The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-02-24
News Of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Happenings Of the Week Briefly Told
for. the Convenience of the
Busy Reader.

Rev. William Rogers Lord pastor
of the Unity church of st. Paul for
several years, is dead at Dover, Mass.
More than $1,000 worth of silks and
kid gloves were stolen from the l.. o.
Vessel company's store at Little
Falls.
w. F. Donohue of Melrose has filed
for nomination as delegate to the Dem
ocratic national convention from the
Sixth district.
Ole Hofs, car repairer for the st.
Paul road, was run over and instantly
killed by switch engine in the COM
pany's Minneapolis yards.
DR.. Leonard L. Bennett, president
of the National Farmers bank of Owa-
tonna and pioneer resident of that city
and Steele county, is dead
Henry G. Flannery of Minneapolis
has been appointed assistant attorney
general Of Minnesota and will have
charge of railroad litigation.
Tetanus resulting from frostbitten
feet caused the death of John Hizer,
twenty-seven years old, at the Univer-
George A. Clark, one Of the pioneer
implement jobbers in Minneapolis, is
dead, aged seventy-one Mr.. Clark
was veteran of the Civil war.
Despite subzero weather crowd es-
tfmated at 100000 lined the streets of
st. Paul to view the big carnival pa
rade, 10000 marchers being in line.
Thirty thousand carp were taken
from Lake Elysian by Lipinsky & Co.
of Winona with one draw of the seine.
They were shipped alive to New York.
The Polk county grand jury which
has just adjourned made record by
returning almost fifty indictments,
practically all for the illegal sale of
liquor.
The intercollegiate Prohibition asso-
citation of Minnesota will meet in Min.
neapolis in annual convention March
q and %. About 800 delegates are
expected.
Fred G. Stevens filed as a candidate
for delegate at large to the Repub-
lican national convention. He is one
of those picked by the Cummins or
ganization.
Hiram Rise Of St. Bonifacius, this
state, a brakeman on the Chicago
Great Western, was run over and
killed in the company's yards at Ches-
ter, Mont.
The fish in many lakes Of Northern
Minnesota are .smothering to death,
IN
Cox, state forester, from rangers in
that section.
John Mcdonald, aged twenty-six,
foreman of Great Northern switch
ing crew, was killed in collision of
two switch engines in the Union depot
yards at St. Paul.
The name of Senator A. B. Cummins
of Iowa has been filed with Secretary
of State Schmahl for the Republican
presidential nomination. The petition
contained 1000 names
J. J. Regan of st. Paul, former ma
tional president of the Ancient Order
of Hibernians, has been appointed
chief clerk under S. D. Works, state
insurance commissioner.
Federal improvement of the Duluth
Superior harbor by charging the Su-
perior harbor basin at an estimated
cost of $3.50, 900 has been recommend
ed to congress by the war department.
Frank Pikal, aged forty-four, COM
mitted suicide at St. Paul when he
saw the police coming to his home to
answer call of his wife for help. The
police say Pikal threatened to shoot
his family.
Joseph Desmond, thirty years old,
is dead at St. Paul as the result of
blow on the head with wagon stake.
John Jewell, under arrest charged
with the assault, alleges he struck the
blow in self-defense.
Maurice I. Flagg, director of the
state art commission, has been ap-
pointed superintendent of the woman's
department for the 1916 exhibit at the
state fair, succeeding DR.. Clara NJ.
Luther of Minneapolis.
The Northwestern Telephone COM
pany, in an amendment to it's articles
of incorporation filed with Secretary
of State Schmahl, increases it's capital
stock from $15,O00,000 to $25 100000.
The filing fee was $4,000.
M. S. Winthrop, chief clerk in the
office of S. D. Works, insurance CON-
missioner, has resigned to become dis
trict head consul Of the Modern Wood
men of America in the First, Third
and Eighth congressional districts.
Iron ore royalties cannot be taxed
as money and Credits according to
a decision of the state supreme court
involving the attempt of St. Louis
county officials to tax the Royal Min
eral association in the manner stated.
Louis Campbell, twenty years old,
of Hugo was killed and Miss Eva Ar
cand, aged sixteen, Of Mahtomedi was
seriously injured when the sleigh in
which fhov voro riding waa afruck nv