New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-04-05

Archie Chisholm, deputy sheriff, was
instantly killed at Paynesville when
500 line freight train ran over him.
w. E. Hedgecock. at the head of
the agricultural department Of the AL
bert Lea high school for the past four
years, has resigned to accept posi-
ton as head of the Peoria Gill;
County Farm bureau. -.
Henry Virgins of Luverne, sixteen
years old, had four fingers of one hand
severed by circular saw. After the
: power had been cut off he experiment.
ed to see how much the saw would
cut before 1t stopped. =:
o. M. Levang of Lanesboro has
filed for the Republican nomination
for congress In the First district. L.
wang opposed Representative Sydney
M. Anderson In the primary in 1914,
but was defeated 1872 to 4,341.
Death has visited one Pennington
county family three times In the last
six weeks. Peter Romness of Lancas-
ter was the last to die. Mrs. ]. Ellen
son and Mrs. J. Linde of Thief River
Falls, his sisters, died recently.
Attorney General Smith will start
action shortly against the Dan Patch
| Electric line to collect approximately
$4,000 gross earnings tax due from
| that company for the last six months
OF 1915. The tax was payable March 1.
| Frank B. Kellogg has accepted the
invitation of Rochester citizens to
open his campaign for United States
! senator in that city. Mr.. Kellogg was
born on farm near there and for
! some years was resident of Roches-
! ter.
Resolutions declaring for adequate
preparedness and the placing of MILL
tary affairs in the hands of experts
| were passed at the sixteenth annual
meeting and banquet Of the Fifteenth
Minnesota Regimental association at
: st. Paul. ,...-.. go:
Fl Ole Solem, who was convicted Of
i murder in the first degree under an
indictment charging him with having
! poisoned Mrs. Haldorson, his mother
in-law,>!was sentenced by Judge Quinn
| at Jackson to life Imprisonment at
hard labor.
/ Theodore Roosevelt received 1924
votes out of 1928 cast in a Repub-
i lican presidential poll conducted by q
! Minneapolis newspaper. Charles E.
Hughes was second with 1920 and
| Senator A. B. Cummins third with
1878 votes. ...
julius A. Schmahl, secretary of
! stale, has dissipated all rumors as. to
:. his intention to become a candidate
/ for the Republican nomination for
! governor by issuing a statement that
he will file for denomination to his
present position.
G. E. Benson, special agent of the
Indian department, has served notice
on the villages of Cook, Gheen, An
CORA and Cusson that they are in ter
ritory covered by the Indian treaty of
1855 and that it is illegal to sell or
to bring liquor into them.
7: Live stock receipts at South St.
Paul during March were 1000 car
loads greater than for the correspond
ing month year ago. Total arrivals
stluring the month this year were S.
700 cattle, 1900 calves, $4,000 hogs,
$4,000 sheep and 1,150 horses.
J. v. Piper, who is said to be the
! first locomotive engineer to drive
| Great Northern train over the Rocky
mountains, is dead at minneapolis
Mr.. Piper was sixty-nin. 7sars oic
and had been in the service OF rpe
Great Northern for forty-fi. Years.
Leslie w. Jefferson, graduate of
the Owatonna high school and earle
ton college and son of N. P. Jefferson
of Owatonna, has received the ap-
pointment of superintendent of the
high schools of Manila, Philippine Is
lands. He was formerly superintend-
ent of schools at Lake City.
Eight rural school districts around
Delevan are considering the advisa-
bility of consolidating with the village
of Delevan and erecting high school.
If the plan carries the new district
will have a valuation of about $780,
900 and ten school buses will be re-
CURED to carry the children.
The case against William Rufus Ed
wards, wealthy st. Paul lumberman,
on trial at Chicago on the charge of
violating the Mann act in transporting
Miss Ada Cox from Chicago to the
| Twin Cities, was taken from the jury
by Judge Anderson and a verdict of
not guilty entered on the records.
When Mrs. Louis M. Morissette of
Minneapolis killed herself by opening
four gas jets in her apartments she
also caused the death of Charles Row
man, a man whom she had never seen
until a few hours before the tragedy.
Why she desired to kill Rowman, too,
is a mystery that battles the police
and coroner.