Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-06-21
ABOUT the STATE
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/ -h,s State sAairymen>s association
/ wall hold LES summer meeting June y
/ and - in SvaiaerI
/ Between s0o and soa men will be
| arrested in palath within the next few
( DAYS for failure 10 register under the
/ Irasr law.
/ Mrs John H. Rich OF Minneapolis.
| wife of the chairman Of the Ninth Dis
sr!ct Federal Reserve bank. is dead
at Rochester.
| Lieutenant P. A. Brannan, Elk
River. this state. with the Canadian
oversee forces. has been killed some
| where in France"
Edward F. Wallace, thirty-ive years
old. brakeman on the Great North
ern railroad. was killed by train at
Hopkins Junction.
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.
Mistaking a bottle of poison for
| medicine, Bernadette Gallagher of WI
mona, sixteen years old, drank its con-
! tents and died within few minutes
Patrick Hammel OF Duluth won his
| fight in district court at Brainerd to
establish a claim to partnership in
Guyana range iron land valued at $5,-
100000.
J. F.. Ebersole, for six years men,
Der of the economics faculty at the
University of Minnesota, has left that
institution to engage in the banking
business.
Former Representative Frederick c.
Stevens of st. Paul has been recon-
mended to the president for appoint
mert as a member of the interstate
commerce commission.
Jack Hamilton, twenty-one years
old, was drowned while sailing on q
lake near Albert Lea. The boom on
his yacht struck him on the head and
knocked him overheard.
Thirty-two Indians registered in
Carlton county under the selective
draft proclamation are all real Amer
leans, not one having indicated q claim
for exemption from service.
Rev. v. 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.
Fire at Pennington destroyed the
Sanford Drew hospital, the Standard
laundry, the Wintz meat market and
caused heavy losses by smoke and
water on several other buildings.
The state railroad and warehouse
commission has continued until July
further hearings on the application
OF Minnesota railroads for Is per
cent horizontal increase in intrastate
freight rates.
The Minnesota public safety COM
| mission has asked permission of T. w.
Gregory, United States attorney gen-
eral. to erect a stockade at Fort Smell
| Ing in which to confine the registra-
| ton slackers.
r. A. Champion, sixty years old, was
drowned in 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 fit Of despond-
ency and later cut off the hand in
which he held the knife with which
his sister was killed.
| Lockjaw caused the death of John
| Wetherspoon, employed as a laborer
by the Great Northern railroad at St.
| Paul. Wetherspoon suffered a com.
| pound fracture of his right leg, from
witch lockjaw developed.
The Minnesota public safety com.
mission has issued warning to man
| ufacturers and licensed dealers in in
toxicants to see that the state laws
are observed or orders will be issued
| making the state bone dry
! Proprietors Of two Minneapolis mo-.
ton picture theaters lost their fights
to stop the pcketing and "bannering'
&C their places by labor unions when
| District Judge Dickinson held the &C
tion Of the picketers legal
Governor Burnquist has reappointed
William f, Honk commissioner of la
Dor The appointment is for two
| years Mr.. IloUk was first appointed
by Governor Eberhart in 1911 and has
| served continuously since.
lchn f. Calderwood, former vice
pres dent 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.
August Hay, for thirty years a meat
dealer of Excelsior. Lake Mnnetonka,
ana one of the best known men in the
siliaEe, SHOT and killed himself In the