The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-14
GATHERED FROM ALL
SECTIONS OF The STATE
Happenings Of the Week Briefly
Told for the Convenience Of
the Busy Reader.


Danebod college at Tyler has been
destroyed by fire with loss of $780,
900.
Gust w. Johnson of St. Paul has
been appointed superintendent of
the old state capitol.
]. w. Breckenridge, druggist and
postmaster at Pine City for more
than twenty years, is dead
Initial steps have been taken to
form a central organization of all
the Swedish societies in Minneapolis.
Prosecutions under the pure food
laws brought the state $215 revenue
from fines during the past month.
In the fight on the high cost of liv-
ing Minneapolis people are consuming
nearly $4,000 pounds of rice week.
The state legislature will be asked
to appropriate 100000 to carry on
fight against infantile paralysis in
Minnesota.
Mrs. Emily H. Bradley, for forty
years a teacher in the public schools
of St. Paul, is dead. She was sixty
years of age.
The National Editorial association,
which meets in Minneapolis this
summer, will make a trip through
Northern Minnesota.
Oscar Cross, thirty-two years old,
is dead at Minneapolis from injuries
received when he was crushed by a
descending elevator
The German Catholic church at
Marystown, six miles from Shakopee,
has been destroyed by fire. The loss
is placed at 100000.
Nearly half the 242 court cases on
the calendar for the March term of
the Ramsey county district court are
divorce cases. The total is 112.
Major Elvin r. Heiberg, of St.
Paul, brother of E. B. Heiberg, mill
tary attache of the American ambas-
sy at Rome, has been killed on the
Italian front. j. -..,--.---
An explosion of gasoline caused by
the rubbing of garments while being
cleaned in the tailor shop of Art
Moe at Thief River Falls caused a
loss of $1,000.
The Knutson bill taxing grain,
stock and bond transactions of grain
exchanges was defeated in the lower
branch of the Legislature by big
majority.
George Sterling was found guilty
of murder in the first degree in the
district court at Bemidji for killing
Peter Skrieff several months ago af-
ter quarrel.
A company has been formed to es-
tablish transportation service be-
tween Wadena and Walker. 1t will
place ten cars in service as soon as
road conditions will permit.
0. l. Brandvold, who resigned as
state bank examiner last December
to become cashier of the Peoples
state bank of St. Paul, has been re-
appointed to his former position.
W. 0. Bennington, sixty-one years
old, loan agent for the Bank of
Glencoe, committed suicide by shoot
ing. His widow assigned continued
i'll health as the reason.
Peter Seims, pioneer railroad con-
tractor of St. Paul, and founder of
the siems-Carey company, died sud-
denly at Daytona, Fla. Mr.. Stems
was born in Germany in 1912.
For his "good and manly behavior"
thus keeping his pledge to his father
Ray johnson, of St. Cloud, twenty
one years old, was remembered in
the fathers will with an extra pro-
vision.
Victor Anderson, aged forty-six, is
dead at Duluth from injuries sus-
tanned when he was caught by bro
ken machine belt and tossed to the
ceiling in the foundry of the Nation
al Iron Works.
In 1911 Miss Edith Kassing then
superintendent of the girls training
school at Red Wing, invested $4,000
in 100 shares of Bethlehem Steel.
Recently she disposed of the stock
for $4,000.
Minnesota gross earnings of the
500 line were nearly $693,00O smaller
in the last half of 1916 than in the
corresponding 1915 period, according
to the company's report to the state
tax commission.
The season for hook and line fish
ing closed March 1. 1t will open a.
gain April Is for brook trout and
May 1 for all other kinds of fish ex-
cept black bass, on which the season
opens May 90.
Ben Carlson, Braham, won the but
ter contest and j. B. Baumgartner.
Pine Island, the cheese contest at
the February competition under the
direction of the state dairv, and food