New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-05-10

age and came to Minnesota In 1885,
Thomas Ryan, Minneapolis saloon
keeper, who died recently, left an es.
tate of $4,000 to- little orphan girl
to whom he had given care and educa.
ton for the last three years. >-'. 80
If the Republicans name a progress.
sive candidate and adopt progressive
principles at the Chicago convention
in June there. will'"be no Progressive
party ticket In Minnesota this year.
Charles A. Towne of New York, for
mer United States senator from Min
nesota, who recently announced his in
tention of running for the senatorship
OF New York, has withdrawn from the
race.
Judge James H. Quinn Of Fairmont
has filed for associate justice of the
supreme court, opposing Justice AL.
bert Schaller. Thomas Kneeland Of
Minneapolis also has filed for the
place.
T. ]. Anderson of Belgrade, a mer-
chant and Prohibition party worker
OF long standing, has been selected by
the leaders to make the race for gov
ernor this year on the Prohibition
ticket.
Mike Miller, twenty-five years old,
shot in Frank Hollands saloon at Min
neapolis few days ago, is dead of
his wounds. Holland admits the shoot
ing, but claims it was done in self.
rdefense. -
Captain Patrick Murray, for twenty
five years a member of the St. Paul
fire department, was stricken with
heart failure while fighting a fire and
diedTao few minutes after he was taken
to his home
A lone bandit, unmasked and having
two revolvers, held up and robbed the
City Bank of st. Paul of $4,000 in gold
after shutting the cashier, two messen-
gers, a 'stenographer and a customer
In the vault.
United States internal revenue re-
ceipts in Minnesota during April
amounted to $338,36S.94, an increase
of $1O,1S2.01 over those of April. 1915
The principal gain was In corporation
and individual taxes.
Leonard Knowlan and Clara Siever-
son of st. Paul were drowned in Lake
Vadnais near that city when their
automobile plunged from the road into
the lake. Four other occupants OF the
machine were saved.
Indictments against several members
of the Minneapolis police department
charging them with accepting brides
were decided upon by the Hennepin
county grand jury Investigating vice
conditions in the Mill City.
Mrs. John Weis, sixty-four years old,
and Miss Theresa Alstadt, aged eight
cen, were killed at Perham when a
Northern Pacific work train collided
with an automobile driven by John
Weis, who was badly injured.
The district court of Houston county
has ordered the Strengthening of Root
river. The channel will be twenty
miles long and will drain a large tract
in the northern part of the county.
The cost is estimated at S16O,OOO
Chippewa Indians are taking great
interest in the general council which
is to be held in Bemidji on July H.
Congress has appropriated $4,000 to
pay the expenses of conferences at
Bemidji, Detroit and White Earth.
H. M. Lamberton, a Winona attor-
ney, has filed as a Democratic candi-
date for congress in the First district.
Leonard Virtue of Owatonna also has
filed on the Democratic side. The field
is split between five Republicans
Products made in St. Paul Increased
in value more than $10,000,o00 in the
five-year period between 1909 ans
1914 The United States department Of
commerce announced an Increase O.
$15,543,0O in capital and $1.S44,oOO in
wages.
The Minnesota Red River Valley De.
velopment association, the Red River
Valley Live Stock Breeding associa,
ton and the Minnesota Live Stock
Breeders association will hold their
conventions at Detroit on June Is, 16
and II.
DR.. Charles w. Wheaton, prominent
St. Paul surgeon, is dead, aged sixty.
three. For many years Dr. Wheaton
taught didactic surgery at the Univer
sity of Minnesota and was professor
emeritus of surgery there at the time
of death.
| William Cook, owner of the steamer
| Mudhen, accused by United States Off
| GERS of running a floating bar on Re-
| lake, pleaded guilty in fedora! court al
Fergus Falls and was sentenced tc
! five months in the county Jail at Be
midi and to pay a fine Of $780,
Governor Burnquist has appointed
Ju"ce William L. Parsons of Fergus
Falls to hear the appeal of the Great
] Northern railway from an order Of
the railroad and warehouse commits
sion requiring the company to run
night train from Browns Valley tt
Morris.
| Two indictments charging T. A