New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-11-08
ABOUT The STATE
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., for the Convenience Of the
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= John Klein, a resident Of st. Paul
Tor sixty years, is dead, aged eighty
four.
Theodore G. Brekke, twenty-three
years old, Killed himself at the home
of his father near st. James.
III. S. Tanner, a pioneer Hastings
business man, is dead at De Land.
Fla, at the age of eighty:three.
Mrs. Freeman Doud, seventy-seven
years old, the first white woman to
.Ylake her home at Bemidji, is dead.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the :sawmill of the Mullery-McDonald
Lumber company at Duluth, causing
loss OF $4,000.
The Clay County State bank ofaHit.
Serdal has received authority to do
business, making the 1,3O0th state
bank in Minnesota.
Martin j. Lins. formerly sheriff Of
>Winona county, has been appointed
chief of the special agents of the
Great Northern railway.
Samuel White, who arrived in St.
Paul In 1855, rs dead at Hastings, to
which city he removed several months
ago. He was seventy-nine years old.
Clarence Young, twenty-four years
old, was killed at st. Cloud on receiv-
ing 1900 volts Of electricity through
a high powered wire on which he was
working.
C. C. Baker, superintendent of the
Albert Lea schools, was elected pres
ident of the Minnesota Educational as
association at the annual convention at
st. Paul.
Edward Lampman, eighty-fve years
odd, the oldest conductor in the en-
ploy of the Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul railroad, is dead at his home
in Minneapolis.
Michael Kavanaugh, the "Poet of
'Pillsbury A" mill at Minneapolis, is
dead at Cork, Ireland, where he went
three years ago to visit relatives and
childhood friends. .-
William Dawson, st. Paul real es-
tate man and son of William Dawson,
sone time mayor of st. Paul, is dead in
the Capital City. Mr.. Dawson was
horn in St. Paul Aug. 2, 1862.
Emil c. Grieve, thirty years old,
was instantly killed when an automo-
bile in which he was riding skidded
son a curve three miles north of Osseo
land threw him against telephone
pole.
The directors of the St. Paul Union
Depot company have unanimously
agreed to build a station in St. Paul
Ito cost not more than $11,000,000, in
:stead of s15,0oO,O00 as originally
Zlanned.
+ Government receipts in Minnesota
during October from internal revenue
sources fell off about 20 per cent com.
pared with the receipts in Octoper,
1915. The total receipts for the month
were 1903. 6O3.sS.
James Gardner, village marshal of
~OSseO, who was shot recently in a
fight with Frank Odenbright, is dead
'Odenbright is held in the Hennepin
county jail and will be charged with
murder in the first degree.
The business district of Donnelly
was virtually destroyed by fire, dam
age estimated at 100000 resulting be.
fore apparatus and firemen from Nor
Tis and Herman, rushed to Donnelly
in automobiles, halted the confiagra-
ton.
Fred e. Norlander, nineteen years
.old, son of Fred C. Norlander, St.
Paul contractor, was fatally injured
when the machine he was driving
overturned. He died in the st. Paul
city hospital two hours after the acct
!, bsdent
IA The state supreme court has de.
1klHy1ared valid the initiative and refer,
-endum provisions of the charter
adopted by Duluth in 1913, also the
ordinance passed under the charter in
June, 1916, prohibiting the sale of in
toxicating liquorl in the city
The state highway commission has
sent to the secretary of agriculture at
Washington a recommendation that
out of the money that the federal gov
eminent is to give to Minnesota for
good roads $137, 800 be devoted to the
Twin Cities-Duluth highway.
The state tax commission has an
nounced increases in assessed valua-
tons of Ramsey county property
'' owned May by the late James J. Hill
of S1,337, 11S on personal property and
sS,372,471 on moneys and credits over
the county assessors respective re.
turns.
Minnesota began November business
with a cash balance Of $6,140,4S9.7l.
The revenue fund balance was $685.
430.S4. During October the receipts
were $1,914,90594 and the disburse-
ments $2,939,O00. The last figure in
Guided the October school apportion
ment of $1,500,000.