New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-05-09
ABOUT The STATE.
News Of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers,
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Happenings Of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience Of tho
Busy Reader.

Oscar Tankenoff, we'll known in st.
Paul political CIRCLES, is dead, aged
fifty-seven.
Jarius D. Backus, seventy-three
years old, veteran of the Civil war, is
dead at Owatonna.
DR.. J. A. Crosby, who practised med.
icine in Minneapolis for more than
thirty years, is dead.
Mrs. Adele Papineau, a resident Of
st. Paul for nearly sixty years, is
dead, aged sixty-seven.
George W. Sludley, aged ninety, is
dead at his home in St. Peter. He
served in the Civil war in the First
Minnesota infantry.
Charles J. Davidson, aged seventy
two, was run down and killed by an
auto at st. Paul. He was a pioneer
resident of Minnesota
st. Paul Is to be represented d.
rectly on the battle front in France
by ten anlbulances, contributed by pa
triotic citizens and manned by St.
Paul drivers.
More than 1000 coal dock laborers
of Duluth and Superior received 10
per cent increase in pay. The raise
increases the common laborers' pay
to $3.50 a day.
Only the sudden shifting of the
wind saved the greater part of the
village of Kelliher from destruction by
fire that caused property loss esti-
mated at 100000.
Figures given out by state officials
indicate that the last legislature cost
the state nearly $335,O00, instead of
$310,000, as previously estimated. The
1915 session cost $S0S,000.
DR.. John S. Abbott, prominent St.
Paul surgeon, will be one of the first
six doctors from Minnesota to see
service under the American Red
Cross on the French front.
Eleanor G. Donnelly, author of more
than fifty Volumes of poems, and
sister of the late Ignatius Donnelly
of Minnesota, is dead at Westchester.
Pa, aged seventy nine years. =.
After search of seven months the
body of Selwyn P. Coffrain, Brainerd
business man who was drowned while
duck hunting last October, has been
recovered from Lake George.
John f. Scott, formerly in the office
of the attorney general, has been ap-
pointed a member of the legal corps
of the Federal Land bank of st. Paul.
Mr.. SCOTS home is in St. Cloud.
Mrs. Mary Casey, the Oldest resi-
dent of LIE Sueur Center, is dead, aged
100 years, two months and twenty
days. She was born in County Cork,
Ireland, and reached Minnesota in 1855.
Governor Burnquist has announced
the reappointments of w. NJ Gebhart,
South St. Paul, and Louis Betz, st.
Paul, to the board of examiners in the
state department of labor and indus
tries.
The Minnesota annual conference of
the Methodist church will be held at
Pipestone Sept. 26. Bishop Charles
Bayard Mitchell will preside. The
conference will be in session for about
six days.
Minneapolis chamber of commerce
memberships are quoted at $1,000 bid.
the highest price ever known. Sew
eral years ago, when memberships
sold at $4,000 each, the price caused
much comment.
For the first time since 1876 the
State Firemen's association will not
hold a convention this summer. The
executive board, at meeting in st.
Paul, decided to postpone it this year
because of the war;
Bryan Gilkinson of Carleton college
the Minnesota representative in the
interstate oratorical contest held at
Northfeld, won first place in field
of six entries from states of the Mid
die West and Northwest.
Fred J. Jeffrey, manager of the
building paper department of the Pey-
ton Paper company of Duluth, was
: killed when he fell from a window
while sleep walking on the third floor
of the Y. M. G. A. building.
neapolis and a native of Minnesota,
has been killed in battle in France.
where he served with the Fifty-second
overseas battalion of Canada. He for
merly was in the United States regu-
lar army.
Anton Gutgesell, twenty-five years
old, was thrown from his bicycle
against the railing of the Twentieth
avenue bridge at Minneapolis when
his wheel skidded in the mud. He
died a few minutes later while in an
ambulance ,..
w. L. Darling of St. Paul, former
chief engineer of the Northern Pacific
railroad and an expert in railroad con-
struction, will be vice president of the
special railroad commission appointed
to help reorganize transportation facil-
tiles in Russia.
Austin Milford, Minneapolis trav
cling man, is under arrest at Marshall