New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-03-14

Edward w. Williams, sixty years
old, Winona shoe manufacturer, died
suddenly. Mr. Williams two years ago
was one of the plaintiffs in the test
case of. the Minnesota eight-hour law,
which was declared unconstitutional
William Meyer, sixty-three years
old, a section hand on the st. Paul
Southern railway, died of heart disease
on train on that line near Hastings
He had just boarded the train with
several fellow workmen after remov-
ing snow drift from the tracks.
Mower county is entering upon one
of the biggest bridge building projects
ever undertaken by any one. county
in the West, according to word re-
ceived by the state highway commits
sion, and will spend 100000 for 102
new bridges of reinforced concrete.
Alfred Selene and Miss Irene Ho-
gan, roller skaters of Worthington, in
an exhibition at Pipestone, skated to-
gether continuously for twenty-four
hours. After Miss Hogan left the floor
Selene continued to skate until the
mark of &c hours minutes had been
reached.
One vote-that of Representative T.
G. Strand, Socialist member from Two
Earbors-was cast in the state house
of representatives against the H. H.
Harrison resolution criticising the
United States senators who conducted
the flibuster against President Will
sons armed neutrality bill.
DR.. S. H. Mitchell, until he left Min.
neapolis a few years ago the oldest
Odd Fellow in Minnesota, is dead at
the home of his daughter in Los An.
geles, Cal. He was eighty-eight years
old and had been an Odd Fellow sixty
three years and a member of the
Methodist church seventy-fve years.
Millions of Mississippi game and
rough fish have persisted and are dy-
ing of suffocation in the icebound
lakes and sloughs, according to Dep
uty Warden Herman Rackow of Wi
mona. An ice coating without vent
and thicker than in many years on all
still water is responsible for the
slaughter.
DR.. Marion L. Burton, president
elect of the University Of Minnesota,
in an interview at Minneapolis de.
clared that "the University of Mime
sofa must have a bigger and higher
salaried faculty if it is to serve the
best interests of the state and occupy
a place at the head of American edu-
cational Institutions"
BY vote of 80 to Al the state
house of representatives indefinitely
postponed the Anderson statutory
statewide prohibition bill. Many Of
the drys, unwilling to enact further
prohibition legislation at the present
session, in view of the passage of the
constitutional prohibition bill, voted
for postponement of the Anderson
measure. rs
The most serious sentence imposed
in Hennepin county for automobile
stealing was pronounced by District
Judge Dickinson on Fred Stewart, who
will have to serve from one to ten
years in the state penitentiary Stew
art was captured after a car in which
he was riding had run down two pc
destrians, crashed into a window and
collided with an auto carrying five
men. ~ 49,
AS a result of a letter addressed TO
his mother in Germany ridiculing the
United States army, attacking Presi-
dent Wilson and asserting 100000
Germans in the United States would
revolt if war was declared on Ger
many, Paul l.. Scharfenberg, private
in L company, First Minnesota infan-
try, has been courtmartialed and SEN
fenced to five years in the federal pen
itentiary at Fort Leavenworth.
DR.. James Wallace of Manchester
college has resigned the vice presi-
dency of the Minnesota branch of the
American Peace society because 'the
officers of the society have pursued
a very unpatriotic and dangerous pol
icy and have greatly discredited the
organization" In his letter of resig-
nation Dr. Wallace said: when peace
becomes an end in itself and is nut
above justice, freedom and the in.
alienable rights of men, it becomes q
curse"