The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-30
News Of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Happenings Of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience Of the
Busy Reader.

HlCe county Will SpenQ 9llOUUU tAAo
year on it's roads.
Mark R. Page, veteran of the Civil
war, is dead at Minneapolis.
Mrs. s. @. Soule, sixty-seven years
old, a resident OF Mankato since 1853,
is dead
Herman Bartle, fifty-seven years oil,
a we'll known German editor, is dead
at Winona
A. G. Ellis. we'll known travelling
man, is dead at Hutchinson at the
age OF sixty-fve.
William Butler of St. Paul, member
of the firm of Butler Bros, general
contractors, is dead.
The Cosgrove company, hardware
dealers OF LIE Sueur, have filed peti.
ton in voluntary bankruptcy.
Cracksmen dynamited a safe in the
jewelry store Of Edward Corrow at
Dayton and secured loot valued at
$500.
Peter Anderson, aged seventy-nine,
committed suicide at Crookston be-
cause of dependency due to i'll
health.
J. B. Nelson has been elected mayor
of North Mankato for the eighth time,
receiving III votes to 112 for Otto
Neitge.
Frank E. Haycock, county surveyor
of Hennepin county, is dead, aged
fifty-f1ve. He had lived in Minneap-
oils fifty years.
James E. Stadt, prominent livery
man Of Saltwater, is dead. He was
son of Michael Stadt, pioneer #
Washington county.
Miss Jennie Louise Harris, for many
years we'll known Minneapolis news
paper woman and magazine writer, is
dead in the Mill City,
Martin K. Wangen was struck by a
Great Western train near Empire and
instantly killed. He was a farmland
thirty-five years of age.
Sales of land during the last week
Melted the state $91,743 A total Of
1894 acres we're disposed of at Inter-
national Falls, Duluth, and Aitkin.
Rooert w. Hargadine, state fire
marshal, is being mentioned by his
friends as likely candidate for gov
ernor on the Democratic ticket this
fall
One days sales Of state lands at
Duluth resulted in 5000 acres being
disposed of for $62,97O. The average
th0
acre.
Ed Pfeiffer, for many years bust
ness man of Nankato, dropped dead
at the Sons of Herman hall in that
citv while attending a meeting of the
lodge.
Edwin c. Haynie, a fellow stu
dent at Yale with former President
Taft, is dead at St. Paul, where he
had resided the last thirty-three
years.
Mrs. Mary A Hescock, who cele-
brated her ninety-ninth birthday on
Jan. II, is dead at St. Paul. She
claimed to be Americas Oldest anti
suffragist.
John Austerchuck of South St. Paul,
former grocer, shot his wife five
times following her refusal to live
with him. She is believed to be NOR
tally wounded.
Various farmers clubs of Rice
county held a meeting at Faribault
and organized a federation to be
known as the Rice County Federation
of Farmers Clubs.
The estate of Martha A. Miller who
died recently at St. Paul, is appraised
at $1,996,815. BY the terms of the
will $1,4o0,o0o will 90 to found free
hospital in st. Paul.
J. H. Buhrman, sixty.two years DID,
a farmer residing near Bloomington,
was killed instantly when a Dan
Patch electric train struck the wagon
In which he was riding.
Henry Strang, aged seventy.six.
shot and killed himself at his home In
st. Paul. Weakness attendant upon
old age il. believed to have impelled
him to take his own life. !:
During February 461 cars Of immi-
grant movables were handled at the
Minnesota Transfer. OF this number
231 cars remained in Minnesota and
23o were sent to other states.
Mrs. George Mcdonald! twenty.
seven years old, who was burned in a
flre which destroyed the Gilmore no.
tel at Elmope, s.iss dead. d Three other
persons were seriously burned. =
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