New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-25

Wis.,, shot and killed himself while
seated in a rocking chair at hotel
In Winona. Dependency because of
Ill health is given as the cause.
| L. D. Cushman and Mrs. Victor
Tereau were killed when the motor
cycle on which they were riding was
struck by aR automobile at st. Paul.
The driver & the auto is held by the
police on the charge of reckless driv-
! ing. .~
Investigation of the grain exchanges
OF Minneapolis, Duluth and Chicago as
the first step in it's nationwide food
price inquiry will be recommended to
the federal trade commission by Rep
resentative Halvor STEVENSON Of Min
| nesota. "a
Duluth's first cases to determine
whether or not the city is bone dry
under the liquor ordinance which went
| into effect July l resulted in the con-
vlctlon of two brewery wagon drivers.
charged with having liquor in their
possession.
w. F. Houk, state labor commits
sioner, has been appointed by Gov
ernor Burnquist to represent Mime
sofa at the conference July q at
Washington, D. c., on the new federal
child labor law which becomes effec-
tive Sept. 1. ..,..
Socialist delegates to the convention
of the Minnesota State Federation of
Labor at Faribault opposed Fesolu-
ton pledging support to the govern
ment in the conduct of the war with
! Germany, but were defeated by vote
of 1856 to SO.
E. E. Corliss, aged seventyRix, Gus
todian of the state capitol, is dead at
his home in st. Paul. He served with
the Second Minnesota regiment in the
Civil war and was a member of the
! commission which superintended the
building Of the state capitol.
The James J. Hill farm at Northcote
will be colonized and disposed of at
/ once. The land will be sold to farm
ers only and will not be disposed of
to any person who does not intend to
cultivate it. The land will not be sold
in more than 320>acre tracts, to any
one person.
The auditor for the war department
has informed J. A. o. Preus, state
auditor, that Minnesota will be unable
to recover from the federal govern
ment any of the $4,000 advanced by
the state to pay national guardsmen
who were sent to the Mexican border
last summer
Frank ]. Dunn of st. Paul broke
down and wept as he entered the state
prison at Saltwater to begin life SEN
tence for the murder of his wife on
April 26. 1t was the first time Dunn
showed the slightest emotion regard
ing his fate since he was arrested the
day of the murder.
Peter K. Roach, pioneer railroad
builder of Minnesota and builder of
the first railroad in Cuba in 1864, is
dead at Minneapolis at the age of
eighty-three years. Mr.. Roach was for
"a number of years prominent figure
in the railroad contracting and lum
Der business of the Northwest.
William J. LandOn, aged sixty-four,
one of Winona's leading business men
and civic workers, died suddenly at
his home in that city. He expired
just after returning to his residence
from witnessing a drill of the Home
Guard company, during which he ap
peared in his usual good health.
The Socialist delegates to the State
Federation of Labor convention bolted
in a body following passage of reso-
luton endorsing the governments war
plans. E. G. Hall Of Minneapolis. was
reelected president and George W.
Lawson of st. Paul secretary Next
years convention will be held at Vir
ginia. . T..
Because two saloon keepers at GIL
bert sold liquor illegally on Sunday
to Andrew Fest who was drowned Ia
ter in the day while under the influ
ence of the liquor, their bondsmen
must pay $4,000 to Martha Fest, the
widow, the state supreme court de-
cided in affirming verdict of the
lower. court.
Pursuant to a resolution passed by
the state public safety commission re-
Gently Governor Burnquist has ap-
pointed as a commission to investi-
gate food and fuel prices in Minnesota
Colonel Charles March of Litchfeld,
member of the commission, George w.
Lawson, secretary of the State Fed
Grafton Of Labor and w. S. Moscrip.
farmer of Lake Elmo.
The state railroad and warehouse
commission has issued an order direct
ing the Northern Pacific railroad to
restore passenger train service over
/ the old St. Paul and Duluth line
|. through Minnesota territory and to
furnish eQuit table passenger rates be-
tween Duluy and all other intrastate
points Oh its line within twenty days
or to show cause why the proposed
relief should not be granted.
Two men and. two women were
drowned in the St Louis river near
Morgan Park hospital in efforts to