New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-02-14

4 George A. Morse, for fifty-two years
q newsletter in Minneapolis, is dead.
MT VT Morse was eighty years Of age.
While scores Of men, women and
children looked on man believed TO
De William Gustafson of Bemidji shot
and killed himself on Great North
ern train entering the Great Northern
station in Minneapolis.
Mrs. Ed Luverne, a resident of St.
Paul, killed herself by shooting on
Great Northern passenger train while
on her way to Grand Forks, N. D. The
woman had been ill and brooded over
domestic troubles, it is said.
Not one man died and there has
been only one case of contagious
disease in the First Minnesota infan-
try, stationed In Texas for the last
SIX months. The regiment numbers
between LOO and 1900 men.
A truck carrying a ton of nails
slipped off freight platform at the
500 line freight house at st. Paul, car
rying Charles A. Boully, a trucker,
with 1t and killing him instantly. He
was pinned beneath the weight.
T. Mrs. Josephine Baldwin, known on
the stage as Pearl Melville and sis
ter Of Rose Melville, is dead at Min
neapolis. Mrs. Baldwin, who was fifty
SIX years of age, had retired from
theatrical work about ten years ago.
William G. Nash. eight-four years
old, one Of the oldest pioneers of Polk
county and a friend of the late James
J. Hill, is dead at East Grand Forks
In the early days Mr.. Nash carried
mail by dog team and was well known
in the Red River valley.
While millions of European people
are on the starvation line or close
thereto there is $3O,0O0,0O0 of food.
stuffs tied up In Minneapolis by the
German submarine campaign Accord.
ing to Mill City chamber of commerce
men the situation is unprecedented.
Publication of all common school
text books by the state and the estab-
lishment of state printing plant to
do the work we're recommended to
the state house of representatives by
the remaining members of a commit
tee named two years ago to study the
matter. $751;. -. u
Forty prominent St. Paul and Min
neapolis business men have agreed to
organize and finance a Mississippi
river barge line. The boats will ply
from the Minneapolis municipal
wharves, down river and back, to New
Orleans and all important intermedi-
ate points.
Charles G.. Maybury, eighty-seven
years old, said to be the oldest archi-
tect in Minnesota, is dead at Winona.
Mr.. Maybury, who had designed some
of the larger buildings in Minnesota,
Iowa, Montana and North and South
Dakota, had been resident of this
state since 1856.
Fuel famines in Minnesota towns
are increasing, according to reports,
and. the state railroad and warehouse
commission is bending every effort to
provide relief. Railroads are being
urged to give coal shipments prefer
ence over all others to points com
planning of coal shortages.
The statutory prohibition bill has
made its appearance in the lower
branch of the state legislature. 1t
bears the names of ten prominent rep
h l1
pushed, it is said, until the senate has
acted on the constitutional bill, al
ready passed by the house. 49,.
The state house of representatives
decided that Representative E. E. Orr
of Wadena should keep his seat when
it voted, 81 to SO, against a majority
report of it's election committee I'M
seating him. Orr was accused by his
defeated rival, c. S. Wilkins, of vio-
lating the corrupt practices act.
Representatives F.. Teigen, Elias
Nordgren, E. T. Mossman, c. M. Ben
dfxen and J. E. Madigan have been
appointed special committee of the
state house of representatives to in
vestigate the Minneapolis chamber of
commerce, the Duluth board of trade
and the Equity Cooperative exchange.
Nearly half of the members of the
state house of representatives are ma
tives of Minnesota. Most Of these
native sons" are young men born
and brought up in their districts. The
situation is much different in the SEN
ate, scarcely one-third of the members
of the upper house being Minnesota
born. 81. r. H.. w.,
A jury in district court at Hibbing
in the case against c. M. Atkinson,
publisher, tried on an in
dictment alleging overcharges to the
village for advertising and public
printing, returned a verdict of not
guilty in forty-three minutes. This is
the second acquittal in the so called
"Hibbing graft cases."
That Operations of the United States