New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-12-27
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aged SlNly-elSnt.
Record increases in shipments Of
live stock to South ST. Paul are re.
ported for 1916.
Actual work on the construction of
the $5O0G,0OO Armour packing plant
:at South st. Paul has begun.
Mrs. Mary Minister, seventy-nine
years old, was found dead of asphyx-
1atlon in her room at St. Paul
Mrs. F. A NIcElwain of Faribault
wife of the Episcopal suffragan bishop
of Minnesotafis dead at San Antonio,
Tex
Ten thousand men are already at
work in Northern Minnesota woods
and the prospects are for an active
- season
Two children OF William Schultz. q
farmer ten miles north of Appleton,
were burned to death in fire which
destroyed the home.
A pure white muskrat, a rare speci-
men of the fur bearing animal, was
caught III a trap in the bottomland
country near Red Wing few days
ago.
A bullet intended to kill a cow
glanced from the animal and struck
John Wallace of Brainerd. who worked
in meat market at Glenwood, caus-
ing his death
Fire at Minneapolis destroyed the
entire stock of the Welch-Wilmath
company, damaged three other build.
.ings and caused total estimated loss
of nearly 100000.
The Southwestern Minnesota tuber-
culosis sanatorium being erected near
Worthington by seven counties of that
vicinity will be ready for occupancy
soon after Jan. T.
Howard Abbott, master in chancery.
was ordered by United States District
Patch road to the highest bidder on
or before May 81 next.
Sir Rabindranath Tagore, Indian
poet and philosopher, who was award
ed the Nobel prize for literature in
1913, will speak at the University OF
Minnesota armory Jan II. -.
Louis Herring, farmer residing
near Waterville, was shot fatally while
hunting by James Slavak, neighbor.
The charge hit Herring in one of hfs
legs and he bled to DEATH
John Rooney, sixty years old.
dropped dead in the Ramsey county
Jail while a fellow prisoner was feed
ing him soup. He had been confined
only an hour when he died.
I Minneapolis and St. Paul capital will
back large paper mill to be built
near Big Fork. Mont, by the Glacier
Pulp and Paper company. The main
office will be in Minneapolis.
James NJ. Shourt, superintendent OF
the Brown & Bigelow plant at St, Paul
and prominent in Royal Arcanum cir
cles, is dead after weeks illness
He was fifty-fve. years of age.
Despite desperate efforts to save
himself, Lorin Christianson, aged
eighteen. OF Belgrade, was drowned
in the minnesota river when he broke
through the ice while spearing musk.
rats.
Two little daughters of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. NJ. Waite of Dead Lake town
ship, north OF Fergus Falls, were
burned to death in their home during
the absence Of other members of the
family.
Victor Noel, farmland, shot and
killed his employer, Albert .Kreiser, a
farmer living near Corcoran, Hennepin
county. "He called me Names" was
the only reason given for the shooting
by Noel.
The four-year-old child of Mr.. and
y Mrs Frank Sherberth of Red Wing.
while playing with crochet needle,
fell in such manner the steel hook
penetrated the abdomen. The child
will live.
An almost complete tieup exists in
the handling Of freight by the rail.
roads between Duluth and points east
&of Chicago. Only one line will accept
shipments and that to a limited ex-
tent only.
The Second infantry, Minnesota ns~
tional guard, will be ready to leav1
Camp Llano Grande Jan. 1 for hons.
The members will travel to Fort
Smelling to be mustered out of the
h federal service.
Minneapolis on July l, 1916, had q
population of 363, 454, according to es-
Inmates made public by the United
States census bureau The estimated
population of st. Paul is PAT ,2S2 and
of Duluth S4,495. -.....
Two policemen fought a revolver
duo1 with two artOmOhile banHita i,
Crowells drug store in Minneapolis
and Patrolman Adolph Nelson was
shot above the left temple, but only
slightly wounded.
James German, seventy years
&lold, one Of the early settlers of the
Northwest. committed suicide at bis
home In Minneapolis because of: de,
spondency over long continued liz
health. German served on the battle
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