The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-10-18


dividuals contributed 1855, $3.50.
Carlo Tresca, F. H. Little, Joseph
Gilday, ringleaders of the l. w. w.,
and four striking miners are locked
up in the St. Louis county Jail at Du-
luth charged with murder. They were
train by direction of County Attorney
Green.
Policemen and firemen of Minnesota
cities are workmen within the mean.
ing of the workmen's compensation
act and they or their heirs are enti-
tied to recover from cities under that
statute when they are injured or killed
on duty, according to decision of the
supreme court.
City commissioners of Duluth have
decided to call an election in August
to have the charter amended so that
the tax levy limit may be raised from
10 to 16 mills This is believed nee
essary to take up the deficit that is
felt certain to come as a result of vot-
ing the city dry.
Roy Manley, a member of the Min
nesota Boat club of St. Paul, was
drowned in the Mississippi river when
he lost his balance on one of the run
ways to the club dock and fell into
the water. In his death struggle Man.
ley almost carried down with him
James Wray, the club coach.
Five hundred hotel and restaurant
proprietors of Minnesota have been
notified by William G. Nee, state no.
tel inspector, to remit their 81 license
fee Immediately or stand prosecution
The fees were due Jan. 1 and since
that time 4,309 establishments have
paid total of $8,618 in fees.
Louis w. Hill has been named ad-
ministrator of the estate of his father,
the late James J. Hill, by Probate
Judge Bazille of Ramsey county. The
action was on petition of Mrs. Mary
T. Hill, the widow, and the eight other
heirs, who signed a waiver of bond,
The court fixed the bond at 100000.
Farmers of Minnesota will pay from
2 to 3 cents pound more for their
binder twine next year, because of the
increase in the price of sisal, accord
ing to c. ]. Swendsen, chairman of
the state board of control Quotations
show an advance in the price of the
grass from cents to 10 cents per
pound.
For eleven years the wish of Cox
prr all ~
gun pointer on the cruiser Boston, has
been that he might die "at the guns"
His desire has been fulfilled, having
been accidentally killed by prema-
ture explosion while directing a sun
rise salute of nine shots. The ninth
shot was the fatal one.
William Alcock of Kenyon was
killed near Faribault while returning
with a party of eight young people
from dance at one of the lakes. The
party was in an automobile and the
car went into a creek Alcock was
riding on the running board and was
pinned under the car and drowned.
The others escaped injury.
Miss Thekla Nicolin, bookkeeper
for the Purity Baking company of st.
Paul, was shot and severely wounded
by Adolph Guindtner, a baker at the
plant, who was recently released from
the asylum for the insane at St. Peter
Miss Nicolin declares she had never
mistook her for someone else.
Michael Breslauer, for thirty-seven
years prominent in the display adver-
Using business in the Northwest and
leader in Democratic politics, is
dead at his home in Minneapolis. He
was sixty'one years of age. Mr.. Bres-
lauer was widely known as a sport
promoter twenty years. ago and made
Minneapolis the center of sporting
events at that time.
An unlimited guest at Polish wed
ding in Northeast Minneapolis started
a riot in which three of the guests
were shot, but none seriously hurt,
when he reversed the order of the
plate breaking ceremony. Instead of
waiting until the meal was over, as
is the custom, he picked up a plate
and smashed it on the head of an
other guest and then, when rushed by
the others present, he backed toward
the door, drew a revolver and fired.
The lower branch of congress re-
jected an amendment to the water
power bill proposed by Representative
Smith of Minneapolis, which would
have exempted the municipal corpora
tons Of St. Paul and Minneapolis and
the University of Minnesota from the
payment Of charges for the use of wa.
ter power from the high dam midway
between the Twin Cities. The house
had passed an amendment providing
tor the fixing of charges by the sec.
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