New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-15
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touched the highest mark on record
$500,4O0.
Mrs. Catherine Golfers, aged eighty
seven, a resident of ST. Paul since
1856, is dead
liver Tollefson, member of the Min
neapolis police force for twenty-eight
years, Is dead
The Northern Rendering company's
plant at New Brighton has been de-
stroyed by fire..
T. F. Quincy, for twenty-five years
prominent in Democratic politics in
Minneapolis, is dead
Miss May Schnaith, nurse at st.
Johns hospital, St. Paul, was drowned
in Lake Phalen while bathing.
Erick Sundkvist, prominent st. Paul
furrier, is dead. He was sixty-four
years of age and a native of Sweden.
Burglars broke into the Daylight
store at New Prague and escaped
with $4,000 worth of silks, jeWelry and
clothing.
Louis Yant, aged twenty-three, a fire.
man employed by the Northern Pacific
railroad, was run down and instantly
killed in the company's yards at Min
neapolis.
S. L. Hanson. manufacturer of barn
equipment Of Albert Lea, was SEN
fenced at St. Paul to ten days in the
workhouse after pleading guilty to a
charge of reckless driving.
George F. Schrieber of Mankato has
been elected president of the Mime
sofa Engineers association, in conven-.
ton at ST. Paul. Duluth was chosen
for the convention of 1918.
Jorgen Nielsen, ffty-eight years old,
a pioneer painter and decorator of St.
Paul. is dead Mr.. Nielsen was mem
Der of the Builders exchange and
prominent in Danish circles.
Cash premiums to be offered at the
Minnesota state fair, Sept. to 8, will
aggregate 1913, 455, including the purses
offered the automobile drivers who
will compete in the auto races.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank 'Swither were
found dead from gas poisoning in their
apartments at Minneapolis. Both were
fully dressed when discovered, the
husband sitting upright in chair.
Minnesota Civil war veterans will
have their annual reunion at the state
fair grounds at 3 p. M, Sept. 6. All
Civil war veterans from other states
are honorary members of the associa-
ton.
A dispatch from Vienna announces
the engagement of Archduchess He'd
wig of Tuscany to Count Bernhard zu
Stolberg-Stolberg, born in Mankato,
this state, where his father resided a
long time.
The Great Northern road is putting
additional men at work on the addi-
ton to it's yards at Fridley and when
the work is completed the Fridley ter
minal will be able to handle 1000 ad-
ditional cars
There are 10000 automobiles reg
istered in Minnesota, according to Sec
rotary of State Schmahl. Of the total
number registered, Mr. Schmahl said,
81 per cent, or 11O,O44, are of the pop
ular small variety.
John w. Bergenholz, whose father
died recently in Denmark, leaving him
a fortune of $4,000 kroner (about 3d.
400), committed suicide in his room
in Minneapolis. Relatives in the Mill
City could give no reason for his act
Representative Harold Knutson of
St. Cloud has made application to the
bureau of Indian affairs for the trans
fer of the Cass Lake Indian school to
within short distance of Cass Lake
The school now is some six miles dis
tant.
An appeal to all patriots to join in
the suppression of anti-draft action
and other expressions of seditious SEN
timent now injecting some parts of
Minnesota has gone out from the Of
fees of the state public safety COM
mission
Rev. G. A. Cressy, seventy-four years
cid, a Methodist minister for fifty
years, who had served in many cities
and towns of Minnesota, including LIE
Sueur, Minneapolis, Saltwater and st.
Paul Park, is dead at his home in
Newport.
Mrs. l. b. Burgan, prominent in state
Women's Christian Temperance union
circles and who inaugurated the first
missionary work among the logging
camps of Northern Minnesota in the
early eighties, is dead at her home in
Minneapolis.
The state bureau of investments,
created by the last legislature, has set
aside revolving fund of 100000 to
finance improvements on vacant state
land. Applications for loans for new
school buildings were received from
several localities.
Minnesota is q Northwest leader in
crop production this year, says re-
port compiled by John H. Rich, re-
serve, agent of the Federal Reserve
bank. which deals with crop damage
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