The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-01-20
STATE NEWS BITS.
Happenings Of the Week
in Minnesota.

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Mankato spent $75o,ooo for improve.
ments during 1915.
Thomas H. Quinn, a pioneer attor-
ney of Faribault. is dead.
| Samuel G. Hays, eighty-sevn years
old, is dead at Minneapolis.
| Martin Angen, thirty-four years old,
was found frozen to death near Gar
field.
| William J. julius, New Ulm, is the
new president of the State Sheriffs'
association.
Mrs. Mary Nichols, aged eighty
three, a resident of st. Paul since
1856, is dead.
| Wilkin county's twelve saloons are
closed as a result of the recent county
option election.
Mrs. Margaret Ryan, seventy-two
years old, a pioneer resident Of d.
kota county, is dead.
( R. M. Foster, Austin's oldest citizen
and a pioneer of Fillmore county, is
dead, aged .ninety-four.
| During the month of December 442
deaths occurred in Minneapolis, new
record for any one month.
! Mrs. Catherine A. Finehout, aged
eighty-one, mother of Judge ]. w.
Finehout of St. Paul, is dead
Mrs. Mary A. Finn, aged 103 years,
is dead at the home of the Little Sis
tiers of the Poor at Minneapolis
! Earl Simpson, Winona county attor-
ney, is critically ill and his physicians
say he has little chance of recovery.
There were 1897 fires In St. Paul
during 1915, eighty-four more than in
1914. The total damage was $1,036,370.
There are about $4,000 automobiles
in Minnesota, according to the annual
report Of Secretary of State Schmahl.
Mrs. Annie Swanson, forty-two years
old, was struck by a passenger train
at Minneapolis and was instantly
killed.
Forty sheriffs from as many coun-
ties attended the annual convention
Of the State Sheriffs' association at
st. Paul.
Marriage licenses decreased 100 in
Hennepin county in 1916 as compared
with 1914, but divorce DEGREES gained
eighty-six.
Charles M. Whitman, former sheriff
of Lincoln county, committed suicide
at Lake Benton following an illness
of several months
]. A. Ostrom of Saltwater, aged
seventy-five years, dropped dead from
heart failure on returning home from
the funeral of a friend.
Peter Robertson, aged fifty-one, of
L1lydale, Dakota county, was drowned
while attempting to cross the Mis-
sissippi river in rowboat.
Houston county is dry for the first
time since it's organization. Eleven
saloons closed Dec. 81 as a result Of
the option election held June 21
John @. A. Marsh, who reached
Mankato in 1854 and opened the first
general store in that city, is dead.
He was eighty-nine years of age.
N. B. Wheeler, who had been con-
nected with the Winona postofice
since the Civil war, was found dead in
bed following stroke of apoplexy
William G. Greenway, ninety-three
years old, resident of Mortified and
other Minnesota towns for more than
forty years, is dead at Minneapolis.
Mrs. Edmund Barrette and her FIVE
year.old grandchild were found dead
from asphyxiation in their home at
Crookston because of a faulty gas JET
Fred G.. Tryon of Minneapolis, a
graduate of the University of Mime
sofa, will be the next Rhodes scholar
to 60 to Oxford, Eng, from this state.
Mower county went dry Saturday
night under the operation of the op-
ton law and twenty-five saloons closed
their doors, fourteen of them in Aus
tin.
Hoyt S. Belvin, a resident Of Min
neapolis for fifty-one years, is dead
at the age Of ninety. He was men,
Der of the Territorial Pioneers asso-
citation.
Right Rev. John Stariha, at one time
vicar general Of the St. Paul diocese
and later bishop of Lead, S. D., is
dead at Leibach, Austria, aged sew
enty years.
Labor conditions throughout Mime
sofa are far better this year than a
year ago, according to George w. Law
son, secretary of the Minnesota State
Federation of Labor.
Woodrow Wilson headquarters have
been opened at the Radisson hotel in
Minneapolis and steps will be taken
to place the presidents name on the
Minnesota primary ballot.
| Oscar Lundgren, aged thirty, a
farmer living near St. Peter, was in