The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-30
ABOUT The STATE
News Of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.

Bank deposits of Minneapolis are
$50, l95, 246.Os greater than they we're
year ago. The total in all the Mill
City banks at the close Of business
June 80 was $159.0S1, PATS.
Judge James H. Quinn has filed an
order at Fairmont denying new trial
to Ole o. Solem, convicted recently OF
having poisoned his mother-ln-laW and
given life sentence at Saltwater.
June proved to be the record ore
month OF the Great Lakes, with total
shipments from the Lake Superior dis
tr1ct Of 9,507 ,676 tons. Shipments since
opening of navigation are 19,616,567
tons.
Michael Stolpa of Winona won a
wager by swimming across the Mis-
sissippi river at that place at point
where it Is more than a half mile
wide He did the trick In nineteen
minutes.
Mrs. Paul Narcotic of st. Paul.
aged thirtytwo, was killed by North
ern Pacific train at White Bear, where
she was visiting her parents. Her
two children who were with her es-
capped injury.
The national Prohibition parade at
st. Paul on July 20 will be led by Mrs.
Ann T. Booze, a name given to a
camel lent to the convention parade
committee by the LOngfellOw Gardens
Of Minneapolis.
Leaders in the recent dry move
ment at Duluth which resulted In the
voting out OF saloons have begun a
campaign to gain employment for the
men who will lose their jobs as re.
suit Of the change.
Despondent because her only son
was called out with the national guard
for service on the Mexican border,
Mrs. Eliza Schwartz jumped into the
Mississippi river in Northeast Mime.
apohs and was drowned.
D. D. Brunson of St. Paul was killed
and the driver of an auto in which he
was hurrying to catch a train was
badly injured when the machine failed
to get across the tracks near Worland
Wyo., ahead of the train.
Frank b Kellogg of St. Paul, Re
publican nominee for United States
senator, expended $8,618.41 in the re.
cent primary campaign, according to
his statement filed with the clerk Of
the senate at Washington.
At the conclusion of three days
celebration at Bena the Mississippi
River valley Chippewa Indians drafted
a petition to be presented to the next
congress calling for a government al
lotment of eighty acres more land for
each member of the tribe. They ask
that the land be taken from the ma
tonal forest reserve in Cass county.
Chippewa Indians Of Northern Min
nesota have offered to organize bat.
TALON of warriors for service in Mex
leo If call for volunteers Is made b.
the president. Twenty Indians at Red
Lake reservation are in charge O. the
tentative recruiting.
John Hanson, q farmer near Thief
River Falls, was shot and killed by
his 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 q
winner over A. G. Anderson of Fergus
Falls by better than a two to ono
vote. Becker was the only county
that went for Anderson.
While driving a COW with q rope at
tached to the animals head and tied
around his waist, George Muenkel, six.
year.old son OF Mr. and Mrs. George
luenkel of Caledonia, was killed when
the COW made sudden leap and
dragged the lad about $50 feet.
GEORGE S. LOTUS is DEAD
Prominent st. Paul Man 10 Victim Of
Cancer.
Vt. Paul. July 17.-George 8. Lotus.
sales manager for the st. Paul EQUITY
Cooperative exchange, is dead. After
an horolo Awh< o~.1roA A.