New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-12-06

The state of Minnesota spent S.,
870.29 to allow her guardsmen on the
Mexican border to vote Nov 7. The
soldier vote cost the state almost ex-
actly 81 apiece, according to figures
given out by Claudius Bombach, &C.
countant in the state auditors Office.
Edward Beran, ,flfty-three years old,
and his nephew, Wenzel Beran,
twenty-five years old, were stunned by
an explosion of escaping gas in a tun-
mel leading from their home at Mime.
apolis to gas main and before they
could be removed were asphyxiated.
Because certain Minneapolis women
speculate in grain and some of them
were found to have been using the
public gallery of the chamber of 4coms
MERGE as vantage point to observe
prices, the directors of the chamber
have closed the gallery to all visitors
Minnesota, lands unsuitable for farm
ing, but which are good pine lands,
could be made worth $2OOOOO,OOO and
furnish the state a net annual income
of 100000, according to c.. C. An
drews, secretary of the state forestry
board, in his annual report to the gov
ernOr.
Samuel Lord, chairman of the Min
nesota tax commission, has been ap-
pointed member of the National Tax
association, body created to survey
the tax problems of the nation and
devise model uniform system of tax
alton for adoption by the different
states.
OF all the eighty-five batteries of ma
tional guard artillery in the United
States, Battery F, First Minnesota
field artillery, the University of Mime
sofa battery recently mustered out of
the service, stands sixth in efficiency,
as shown by ratings just made public
by the war department.
The Minneapolis Housewives league,
through it's executive board, refused to
endorse the proposed embargo upon
the expectation of foodstuffs from the
United States, taking the humanita.
rian ground that the hungry millions
of Europe we're in much greater need
of Americas food than were the Amer
leans themselves.
Paul Larpenteur, aged forty-nine,
son of A. l.. Larpenteur, St. Paurs
Oldest resident, is held by the Mime
apolis police in connection with the
death of his wife, who was found shot
and killed in their apartments in the
Mill City. Larpenteur admits quarrel
ing with his wife, but insists that she
must have ended her own life.
Mrs. Margaret Grossman, thirty
eight years old, is dead at Minneapolis
as the result of swallowing pin
when she was three years of age. For
thirty-five years Mrs. Grossman no.
tticed no i'll effects from the pin, but
an operation performed just before
her death revealed an abscess of the
liver, inside of which was found the
pin.
Captain Morgan S. Gray, pioneer
captain on the Mississippi river, is
dead at St. Paul. Captain Gray was
well known among early settlers of
Minnesota. He commanded the old
War Eagle on it's first trip up the Mis-.
sissippi to st. Paul and was on the
boat when it burned near La Crosse
He was compelled to jump and swim
ashore to save his life.
Robert Mortens,n of La Crosse,
Louis Bang of Rochester and Arthur
Kruger of Mankato were killed and
Andre Crawford Of Chicago was NOR.
tally injured when a three-ton terra
Gotta cornice stone fell from the top
+; of the new Masonic temple at Roches-
ter, under construction. CARRYING two
men with it and striking two others
who were working directly below.