Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1917-08-15
Minnesota State News

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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.
Charles Edridche of Minneapolis,
seventy-three years of age, ended his
life by shooting.
T. F. Quincy, for twenty-five years
prominent in Democratic politics in
Minneapolis, is dead
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 $1,000 worth of silks, jewe!ry and
clothing.
Nearly 100000 acres of school and
other state lands in Northern Mime
sofa will be. offered at public auction
in October and November.
Mrs. Cotton Mather, prominent in
Methodist church circles and we'll
known for her writings on farm sub
jects, is dead at her home in Mime.
apolis.
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 io 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.
There were 152 deaths in Minnesota
from cerebro-spinal meningitis from
Jan. to Aug. 6, according to a report
submitted to the United States public
helth service at Washington.
Cash premiums to be offered at the
Minnesota state fair, Sept. 3 ito 8, will
aggregate $93,455, including the purses
offered the automobile drivers who
will compete in the auto races.
julius Pleth of Plummer was found
dead in a stateroom on a 500 train
near Thief River Falls. Mr.. Pleth
was fifty years of age and was en-.
gagged in the real estate business.
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.
Joe Popp, employed in the beef kill.
ing department of the Swift packing
plant at South st. Paul, dropped. dead
shortly after asking permission to
quit work because he was not feeling
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A dispatch from Vienna announces
the engagement of Archduchess. He'd.
wig of Tuscany to Count Bernhard I'll
Stolberg- Stolberg, born in Mankato,
this state, where his father resided a
long time.
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,044, are of the pop
ular small variety
Rev. CA. Greasy, seventy-four years
old, 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 I. E. 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 a 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 Northwest leader in
crop production this year, says a. re-
port compiled by John H. Rich, re-
serve agent of the Federal Reserve
bank, which deals with crop damage
I in parts of North Dakota, South Da-
kota and Montana
Rev. John K. Nygaard of Minneap-
oils, his bride and Sister Caroline
Thompson, Norwegian Lutheran dea.
coness, were among nineteen persons
drowned when the steamship City of
Athens struck mine near Capetown,
South Africa. Aug. 10.
Edwin D. Haskell! of Minneapolis,
son of the late Mrs. Olga Won w. Has
kell, who gave so much of her time to
Serbian relief work prior to her death
Jan. TO-, has been selected as secre.
tary of the American Red Cross mis-
sion which c. A. Severance of st. Paul
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