The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-10-11

Products made in St. Paul increased
in value more than $10,00O,000 in the
f1ve-year period between 1909 and
1914. The United States department OF
commerce announced an increase OF
$15,543, 900 in capital and 1884, 900 in
wages.
The Minnesota Red River Valley De-
velopment association, the Red River
Valley Live Stock Breeding associa.
ton and the Minnesota Live Stock
Breeders association will hold their
conventions at Detroit on June Is, 16
and II.
DR.. Charles w. Wheaton, prominent
st. Paul surgeon, is dead, aged sixty
three. For many years DR.. Wheaton
taught didactic surgery at the Univer-
sity of Minnesota and was professor
emeritus Of surgery there at the time
of DEATH
William Cook, owner of the steame,
Mudhen, accused by United States Off
GERS of running floating bar on Red
lake, pleaded guilty in federal court at
Fergus Falls and was sentenced tc
five months in the county jail at Be.
midji and to pay fine Of $500.
Governor Burnquist has appointed
Judge William L. Parsons of Fergus
Falls to hear the appeal of the Great
Northern railway from an order of
the railroad and warehouse commits
sion requiring the company to run a
night train from Browns Valley to
Morris.
Two indictments charging ]. A..
Weare, night captain of police at Min
neapolis, with accepting two brides Of
500 each from Arthur Rowe, formerly
one Of the proprietors of a chain Of
vicious hotels in the Mill City, have
been returned by the Hennepin county
grand jury.
Gundborg Sund, a sixteen-year-old
Minneapolis girl, was struck in the
head by a bullet fired through a win
dow at her home. A rejected boy ad-
mirer has been arrested on complaint
Of the girls father charged with the
shooting. 1t is feared the wound may
prove fatal.
Vivian R. Irwin was elected mayor
Of St. Paul over Major w. G.. Handy
by majority of 5000. Jesse Foot was
chosen city comptroller Messrs Kel-
Ter, Goss, Farnsworth and McColl
were reelected city commissioners and
John D. Hyland and Albert Wunderlich
replace two former members.
Anton, five-year-old son of Jacob
Korpi, manager of the Tower Mercan-
tile company, was fatally crushed
when All automobile owned and driven
by Charles Lundstrom of Virginia ran
amuck. George, five-year-old son OF
Alderman Albert Wienzirl, also was
seriously crushed in trying to save
his playmate.
Robert G.. Wiley, eighty-nine years
old, a Minnesota pioneer, is dead at
Los Angeles, CAL Mr.. Wiley was born
in New York in 1927 and came to Min
nesota in 1853, stalking out claim on
the shores of Lake Minnetonka, near
the present site of Excelsior. He re-
moved to st. Paul in 1870, although
he worked there earlier as a carpen-
ter, being employed on the erection OF
the first state capitol. He was a mem
Der of the legislature in 1878.
Governor J. A. A. Burnquist has is.
sued proclamation calling upon the
mayor in every city and town in the
state to appoint committee of one
or more to solicit and collect funds
for the Minnesota national guard regi-
ments, the collections thus made to
be forwarded to A. c. Gooding, state
treasurer, who> will turn the money
over to committee of five which IL
to be appointed by the governor. This
committee will distribute the collec.
lions among the companies and regt
ments as required.