Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1917-06-20
ABOUT THE STATE
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News Of Especial Interest TO Minnesota Readers

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The Great Northern railway has sub
scribed $5,000,000 to the Liberty loan.
Lieutenant p. A. Brannan, Elk
River, this state, with the Canadian
oversee forces, has been killed some
where in France"
Edward F. Wallace, thirty-five years
old brakeman on the Great North
ern railroad, was killed by train at
Hopkins Junction.
J. c.. Munroe, former grand COM
mander of the state Masons, is dead
at his home in ST. Cloud. He was
seventy-four years old.
James O'Brien, ninety-one years old,
an Indian fighter and veteran of the
Civil war, is dead at Winona following
an illness of several months.
Mrs. Herman Oshman, residing near
Rosemount, is dead from burns re-
ceived when she poured gasoline on a
wood fire in mistake for kerosene.
Mrs. Frances Buell. Olson of ST. Paul
was elected president of the superior
lodge, Degree of Honor, at the four
teenth annual meeting at Chicago.
Herman Mensing, wealthy farmer
sixty years of age, was killed by
stroke of lightning near his home in
Cherry Grove, near Spring Valley.
Mistaking a bottle of poison for
medicine. Bernadette Gallagher of Wi
mona, sixteen years old, drank it's con-
tents and died within few minutes.
]. F. Ebersole, for six years mem
Der of the economics faculty at the
University of Minnesota, has left that
institution to engage in the banking
business.
e. A. Bloomquist widely known
amcng realty men and attorneys, is
dead at Minneapolis. Mr.. Bloomquist
was fifty-nine years of age and was
born in Minnesota.
Former Representative Frederick c,
Stevens of St. Paul has been recon-
mended to the president for appoint
ment as member of the interstate
commerce commission.
Thirty-two Indians registered in
Carlton county under the selective
draft proclamation are all real Amer
leans, not one having indicated claim
for exemption from service.
Rev. " Arvid Hagstrom of St. Paul
was elected president of the Mime
sofa state conference of the Swedish
Baptist church at the annual meeting
of the conference at Alexandria.
Minneapolis chapters of the Daugh.
ters of the American Revolution will
join in a flag raising ceremony at
Gateway park July a. Governor Burn
quist will be the principal speaker.
W. J. Bryan will speak in Minnesota
during the prohibition constitutional
amendment campaign next year if
plans he has transmitted to the prohi-
bition state committee can be carried
out
DR.. Burnside Foster, prominent ply
sician and medical writer of St. Paul
for more than twenty-five years and
known as leader in St. Paul medical
circles, is dead He was fifty-six years
of age.
Nick Luona, twenty-eight years old.
an I. w. w., was shot in the back by
policeman at Virginia while seeking
to escape arrest as a Stacker. Sixty
one arrests have been made in and
near Virginia
T. A. Champion, sixty years old, was
drowned in a creek near Ivanhoe con-
tanning about two feet of water He
had gone to the creek to fish and it
is thought that he tainted and fell
into the water.
Frank O'Connor, farmer living
near Mountain Lake, stabbed and
killed his sister in a fit of despond-
ency and later cut off the hand in
which he held the knife with which
his sister was killed.
John F. Calderwood, former vice
president and general manager of the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit company and
until seventeen years ago controller of
the Minneapolis Street Railway COM
pany, is dead at Minneapolis.
Minnesota fire losses during May
tOtaled SOFT, 5O2, compared with losses
of $558,523 in the corresponding month
last year. There were 1873 fires re-
ported in May, this year, compared
with PSI for the same month last year.
The University Of Minnesota award
ed diplomas to 1872 students at it's
forty-f1fth annual commencement at
Minneapolis. Fifty-one students, mem
bers of the Fort Smelling training
camp, received their sheepskins at the
fort
Donald Grant, one of the most prom
inent railroad builders in the North
west, is dead at his home in Faribault
after brief illness, aged seventy
nine Mr.. Grant began railroad con-
struction work in 1863 and helped to
build many Of the Northwest's prin-
cipal lines.
W. w. Bradley of Minneapolis has
been elected executive officer >of the
Minnesota Society for Prevention of
Cruelty He will enter on his new du-
ties Aug I in Joint offices with tho