New Ulm review., 1916-01-19

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4 The Kuhles & Stock cigar factory
at; st. Paul was destroyed by fire,
causing $2o0,0o0s damage Firemen
fought the blaze for three hours with
the mercury at 10 below zero. +.
,:"Auntie' Reed is dead at Norris
town, aged eighty years. :: For nearly
half a century she conducted hotel
at that place and her chicken pie and
ginger cakes made her famous among
travelling men. .s.s~..~ r., IT,.
F, Filing blanks for, signatures to pre-
sent the names Of Theodore Roosevelt
and Elihu Root to- Minnesota voters for
the Republican presidential nomina-
tion were obtained from Secretary of
State Julius schmahl.
James Van Horn Benton, seventy
eight years of age, a veteran of the
First Minnesota regiment in the Civil
war, is dead at 81 Paul Ne Repton
saw service as shatpshooter and
was wounded at Gettysburg.
r Duluth has COW with a gross earn
ing capacity of $1,000 annually for
milk alone, with. an additional $1,000
for her calf. In the past year she
produced 20,2S0 pounds of milk, con-
tanning Se1 pounds of butter fat.
:, Thomas w. Evans, one Of the eight
cen Americans murdered by bandits
near San ,Ysabel, Mex, comes from a
we'll known Mankato family. His
grandfather, the late D. c. Evans, was
county treasurer of Blue Earth county.
The yeggmen who blew the vault in
the old Federal building at st. Paul,
securing nearly 100000 worth of ne
gotiable revenue stamps, have SO far
eluded detection. Secret service men
say the robbers may never be caught.
Increase A.. :Pelton, a wealthy pio:
neer, is dead at Mankato, aged sew
enty-nine. Mr.. Pelton came to Mime
sofa in 1856 and was one Of those who
went to the relief of New Ulm when
that city was besieged by Indians in
1862, -: ...>
In a close range pistol battle. Mrs.
Thomas Taylor of Minneapolis drove
two staggering unmasked bandits
from her husbands store in front of
the residence after he had been COM
PEELED to hold his hands above his
head.
Walter Case was killed and DR..
Christianson may die as the result of
an automobile accident near Slayton.
Christianson was pinned under the
overturned auto and was almost
frozen when found several hours after
the accident.
Elihu Root has wired Secretary of
State Schmahl that he does not wish
his name to appear upon the presiden-
tial ballot in Minnesota and Mr..
Schmahl has responded that the
request of the New Yorker will be
complied with.
Carl Gerstenmaier of st. Paul is un-
der arrest in New York accused of
shortages in his accounts as treasurer
of the German Lutheran Cemetery as
sociation and two church organiza-
tions. The shortages are said to ag-
gregate $4,000.
The All Minnesota Development as
sociation will meet in St. Paul June
IA and Is. Each county will have five
delegates to the convention and each
of the four big development associa-
tions and various smaller ones will
have three delegates each.
Coolheaded work by citizens of
North St. Paul prevented the raiding
of the postofice there, although two
bandits who had blown the safe es-
capped after a street battle in which
twenty shots we're fired and one of
the bandits seriously wounded.
Sweeping reductions in express
rates in Minnesota on packages
ordered by the state railroad and
warehouse commission to take effect
at once. The reduction is from 20 to
35 cents on each 100 pounds, accord
ing to distance.
The Minnesota Retail Harness Deal
ers' association ended it's annual
| convention with banquet at the Mer-
chants hotel at st. Paul. Officers for
the next year are B. A. Koebe, Zum-
brota, president; Henry Joerg, Made
liza, vice president; John Sprey, LIE
| Sueur, secretary-treasurer.
Property of the Western Union Tel
| egraph company within Minnesota
comes under the general property tax
! and cannot be assessed on a basis of
100 per cent of the full and true value
as commended recentlv bv the state tax
commission, according to a decision
Of the state supreme court.
The two oldest Winona pioneers,
both nonogenarians, died within the
same hour. They were Mortimer
Gage, ninety-five years old, who had
been resident of Winona county for
sixty years, and Mrs. Mary Schroeder,
ninety two years of age, who had been
| resident of the county for sixty-five