New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-02-02
BRIEF NEW s ITEMS In NORTH DAKOTA |
Events Throughout North Dakota
ConclseIy Related. .:.>:

Conels|e|y Related. !: J.
=. Henry He'll of He'll, nominated by
the Republican state central commit
tee at Fargo recently for delegate to
the national convention, has been dead
for six months. = -, - =. p. g.: =
Edward Campbell was acquitted at
Grand Forks of Staying Stefan Hres-
ka, who was killed several months
ago during a drunken row. The jury:
was out four hours.
Fargo will be called on to aid those
who lost heavily in the S30,000,000
fires In the cities of Bergen and Molde,
Norway. The Fargo Morse society, at
a meeting, decided to aid the sufferers.
A committee has been named to solicit
aid.
Bank deposits at Williston increas-
ed approximately 20 per cent during
the past year, according to reports Of
the several financial institutions. The
increase in deposits is approximately
100000, or per capita increase of
$40. - .''.>>. -:
James Crawford of Cavalier, about
fifty years old, shot and killed him
self, discharging both barrels of a
shotgun into his stomach. Eleven
children and a widow survive the
tragedy, which was brought on through
melancholy. -, ',..
John Bruegger, national committee
man for the Democratic party in North
Dakota, is a candidate for reelection.
Democrats of Williams and Williston
counties have formed Bruegger club
and will champion his candidacy
throughout the state. =:
Michael J.; Lally, a. pioneer of Stark
county, is dead. He was eighty-seven
years old. He was born in Ireland and
came to America fifty-two years ago
and to Stark county thirty-six years
ago. He formerly was proprietor of
the South st. Paul hotel.
James Dinnie, mayor of Grand
Forks, and A. G. Sorlie, who opposed
him tnsuccessfully in the last city
election, will face each other again in
the approaching city campaign. For
NAL announcement Of Mr.. Sorlie's can
didacy has just been made.
Fire destroyed the E. Magofin gen.
eral merchandise store at Monango
The loss is $4,000, partially covered
by insurance. Plate glass was broken
in the Farmers bank across the
street, but the fire was confined to
the one building, frame structure.
For a county that has only had rail-
road facilities few months, and
which is one of the newest in North
Dakota, Mercer is in a class by itself,
financially. Bank deposits are $685.
600 and there isn't town in the coun-
ty that has a population of more than
500.
Two masked men entered the Office
of the Great Northern Fuel company
at Fargo and pulled down window
shades while teamsters were unhitch-
ing outside. Ore bandit covered Will
lam Rud, the Z anager, with a revol-
YER while the other rif1ed his pockets
and the safe, getting $66. Two sus-
poets were later arrested by the po-
lice.
N. G. Macdonald of Valley City, at
present state Inspector of consoli-
dated, graded and rural schools, is a
nonpartisan candidate for nomination
to the Office of state superintendent
at the June primaries. Mr.. Macdonald
was reared on a farm in North Dakota
and has had over twenty years of ex-
perience in educational work in the
state.
Miss Hazel Allerd, a schoolteacher
at Zenith, fifteen miles west of Dick
inson, narrowly escaped death when
she awoke at the Charles Hempdon
home and found her room in flames
Her screams awoke Mr.. and Mrs.
Hempdon and all rushed into the
snow and cold in their night clothes
Barefooted, and with almost no cloth
ing, they walked to neighbours home.
Three years in the state penitentiary
was the sentence imposed on John
Braun, a Richardton farmer, by Judge
J. M. Hanley of the district court at
Mandan. Braun, who was accused ten
years ago of numbering a son, was re-
Gently arrested on the charge of at
tempting to shoot and kill another
son, Nick, aged fourteen. He was
tried and found guilty of the lesser
crime of attempting to do great bodily
harm.
Announcement has been made at
Mandan that L. A. Tavis has been
made president of the Associate banks
to succeed H. R. Lyon of Minneapolis,
who has been president since the
banks we're established. The combined
capitalization is $132,0O0; deposits on
Jan. 1 were $1,O50,000, an increase of
&250 000 in a voar- Tho Aecooio%o