The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-06-21
News Of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
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Busy Reader.

| COta1eQ $z50.ZSS.Il, an increase OF 100
per cent over May, 1915.
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
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 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
Lattle.
John D. Rockefeller has given $780,
600 to the. Minneapolis million-dollar
Young Mems Christian association
campaign.
c. M. Shepard, aged sixty, was
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.
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
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, ineman for the
St. Paul Gas Light company, was in
stantly killed when he cut into a live
wire with a knife while at work on
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.
Louis Naatz, a wealthy farmer Of
Utica, Winona county, jailed at Wi
mona for intoxication, committed sui
side in his cell in the city jail by
hanging.
The advance registration for the
summer school Of the Crookston
School of Agriculture is close to 100.
the largest on record, with more COM
ing in daily.
About $50 men employed in the st.
James iron mine at Aurora are on
strike for an increase of wages. The
miners at Fowler also quit work to
enforce like demand
The ore docks at the American
month of the shipping season with
lead of 2,6S9,2S6 tons over the ship
ping season of last year.
The state of Minnesota will collect
July I on loans to counties, municipal
tiles and school districts of the state
$1,540,9S5.22, of which $S42,276.56 is
principal and $69S, 70S.66 is interest
The United States Steel corporation,
M1nnesota's largest single taxpayer,
paid the first half of the 1916 tax on
it's st. Louis county real estate hold.
ings by checks totaling $2,290,61406.
An Omaha passenger train, north
bound, was derailed near Kasota The
engine and entire train left the track
and tipped over after rounding q
curve, but no one was seriously in.
jured.
Eleven thousand nine hundred and
state during May for automobile H.
censes. This is the largest amount
ever collected in one month from this
source.
A concert by a 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 IA
and Is.
Kew. y. +. Vangsnes, president OF
the Iowa district of the Norwegian
Lutheran synod and for nineteen years
pastor of Minneapolis church, is
dead In the Mill City following an
operation.
Joseph w. Wing, for ten years re-
ceivers clerk I'm the United States
land Office at Duluth, has been arrest
ed charged with Incorporating
sums amounting to $2,22S in the past
three years.
Anton, flve.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, tive-year-old son OF
Alderman Albert Wienzirl, also was
seriously crushed in trying to save
his playmate.