The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-04-06
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.

Joseph Morath seventy-four years
old, pioneer contractor Of st. Paul,
is dead.
Hog prices have passed the $3.50
mark at South St. Paul for the first
time since 1910.
B. w. Gates, eirhty-three years old,
veteran travelling man, is dead at
his home in Fairmont.
A total of about $4,000 will be
available for road improvement work
in Dakota county this year.
Attorney General Smith has prac-
tically decided to become candidate
for reelection to his present position.
George R. Kbbe, sixty-eight years
old, for many years manager of the
Merchants hotel at St. Paul, is dead.
Stocks of wheat on farms in Mime
sofa March 1 are estimated at 20,600,-
900 bushels, compared with 10,314,000
year ago.
The city of St. Charles voted to re-
tain saloons by a majority of 46 fol-
lowing the most spectacular fight that
city has known.
Ole Solem, farmer, was convicted
in district court at Jackson of killing
his mother-in-law by administering
arsenic poisoning.
Mrs. E. Hermann, wife of the pastor
Of the German Evengelical church at
Fergus Falls, is dead. She was forty
four years of age.
City Commissioner Robert Lamm
has been chosen mayor of Mankato to
fill the unexpired term of Mayor A. G.
Meyer, who died recently
Determined to enforce the county
option law in Freedom county citizens
have formed an organization known
as the Law and Order league.
Oscar Arneson of the state auditors
office sold 5000 acres of state land at
Bemidji for $17,045.82. The highest
price paid was s10.75 an acre.
The senate has rejected the nomi-
nation of NJ. W. A. Murray to be post
matter at ParCers Prairie, objected
to by the Minnesota senators.
Richard Mclean, assistant janitor
at the -FOUR Exchange building in
Minneapolis fell from an eighth floor
window ledge and was killed.
Mrs. Mary Branch, widow of WILL
lam Branch and granddaughter of the
late General Sam Houston, is dead at
St. Paul at the age of ninety-two.
First Lieutenant Jesse G. Drain,
Ninth infantry, has been detailed as
professor of military science and tao
tics at shattuck school, Faribault.
Horace c. Lyman, seventy-eight
years old, pioneer settler of Wash
ington county, is dead. He was a
former member of the state legisla-
ture.
A yawn dislocated the jaw of A. P.
Drogseth, assistant cashier of the
First National bank of Brainerd. A
doctor worked an hour to set the
bone.
Jack Jewell has been convicted in
the Ramsey county district court of
murder in the second degree for the
killing of Joseph Desmond at St. Paul
on Feb 2.
George F. Batroot, a St. Paul sa-
loon keeper, was struck by street
car and instantly killed. Batroot is
thought to have slipped as the car
neared him.
= The Johnson-Wentworth Lumber
company's mill at Cloquet has started
on Its seasons run. It will be oper.
ated day and night and give employ
1nent to about 500 men.
Bernard Kenning, ninety-fve years
old, is dead at st. Augusta. He was
the oldest citizen of Stearns county.
Mr.. Kenning was born in Prussia and
came to this country in 1852.
Mrs. Georgiana Steele, formerly of
st. Paul, is on trial at Glendive, Mont,
on a charge of first degree murder,
accused of having killed her husband.
A. J. Steele, in February, 1914.
A long fight over the sundey thea.
ter question was ended at Fergus
Falls when the city council adopted
an ordinance forbidding Sunday shows
or other entertainments. except re.
ligious.
Frank Collins, farmer, is under
arrest at Elk River on the charge Of
shooting and killing Henry Wood In
a quarrel over stack of hay. Collins
says he fired upon Wood In self
defense.