The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-11-08
ABOUT The STATE.
News Of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Happenings Of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience of the
Busy Reader.

Byron J. Mosier has been appointed
postmaster at Saltwater.
S. R. Keith of Minneapolis was
drowned while fishing in Willow river
near Hudson. Wis
The National Editorial association,
in session at New York, selected Min
neapolis as its place of meeting next
year.
Albert Barry, a homesteader Of the
Togo region near Hibbing, reports the
discovery of rich iron ore on his
claim.
The John Addison Porter prize OF
$500 was awarded to DR.. Richard J.
Purcell of Minneapolis at the Yale
commencement.
BY majority of sixty-six the city
of Virginia voted to reduce the num-
Der of saloons from forty-nine to
twenty by Jan. 1, 1917.
Frank Jackson, an old resident OF
Hibbing, was instantly killed by the
accidental explosion of eighteen sticks
of dynamite he was carrying.
M. A. Smith of St. Paul, aged thirty
se1gn, was drowned in White Bear
lake. He was reaching for a fallen
oar when he fell out of the boat.
Mrs. Rebecca Plummer, who reached
Brooklyn Center, this state, in 1854, is
dead at Minneapolis. She was mem
Der of the Territorial Pioneers asso.
citation.
Robert Seiberlich, Minneapolis in:
surance man, has been appointed state
boxing commissioner to represent Min.
neapol1s in succession to Michael l..
Nolan, resigned.
William Kaiser, one of the proprie-
tors Of the Faribault Journal and
postmaster of Faribault from April l.,
1899, until last February, is dead at
Eagle Rock, Cal.
John Kovrik of St. Paul, fifty-three
years old, stopped a runaway team
but he received injuries which re
suited in his death.
Police Captain j. A. Weare Of Min
aeapolis, charged with accepting
brides for the protection Of vice, was
acquitted by jury in the Hennepir
county district court
A near tornado swept over Crooks.
ton and vicinity, causing considerable
damage. Silos on several farms were
blown down and the grain warehouse
at Shirley was wrecked.
Martin H. Clapp of St. Paul, super
intendent of telegraph Of the Northern
Pacific railway, has been chosen pres
ident Of the Association of Railway
Telegraph Superintendent.
For the second time within a year
burglars broke into the supply house
Of Parke, Davis & Co., wholesale drug
gists of Minneapolis, and took mar
cotics worth probably $4,000.
Governor Burnquist gathered in the
largest number of votes in the Henne
pin county primary, his official total
being 27,805, and his majority over
Samuel G. 1verson being 22.4S4.
DR.. Albert P. Keam. sixty-three
years old, one Of the oldest practicing
physicians in st. Paul, is dead.
Yeggmen blew open the postofice
safe at Wheaton and escaped with
800 in stamps and $50 in money.
Enoch Anderson is dead at Mime.
apolis as the result of being struck by
plank which fell less than five feet.
Otto E. Greeley, for many years a
leading insurance man of Minneapolis
Is dead at Chicago, aged sixty-four
years.
Henry Comstock, former Fergus
Falls boy, serving with the Canadian
army in France, has been killed in
| battle.
John D. Rockefeller has given $50;
300 to the Minneapolis million-dollar
Young Mems Christian association
campaign.
c. M. Shepard, aged sixty. was
struck by United States mail auto.
| mobile at Minneapolis and almost in
stantly killed.
Hallet Wickus of Baraboo, Wis,
whose leg was crushed while he was
Installing a piano at Owatonna a few
days ago, is dead.
Nels G. Anderson, the Minneapolis
patrolman who was shot and seriously
wounded by Alexander Engle, wife
murderer and suicide, is dead.
Joseph Capaul, a laborer, twenty.six
years old, was drowned in Long lake,
near St. Paul, when his feet caught in
barbed wire fence while bathing.
John Landgraf has purchased four
bison calves from the Scotty Phillips
ranch near Pierre, S. D., and will start
a bison farm near Candy, this state.
A. NJ. Henry, who resided near Far.
ibault, was run down and killed by
being run into by an automobile
driven by Louis Kuhlman of Faribault.
Tony Commando, lineman for the
st. Paul Gas Light company, was in.
stantly killed when he cut into live
wire with knife while at work on q
pole.
Dakota county may join the dry ter