The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-06-28

John B. SheQuin, 107 years old, is
dead at Balaton. His widow Is ninety
eight years of age. They were the
oldest couple in Minnesota and were
married seventy-eight years ago.
Albert c. Sertling of Frazee, this
state. who went to Wilton, N. D., sew
eral months ago, was killed by light
ming at the latter place. The bolt
burned his body almost to crisp.
Mrs. Emma H. Wilson of St. Paul
met death in an automobile accident
near Lake Minnetonka and her SON.
jured that his condition is considered
serious.
Money orders cashed in May by the
Minneapolis postofice showed an in
crease of 30 per cent in amount over
May, 1915. There were 114,044 orders
and the amount paid on them was
$672,S2374.
F. B. Lynch Of St. Paul was re-
elected national committeeman from
Minnesota by vote Of Is to 9. Six
votes were cast for Byron Mosier of
Saltwater and three for r. T. O'Con-
nor of st. Paul.
Lieutenant Colonel William Gerlach,
member of the United States army for
more than sixty years and reputed to
be the oldest regular soldier in the
United States, is dead at Minneapolis,
aged eighty years.
With snake tightly coiled about
her leg, Margaret Hewlett of Barnes.
vile, aged thirteen, maintained her
presence of mind and succeeded, by
the aid of her mother, in Kidding her
self of the serpent.
C. o. Kalman, of Kalman, Matteson
& Wood Of St. Paul, has purchased
the South Dakota Central railroad for
$925,00O and other considerations Mr..
Kalman will reorganize the company
and operate the road.
Ernest Vassar, burglar with
record and several sentences, is in Jail
at Duluth because Mrs. F. I. Salter,
wife of business man, got the drop
on him while he was helping himself
to valuables in her home.
AS she mounted a flight of stairs
leading to the office of physician she
had gone to Minneapolis to consult,
Mrs. Anna Skalbeck of Sacred Heart
dropped dead from heart disease. She
was sixty-three years of age.
Because war has advanced prices on
paper, and labor and other printing
items are higher also, the state must
pay 10 per cent higher for printing
this year than last, according to J. T.
Mannix, state expert printer.
John Parslow, territorial pioneer and
veteran of the Civil and Indian wars,
is dead at Minneapolis, aged eighty
years. He helped defend Hutchinson
against the Sioux and marched with
Sherman from Atlanta to the sea.
Organization of rural credits bank
to make farm loans in Minnesota was
advocated by Dean A. F. Woods of
the State Agricultural college in an
address before the All-Minnesota De-
velopment association at St. Paul.
William p Tearse, aged seventy-two
years, lumberman, banker and manu-
facturer, was found dead in the hail.
way of his home at Winona. He died
of heart disease just after returning
from call at the home of a neighbor.
A setting hen owned by J. J. Bren
nan of Biwabik has adopted three
baby rabbits. The hen will not allow
the mother of the rabbits to have any
thing to do with them. She spreads
her wings to cover the little s'1r COW
cred animals.
r. Fl. Hegener, for thirty-five years
identified with the BARRIERS supply
business in Minneapolis, was killed
instantly while operating an elevator
in his building in that city. His head
was crushed between the elevator and
the second floor
The seventh institution for the
treatment Of tuberculosis has just
been opened under state aid at Crook
ston. This sanitorium, called Sunny
crest, can accommodate twenty-six pa
tents and was built jointly by Polk
and Norman counties.
The skeleton of a tall man was un-
earthed close to the Minnesota river,
above the mouth of the Blue Earth, by
the washing OF the river. 1t is thought
to be that of one of the early French
voyagers who established fort at the
juncture of the two rivers more than
two hundred years ago.
George Bissett and Ed Leonard, who
| pleaded guilty to robbing the federal
building at St. Paul on Jan. 6, were
| sentenced to federal prison at Leav.
enworth, Kan, for three years and
! four months. There were $577,359.6 sc
worth of stamps taken in the robbery
and $3,O34.4O in cash. Stamps worth
$544,97O.65 were later recovered.
Henry Buck, one of the pioneers of
| Minnesota and now a resident of Ls
Sueur, presented to Governor Burn
quist bullet from one of the old Rus
sian muskets used by the early set
tiers of LIE Sueur in defending them