New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-06-14
News Of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Happenings Of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience of the
Busy Reader.

Two girls from the country districts
won the bread baking contest in Clay
county.
Henry Wagner, residing near kei-
logg, is dead. He was born in Lux
emburg in 1920.
Rudolph Vetter, aged twenty enc, a
student at Concordia college, st. Paul,
dropped dead while playing ball.
Mrs. Thelma Hegdahl, forty years
old, magnetic healer, committed sui
eide at her home in Minneapolis by
hanging. ...
Plans for the second annual COM
munity picnic of Crow Wing county
are complete. The event will take
place July IA.
James H. Mcclure, one of the best
known railroad and bridge contractors
in the Northwest, is dead at St. Paul.
aged seventy-four years.,
The annual conference of the Ger
man Evangelical church for Mime
sofa, North and South Dakota will be
held at Fairmont shortly.
Henry C. Mase, twenty-five years
old, hanged himself in his room at
Minneapolis. Dependency over ill
health is given as the reason.
Failing health is causing District
Judge Nathan Kingsley of Austin to
resign. Judge Kingsley has been on
the district bench since 1890.
Lyman Robinson, aged seventy-three
years, a Mankato city park employe.
was severely bitten and clawed by a
bear in the zoo at Sibley park.
The miners at the Weed mine of
the Oliver Mining company at Aurora
have joined the other strikers in that
vicinity. One thousand men are now
out.
Farmers of Clay county will hold
their annual picnic at Glyndon June
Fl. It will be under the direction OF
the Clay County Federation of Farm
Clubs.
l.. Benshoof of Detroit was elected
commander at the thirty-second an
nual encampment in Minneapolis OF
the Minnesota division of the Sons OF
Veterans.
Otto Langfelt was killed and Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Miller were injured
when an automobile turned somer
sault near Luverne. The machine was
not damaged.
Six members of youthful st. Cloud
gang known as the "The Bloody
Dozen," have been sentenced by the
court to spend the summer working
on farms in that vicinity.
Dean Francis G. she9ehon of the
college of engineering, University OF
Minnesota, has resigned, effective on
May l, 1917. Dean Shenehon had been
head Of the college for seven years.
Three children of ". H. Swain
seven miles north Of Pillager, ate a
quantity of toadstools in mistake for
mushrooms. Teddy, four years old
is dead and two older children are
dying.
The forty-second commencement at
st. Olaf college at Mortified came to
close with the comforting of the de.
grees of bachelor of arts on 129 stu.
dents, the largest graduating class in
it's history.
Attacked by the same disease which
brought death to his twelve-year-old
son at Winona, Elisa Hemstad, a Nor.
wegian immigrant, lies in serious
condition at Redfield, S. D., with spinal
meningitis.
The lower house of congress has
passed bill authorizing the county
commissioners of Aitkin county and
the town board of Logan township,
to construct a bridge across the Mis-
sissippi river.
A committee of the board of regents
of the state university has reported
in opposition to the proposal that the
st. Paul College of Law be consoli-
dated with the University of Mime
sofa law school.
In the case of Joe Leslie Bush, pro-
fessional baseball pitcher, sued at
Brainerd by the administrator of the
OSSS@SS
dentally killed by Bushs automobile.
the jury disagreed.
Granville S. Pease, dean of Mime
sofa country editors, celebrated his
fiftieth year as publisher of the Anoka
Union by issuing a Gold Anniversary
number. Mr.. Pease entered the news
paper business at Anoka April 2, 1866.
The Moose lodge of Moorhead was
found guilty of violating the county
option law. Members of the lodse tes-
tilted that they obtained liquor by p1r-
chasing a card which the steward
punched whenever he served drink.
Conscience caused farmer to send
to the Acoma and Lynn Fire Insur-
ance association of Hutchinson
check for $1,000 and note for $500
20 cover insurance money he received
after burning buildings.
The sixty-fonr fraternal ASSOCIATIONS
doing business in Minnesota collected