New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-04-25
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There were 305 fires in Minnesota,
resulting in $472,535 in property loss,
during March.
Is The. state senate has killed the bill
providing for military training for the
school children of the state
Leo Forderbrugen, eight years old,
was run down and killed by an auto
mobile near his home at st. Paul.
Ed Farrell, noted Carleton college
athlete, has received an appointment
to the naval academy at Annapolis.
Both houses of the legislature passed.
the Denegre bill giving Ramsey coun-
tty an additional district court judge.
Mrs. Anna Nelson, mother of former
Mayor S. R. Nelson of Owatonna, is
dead insthat city at the age Of ninety
years.
More than 200 boilermakers CT Du-
luth and Superior, together with their
helpers, are on strike for an increase
in wages.
Franklin Russell, a fireman on the
st. Paul road, was instantly killed
when the automobile in which he was
riding overturned at Austin.
The estate of the late James j. Hill
located in Minnesota and subject to
an Inheritance tax has been placed at
a trifle more than $5O,OOO,000,
/, Frank S. Norris, sixty-three years
old, a pioneer farmer, is dead at his
home in Hastings. He owned elevators
at Odessa, Ortonville and other towns.
Rendition of the "star Spangled
Banner" as part of a medley or for
dancing purposes as an exit march is
prohibited in bill signed by Governor
Burnquist
Otis G. Morrison, a farmer, aged
eighty-four years, resident of Wi
mona county since 1856, died suddenly
from heart disease at his home in
Money Creek.
Compulsory military training for ev-
cry ablebOdied student at Hamline uni.
versity was decided on at a meeting
Of the trustees. Military training will
begin next fall
Charles Baird, second lieutenant of
A battery, First Minnesota Field ar
tillery, has been elected captain Of
the battery to succeed Captain Wall
lace Cole, resigned.
Fire of somewhat mysterious origin
DESTROYED the Pipestone high school
building with loss estimated at $780,.
600, though it will cost, it is believed,
$150,00O to rebuild it.
R. w. Mcleod of Minneapolis has
been elected president of the Mime
sofa Sunday School association at the
meeting in Westminster Presbyterian
church at Minneapolis
Mrs. William Eikmeir, eighty-four
years old, was burned to death while
assisting her husband, aged eighty-six,
in burning the stubble off their farm
southwest of Pipestone.
Inheritance taxes of $4,941.26 were
paid to the state on the estate of
Philip E. Brown Of Luverne, a former
associate justice of the state supreme
court, who died Feb. 6, 1915.
Because of the war two big meet
ings of the Minnesota Women's Chris
tian Temperance union, which were to
have been held in Minneapolis May 1
and 2, have been indefinitely post
poned.
Secretary of War Baker has sent a
telegram to Governor Burnquist ask
ing him to appoint Minnesota dele
gate to the national council Of defense
to meet in Washington early next
month
An appeal has been sent to every
banker in the state asking them to
urge the utilization of every acre in
the production of food and to see that
every farmer in need of seed is fl
nanced.
A proposal to issue $128,O0O worth
of bonds to erect a new school build
| ing and pay the deficit on new build
| ings now under construction failed of
passage at a special election at
| Rochester.
Enraged because of her real or i'm
agined attentions to other men Paul
Dunn of st. Paul shot and seriously
wounded Miss Patria Peterson, his
fancee, and wounded her friend, Mrs.
| Nettie Carlson.
With the winning of a four-year
fight for an adequate appropriation
Tor a normal school at Bemidji, L. G..
Pendergast, seventies years old.
! has announced his intention of retir-
ing from politics.
Henry G. Hanson, twenty-three
years old, was shot and killed at a
soft drink establishment run by Steve
Maras at the Morton location near
Hibbing. Police accuse Peter Butu-
rous of the killing.
Anna Wurtz, thirty-one years Of age.
killed herself at Paynesville because
of sdespondency The woman had
been taking care of her mother, who
was made helpless by an attempt to
take her own life three months ago.
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