Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1917-08-08
ABOUT The STA
News Of Especial Interest TO.
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
happenings Of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience of the
: Busy Reader.
Fire at Fort Ripley caused damage

Fire at Fort Ripley caused damage
OF $4,000.
Roy POSTER, twenty-six years old
was killed in collision of automobiles
at Minneapolis.
Isaac A. Barnes, sixty-tive years old
for more than thirty years. a practic.
Ing attorney of Minneapolis, is dead.
Abraham Hickey, twenty six years
old, was drowned in the Mississippi
river at Minneapolis while swimming.
George Odlum, real estate dealer in
Minneapolis for thirty-seven years, is
dead. He was sixty-four years of age.
Conrad Hernlem, fifty-fve years OF
age, a well known Goodhue county
farmer, was struck by lightning and
killed.
Willis Baker, well known pioneer
. neapolis for tifty-seyen years, is dead,
aged eighty-six.
st. Louis county will hold an option
election on Sept 10, petitions bearing
10000 sworn signatures having been
fled with the county auditor.
William Rabies, twenty three years
OF age, a farmer residing near Fair
mont, was killed when struck by light
ming while working in harvest field.
After his mother warned him to
stay away from the river. Clifford
Maness of st. Cloud, thirteen years
old, went in bathing and was
drowned.
Richard M. Nicely, forty-nine years
old, president of the R. NJ. Nicely com.
pany of st. Paul, general agents OF
the Employers Liability Assurance
corporation, is dead.
Gilbert Stone, twenty-five years old,
a private in L company, First Mime
sofa infantry, was fatally injured when
struck by a train while guarding the
Westminster street bridge at st. Paul.
The state public safety commission
has recommended the summary re-
moval of Sheriff j. j. Urness Of Nah
nonen county from Office on charges
of abetting violation of the liquor
laws
Secretary of War Baker has turned,
down the request of Governor Burn
quist that the state national guard
troops be trained at home instead of
in the extreme south at the height of
midsummer.
Mrs. Caroline M. King, widow of
Colonel Bill King, one of the early
real estate operators of Minneapolis
and one time representative in con
gress from the Mill City, is dead, aged
seyenty-eight.
A baby monkey, weighing but one
ana one-half pounds, that had travelled
all the way from Central America con-
cealed in bunch of bananas, was
found by Carmen Brondi, Minneapolis
market gardener.
j. r. Nicholson, treasurer of the
Standard and Model clothing houses
and long prominent retail merchant
of Minneapolis is dead. Mr.. Nichol-
son was fifty seven years of age and a
native of Sweden.
The old Northwestern Thresher
company plant at Saltwater will be
Teopened for tool and machinery
factory by the newly organized Twin
City Forge and Foundry company, cap
Stalized at 100000.
James Wood teamster, forty-fve
years old, employed by the South st.
Paul Stock Yards company, was
thrown from his wagon and instantly
killed when his team became fright
ened and ran away.
=, The body of young woman found
shot through the heart in a vacant lot
in Minneapolis has been identified as
that of Lucy Truppe, twenty-three
years old, daughter of Mrs. Alice
Truppe of Milwaukee
Machinists, boilermakers and help
ers employed at the Chicago Great
Western railroad shops at Red Wing
are on strike. The men demand an
increase Of wages to equal that now
paid in the st. Paul shops.
= The irst Minnesota infantry will
be continued on property guard serv-
ice in Minneapolis, st. Paul and Du-
luth until Aug. Is, and possibly until
Aug. 81; depending on the organization
of the new Fourth infantry
Establishment Of public markets in
Minnesota cities and suspension Of IL
cense regulations hindering food prod
ucts sale are recommended to city
councils in a resolution adopted by
the state public safety commission.
Charles E. Erwin, seventy-three
years old, pioneer resident of Wi
mona county and retired locomotive
engineer Of the Chicago and North
western and Green Bay railroads,
dropped dead at his home in Winona.
Minnesota sheriffs, one from each
OF the eighty-six counties in the state,
have been sent invitations by the
state public safety commission to at
tend conference at st. Paul Aug. Is
on war time problems relating to law
endorsements. @
r. f. Hart, thirty-five years old, gu
nerintendent Of the Hoax Elevator