The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-16
ABOUT the STATE
News Of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Happenings Of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience of the
Busy Reader.

An "aeroplane" that alarmed Duluth
citizens was only toy balloon.
The State Bank of Stanton has been
incorporated with a capital stock Of
| $4,000.
The Winona county board has sold
to two Winona banks 100000 worth
Of good road bonds
Mrs. w. J. YAM, wife of the super.
lntendent of the state hospital for the
insane at Hastings, is dead.
w. J. Stevenson, assistant attorney
general, has resigned to accept a po-
sition with Wells, Dickey & Co., Min
neapolis brokers.
Charles w. bearing, who ran the
first locomotive over the stone arch
bridge at Minneapolis, is dead, aged
seventy-three years.
Charles Promo, eighty-six years old,
one of the earliest settlers OF St. Paul
and a former steamboat captain on
the Mississippi river, is dead.
The country near Northome is over
run with beavers and farmers are ask
ing permission to kill the animals
Beaver dams have caused several big
floods.
Bird Islands public school building
has been destroyed by fire with all it's
contents. Twenty below zero weather
hindered the work Of the firemen The
loss is $4,000.
President Wilson has sent to the
senate the name of Joseph A. Vessel
of Crookston for United States mar
shall for Minnesota. Early confirma-
ton is expected.
Warren Moritz, his son John, his
wife Kate and his daughter Mamie
were convicted of petty larceny in the
Minneapolis municipal court and sent
to the workhouse.
George Franklin, wealthy retired
farmer and resident of Mazeppa for
nearly fifty years, is dead He was
eighty'six years of age and is sur
vived by ten children.
The historic maui used near CARR
son, Mont, Sept. 8, 1888, to drive the
last spike completing the Northern Pa
cific railway has been presented to
the Minnesota Historical society.
The cost of construction work au-
thorized by the building department
Of the city of Duluth in February was
almost as large as the entire amount
authorized the first quarter of 1915.
Minnesota Socialists, in state con-
vention at Duluth, selected J. o. Ben
tall Of Litchfield for their candidate
for governor and Andrew Hanson of
Minneapolis for lieutenant governor
Cash in the state treasury to the
credit of state funds was $1,000,00O
greater on March than on the same
date year ago, according to the
monthly statement of State Treasurer
Gooding.
Voters Of consolidated district No.
30, which includes the city of Candy,
carried bonding issue by the deci-
sive vote of 1913 to 40. An addition
to cost $4,000 will be added to the
present structure.
Armin J. Bosshard of Meriden,
Steele county, has filed for the nomj-
nation for state senator for the Six
teenth district to succeed former Sen.
ator Eugene B. Collester, who died
about three months ago.
Mrs. Ada H. Wilson, wife of General
George P. Wilson, former attorney
general and state senator, is dead at
Minneapolis. Mrs. Wilson was seventy.
two years old and had been a resident
of Minneapolis since 1853
Red Lake county, the only remain
ing wet district in Northern Mime
sofa, remains so by majority of 279
out of 1885 votes cast in the special
option election just held there There
are seven saloons in the county.
J. A. Markert, former assistant city
and county assessor at St. Paul, was
fined $500 by Judge Dickson of the
Ramsey county district court for &C
cepting a $40 bribe for emitting a cit
liens personal property assessment.
Arson A. Pike, ninety-six years old,
the oldest Mason in the world, for
mer resident of Pipestone, this state,
is dead at Spokane, Wash Mr.. Pike
was the last survivor of General FIRE.
mont's army of conquest in Mexico.
Carl Gerstenmaier, former treasurer
of the German Lutheran Cemetery as
ISOLATION of st. Paul, pleaded guilty
in the Ramsey county district court
to an embezzlement charge and was
sentenced to the state prison at Still
water.
Two promotions were made in the
Office of A. H. Turrittin, superintend-
ent of banks, when D. B. Fuller of
Bemidji, assistant examiner, was made
an examiner, and George H. Sivright
Of Hutchinson was made an assistant
examiner.
Minnesota's oil inspection law was
upheld in a decision by Judge J. c.
Michael of the Ramsey county district