The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-01-20
STATE NEWS BITS.
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Happenings Of the Week
in Minnesota.
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Bandits held up the Ideal laundry
at Minneapolis and secured 5000.
Thousands of Minnesotans passed
the bier containing the remains of the
late Governor Hammond as they lay
in state at the capitol at St. Paul on
Saturday evening and all day Sunday.
The balance of cash on hand at the
office of the state treasurer on Dec. 81
was $1,46S,S1S.84. The revenue fund
is overdrawn by $260,929.29. The
other funds are in healthy condition.
I. M. Kalnes of Starbuck, prohibit
ton editor, announces that he will file
the name of William Suffer- deposed
governor of New York, on the Mime
sofa primary ballot as prohibition can
didate for president.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Howe, who were
fatally burned by gasoline explosions
at their farm home west of Albert
Lea, died at about the same hour after
suffering terribly for several days. A
double funeral was held.
George G. Dow, one of the best
known passenger conductors in the
Northwest, is dead at the Northern
Pacific hospital at Brainerd. Mr.. Dow,
whose home was in St. Paul, was
seventy-three years of age.
Thomas P. Dryer, a Minneapolis
blacksmith, has filed for the Demo-
cratic nomination for governor on the
Democratic ticket. He ran for con-
gress in 1910 and came near winning
ever Congressman Frank Nye.
The Minnesota Crop Improvement
association will hold it's annual meet
ing and seed show at Worthington
Feb. 1913. Governor Hammond and
President Vincent of the state univer-
sity will be among the speakers.
Mrs. Frances Ellen Hare, almost
los years old, one of St. Paul's pio-
neer women, is dead at Astoria, Ore.
Mrs. Hare was born at Winchester,
Va, Feb. S, 1911, was married in ohio
in 1927 and came to Minnesota in
1854.
A decided decrease in the birth rate
in Winona for 1915 is shown in the
vital statistics just published. Births
for 1915 were 372, as compared with
ATS last year. Six hundred and two
marriage licenses were issued, which
breaks all Winona county records.
-Four children born in one year is
the unique record held by Mr.. and
Mrs. Math Patrias of Holdingford,
Stearns county. Jan. 5, 1915, Mr.. and
Mrs. Patrias became the parents of a
daughter and on Christmas day three
little girls were born at the Patrias
home.
Four girl operators in the Harriet
exchange of the Tri-State Telephone
company at Minneapolis remained on
duty while fremen fought a blaze on
the floor below them. The fire finally
ate it's way to the stairway and the
girls were carried down ladders to
safety by firemen.
Oscar Larson, twelve-year-old boy
of Viking, Marshall county, won the
potato growing contest of the North
ern Minnesota Development associa-
ton and made a record for potato
growing by boys at the same time. He
grew 752s bushels of potatoes upon
one-eighth of an acre.
Mrs. Ida Savage, daughter of E. A.
Hagen of Stewartville, was burned to
death, William Hagen, eight years
old, and George Hagen, six years old,
we're severely injured and the home
of the family destroyed by a fire that
resulted when Mrs. Savage poured
kerosene oil into the cook stove.
Thomas L. Shevlin, thirty-three
years old, star athlete, wealthy lum-
herman and business man, is dead of
pneumonia at his home in Minneapo-
lis after brief illness. His sickness
developed from a cold contracted
while he was assisting in coaching
the Yale football team several weeks
ago.
An order to place on the 1915 tax
rolls stocks, bonds and credit advance
ments, the property of seven railroads
in Minnesota, which assessment, il
paid, will enrich the Ramsey county
treasury $5,218,902 and three other
counties in much less amounts, has
been issued to the county auditors by
the state tax commission.
Martin Nelson, ninety years old.
father Of o. M. Nelson, vice presi.
dent of the First National bank of
st. Paul, is dead. Mr.. Nelson was
born in Denmark and came to St. Paul
In 1852. He was an attache of the
state supreme court for many years.
Cyrus F. Redlon, seventy-fve years
old, is dead at Minneapolis. Born in
Boston, he came to Rockford, this
state, with his parents in 1856. He
had lived in Minneapolis since 1867.
He was member Of the G. A. r. and
tho Loyal Legion.