Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-06-28
News Of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
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happenings Of the Week Briefly Told
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that city, aged seventy seven.
John J. O'Brien, resident OF Min
nesota for fifty years, Is dead at 81
Paul, aged seventy-four years.
Mrs. M. M. Wicks, aged eighty
three, q resident OF Minneapolis for
more than forty years, Is dead.
DR.. D. w. Horning, for thirty years
q resident and medical practitioner IN
Minneapolis, is dead, aged sixty.
Sunday movies are barred in Fair
mont as the result Of a special elec'
ton called to decide the question.
Tetanus resulting from an automo-
bile accident caused the death Of Doris
Greenberg of Minneapolis, four years
old.
Theodore T. Simon, forty-five years
old, Spanish war veteran who saw
service in the Philippines, is 1ead at
Duluth.
M. w. Brewster, q Wells attorney,
was appointed by Attorney General
Smith as special attorney general OF
the state fair management.
One man and two horses were cleo
trocuted in Minneapolis and consid'
cradle property damage was done IN
the Twin Cities by . violent electrical
storm.
Former United States Senator Moses
E. Clapp in the future will make his
home on an estate adjoining Mount
Vernon, the home Of George Wash.
ington.
Alex Honigschmidt, sixty-sfx years
old, said to be the first man to estab-
lish butcher shop in Minneapolis on
the west side of the Mississippi river,
is dead.
DR.. H. c. Holman Of St. Paul, thirty.
four years old, was electrocuted In q
bathtub. While bathing he grasped a
wire leading to an electric flatiron
near the tub.
Henry c. Taylor, eighty-six years
old, q resident of st. Paul for many
years. was accidentally asphyxiated by
Illuminating gas at the home Of his
son.in.law in that city.
Knute Nelson, flfty-four years old,
a carpenter, Is dead at st. Paul from
injuries received when he fell fifteen
feet from q ladder while trimming
tree in front of his home in st. Paul
Martin Byland of Minneapolis was
killed when an automobile he was
driving overturned near Clear Springs,
the running board of the machine fall.
ing across his throat and strangling
him.
F. H. Ellis, well known Minneapolis
business man, was killed when he fell
from q third story window in the West
hotel to the sidewalk. 1t is believed
he walked out of the window while
asleep.
Chris Johnson of Fergus Falls has
resigned as a creamery inspector in
the state dairy and food commission
to enter the federal service as inspec.
tor of butter renovating factories in
Chicago.
Removal OF Victor S. Knutson, su.
perintendent of Todd county schools.
is asked in q complaint charging NAL
feasance and nonfeasance of Office
filed with Governor BurnQuist by Todd
county commissioners.
Because Of an epidemic of scarlet
fever the village of Goodridge has
been placed under quarantine. The
children of the village will not be al
lowed to leave their yards. according
to an announcement of village Off.
Gals.
Purchase Of a building at Hibbing
to be used by the state bureau Of
mines is announced by State Auditor
Preus. The purchase was authorized
by the last legislature. A complete
laboratory for testing iron ore will be
installed.
With the aggregate on June 20 last
reaching $39,99l,691 deposits in Du.
luth banks have set new record fig
ures. This Is attributed by bankers
as having been due in part to the
gathering together of Liberty loan SUBJ
scriptions.
Thomas Sullivan, constable at Hop
kins. captured four transients after a
gun fight near the plant of the Mime
apolis Threshing Machinery company.
Three OF the men were wounded in
the exchange of shots and one of them
is not expected to live.
Laura Woodcock, eleven years old,
daughter Of a prominent farmer living
near Dover, was found dead in a tank
of water. It Is believed the girl was
injured by fall into the tank as there
was not enough water to drown her If
she kneeled or stood up.
r. L. Nunnamaker. aged thirty-two,
OF Winona. father of four children,
was sentenced to seven years in prison
when he confessed he had set fire to
the house OF his cousin. Oscar Nunna-
maker. because he thought the latter
was too friendly with his wife.
A. c. Gooding of Rochester. former
state treasurer, has been elected pres
ident of the Minnesota Bas,kers' asso-
citation. Resolutions were adopted
pledging the fullest cooperation of
the association in assisting the gov
eminent In auy future bond issua