New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-03-14
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Paul, is dead. -.. ..-. .- 49,
St. Paul national, state and savings
banks on March had deposits Of
$117,211,3S7.O2. ......- ....-.
Mrs. K. L. Anderson, seventy one
years old, one of the early settlers of
Red Wing, is dead.
The shipping of turtles to Eastern
markets is new industry being de-
veloped at St. Peter.
Mrs. Frances Hunt, aged sixty-seven
years, who reached st. Paul with her
parents in 1855, is dead.
Arthur Hebbern, nineteen years old,
committed suicide at Rochester by
hanging himself from a bridge. .
Representative w. L. Bernard of Dr-
luth slipped on the ice near the state
capitol at St. Paul and suffered frac-
tured leg.
Ernest B. Putnam of Eau Claire,
Wis, we'll known in st. Paul banking
and numbering circles, is dead at Sea-
breeze, Fla.
Rev. Ivar Larson, aged sixty-eight,
who held pastorates in several places
in Minnesota and Wisconsin, is dead
at Minneapolis. 49,:
George Johnson of the Triumph
stock farm near Fairmont has just
sold twenty head of steers for $4,000,
an average of S145 a head.
The bill to repeal the Minnesota
boxing law passed by the legislature
two years ago was defeated in the
state senate by vote of 81 to IS.
Mrs. Amelia Hart, sixty-eight years
old, is dead at her home in Friberg.
Mrs. Hart was the mother of twenty
one children, sixteen of whom are
living.
James F. Wallace's election as alder
man in the Second ward of Minneap-
oils has been declared illegal because
of violations of the laws governing
elections.
Willis A. James, deputy treasurer Of
Hennepin county, is dead, aged sixty
nine. Mr.. James had been connected
with the treasurer's Office for thirty
1--WE years. 80
The state association of the Broth
erhOod of American Yoemen will hold
it's annual convention in St. Paul from
April to s. An attendance of 1900
is expected.
Levi w. Shelton, retired farmer and
resident Of Newport for fifty-six years,
is dead. He was seventy-two years old
and came to Minnesota from Connecti-
cut in 1861.
Falling steel Orders weighing 5000
pounds caused the death of Joseph l..
Greenwood, Twenty-Five years old, an
employee of the Crown iron works at
Minneapolis.
The lower house of the legislature,
by unanimous vote, passed the senate
bill authorizing voters who may be
absent from their districts to cast
their ballots by mail
Aron H Edsten, member of the Min
neapolis city council in the early days,
leader in Lutheran church work and
resident of Minneapolis for fifty years,
is dead, aged eighty.
Mrs. o. D. Leavey, formerly a Min
neapolis school teacher, is dead at
Winona She contributed many arti-
cles in later years to magazines under
the pen name of Adams Dunning.
Mrs. Sander Peterson and her two
young children were burned to death
in fire which destroyed their farm
home near Fish Lake. The fire, it is
believed, resulted from a stove exp1o-
sion.
Professor Fowler D. Brooks of the
University of Oklahoma has been
chosen to succeed Edward G. Quigley
as head of the teachers training
school connected with the Mankato
normal school.
Henrik Strom, formerly a broker
and well known business man of St.
Paul, died recently in the state prison
at Saltwater. A report of his death
has just been made public by. the
board of control
Albert j. Potts, native of st. Peter
and one of the city's leading business
men, died suddenly in that city. Mr..
Potts, who was fifty-six years of age,
was president of the city council at
the time of his death. e. +
Andrew Stroman of Long Prairie,
an employe of the Little Falls Water
Power company, was killed instantly
in a substation at Little Falls when he
came in contact with live wire carry
ing $4,000 volts of electricity.
With $4,000, or half the money de-
clared necessary for a war on flies
and mosquitoes in Minneapolis next
summer appropriated by the city board
of health, the Minneapolis real estate
board has planned to raise the other
$4,000 itself.
BY a majority of IS st. Charles,
Winona county, voted to retain its six
. saloons. The wet" campaign was
made on the issue that the legislature