The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-04-27
ABOUT The STATE
News Of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Happenings Of the Week Briefly Told
Tor the Convenience Of the
Busy Reader.

Vets carried Sleepy Eye by ma
jority Of 1875.
Manford Horn, Appleton business
man, is dead.
Michael Hoffman, retired Hastings
merchant is dead.
A. N. Thompson, aged sixty, former
mayor Of Virginia, is dead.
Ninth district bankers will meet at
Thief River Falls on May 16.
Pope county will hold a semi-centen-
NAL and Homecoming week about the
middle Of June.
Patrick McDonough, an early settler
Of Kellogg. is dead. He was ninety
eight years old.
Mrs. Kate Tyler, one of the pioneer
settlers Of Appleton, is dead at the
age of seventy-six.
Leonard Ericsson was elected mayor
Of Fergus Falls over John L. Townley
by thirteen votes.
The State Bank of Stanton has been
Incorporated. The new institution has
a capital stock of $4,000.
Bankers of the First congressional
district will meet in annual conven'
ton at Winona on May 10.
w. c. Briggs has been elected mayor
OF Pipestone. The town went dry by
majority Of seventy-nine.
Mrs. Ann Downs Langan, seventy.
eight years of age, resident of Min
neapolis for fifty years, is dead.
DR.. w. NJ. Cory has been elected
mayor of Waterville. The town re-
mains wet by a majority Of sixty.
three.
The city of Mankato has awarded a
contract for the construction of q new
concrete bridge across the Minnesota
river to cost $94,999.
A captain and ten men have been
appointed in each precinct of the city
Of Duluth to obtain signatures for a
local option election.
E. E. Tuttle. Republican, has been
elected mayor of Hastings. Fifteen
saloons were voted out of existence
by sixty-four majority.
Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh
Of Little Falls has announced his can.
didacy for United States senator to
succeed Moses E. Clapp.
John Bergerman, sixty years old, a
painter, was burned to death in a fire
which destroyed a house at Pine 1s-
land village near Red Wing.
Kid Scully, accused vice mentor OF
sixteen-year-old girl, was found
guilty by Minneapolis jury. The
girl in the case is q minister's daugh-
ter.
George W.>Nash, Civil war veteran
and resident of Minneapolis since
1881, is dead at the State Soldiers
home. He was eighty.three years OF
age.
Mrs. John Cassett of Wasioja com.
mitted suicide by drinking carbolic
acid at the Union hotel at Austin. She
left note saying life has been a great
burden.
While excavating for a new build.
ing in the heart of the city of Fergus
Falls workmen discovered a vein OF
natural gas. The gas when lighted
burns freely.
F. A. Hinze, assistant state bank
examiner. with headquarters at Man.
kato, has resigned to become vice
president of the First National bank
of st. Cloud.
At the beginning of the new quar-.
ter on April l State Treasurer Good.
Ing reported a cash balance of S..
191,325.08, compared with $2531,967..
81 year ago.
Guy v. Howard of Minneapolis
has been notified of his appointment
as first assistant sergeant-at.arms of
the Republican national convention at
Chicago June 7.
Owatonna will license eight saloons
to run from April Is until July 1 at
$500 each. At the end Of that time it
is proposed to raise the license fee
to $4,000 or more.
DR.. w. r. Kirkwood, former pastor
and pioneer instructor at Manchester
college, st. Paul, is dead at the home
Of his son in Montana. He was sev-
enty-nine years old.
r. James B. Hunt, pioneer of Minneap.
oils, is dead at La Jolra, CAL, at the
age Of forty-five years. He is survived
by twelve children, all of whom we're
born In Minneapolis.
Frederick E. Johnson of New Eng.
land, N. D., pleaded guilty TO- bigamy
before Judge Nye At Moorhead and
was sentenced to from one to five
years in the state prison.. ,:
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