The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-30

IQro0 years OlQ, CnlluTou VI N1TS. Iud
Kangan, employed as cashier. in a
restaurant, were burned to death in
a fire at a rooming house in Mime
apolis.
A verdict of $4,000 in favor of
Christian N. Hellevik, section Ia
borer, against the Omaha road, was
held excessive by Judge Brill of the
Ramsey county district court and a
new trial was ordered.
James WertZ, for forty years an en-.
gineer on the Omaha road, was found
dead in the woodshed of his home at
Mankato. He was seventy-one years
of age and had been a resident Of
Mankato f1fty-two years.
Mrs. Alexander Henricksen is at Il
Duluth hospital with a dangerous
wound at the base of her skull, and
her husband has severe scalp wound
as the result of an encounter with
burglar in their home at Duluth.
Though divorced for fifteen years
Mrs. J. Curry has been declared the
legal widow of J. Curry, following the
vacation of the proceedings by the
district court of Stearns county on the
grounds of improper service.
V. R. Irwin and w. c. Handy were
nominated for mayor at the St. Paul
primary election. Winn Powers, the
present incumbent, was third in the
contest. Four of the six present COM
missioners were renominated.
Matthias La French, twenty-five
years old, accidentally shot and killed
himself while hunting near Luverne.
He attempted to crawl through wire
fence and the gun was discharged,
the load penetrating his breast.
Returns from local option elections
in thirty-flve Minnesota villages and
towns show a change of three villages
from the wet to dry column, while
once city (Owatonna) slipped from
prohibition and voted for saloons.
The Minnesota state prison could
sell more Irvine than it now manufac-
lures. according to the statement of
Frank Whittier, parole agent. The
plant will make 100000 pounds this
year, all of which has been sold.
Minnesota had 292 fires in Febru-
ary, with a total loss of 1854 CON-
pared with PIP fires and loss of
$330,004 for February, 1915. The bulk
of the loss was outside of the three
large cities Of Minneapolis, St. Paul
and Duluth
Mrs. Amiela Dudek of Minneapolis
pleaded not guilty in the Ramsey
county district court to the murder
of Rev. Father Jajeski, former pastor
Of St. Casimir's Polish Catholic church
at st. Paul. The woman's trial was
set for March q.
Minnesota will improve more than
5000 miles of road during the present
year at an average cost of $7,453, 451,
according to figures prepared by the
state highway commission. More than
1000 miles will be graveled and more
than 1000 graded.
Charles D. Etchison, principal wit
ness against Frederick T. Price, con-
victed wife murderer, will be set free,
according to George Armstrong, Hen
nepin county prosecutor. Etchison
was jointly indicted with Price for
the killing of Mrs. Price.
Four Damuth brothers have been
bound over to the June term of the
district court of Meeker county as a
sequel of fight at Kingston a few
weeks ago when Frank Nagel, but
termaker, was so beaten up that he
lost the sight of one eye.
Mrs. Salome B. Grimshaw, eighty
one years Of age, who was a pioneer
school teacher of Minneapolis, is dead
in the Mill City. AS teacher, churcn
worker and supporter of movements
for the community good she was
widely known to three generations of
citizens.
jeanette Hallam, the ine-year,old
daughter of Supreme Court Justice
Oscar Hallam, is dead at St. Paul as
the result of swallowing a dressing
pin ten days before. An operation
resulted in removing the obstruction,
but peritonitis set in and was the i'm
mediate cause of death.
Automobile robbers, apparently. tired
Of preying upon mere private citizens,
stole the automobile of Chief of Po-
lice Oscar Martinson of Minneapolis,
drove it about the city and abandoned
it at the Minneapolis end Of the Lake
street bridge, where it was not found
until thirty-six hours after the. theft.
For the fourth successive month the
Minnesota Transfer railway announces
the largest business in it's history.
Tonnage handled by the transfer in
February increased 44.6 per cent as
compared with February, 1915, and
constituted the largest traffic ever
handled by the transfer in any Feb
ruary.
Two prominent and pioneer resi-
dents Of st. Charles dropped dead
within the same hour. Mrs. Wilhel-
nina Stelleh, eighty-two years old,