New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-07-19

| Mrs. Grace Boone, thirty-one years
old, wife of Peyton Boone of Hermis-
Captain John Kent of Saltwater, was
burned to death with her six-months-
old baby at Hermiston. according to
information received by relatives in
| Moorhead.
| Minneapolis grain merchants have
complained to the interstate commerce
commission that tho Mill City is being
Disseminated against in favor of Mil
waukee and Chicago in rates on grain
and grain products from Washington.
Oregon, Idaho. North and South Da-
kOta and Montana.
| After sweltering through the hottest
| day of the year in a stuffy courtroom
| at Winona, attorneys for Mrs. Johanna
| Gundlaff. in an action to recover DAM
| ages for the death of her husband I'M
der the WOrkmen's compensation act,
| found they had brought suit against
the wrong insurance company.
Threats to take the life of Minneso-
| tas governor and to dynamite the cap
itol have been made within the past
| week by sympathizers with the Iron
| Range strike, it is believed. AS a re-
| suit special precautions have been
| made to protect both Governor Burn
quist and the property of the state.
| The Democratic nominees for state
| Offices, at meeting in st. Paul, voted
| to leave the selection of chairman
to the new state central committee,
| but recommended Fred E. Wheaton
| of Minneapolis. It is understood that
| R. w. Hargadine, the present secre-
tary, will be reelected if he will &C
| cept
Henry F. Seward of Duluth has paid
$4,000 for a Minneapolis chamber of
commerce membership, thereby bring
| ing the price to maximum figure.
There are $50 memberships, but the
directors are authorized to issue ad-
| ditional ones at $4,000. The last pre-
| vious sale of a membership was at
$4,000.
Dan Patch, 1855, famous as rec
| ord breaking PAGER, is dead at the
Savage farm near Minneapolis. He
was foaled April 26, 1898, and was
purchased by M. w. Savage of Mime
apolis fourteen years ago for 100000.
ATHLETIC heart" is given as the cause
of death, which was sudden and un-
expected.
The state timber board will ask the
next legislature to appropriate sutfi-
Gent funds to provide for rescale I'M
| der all state timber contracts on
| which the statute of limitations has
not operated and to amend the laws
regulating the sales of state timber
| so as to establish more businesslike
| system in the timber department.
| M. w. Savage, millionaire Minneap-
| oils horseman. manufacturer and rail-
road promoter, died suddenly at Hill
crest hospital, Minneapolis. His death
came thirty-six hours after that of
Dan Patch, the worlds greatest PAGER
and the horse which founded Mr.. Saw.
! ages wealth. Between horse and man
! there had been the keenest friendship.
State Treasurer A. c. Gooding has
accepted the resignation of Edward l..
Erickson, for sixteen years connected
with the state treasurers office and
for the last six years first assistant
tate treasurer. Mr.. Gooding said that
the resignation was the aftermath of
Investigations made following the pee
ulations of former State Treasurer
Walter ]. Smith.
The amended petition of Charles l.
Sawyer and others, charging Thomas
Frankson with violating the corrupt
practices law and asking that he be
barred from the Republican nouina
ton for lieutenant governor, has been
served on Mr.. Frankson's attorneys
It contains mass Of items, aggregat
ing about $4,000, which Mr.. Frankson
is alleged to have spent
John A. Swenson. eighty-thr years
old. his face scanned by the lashiag
winds of the Far North. has returned
, to Hitterdal, this state, to visit rela
tives after an absence Of six years
A cyclone which swept Canada sew
, eral years ago was reported to havt
killed Swenson. but he escaped ani
went to the Far North, where be wan
dered within the Arctic circle. hunting
and trapping.