New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-08-30

St''-'"Ao uuIlllE IIC DleIl1ldl usual pc
Rod just ended, principally through
proceeds of sales Of timber, minerals
and agricultural lands.
The Saltwater state prison has just
finished the greatest industrial year
III It's history, breaking all records in
the manufacture of binding Irvine and
farm machinery, with total output and
sales aggregating $2,750,0OO.
Carl Erickson, thirteen years old, Of
Minneapolis, climbed a pole near the
Minneapolis city limits carrying the
main current for the General Electric
company, touched the wires and
dropped to the ground dead a
Clay county farmers own more au
tomobiles than do the city folk, &C
cordlng to the report OF County Audi
tor Houglum to the tax commission
VI the 673 cars owned in the county
57.2 per cent belong to the rural sec
tons.
The Tri-County fair, scheduled to
be held at Winona Aug. 20 to Sept l.
has been postponed Indefinitely be-
cause of the prevalence Of sickness
and the demands of harvesting. The
exposition probably will be held later
in the fall.
Miss Rosette Hendrix of Minneapo-
lis was reelected president of the
Minnesota Woman's Christian Tenn
,perance union at the annual conven-
ton at Owatonna. With but one ex-
ception other executive officers also
were reelected.
In the presence of hundreds of per-
sons Mrs. Hazel Nelson balanced her
self on the rail of the stone arch
bridge at Minneapolis and leaped into
the Mississippi river. She was res
cued by Howard Hutchins, who was
working nearby
Mrs: E. w. keenan,, thirty-four
years old, and William Vogelsang,
twenty-five years old. are at the St.
Paul city hospital suffering from gun
shot wounds inflicted by Vogelsang.
The shooting resulted from jealousy,
according to the police.
Governor Burnquist has requested
Andrew E. Fritz, state public exam
liner, to prepare budget forms for the
use of departments in submitting to
the next legislature estimates Of
maintenance, operation and other ex-
penses for the next biennial period.
Mrs. Frank Fielmeyer, thirty-three
years old, was drowned when the au-
tomobile in which she was riding with
her husband and four small children
ran OF the grade near Morgan and
turned over in a ditch filled with wa
ter. She was pinioned under the car.
Nearly 21,00O,0OO was raised for
public schools, state university and
normal school purposes in Minnesota
during the past year. or the grand
total about $18,900,00O was collected
in taxes and the remainder was in
come revenue from school and swamp
lands.
Republican managers of Minnesota
have decided on short fall campaign.
The executive committee Of the Re-
publican state committee. at q meet
ing in the Office of Secretary of State
Schmahl, voted to open headquarters
in the St. Francis hotel at st. Paul on
Sept. Is.
A voluntary increase of cents an
hour, with additional pay for the in
term between their arrival at the
barns and the time they start their
runs, to become effective Oct. 1, was
announced to approximately 1000 mo-
tormen and conductors of the Twin
City Rapid Transit company.
Minnesota, with an annual potato
crop of 36,OOO,OOO bushels and which
last year led all other states of the
Union in the harvest of the tubers,
will fall far short of it's mark this
year. This prediction is based on the
shortage of the early crop and the
present condition of the late crop.
Minnesota now has one automobile
for each nineteen of the population.
At the beginning of the year the ratio
was one to each twenty-five of popu-
lation. Of the total 136,70O cars IL
censed by the state $500 are trucks.
Minnesota ranks twentieth in popu-
lation and eighth in the number of
cars owned.
The state board of grain appeals,
assembled at Duluth to determine the
grades of wheat and other small
grains for the season, decided to elm
mate the rejected grade of spring
wheat. Wheat that would have been
accorded that marking in the past in
the future will be thrown into the
sample grade.
By a settlement reached between
the state of Minnesota, represented by
Attorney General l.. A. Smith, and the
heirs of Frederick Weyerhaeuser Of
St. Paul, the largest estate that ever
has contributed to the state treasury
under the Inheritance tax law was
closed up. The heirs are to pay in
$4,000 in addition to what was paid
IN tho nrohofo court opnroiso1 ~oL