New Ulm review., 1916-09-06
ABOUT Al the n STATE ! ! II
News Of Especial interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Happenings Of the Week Briefly Told
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9uey Reader.

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Buoy Reader.
The price Of s cent loaves of bread
has been increased to cents by the
bakers Of the Twin Cities.
H. o. Rieger. forty-eight years old.
q Minneapolis restaurant proprietor,
committed suicide by shooting.
Guy B. Hopkins, locomotive engi-
neer, committed suicide at his home
in Minneapolis by turning on the gas.
Clay county, one OF Minnesota's
richest potato growing sections, will
produce crop about two-thtF1s nor
NAL this year.
William Dixon OF Winona caught .
catfish weighing ninety-hve pounds in
the Mississippi river near Dresbach.
Wfnon4 county. .z.
Ore shipments from Minnesota dur
ing August were above the average
and exceeded shipments for August,
1915, in every instance.
Mrs. Caroline 8. Haeusler, seventy.
four years old. resident OF st. Paul
since 1856 and for many years prom.
inent member Of ne Territorial Pto-
neers, is dead.
Charles saadberE. fosty-dve years
old, employed by Foley Bros Of st.
Paul, was killed instantly when he
was thrown from an automobile near
Thief River Falls.
George r. Hughes Of Emmetsburg.
Ia, was killed and his wife and child
injured when their automobile was
struck by Great Northern passenger
train near Garfield. this state.
John B. West, formerly head Of the
West Publishing company Of St Paul
but for eight years q resident Of Pas.
adena, Cal, was probably fatally tn
jured by fall from motorcycle.
Hiling E. johnson Of St. Peter, ser.
geant in X company, Second Mime
sofa infantry, died at the camp hospi-
tai at Mercedes, Tex. following an
operation for appendicitis a week be.
fore.
U. M. Stone, seventy-two years Old,
manager Of the North st. Paul Casket
company. is dead at St. Paul as the
result of injuries sustained when he
was struck by a trailer on an auto
truck.
After hurried trip from Montana
to visit his sick mother at Holding
ford, this state, Albert Kurz suffered
a heart attack while at her bedside
and expired. He was thirty-six years
of age.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the L. G.. Campbell flour mill at Owa-
tonna. The mill, which had a capac-
ity of 500 barrels daily, was rebuilt
last year. The loss is estimated at
100000.
G. w. Rudd of Minneapolis, who had
served in the United States navy for
thirty-three years, was one of the sea-
men killed when the cruiser Memphis
was wrecked in San Domingo harbOr
recently.
e. ]. Mackenzie, a member of the
Minneapolis Central high school foot
ball squad in 1907 and 1908, was killed
while operating gun in the Somme
drive in France. Mackenzie enlisted
in Canada.
Olof Johnson, a pioneer farmer and
capitalist of Hallock, committed sui
nj do hx,1 &C.
sons mind became unbalanced from
brooding over losses of crops on his
S00-acre farm.
Edward Furrer, sixty-three years
old, St. Paul broommaker who was
found dead in his bed in Mayalls alley
in that city on July 80, left an estate
of $4,000 which he had accumulated
at his humble trade.
The assessed value of personal
property in Minneapolis increased
more than $4,O00,000 in the last year,
marking the largest growth in the his
tory of the city. The total valuation
this year is $44,471,S31.
With $500 reward as an incentive
the Cook county woods are filled with
armed men hunting for Fred Davis,
wanted by the federal authorities, they
say, on suspicion of having robbed the
postoffice at Grand Marais.
Ocean or Columbia river salmon are
being planted in Swan lake, near Fer
gus Falls, under the direction of the
state game and fish commission. Swan
lake was selected for the propagation
Of salmon because it has no outlet.
Adolph Anderson, fifteen.year-oh
son of Gustaf Anderson of Severance,
5ibley county, is being held in the
Brown county jail on the charge of
assault in the first degree, it being
alleged that he tried to shoot his
father.
During the fiscal year ending July
81 s23,S51 ,472.54 were poured into Min.
nesotas state Golfers, according to
report of State Auditor Preus. This
amount marks an increase Of $1 36q.