New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-03-15

Mrs. Charles Van Dusen, who was
transformed into a living torch when
her clothing caught fire at her home
In Minneapolis, died few hours later.
r. G. Ramage, chief OF police of
Northfield, one Of the best known po-
lice officers in Southern Minnesota, is
dead. He was fifty-five years of age.
Thomas e. Yerxa, who for nearly
a. quarter century was the head Of
one of the most prominent firms in
the Minneapolis retail trade, is dead
at Sierra Madra, Cal. Mr.. Yerxa was
sixty-seven years Of age. Il. ~
Federal officers arrested Frank Car.
penter. eighty-seven years old, of Cass
Lake. charged with introducing liquor.
In Indian territory. He had a suitcase
of alcohol, it is said. He was re-
leased on account of his age.
The cure seemed worse than the
ache to Arthur Odensson of Paterson
and for long time he deferred a
visit to dentist. Finally submitting
to treatment he was unable to obtain
relief and died of septic poisoning.
St. Paul's proposed $1,0O0,00O bond
issue for school purposes was de-
feated at a special election by ma
jority of over 5000. twenty-five thou
sand one hundred and seventy men
and 6,582 women voted on the ques-
ton.
Mayor August G. Meyer of Man
kato, sixty-three years of age, is dead
following an ojeration. He had been
In failing health for some months. Mr..
Meyer was one of Mankato's most
prominent men and was serving his
fourth term as mayor. ~-,..,
After a series of delays extending
over eighteen months notices are be-
Ing sent out from the United States
land office at Crookston to the effect
that the Mud lake bottom in Eastern
Marshall county will be opened for
homestead entry in April. ..-,:
The workmen's compensation act
has given casualty companies doing
business in Minnesota a profit of ST.
832,602 since Oct I, 1913, when the
act went into effect. The total pre-
miums collected were $2,85O,S14.S5
and the losses paid $1,018,21214.
Charles Swanson and Raymond
Hawkes., confessed slayers of Godfrey
Carlson, Minneapolis butcher, pleaded
guilty to charges of first degree muir
der in the Hennepin county district
court. Carlson was shot to death in
his meat market in an attempted
holdup Oct. 16.
Bound in straightjacket so that
he could not use hand or foot, Carl
Olson, patient at the Minneapolis
city hospital, who had been left I'M
guarded in bed, tore off pieces of a
sheet with his teeth and shredded
and swallowed pieces of cloth until
he choked to death.
Burglary insurance in Minnesota
nets the companies accepting this
class of insurance large income an
nually. Premiums. collected by COM
panies in 1915 for insuring people
ag&inst burglary and theft amounted
to $113,404 and the losses paid during
the same period were $21,208.
St. Paul is richer by $25o,OoO as a
result of the filing in probate court in
that city of the final account in the
Henry Hale estate. Mr.. Hale, a pio-
neer Minnesotan, died Dec. Z, 1890
and by the terms of his will in quar-
ter of century the city of st. Paul
was to receive one-half of his estate
Without any one seeing him arrive
or depart a lone bandit held up the
Security State bank at St. Paul, OBJ
tanned $1,567 and left the police with
out clue to his identity other thar
the description given by the three
bank officials whom he herded into
the vault at the point of two re
vo1vers.
Because of the higher prices of stee
products and the fact that the pro
ducing companies are as much a:
eight months behind in their orders,
there will be more concrete bridge
construction in Minnesota this year
than ever before in it's history, accord
ing to c. F. Nagle, deputy state high
way engineer, in charge of bridges.
John H. Randall, resident of st.
Paul since 1856 and one of the first
railroad men in the Northwest, is
dead at st. Paul. On the day the first
train on the st. Paul and Pacific rail
road left st. Paul July 2, 1852, Mr..
Randall began his service with that
company, continuing with the road un-
til James ]. Hill and associates took
charge of it in 1879.
Thirteen forest rangers have been
commissioned as deputy game war
dens under the cooperative scheme
adopted by Carlos Avery, game and
fish commissioner, and w. T. Cox,
state forester, to protect the game in
Northern Minnesota. The forest rang
ers will work with the game wardens