The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-09-13
ABOUT The STATE.
News Of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
happenings Of tho Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience Of the
Busy Reader.

During 1915 the per capita cost of
government in St. Paul was $21.05.
Minneapolis postal receipts for May
totaled $256.289l1, an increase of 1875
per cent over May, 1915.
DR.. Albert P. Keam. sixty-three
years old, one of the Oldest practicing
physicians in st. Paul, il dead.
Yeggmen blew open the postoftice
safe at Wheaton and escaped with
500 in stamps and $50 in money.
Enoch Anderson is dead at Mime
apolis as the result of being struck by
a plank which fell less than five feet.
Otto E. Greeley, for many years
leading insurance man Of Mimi eapolis,
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 $780,
900 to the Minneapolis million-dollar
Young Mems Christian association
campaign.
c. NJ. Shepard, aged sixty, was
struck by a 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 few
days ago, is dead.
Nes c. Anderson, the Minneapolis
patrolman who was shot and seriously
wounded by Alexander Engle, wife
murderer and suicide, is dead.
Joseph Capaul, laborer, tWenty-six
years old, was drowned in Long lake,
near St. Paul, when his feet caught in
a barbed wire fence while bathing.
John Landgraf has purchased four
bison calves from the Scotty Phillips
ranch near Pierre, S. D., and will start
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 a live
wire with knife while at work on a
pole.
Dakota county may join the dry ter
ritory Of Minnesota within the next
year. Petitions calling for a county
option election are said to be in circu-
latiOn.
Eleven thousand nine hundred and
two dollars was paid the secretary OF
state during May for automobile Ii,
censes This is the largest amount
source.
A concert by band Of 800 pieces
will be one of the distinctive features
Of the twelfth annual convention Of
the Minnesota State Elks' association
to be held at Duluth on June II
and Is.
Rev. 0. P. Vangsnes, president OF
The Iowa district Of the Norwegian
Lutheran synod and for nineteen years
pastor Of a Minneapolis church, is
dead in the Mill City following an
operation.
Joseph w. Wing, for ten years re-
ceiver's clerk in the United States
land office at Duluth, has been arrest.
ed charged with misappropriating
sums amounting to $2,228 in the past
three years.
Anton, t1ve-year-Old son of Jacob
Korpi, manager of the Tower Mercan.
tile company, was fatally crushed
when an automobile owned and driven
by Charles Lundstrom of Virginia ran
amuck. George, five-year-old son OF
Alderman Albert Wienzirl, also was
seriously crushed In trying to save
his playmate.
James H. Mcclure, one OF the best
known railroad and bridge contractors
In the Northwest, is dead at st. Paul.
aged seventy-four years.
The annual conference of the Ger.
man Evangelical church for Mime"
sofa, North and South Dakota will be
held at Fairmont shortly.
Henry G. Mase, twenty-five years
old. hanged himself in his room at
Minneapolis. Dependency over III
health Is given as the reason.
Failing health is causing. District
Judge Nathan Kingsley of Austin to
resign. Judge Kingsley has been on
the district bench since 1890.
Lyman Robinson, aged seventy-three
years, a Mankato city park employee
was severely bitten and clawed by a
bear In the zoo at sibley park.
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