The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-09-20

LOLdAcu 9AOO.1OJ.1l, I'LL AlCACaoC " Ao'o
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 postofflce
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
battle.
John D. Rockefeller has given $780,
900 to the Minneapolis million-dollar
Young Mems Christian association
campaign.
c. M. 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.
Nels 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
barbed wire fence while bathing
John Landgraf has purchased four
bison calves from the Scotty Phillips
ranch near Pierre, S. D., and will start
a 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 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 county
option election are said to be in circu-
lation.
Eleven thousand nine hundred and
Id &ho Of
state during May for automobile Ii
censes. This is the largest amount
ever collected in one month from this
source.
A concert by band Of 300 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 Juno II
and Is.
Rev. O. 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, five-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.
The miners at the Weed mine OF
the Oliver Mining company at Aurora
have joined the other strikers in that
vicinity. One thousand men are now
out.
Farmers of Clay county will hold
their annual picnic at Glyndon June
21. 1t will be under the direction of
the Clay County Federation Of Farm
Clubs.
L. Benshoof of Detroit was elected
commander at the thirty-second an
nual encampment in Minneapolis OF
the Minnesota division of the Sons Of
Veterans.
Otto Langfelt was killed and Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Miller were injured
when an automobile turned a somer
sault near Luverne The machine was
not DAMAGED.
Six members of youthful St. Cloud
gang known as the "The Bloody
Dozen," have been sentenced by the
court to spend the summer working
on farms in that vicinity.
Dean Francis c.. Shenehon of the
college Of engineering, University OF
Minnesota, has resigned, effective on
May I, 1917. Dean Shenehon had been
head of the college for seven years.
Three children of w. H. Swain,
seven miles north of Pillager, ate a
quantity of toadstools in mistake for
mushrooms. Teddy, four years old,
Is dead and two older children are
dying.