The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-02-24

lation. Mortality statistics for 1915
show death rate of 1902 per thou
sand. Excluding nonresidents who
died in Duluth hospitals the rate
would be S.2S.
Seven holdup men robbed all men,
bers of the family of S. Ballou Of Min
neapolis in their bedrooms at o'clock
In the morning and then escaped in an
auto with more than 500 in cash, sew
eral suits of clothes, some jewelry
and other articles.
Right Rev. J. J. LAWYER, auxiliary
bishop of the archdiocese of St. Paul,
vicar general of the archdiocese and
appointed bishop of Lead, S. D., to
succeed Bishop Joseph F. Busch,
transferred to St. Cloud.
The seven-weeks-old baby of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Miller was instantly
killed and a girl of seven years was
injured when sleigh capsized near
Trempealeau. The Miller family was
moving from Winona to Trempealeau
when the accident happened.
The Guyana Northern railway, 115
miles long, with spurs and other
trackage, extending from Deerwood to
Orchards and from Deerwood to other
mines on the Guyana iron range, has
been sold to the Northern Pacific Rail-
way company for $25S,59786.
Robert w. Richards, for fourteen
years associated with editorial work
on the Moorhead Daily News and a
pioneer newspaper man of Northern
Minnesota, is dead at Long Beach,
CAL, where he had resided for the
past year in the hope of restoring his
health.
James A. Wirtensohn clerk of the
Minneapolis municipal court, died just
one week after the death of his broth.
er, Oscar Wirtensohn, deputy clerk
of the same court He became ill
brother and died of pneumonia four
days later.
Arvid Anderson and Charles Cush-
man, farmers living southwest of
Mortified, were struck by Rock Is
land passenger train at Dundas. An
derson was killed instantly and Cush-
man died on the train half an hour
later while being taken to the North
field hospital.
National Committeeman Fred B.
Lynch prevailed at the Democratic
state convention held at st. Paul, but
the opposition Immediately announced
a fight to the finish and as a result
two sets of delegates will be placed
before the Democratic voters at the
March primaries.
Governor Hiram w. Johnson of Cal
ifornia has been filed for the Progress
sive nomination for president in Min
nesota by Clarence w. Halbert, a ST..
Paul attorney. Halbert's action was
great surprise, as it was generally
understood that a Progressive candi-
date would not be filed.
The Dan Patch line has discontin-
ued service to Faribault The Great
Western road has taken over it's own
right of way again and has put four
trains on the Faribault Mankato
branch. 1t is understood the Dan
Patch will complete it's own track into
Faribault early in the spring.
That the life of the Indian treaty of
1855, which caused the saloons of Hib-
bling, Chisholm and other Western
Mesaba range points to close, expires
Feb. IA, is a statement of Hibbing liq-
uor dealers, who are confident they
will be able to reopen their shloons
this month. They say the treaty's
life is for sixty years.
Two former Minnesotans, one the
son of J. Adam Bede, were honored
by the Willamette Valley (Ore.) Ed
itorial association when J. P Hurley
of the Forest Grove News-Times, a
resident of Oregon hardly more than
a year, was elected president and FL
bert Bede of the Cottage Grove Senti-
mel was named secretary.
The state supreme court, in uphold
ing the constitutionality of the county
option law, declares that the legisla-
ture has power over any of the politi-
cal subdivisions of the state, therefore
the liquor provisions of the Interna-
tional Falls home rule charter were
abrogated when the county voted dry
under the county option law
The state supreme court has de-
cided that the drys won the county op-
ton election last June in Redwood
county. The canvassing board re-
ported a dry victory by ten votes. The
supreme court held that some of these
votes should be thrown out, but that
the drys still had enough votes left to
win by a majority of four.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Nelson and
William Horst, the latter's father, are
dead at st. Paul from gas poisoning.
The coroner's examination showed the
three persons to have been dead about
twenty-four hours. He found death to
have been accidental. 1t is supposed
a coffee pot found on gas stove had
boiled over and extinguished the