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

An electrical storm, accompanied by
a high wind, swept over the north
western part of Rock county, demol-
ishing barns and moving silos from
their foundations.
While attending her usual house
hold duties Mrs. Nicholas Johnson of
Pelican Rapids was suddenly stricken
blind. Physicians have been unable
to relieve the trouble.
More than $4,000 will be spent on
good roads work in Clay county this
year by the individual townships.
aside from the amount to be spent by
the county and state.
John w. Olsen, state superintendent
of public instruction from 1901 to
1909, now in the land business in Min
neapolis, has filed as candidate for
the Mill City school board.
A score of street car passengers
barely escaped death or serious injury
at Duluth when steam shovel struck
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and smashing half the seats.
Swan lake, Nicollet county, famous
hunting resort, is to be drained into
Minnesota river, reclaiming 10000
acres of land which will be divided
among farmers owning abutting prop.
erty.
At special election Staples voted
$4,000 toward the erection of new
high school building to take the place
Of the one recently destroyed by fire
The new structure will cost about
$4,000.
Louis Naatz, a weslthy farmer OF
Utica, Winona county, jailed at WI
mona for intoxication, committed sui
side in his cell in the city jail by
hanging.
The advance registration for the
summer school of the Crookston
School OF Agriculture is close to 100.
the largest on record, with more com.
ing in daily.
About $50 men employed in the st
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strike for an increase of wages. The
miners at Fowler also quit work to
enforce like demand.
The ore docks at the American
Head of the Lakes entered the third
month of the shipping season with a
lead Of 2,689,286 tons over the ship.
ping season Of last year.
The state of Minnesota will collect
July l on loans to counties, municipal
tiles and school districts of the state
S1,540,985.22. of which $842,27656 is
principal and 69S,708.66 is interest.
The United States Steel corporation
Minnesota's largest single taxpayer,
paid the first half Of the 1916 tax or
its St. Louis county real estate ho:d.
ings by checks totaling $2,290,614.06.
An Omaha passenger train, north
bound, was derailed near Kasota. The
engine and entire train left the track
and tipped over after rounding a
curve, but no one was seriously In.
tured
The rapid development of manufac-
turing in Minnesota during the five.
year period between 1909 and 1914 is
shown in a bulletin issued by the fed.
eral census bureau. The value of
products was $493,354, 900 in 1914, as
compared to $409,420,000 in 1909, a
gain of $83,934, 900, or 20.5 per cent.
The average for each plant was $685.
900 in 1914 and $4,000 in 1909.
The assessment of income tax, both
corporation and individual, this year
is $729,897.85 mere than that made on
1914 incomes in Minnesota. The total
assessment on 1915 incomes in the
state is $2,511,561.95, of which $685.
455.46 is on corporation incomes and
1923, 106.49 on individual incomes. On
1914 incomes the corporation tax was
$1.19s,714.7S and the individual income
tax assessment $58r,949.32.