New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-03-07
ABOUT the ! STA {.
News Of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM AL SECTIONS
happenings Of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience Of the
Busy Reader.

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Busy Reader.
William Beggs, seventy-nine years
old, pioneer of shakopee, is dead.
Danebod college at Tyler has been
destroyed by fire with loss of $780,
600.
Gust w. Johnson of st. Paul has
been appointed superintendent Of the
old state capitol.
J. w. Breckenridge, druggist and
postmaster at Pine City for more than
twenty years, is dead.
Initial, steps have been taken to
form central organization of all the
Swedish societies in Minneapolis.
Prosecutions under the pure food
laws brought the state $215 revenue
from fines during the past month.
In their fight on the high cost Of
living Minneapolis people are consum-
ing nearly 10000. pounds Of rice a
week. s.t.:l ~ y..:....;r5 ~
The state legislature will be asked
to appropriate 100000 to carry on 9
fight against infantile paralysis in
Minnesota.
Mrs. Emily H. Bradley, for forty
years a teacher in the public schools
of St. Paul, is dead. She was sixty
years Of age.
The National Editorial association,
which meets I'M Minneapolis this sum-
mer, will make trip through North
ern Minnesota. .-:s-@~,ss b.. ..s-
Oscar Cross, thirty-two years old, L.
dead at Minneapolis from injuries re-
ceived when he was crushed by de.
scending elevator.
The German Catholic church at
Marystown, six miles from Shakopee,
has been destroyed by fire. The loss
is placed at 100000.
Nearly half the PAP court cases on
the calendar for the March term of
the Ramsey county district court are
divorce cases. The total is 112.
Major Elvin R. Heiberg of ST. Paul,
brother of E. B. Heiberg, military at
tache of the American embassy at
Rome, has been killed on the Italian
front.
An explosion of gasoline caused by
the rubbing of garments while being
cleaned in the tailor shop of Art Moe
at Thief River Falls caused loss of
$1,000.
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The Knutson bill taxing grain,
stock and bond transactions of grain
exchanges was defeated in the lower
branch of the legislature by big ma
jority. 5.--,.
George Sterling was found guilty of
murder in the first degree in the dis
trict court at Bemidji for killing Peter
Skrieff several months ago after q
quarrel. .a.. s-..5
A company has been formed to es-
tablish transportation service between
Wadena and Walker. It will place ten
cars in service as soon as road condi-
lions will permit.
OIL. Brandvold, who resigned as
state bank examiner last December to
become cashier of the Peoples State
bank of st. Paul, has been reappointed
to his former position. !
w. O. Bennington, sixty-one years
old, loan agent for the Bank of
Glencoe, committed suicide by shoot
ing. His. widow assigned continued
i'll health as the reason.
Peter Stems, pioneer railroad con-
tractor of st. Paul and founder of
the Siems-Carey company, died sud-
denly at Daytona, Fla. Mr.. Stems was
born in Germany In 1912.
For his good and manly BEHAVIOR
thus keeping his pledge to his father.
Ray johnson Of St. Cloud, twenty-one
years old, was remembered in the
fathers will with an extra provision.
Victor Anderson, aged forty-six. is
dead at Duluth from injuries sustained
when he was caught by broken ma.
chine belt and tossed to the ceiling In
the foundry of the National Iron
Works
In 1911 Miss Edith Kassing, then
superintendent VI 3IA0 6111S
school at Red Wing, invested $4,000
in 100 shares of Bethlehem Steel. Re-
Gently she disposed of the stock for.
100000.
Minnesota gross earnings of the 500
line were nearly $693,OO0 smaller in
the last half of 1916 than in the CORE
spending 1915 period, according to the
company's report to the state tax com
mission.
The season for hook and line fishing
closed March L.. It will open again
April Is for brook trout and May for
all other kinds of fish except black
bass, on which the season opens
May 20.
Ben Carlson, Braham, won the but
ter contest and ]. B. Baumgartner,
Pine Island, the cheese contest at the
February competition under the direc-
ton of the state dairy and food de-
partment.
Clarence B. Buchanan of Little Falls,
former congressman from the Sixth