Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1917-08-29
Minnesota State News,

!Minnesot State Newss
Rev. Charles Maxwell OF Minnesota
an American missio nary, Is dead at
Durham, Natal.
Mrs. Augusta A. Storer, for many
years resident Of Minneapolis. 10
dead, aged seventy.five.
Cattle barns on the insane asylum
farm near Rochester were struck by
lightning and destroyed.
The state conference Of charities
and corrections will be held at DIVA.
tonna Sept. 20 to Oct. 2.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt will
speak inst Paul Sept. %, instead OF
Aug. 2S, as previously announced.
Red Cross picnics in Murray county
have netted $4,000 for the fund to be
used for American soldiers in France.
n L. Warner, clerk Of Redwood
Falls district court and formerly clerk
of the Minnesota house of representa-.
tives, is dead.
Mrs. Anna Wanchura, eighty-fvs
years old, is dead at st Paul from
burns received when her clothing
caught fire from q lighted candle.
The moneys and credits assessment
in Minnesota this year will approx.
mate $4,000, 900, according to returns
fled with the state tax commission.
Lawrence Mason, fourteen years old,
is dead and Eddie Smith and Harold
Orr, all of Minneapolis, are seriously
injured as result of being buried in
sand pit.
Two booths, one for information and
one for demonstration, will be promi.
nently placed in the Woman's building
at the state fair to display the work Of
the Minnesota Red Cross.
To care for the sick in the new ma
tional army, which soon will undergo
training at Camp Dodge, Des Moines,
base hospital will be established i'm.
mediately at Fort Smelling.
Roger Vail, for many years con.
nected with the Irish Standard, pub.
Hshed il. Minneapolis, and well known
in newspaper circles throughout the
state, is dead in the Mill City.
Mrs. Axel Stark, living on a farm
fourteen miles west of st. James, was
killed when her automobile turned
turtle near Butterfeld. Her two daugh.
ters in the car with her escaped with
slight injury.
Fire which started in the basement
OF the store Of John Nanreck at Aus.
tin, destroyed the building at a loss
Of $4,000. When discovered the fire
had gained such Roadway that the de.
partment was unable to control it.
Ivy Burns, seventy-ive-year-old ne.
gress, who was born in slavery at
Nashville, Tenn, sold away from her
parents when eight years old, and re-.
sold several times in the eleven years
she toiled as q slave, is dead at St.
Paul.
Edmund G. Walton has been ap
pointed British vice consul to succeed
Charles p. Hamilton, ST. Paul, making
Minneapolis headquarters for the
British consular service In the North
west, as well as recruiting terminal
for the American mission. 81
The Third Minnesota infantry has
gone to Camp Cody, Deming, N. NJ,
where they will undergo strenuous
training preparatory to being placed
on the battle line somewhere in
France" Three special trains carried
the soldiers out of st. Paul.
w. u. Oswald, in charge Of the state
seed laboratory Of the College of Agri.
culture, University of Minnesota, has
been asked by the division Of markets
at Washington to assist for year in
making complete survey of the seed
situation in the United States.
Carlos Avery, state game and fish
commissioner, announces that wild
ducks killed in South Dakota, where
the season opens Sept. z, cannot be-
brought into Minnesota until after
sSept.sf17, the date Of the opening of
the small game season in this state.
DR.. Frederick f. Laws, one of the
oldest and best known physicians Of
South Minneapolis, is dead, aged
aged sixty-eight. DR.. Laws was one
of the founders of the Norwegian
Lutheran Deaconess hospital in the
Mill City and was widely known for
his charitable work
The Red Cross war council, through
Chairman II. p. Dawson, announces
the appointment Of A. r. Rogers, pres
ident Of the Rogers Lumber company
of Minneapolis, as manager Of the
Northern division Of the Red Cross,
which includes Minnesota, North and
South Dakota and Montana.
The annual convention of the Mime
sofa Woman Suffrage association will
begin in st. Paul, Oct 10, and last for
two days. The convention meets al
ternately in Minneapolis and st. Paul.
Mrs. Nellie McClung, Canadian suf-
frage leader, will be the principal