The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-10-25
ABOUT The STATE
News Of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Happenings Of the Week Briefly Told
for tho Convenience Of the
Busy Reader.

Michael Coffey, a pioneer farmer OF
Rosemount, is dead, aged ffty.eight.
The states fire loss for May totaled
$55S,52S. A year ago the May loss
was $549,523.
Nearly 1000 delegates attended the
sessions of the grand lodge. !. o. O.
F., at st. Paul.
More than 1900 persons attended
the Olmsted county community pic
mic at Rochester.
The summer term of the state nor
NAL school at Mankato opened with
$50 students enrolled.
Oscar Skoog, the cartoonist of the
st. Paul police force, is dead. He was
forty-nine years OF age.
Gustave Sundquist of Minneapolis
was drowned when his boat was upset
while fishing in Lake Minnetonka.
Nels sandquist, car repalrer, wa,
crushed to death between freight cars
IN the Omaha yards at Mankato.
Mrs. Catherine c. Lofstdt, pioneer
Of Minneapolis, is dead. She reached
tho Mill City from Sweden in 1S49.
F. A. Krch, aged seventy-hve, Civil
war veteran and once prominent in
Ramsey county politics, IL dead at st.
Paul.
Martin, ffteen-year-old son of Ole
Johnson Of Kasota, was fatally injured
by tho explosion Of gunpowder in his
pocket.
Teaching 4 friend how to swim cost
the life Of Ben Arnold Of Brainerd at
Clark lake. His companion struggled
to safety.
Mrs. Mariah A. Bear Is dead at
Eysta, aged Lightweight years. She
had lived in that section since the
carly hfties.
Tho Minnesota Baptist summer. as
sembly will hold its eighteenth an:
nual meeting at Mound, Lake Mime
tonka. July 20 to 30.
Mrs. Margaret T. Heating is dead
on Z farm near Kellogg taken up as 4
homestead sixty years ago. She wss
eighty.one years of age.
Frank 8. Williams, president of the
Central State bank of Minneapolis
died suddenly 1T his home in that
city. He was sixty-one years of age
e. C.. Stringer, prominent St. Paul
attorney and former United States
district attorney for Minnesota, Is
dead. He was sixty-four years of age.
Mrs. Elsie Warner, formerly nurse
at the Minneapolis city hospital, died
at her home at Candy from burns re-
ceivsd while cleaning clothes with
gasoline.
Rev. William F. Trussell and his
four-year-old daughter Marjorie were
drowned in Elm creek small stream
that flows past the Trussen home at
Champlin.
Albert e. Nelson, a member Of Com
pany H, Second Minnesota cavalry,
during the Indian outbreak, is dead
at Mankato, whore he had resided for
many years.
J. M. Davis, formerly division ST.
perintendent Of the Great Northern at
Breckenridge, has been promoted to
vice president of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad.
John Grommissch was nearly killed
when his auto overturned near Barnes
Vile. William Tully also was badly
hurt. The car hurtled into a ditch
and turned over.
James Lawthe1, Red Wing capital.
ist. whose henefastions public and pri-
vate have boea many, is dead at his
estate in Ireland He was reputed to
be worth more than $1,000 900, hav-
Ing become wealthy through Invest
mont in Red Wing and Goodhue coun-
ty realty. He had crossed the ocean
fifty times, but has resided in Ireland
since 1911.
The strike Of teaAters at Minneapo-
liz ID assuming serious proportions
Practically every kind OF hauling 10
pAra1yzed. Hospitals, hotels, whole
sale and retail merchants and commits
sion men are forced to do their own
hauling. Retailers are forced to use
private automobiles, push carts and
other improvised vehicles to serve
their customers.
A plea for tie voluntary exclusion
from Minnesota Of importations Of
white pine, currant and goosebsrry
paintings from other states has been
directed to all Minnesota nurserymen
by F. l.. Washburn. state entomolo-
gist. The reason 10 the menace Of the
white pine blister, prevalent In some
sections of the country but 10 far OK.
tremely rare in this state.