New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-01-24
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The ST. Paul postof1ice handled $12,s
s726,824.35 in 1916.
Charles H Miller, pioneer hotel man.
of st. Paul, is dead.
Mrs. Lonora Halloran, resident ot
Minneapolis since 1854, is dead.
The Banner hotel at Lamberton has
been destroyed by fire, entailing loss
OF. $4,000.
Sam Girard, seventy EIGHT years old,
well known farmer of Grow Wing
county, is dead.
Mrs. Christina Hanft, aged eighty
five, who came to Minnesota in 1852.
is dead at Tacoma, Wash.
Oscar NJ. Bergstrom, inventor Of
many automobile appliances and gas
engine expert, is dead at Minneapolis.
Malcolm w. Clark, mining engi-
neer, formerly OF Mortified, was killed
in an automobile accident at Tulsa,
Okla.
With 1853 1892 cars in or out of Min
neapolis in the year 1916. the Mill City
broke all former records in freight
trafhc,
I'M. Owene, aged ninety, was killed
at a street crossing at Sleepy Eye
when struck by a passenger train on
the Chicago and Northwestern road.
Mrs. John F. Stevens, wife of the
chief engineer Of the Panama canal.
who formerly lived in st. Paul, is
dead at her home in New York city.
A large owl became wedged be-
tween two high tension wires east of.
Madison Lake, formed short circuit
and cut off the lighting service of the
village.
J. G. Mahoney, an employe Of the
Minneapolis General Electric CONS
pany, was electrocuted when he came
into contact with cable carrying o.
800 volts.
Joseph SWindelhurst, a Wadena
county pioneer. is dead, aged eighty,
seven. Mr.. Swindelhurst's first child
was the second white baby born IN
Wadena county.
Rev. William H. Barkuloo, who
served in che active work Of the Meth
odist ministry in Minnesota since
1859 until his retirement in 1910, is
dead at ST. Paul.
Mrs. M. H. Dunnell, widow of Mark
H. Dunnell, for fourteen years con-
gresham from the First Minnesota
district, is dead at Washington The
family home is in Owatonna.
Edward S. Quigley, head Of the
training department Of the state nor
NAL school at Mankato. has accepted
an election as assistant superintend-
sent of schools altos Angeles, Cal.
Jospeh Kinney, nineteen years oldt
of Swanvi1le, pleaded guilty in district
court at Little Falls tc having shot
and wounded his father and was sen
fenced to forty days in the county Jail.
Bruce r. Stone of Monticello was
elected president of the Third Class
Assistant Postmasters Association Of
Minnesota at the first annual conven-
ton of the association at Minneapolis.
John r. Anker, treasurer Of the Ken
ney & Ankcr Mercantile company OF
Duluth and well known throughout the
Northwest because of his lumber and
mining interests, is dead in the Zenith
City.
Mrs. Paul Mass, tWenty-three years
old, committed suicide by hanging in
the woodshed at the rear Of her home
at st. Paul. She was found by her
four-y ear-old son, suspended from
rafter.
Frederick Goodsell, pioneer resident
of Mortified, for many years presi-
dent of the First National bank Of
that city and son of Charles M. Good
sell, founder of Carleton college, is
dead at Moorhead.
Public ditch work in Blue Earth
county in 1916 amounted to s1,OO6,320.
In addition approximately $4,000 rods
/ of private drain tile was laid on
farms of the county to connect with
the public bitches.
Wet petitions, containing over
four times the number of signatures
EIC4ull GU " put lnc Sd1OOA NucSLlCl
before the voters OF Duluth in April,
have been turned into headquarters Of
the vets at Duluth
A. Swedish midsummer festival will
be held at Center City, on the shores
of Lake Chisago, on June "a. The fes-
tivaI will be attended by people Of
Swedish descent from Minnesota and
North and South Dakota.
Captain Alexander Smith, former ST.
Paul man, who became a hero by hold
ing the fort at Altoona pass until the
coming of General Sherman and his
troops, was burned to death in his
home at Jacksonville, Ill
DR.. p. r spaulding, superintendent
of the Minneapolis public schools, has
accepted the superintendency of the
Cleveland co.. public schools at an
annual salary of $4,000 for four years.
His services will begin May 1.