is
dead as the result of illness contrac-
ted in fighting fire three years ago.
The increase Of 10 per cent in wa
ges recently granted by the United
States Stel corporation will mean a
raise of from $4,000 to 100000 an
nually for Twin city employees of
subsidiary companies.
The estate of the late Governor
Hammond, includes $139,181 of Prop
erty subject to inheritance taxes in
Minnesota, according to an appraisal
filed in the office of Attorney Gener-
al Smith.
To determine whether telephone
rates in Minnesota are excessive the
state railroad and warehouse COM
mission have taken steps to make
physical valuation of the principal
telephones lines operating in the
state.
Daniel Getcheli, seventy-two years
old, Civil war veteran and one Of the
earliest millers in Minneapolis, drop
ped dead in Seattle, where he was
visiting his daughter Mr.. Getchell
had been a resident of MINNEAPOLIS
since 1854
Mrs. Elizabeth O'Brien, ninety
four years of age, widow of Dillon
OBrien, a colonizer of Minnesota, is
dead at St. Pail. She was the mo-
Their of former Supreme Court Jus
tice O'Brien and C. D. O'Brien, for
mer mayor of St. Paul.
Guy and Joseph Scalise were killed
in the Hawkins mine at Grand Ra-
pids when two kegs of powder ex-
ploded. The powder is believed to
have been ignited by a spark caused
by nail striking piece of flint in
box which the men were carrying.
The Minnesota Union of the Amer
lean Society of Equity has adopted
resolution recommending to the
legislature that the board of regents
Of the University IF Minnocoto ho