New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-08-16
News Of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
happenings Of tho Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience Of the
Busy Reader.

Samuel Brant. veteran St. Paul pol.
1tician, is dead, aged seventy six
years.
John Hill, aged fifty-flve, lost his
life at Eden Valley when his automo-
bile turned turtle.
Armour & Co will spend more than
100000 in the construction of it's
South St. Paul plant.
Mrs. Charles A. Sachse, eighty-three
years old, is dead at St. Paul, where
she had resided since 1856.
Nikolas Tchida, five years old, fell
into a water trough at the home of
his parents near St. Paul and drowned
in eighteen inches Of water.
Miners on the Guyana range have
decided against strike by vote OF
704 to So. Those favoring walkout
do not include the $50 miners already
out.
Rev. c. J. Hockey Of Minneapolis
was elected president of the Luther
League of Minnesota at the seven.
teenth annual convention at Lind.
strom.
Peter Faber, for years prominent
farm implement dealer of Minneapo.
lis, is dead Mr. Faber was born in
Chicago in 1857 and came to Mime
sofa in 1861.
J. J. Farrell. state dairy commits.
sioner, was elected president of the
American Association of Dairy, Food
and Drug Officials at the annual meet.
ing in Detroit.
Three municipal Fairgrounds have
been closed at Wfnona as q result OF
the incipient epidemic OF tnfantile par.
alysis, which has claimed It's fifth vic
tim in that city.
Martin WEIGH, seventy-fve years
old, was almost instantly killed at St..
Paul when the pull ON a guy wire of
a derrick uprooted small tree under
which he was standing. ..r.. ...
State aid for $50 high schools and
241 graded schools totahng $1,191,6s4
for the year ending July 81. 1916, was
voted by the state high school board
at meeting at st. Paul.
C. R. Sievers Of Minneapolis was
elected grand sachem of the Great
Council of Minnesota. Improved Order
of Red Men, at the twenty.second an.
nual session at Minneapolis.
The midsummer meeting of the Sec.
ond District Editorial association was
held at Redwood Falls. About forty
editors, several of whom we're accom-.
panied by their wives, were in attend.
ance
Cooperation between merchants OF
small and large communities to fight
retail order houses was urged by
speakers at the convention of the Min.
nesota Retail Clothers' association at
Duluth.
William Hilbert, sales manager of a
Minneapolis cement company, is dead
from injuries sustained when an auto.
mobile he was driving collided with a
street car in the business district of
the Mill City.
DR.. H. M Bracken, state health com.
missioner, will attend a conference of
the federal public health service in
Washington Aug. II, called to discuss
means for preventing the spread of
infantile paralysis.
In strike riot at Virginia Alice Ar.
cola is alleged to have bitten Patrol
man Fred Kiah ON his right hand. She
was arrested, found guilty and or.
dered to pay fine of $102.50 or serve
sixty days in the county Jail.
Five per cent increase In the popu.
lation of state institutions for the care
of insane during the past year is re-
ported to the state board of control
Patients of the state insane hospitals
and asylums now number 5,732. an in
crease of 264.
At a meeting in the office of w. P.
Prickett, director Of the Minneapolis
Traffic association. five commercial or.
CARNATIONS of the Twin Cities decided
to file protest against the increase
In rates announced on shipments from
the Pacific slope.
Republican managers of Minnesota
have decided on short fall campaign.
The executive committee of the Re-
publican state committee, at a meet.
ing in the Office Of Secretary Of State
Schmahl, voted to open headquarters
in St. Paul on Sept Is.
J. R. Johnson Of Colbyville, this
state, who broke his neck two weeks
ago, has been discharged from a Du.
luth hospital as virtually cured. John.
son was thrown from q load of hay,
sustaining what was termed com
plete fracture of the neck.
John S. Riley, sixty-six years old,
foreman Of the bridge and carpenter
department of the Chicago, Milwaukee
and st. Paul shops at Minneapolis and
for forty-two years identified with that
road, died suddenly In the Mill City
after an attack of heart trouble.
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