The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-10-04
ABOUT THE STATE
News Of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
happenings Of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience Of the
Busy Reader.

Nels Sandquist, car repairer, was
crushed to death between freight cars
In the Omaha yards at Mankato.
Mrs Catherine c. Lofstdt, pioneer
of Minneapolis, is dead. She reached
the Mill City from Sweden in 1S49.
F. A. Krch, aged seventy-tive, Civil
war veteran and once prominent IN
Ramsey county politics, is dead at St.
Paul
Martin, fifteen-year-old son Of Ole
Johnson of Kasota, was fatally injured
by the explosion of gunpowder in his
pocket
Teaching a friend how to swim cost
the life of Ben Arnold of Brainerd at
Clark lake. His companion struggled
to safety.
Mrs. Marian A. Bear is dead at
Eyota, aged Lightweight years. She
had lived in that section since the
early tifties.
The Minnesota Baptist summer as
sembly will hold its eighteenth an.
nual meeting at Mound, Lake Mime.
tonka, July 20 to 80.
Mrs. Margaret T. Heating is dead
on farm near Kellogg taken up as
homestead sixty years ago. She wss
eighty-one years of age.
Frank S. Williams, president of the
Central State bank of Minneapolis
died suddenly at his home in that
city. He was sixty-one years Of age.
E. c. Stringer, prominent St. Pau
attorney and former United States
district attorney for Minnesota, is
dead. He was sixty-four years of age.
Mrs. Elsie Warner, formerly nurse
at the Minneapolis city hospital, died
at her home at Candy from burns re-
ceived while cleaning clothes with
gasoline
Rev. William F. Trussell and his
four-year-old daughter Marjorie were
drowned in Elm creek, a small stream
that flows past the Trussell home at
Champlin.
Albert E. Nelson, member of Com
pany H, Second Minnesota cavalry,
during the Indian outbreak, is dead
at Mankato, where he had resided for
many years.
J. NJ. Davis, formerly division SILL
perintendent of the Great Northern at
Breckenridge, has been promoted to
vice president of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad
John Grommissch was nearly killed
when his auto overturned near Barnes.
vile. William Tully also was badly
hurt. The car hurtled into ditch
and turned over
James Lawther, Red Wing capital
lst. whose benefactions public and pri.
vate have been many, is dead at his
estate in Ireland. He was reputed to
be worth more than $l,O00,OO0, hav-
Ing become wealthy through invest
ment in Red Wing and Goodhue coun.
ty realty. He had crossed the ocean
fifty times, but has resided in Ireland
since 1911.
The strike of teamters at Minneapo-
liz Is assuming serious proportions
Practically every kind OF hauling il
paralyzed. Hospitals, hotels, whole
sale and retail merchants and commits.
sion men are forced to do their own
hauling. Retailers are forced to use
private automobiles, push carts and
other improvised vehicles to serve
their customers.
A plea for the voluntary exclusion
from Minnesota of importations of
white pine, currant and gooseberry
paintings from other states has been
directed to all Minnesota nurserymen
by F. l.. Washburn, state entomolo-
glst. The reason is the menace of the
white pine blister, prevalent in some
sections of the country but so far ex.
tremely rare in this state.
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 4 train. The flowers were found
scattered about her body.
J. w. Gaver of st. Paul was elected
president Of the National Wholesale
Saddlery association, in session at
Milwaukee, and Buffalo was selected
as the next meeting place.
The third annual Minnesota Rural
Life conference Is scheduled to he9iu
its five days. session at University
Farm, st. Paul. July "a. Many speak
or Of note are on the program.