The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-21
NEWS Of ESPECIAL Interest
TO MINNESOTA READERS
Gathered From all Sections Of the
State Briefly Told for the Con-
venience Of the Busy Reader.

With $4,000, or half the money de-
clared necessary for war on flies
and mosquitoes in Minneapolis next
summer, appropriated by the city
board of health, the Minneapolis real
estate board of health, the Minnea-
polls real estate board has planned
to raise the other $500 itself.
By a majority Of IS St. Charles,
Winona county, voted to retain it's
six saloons. The "wet" campaign
was made on the issue that the leg
islature had determined to leave the
statewide prohibition question to a
referendum at the next general elec-
ton.
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 unconstitu-
tional.
William Meyer, sixty-three years
old, a section hand on the St. Paul
Southern railway, died of heart dis
ease on.a train on that line near Has,
tings. He had just boarded the
train with several fellow workmen
after removing snowdrift from the
tracks.
Mower county is entering upon one
Of the biggest bridge building pro-
jects ever undertaken by any one
county in the West, according to
word received by the state highway
commission, 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
together continuously for twenty
four hours. After Miss Hogan left
the floor Selen continued to skate
until the mark of 26 hours 7 minutes
had been reached
DR.. S. H. Mitchell, until he left
Minneapolis few years ago the old
est Odd Fellow in Minnesota, is dead
at the home of his daughter in Los
Angeles, Cal. He was lightweight
years old and had been an Odd Eel
low sixtythree 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 a 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 bigger and higher
| salaried faculty if it is to serve the
best interests of the state and oc-
cupy place at the head of American
| educational institutions.
AS result of a letter addressed
to his mother in Germany ridiculing
the United States army, attacking
President Wilson and asserting 49,
100000 Germans in the United States
would revolt if war was declared on
Germany, Paul L. Scharfenberg, pri'
vate in L company, First Minnesota
infantry, has been courtmartialed
and sentenced to five years in the
federal penitentiary at Fort Leaven.
worth.
DR.. James Wallace of Manchester
college has resigned the vice presi.
dency of the Minnesota branch OF
the American Peace society because
1.-THE officers of the society have pur'
sued a very unpatriotic and danger
GUS policy and have greatly discred'
tied the organization" In his letter
of resignation Dr. Wallace said;
"When peace becomes an end in it.
self and is put above justice, free
dom and the inalienable rights OF