New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-12-27


new trial by the state supreme court.
Liston e. Manley, Duluth business
man known throughout the Northwest.
died suddenly of heart disease super
induced by pneumonia. Mr.. Manley
was senior member of the Marley
McLennan agency
Clay county will ship from 500 to
1000 fewer carloads of potatoes III
the spring of 1917 than it did in the
spring of 1916. A survey OF the po-
tato situation reveals this marked
shortage in the supply.
A. d. Thompson, president of the A.
D. Thompson Drug company and the
Howard Chemical and Manufacturing
company, for many years prominent
in Minneapolis business circles, is
dead in the Mill City.
DR.. S. r. Wakefield, aged ninety-five,
is dead at Creswell, Ore. During the
Civil war he served as surgeon in
an Ohio regiment. Later he practiced
medicine in Minnesota and was res
ident of Anoka for many years.
Reappointment OF Samuel Lord as
state tax commissioner and of G. ].
Swendson to the board of control has
been announced by Governor Burn
quist. Both men serve for terms Of
six years, with salaries of $4,000.
Robert ]. Montague, former mayor
of CroOkston, later city attorney of
Virginia and one of the best known
attorneys of the state, is dead at q
Duluth hospital following an opera
ton. He was sixty-eight years old.
A. B. Bullen, one of Red Wings
Wealthiest citizens and prominent in
the Northwest, is dead, aged seventy
two. Mr. Bullen was prominent in
charitable and social work and presi.
dent of the Lake Pepin Country club.
John Matchefts of Virginia, a pri-
vate in Battery D OF Minneapolis,
First Minnesota. Field artillery, is
dead at Llano Grande, Tex, of bullet
wounds received after a dispute with
James Macenespie, private in the
some battery.
William FOWL, former Socialist
mayor of Two Harbors, was found
not guilty of charge of accepting
bride of $40 from P L. Fullerton, pro-
prietor of a Two Harbors hotel. in re-
turn for. furnishing alleged blind pig
protection
Herbert w. Pearson, scientist and
lumDerman, is dead at his home in Du-
luth. He was born in 1850 OH Wells
Island, St. Lawrence river. His geo.
logical research work had taken him
into almost every state and to many
European countries.
A cooperative milk exchange will
be established in the Twin Cities as
the result of action taken by members
of the Twin City Milk Producers as
ISOLATION and farmers from Mortified,
Dennison, Stanton and Randolph at a
meeting in Northfield.,
Attorney General Lyndon A. Smith
has announced that he will ask the in
coming legislature TO give him an adj
ditional assistant. He said he expects
to reappoint the five assistants now in
his office; but that new man is need
ed to attend to railroad matters.
A legal fight to force the railways
to charge through transportation rates
in Minnesota, esta blished by the legis-
lature of 1906 and ordered effective in
1907 by the state railroad and ware
house commission, has been begun by
the attorney generals department.
Elisha S. Cornell, Minneapolis heir
to the Hetty Green estate, was sud
denly stricken in his shoe shop in the
Mill City and haA BEEN dead several
hours when discovered. Although Cor
nell already had received $1,000 from
the estate he had kept on working.
Ramsey county lost another round
in it's legal fight to collect $3.50, 900
i'll alleged delinquent personal prop
erty taxes from the Northern Pacific,
Great Northern and Omaha railways
when District Judge Michael filed a
decision exempting the latter road.
Mrs. Ruth Conner, wife of Mime
sofa farmer, while visiting her parents
her three-months-old babies by beat
ing it over the head with poker and
threw the other into kitchen range
She then cut her own throat, but may
recover. ..-.-.
Holding tho evidence against Fred
T. Price is sufficient to sustain a ver-
dict finding him guilty of numbering
his wife at Minneapolis on Nov. %,
1914, the Minnesota supreme court at
hrmed the order Of the Hennepin
county district court denying Price a
new trial.
Mayor Elect Thomas Van Lear of
Minneapolis has omcially announced
the appointm emit of Lewis Harthill as
chief Of police and o. M. Wassing as
secretary to the mayor. Both men
are personal friends of Mr.. Van Lear
and have been identified with him in
the Socialist party movement.
The Inauguration of Governor Burn.
quist for the first term to which he
was regularly elected will take place