New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-08-09

stamps In July IN the Minneapolis dis
trict amounted to $1N,e6s.7A the
largest in the history Of the ONCE
The famous Savage farm at, Saw
age, one Of the best known horse
breeding establishments In the world,
| will be closed and all the stock sold
This action was taken by the admin
| istrator of the estate Of NJ. w. Saw
age, who died recently.
William l.. Hixon, president Of the
Minneapolis Wooden Mills company
and of the Hxon-Shevlin Lumber COM
pany, is dead at Minneapolis He was
forty-six years of age and was a men,
Der of a family prominent in business
affairs in the Northwest
A congressional investigation to de-
termine whether the national guard
has been treated fairly In q number
of particulars is provided for in a res
olution introduced in the lower house
of congress by Representative George
R. Smith of Minneapolis.
In what is believed to have been a
fit of jealous rage while under the in
auence of liquor, Matt Kovesto, aged
thirty-six, an Eveleth carpenter, shot
and killed his wife, thirty-four years
old. He then tried to kill himself, but
inflicted only a flesh wound.
The glazing headlights of an auto
mobile caused John Birkowitz Of Min
neapolis to lose control of his touring
car and it plunged over the embank-
ment on the Mississippi river road
near the Mill City. All the nine occu-
pants Of the car were injured.
James M. Fitzpatrick, superintend-
ent of the government high dam be-.
tween st. Paul and Minneapolis, was
killed when the automobile he was
driving turned turtle on Minnehaha
parkway between Minnehaha Falls
park and the Mississippi river.
Genda Gustafson. maid; Amanda
Gustafson. maid. and George Cum
mings, chauffeur, employees Of NJ A.
Smith OF Minneapolis, were drowned
in Lake Minnetonka- The drowning
occurred when a canoe they occupied
capsized In front Of the Smith summer
home.
Fide& HoA, nia,etyone years old.
who was one Of the few remaining
territorial pioneers Of Minneapolis and
who came to the state TN 1857. ts dead
at Minneapolis. Until the Indfan up
rising of 1862 Mr. Ho11 lived On a
farm on the Minnesota river uea7 st.
Peter.
Daniel E. Sullivan, wealthy Mfnne-
apolis lumberman, who mysteFfuusiy
dropped out of sight in 1909, has been
declared legally dead by the Heone-
pin county probate court. Mr. 9u1fi-
vans will, distributing an estate of
more than $500, 1000, has been admitted
to probate.
Revenue of $Ss7,2s944 from state
owned mines in Northern Minnesota
for the fiscal year just ended is re-
ported in an official state treasury
statement. Gain of more than so per
cent is shown over the previous high
record year of 1913 with royalties Of
1854 ,7O2.26.
Longshoremen of Duluth and Supe-
rior, numbering close to 1000, have
received an increase of cents an
hour in their wages. The men viii
receive straight wage of 20 cents
an hour for day and night work and
will receive IS cents an hOU for
handling cement
State Senator William A. Campbell
was appointed by Lowell E. Jepson
and Ernest Lundeen. candidates for
congress, as their choice on the Re-
publican state central committee Mr.
Campbell was chosen to represent the
commercial travellers and labor In the
Republican councils.
Mary Burkhart, twenty-five years
old, is in critical condition at her
home near Minnesota as the result of
her hair becoming entangied in a
wringer on washing machtne oper-
ated by gasoline engine Before the
engine could be stopped her scalp was
torn from her head.
All previous records in grain hand
ling from the port of Duluth were sur
passed in the crop year ended July 81,
according to figures of the board of
trade. During that period 145,184, $50
bushels of grain were received, COM
pared with 144,5S2,S41 in the previous
record season of 1928.
Edward Murnane, St. Paul detective.
has been indicted on a charge of first
degree assault by the Henneptn county
grand jury. The charge grew out of
Murnane's alleged attack with black
jack upon Archibald E. Priest, Mime
apolis business man, while both were
under arrest on a charge of fighting.
Clinton Dewitt Smith, recognized
national authority on agriculture and
at one time director of the experiment
station of the college of agriculture Of
the University of Minnesota, died OF
apoplexy at Buffalo, N. Y. He was
sixty-two years of age and for years
has been a member of the Cornell