New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-04-12
ABOUT THE STATE
News Of Especial Interest to
! Minnesota Readers.
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happenings of the Week Briefly Told
FOR The Convenience Of tire
Busy Reader.

VETS carried Sleepy Eye by: a ma
Jor1ty of 125.
Manford Horn, Appleton business
imam, is dead.
Michael Hoffman, a retired Hastings
merchant, is dead.
A. N. Thompson, aged sixty, former
mayor Of Virginia, is dead.
Ninth district bankers will meet at
Thief River Falls on May 16.
Pope county will mold a semi-centen-
rn$al and Homecoming" week about the
middle Of June.
Patrick McDonough, an early settler
of Kellogg, is dead. He was ninety
eight years old.
Mrs. Kate Tyler" one of the pioneer
settlers of Appleton, is dead at the
age of seventy7sdx.
Leonard Ericsson was elected mayor
of Fergus Falls~over John L. Townley
by thirteen votes.
The State Bank of Stanton has been
incorporated. Tine new institution has
"A capital stockrof $4,000.
Bankers of the First congressional
'district will meet in annual CONVEX
ition at Winonac on May 10.
w. C. Briggs has been elected mayor
OF 'Pfpestone. The town went dry by
:a~majority> of seventy-nine.
Mrs. Ann Downs Langan, seventy
eight years of~Hge, resident of Min
,neapolis for fifty years, is dead.
DR.. w. M. Cory has been elected
mayer of WatervIlle. The town re-
mains wet by "a majority of sixty
sthree.
1.-The city of Mankato has awarded a
contract" for the construction of new
concrete bridge across the Minnesota
river to cost $S4,999.
"A captain and ten men have been
appointed in each precinct of the city
OF Duluth to obtain signatures for a
local option election.
E. r. 'Tuttle, Repubk can, has been
elected mayor of Hastings. Fifteen
lby sixty-four majority.
Congressman Charles u. Lindbergh
of Little Falls has announced his can
ts4idacy for United States senator to
succeed Moses e.. Clapp.
John Bergerman, sixty years old, a
painter, was burned to death in fire
which destroyed a house at : Pine Is
land village near Red Wing.
Kid Scully, accused vice maastor of
sixteen-year-old giHl, was found
guilty by Minneapolis jury. The
girl In the case is minister's daugh-
ter.
George w. Naah, Civil Svar veteran
lAnd resident of Minneapolis si1ce
1881, is dead at the State Soldiers
home. He was ,eighty-three years OF
age.
Mrs. John Gassett of :WasiSja COM
mitted suicide by drinking earbolic
acid at the Unien hotel at Austia She
left note saying life has been a great
burden.
While excavating for a new build-
Ing in the heart of 6he city of Fergus
Falls workmen discovered a vein OF
natural gas. The gas when lighted
burns freely.
F. A. Hinze, assistant state bank
examiner. with headquarters at Man
kato, has resigned to become vice
president of the First National bank
of st. Cloud
AT the beginning of the new quat-
ter on April 1 State Treasurer Good,
ing reported cash balance Of So
1911 ,325.08, compared with 1851 ,967-
81 a year ago.
Guy V. Howard of Minneapolis
has been notified Of his appointment
as first assistant sergeant-at-arms Of
the Republican national convention at
chicago June 7.
Owatonna will license eight saloons
to run from April IS until July 1 at
$500 each. At the end of that time it
is proposed to raise the license fee
to $4,000 or more.
DR.. w. r. Kirkwood, former pastor
and pioneer instructor at Manchester
college, st. Paul, is dead at the home
of his son in Montana. He was sew
enty-nine years old.
James B. Hunt, pioneer of Minneap-
oils, is dead at La Jolla, CAL, at the
age of forty-five years. He is survived
by twelve children, all of whom were
born in Minneapolis.
Frederick E. Johnson of New Eng
land, N. D., pleaded guilty to bigamy
before Judge Nye at Moorhead and
was sentenced to from one to five
years in the state prison.
William C. Downey, manager of So.
rensons Shoe Stores, St. Paul, is dead
at the St. Paul city hospital as the re-
suit of injuries suffered when a tax
icab and street car collided..
William Bofferding, aged eighty-nine
years, a resident of Minneapolis and
vicinity for tifty-nine years, is dead.
He was born in Luxembourg in 1927