New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-03-22
ABOUT ThEsSTATE.
News Of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
happenings Of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience Of the
Busy Reader.

Rice county will spend $4,000 this
year on its roads.
Mark r. Page, veteran of the Civil
war, is dead at Minneapolis.
Mrs. s. c. Soule, sixty-seven years
old, resident of Mankato since 1853,
is dead.
Herman Bartle, fifty-seven years oil,
we'll known German editor, Is dead
at Winona.
A. G. Ellis, well known travelling
man, is dead at Hutchinson at the
age Of sixty-five.
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 petit
ton in voluntary bankruptcy.
Cracksmen dynamited q 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 It
Washington county.
Miss Jennie Louise Harris, for many
paper woman and magazine writer, is
dead in the Mill City.
Martin K. Wangen was struck by
Great Western train near Empire and
instantly killed. He was farmland
thirty-fve years of age.
Sales of land during the last week
netted the state $91,743. A total of
1894 acres were disposed of at Inter
national Falls, Duluth, and Aitkin.
Robert w. Hargadine, state fire
marshal, is being mentioned by his
friends as a 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
price paid for the lands was $1.70 per
acre.
Ed Pfeiffer, for many years a bust
ness man of Mankato, dropped dead
at the Sons of Herman hall in that
city while attending a meeting of the
lodge.
Edwin G. 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 $1,400,000 will go to found a free
hospital in St. Paul.
| J. H. Buhrman, sixty-two years old,
! 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
sid age is 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
! 230 were sent to other states.
Mrs. George Mcdonald, twenty
seven years old, who was burned in a
fire which destroyed the Elmore no.
tel at Gilmore, is dead. Three other
persons were seriously burned.
Waite A. Shoemaker, president of
the st. Cloud normal school, is dead.
Mr.. Shoemaker was born in Ohio in
1860, but came to Minnesota with his
parents when three years of age.
Mrs. Anna Christine Anderson.
lacking less than a year of reaching
the century mark, is dead at the home
of her daughter-in-law near Mankato.
She was born and married in Sweden.
John Zallaha of Minneota township,