The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-11-15
NEWS OF ESPECIAL Interest
TO minnesota READERS
Happenings Of the Week Briefly Told
For tho Convenience Of the
Busy Reader.

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Six business houses were destroyed
by fire at 1santi, causing a loss of
$4,000.
H. S. Tanner, a pioneer Hastings
business man, is dead at De Land,
Fla, at the age of eighty-three.
E. T. mickey, sixty years old, q
machinist, committed suicide at Min
neapolis by inhaling Illuminating gas
Burglars entered the Goetting de-
partment store at Rochester and
made away with goods valued at
more than $1,000.
The Clay County State bank of
Hitterdal has received authority to
do business, making the 1,300th state
bank in Minnesota.
Martin J. Lins, formerly sheriff of
Winona county, has been appointed
chef of the special agents of the
Great Northern railway.
Samuel White, who arrived in St.
Paul, in 1855, is 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 re-
ceiving $500 volts of electricity
through 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
ASSOCIATION at the annual conven-
tion at St. Paul.
Leo Weber, nineteen years old, is
dead at St. Cloud, after a fight in
which his unidentified assailant
drove a screwdriver through his eye,
piercing the brain.
Edward Lampman, eighty-five
years old, the oldest conductor in
the employ of the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & 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.
Billie Kelley, a militiaman from
Zumbroto, this state, was partially
paralyzed when he struck his head
on the bottom when he dived into q
lake near camp at Llando Grande,
Tex.
Emil C. Grieev thirty years old,
| was instantly killed when an auto
mobile in which he was riding skid
ded on a curve three miles north of
Osseo and threw him against q tele-
phone pole.
The directors of the St. Paul Union
Depot company have unanimously g.
greed to build station in St. Paul
to cost not more than $11, 900,
instead of $15,000,000 as originally
planned.
Royal H. Ripley, for the last clever
years contracting freight agent ir
Minneapolis for the Santa Fe rail.
road and widely known in railroad
traffic circles, is dead in the Mill
City, aged sixty-seven.
Government receipts in Minnesota
during October from internal reven-
ue sources fell off about 20 percent
compared with the receipts in Octo-
Der 1915. The total receipts for the
month were $3O3,603. 68
James Gardener, 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.
Fire in the midway district be-
tween St. Paul and Minneapolis de-
stroyed property worth $512,50O. The
Valentine-Clark company, whose loss
will reach 100000, had nearly 1oo,-
600 telephone poles destroyed.
The business district of Donnellv
was virtually destroyed by fire, dam
age estimated at 100000 resulting
before apparatus and fremen from
Morris and Herman, rushed to DON
nelly in automobiles, halted the con-
f1agration.
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 &C.
cident.
More than 1000 tubs of butter
have been listed for the contest in
connection with the annual meeting
of the National Creamery Butterma-