New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-05-31
News Of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
happenings Of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience Of the
Busy Reader.

William Candy, pioneer st. Paul real
estate dealer, is dead.
= Theodore Rohland, eighty-six years
old, resident of st. Paul for nearly
fifty years, Is dead.
Edward Long, aged eighty, who had
lived In Minnesota sixty-two years, is
dead at White Bear.
By 6l2 to II Rochester voted in ia
vor of $4,000 bond issue for the
purchase Of the city waterworks.
William McVeigh. aged seventy
seven, pioneer business man of Min
neapolfs and a resident of that city
/since 1856, is dead.
The Commercial club of Madelia has
started movement for the erection
of a community building as an addi-
ton to the fire station.
Mayor Wallace G. Nye Of Minneap-
oils has filed for denomination and
election to third term. Nine candi-
dates are now in the field.
Cracksmen blew the safe in the
postoflce at Winsted, wrecked the in
terror Of the building and escaped with
500 in cash and $500 in stamps.
D. ]. Sullivan, aged seventy.three,
a resident of st. Paul for fifty years
and yardmaster for the Great North
.ern railroad forty years, is dead.
NJ c. Olson of Montevideo sold
eighteen steers at South St. Paul for
1915 per 100 pounds. The price was
a record for beef at that market.
The worst flood ever known on the
Rainy river is inundating state lands
and threatening several cities on the
boundary line between Minnesota and
Canada.
y Rein Nelson, pioneer of Wilton
township, Waseca county. committed
suicide by shooting. He was seventy
nine years of age and was veteran
of the Civil war.
An electrical storm. accompanied by
high wind. swept over the north
western part of Rock county, demol-
ishing barns and moving silos from
their foundations.
While attending her usual house
hold duties Mrs. Nicholas Johnson of
Pelican Rapids was suddenly stricken
blind Physicians have been unable
to relieve the trouble.
More than $4,000 will be spent on
good roads work in Clay county this
year by the Individual townships,
aside from the amount to be spent by
the county and state.
John w. Olsen, state superintendent
of public instruction from 1901 to
1909, now in the land business in Min
8neapOlis, has fled as a candidate for
the Mill City school board.
A score of street car passengers
/Darely escaped death or serious injury
at Duluth when steam shovel struck
the car, tearing out the entire side
and smashing half the seats.
Swan lake, Nicollet county, famous
hunting resort, is to be drained into
Minnesota river, retaining 10000
acres of land, which will be divided
among farmers owning abutting prop
erty.
At special election Staples voted
$4,000 toward the erection of a new
high school building to take the place
of the one recently destroyed by fire.
The new structure will cost about
$4,000.
At joint meeting of the Owatonna
Automobile club, the Owatonna Com
mercial club and the Owatonna $685.
Day Road club the Steele County JEFF
ferson Highway association was
formed.
Expenditures of S2S0,OOO will be rec
commended to the next legislature by
the state board of control for new
buildings and improvements at the
state school for the feeble minded at
Faribault.
Walter w. Wilkins, lifelong Repub-
\1ican, veteran of the Civil war, for
forty-fve years resident of Becker
county and for fourteen years Judge
of probate, is dead at Detroit, aged
seventy-three
Mother Alexia Kerst, sixty years
old, superior of the Benedictine sisters
at Duluth and for many years in &C.
tive work in the Northwest, is dead at
Duluth. Mother Alexia was born in
81. raul III 1oOO.
Ellen Martinson, defense witness in
the first trial of j. w. Bragdon, Min
neapolis clubman, accused of offenses
against young girls, has been indicted
by the Hennepin county grand jury
on a perjury charge.
w. T. Mollison of Faribault has
been elected colonel of the Second
regiment, Minnesota national guard,
to succeed Colonel John Buschers of
New Ulm, who leaves the guard after
thirty years of service.
Proposed legislation for deciding to
the state of Minnesota the unsurveyed
lands in Minnesota lakes and rivers
for forestry and park purposes has
been unfavorably reported upon by
Secretary of the Interior Lane.
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