Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-08-23
ABOUT THE STATE
News Of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
happenings Of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience Of the
Busy Reader.

r.. NJ. Russell, St. Paul painter, was
killed in an elevator accident
st. Paul policemen have formed
union with a charter membership OF
1876.
lightning burned the Wild Rice
church. one of the largest edifices In
Norman county.
DR.. K. S. Kavanaugh, widely known
woman physician, is dead at Mime
apolis, aged sixty-three.
Total fire losses in Minnesota for
July, 1917. were $3S4.559, compared
with $274,443 for July, 1916.
Thomas Barten, a veteran of the
Civil war, is dead at the Soldiers
home. He was seventy-two years OF
age.
Secretary Lane has authorized the
establishment of q new mining exper-
iment station at the University Of Min
nesota.
Mrs. Elizabeth Simpson, sixty years
DID, the wealthiest woman in Winona,
| Is UcdO II ulcRu I'LL, A>SAh0
Christmas, near Minneapolis.
Peter R. Pampusch of st. Paul, del
egate to the International Typograph-
| ical convention at Colorado Springs,
Colo, died suddenly In the latter city.
Peter F. Jurgensen, aged sixty-six,
for thirty five years q resident of Min
neapolis and one of the stockholders
of the st. Anthony Falls bank, is dead.
That women are taking the places
of men in the Northern Minnesota
| lumber camps was disclosed in a re-
port just received by Labor Commis-
sioner Houk.
John r. Wells, clerk of court of WILL
kin county for twenty years, is dead
at Breckenridge. He as member of
the Elks, Knights of Pythias and Ma.
sonic orders.
Miss Catherine A. Gillespie. ninety.
two years old, resident Of Hennepin
county for more than sixty-four years,
| is dead at her home in Minneapolis
after long illness.
John s. Ryan, train dispatcher for
| the Milwaukee road since 1872 and
one of the best known telegraphers
and railroad men in the Northwest, is
dead at Minneapolis.
Forty thousand persons participated
| in a patriotic demonstration at Min
neapolis, arranged to answer pro-Ger.
man activities throughout the state
and New Ulm in particular.
Major Oscar Seebach OF Red Wing,
| a member of the 1917 state legislature,
| will terminate about Sept. l his serv.
| ice as home guard organizer to the
| state public safety commission.
The body Of Chris Erickson, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Arne Erickson of Stay
| ton, the first of General Pershing's
force in France to lose his life, has
been returned to Slayton for burial
| Captain J. T. Rose, seventy-one
| years old, one of the best known YES
| sci agents at the American Head of
| the Lakes and a member of the Du-
luth board of trade, is dead at Duluth.
| is held in the Meeker county Jail
| without bail on a charge of making
se6itious utterances at a meeting at
Lake Manuela, ten miles from Litch.
| fe,6
| Designation of Saturday, Sept 1,
as dedication day, on which Minnesota
will honor men chosen for the ma.
tional army, is announced from the
offices of the state public safety COM
mission.
| Uncle Sabin Rogers, residing near
Anoka, a pioneer of Minnesota, era
dled an acre of grain. tied and shocked
it. all by the old hand method. in one
day recently. He is seventy-six years
of age.
| James Crays, seventy-five years old,
pioneer Minneapolis business man, is
dead in the Mill City. During the
Civil war MIR. Crays was captain Of
| Company A, One Hundred Fifth Ohio
| infantry.
7. B. Rogers. seriously injured in a
| gasoline explosion at his home in Min.
neapolis. crawled to the second floor
OF the house after attempting to ex.
tiilS uiSu TIC iduicS, anu IcSCucU HIS
| wife and four children.
Captain Clark Keysor, ninety-one
| cid. is dead at his home in Mankato
| He was an officer in the Tenth Mime
| sofa during the Civil war and was q
| member of the Mankato board of ed
| ucation for several years.
Henry Zaender, a German farmer
living at Albert Lea, was arrested
| charged with insulting the American
flag, He pleaded guilty TO the charge
and was sentenced to ninety days in
! Jail, without option of fine
A licensed dog has has much right
| in the street as an automobile and a
| driver who runs over and kills such
| an animal is liable for damages, ac-
| cordns TO Judge Thomas II. Salmon
| of the Minneapolis court of concilia-
| ton
| hunting on Sunday in Minnesota is
illegal, according TO an opinion OF the
state attorney generals Office The