New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-01-03

Cloud have found John Maxi, q parole
breaker, in the Manitoba penitentiary
at Stony Mountain.
Vital statistics show that in 1916
there have been 1896 deaths and
$3.50 births in Minneapolis, both to-
tails indicating an increase over 1915,
when there were LOAF deaths and g.
522 births.
William H. Burton, former switch
man, values his feet4at $4,000 each.
In a suit brought against the Great
Northern railroad in the Ramsey
county district court Burton asks $780,
600 for their loss.
The date of the annual meeting of
the All Minnesota Development asso-
citation has been changed from Jan. 5
and 6 to Jan. 1S and 10, and the place
from University Farm to the old cap
itol at st. Paul.
John r. O'Brien, pioneer resident Of
ST.. Paul and builder of some of the
best known old time business blocks,
is dead. He was eighty-two years Of
age and had lived in ST. Paul for
nearly sixty years.
st. Paul has been chosen as the To-
cation of one of the twelve farm loan
banks by the federal farms loan board.
The st. Paul institution will serve the
states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Mime
sofa and North Dakota
Children under twelve will be pro-
hibited from selling newspapers or
conducting other street trades in
Minnesota if a bill being prepared by
the child welfare commission is passed
by the next legislature.
Lost in, a binding, storm on AIissis-
sippi river bottom lands near Red
Wing, where he had lived for years,
Edward Wood an aged woodsman,
persisted while on his way from Red
Wing to his shack in the bottoms.
Following a conference with Secre-
tary of the Interior Lane Representa-
tives STEVENSON and Schall said the
establishment of a government mining
experiment station at the University
of Minnesota is practically assured.
State inheritance tax revenue Of
$730,744.02 collected during the last
five months exceeded by approx
mately $4,000 that of the entire fiscal
year preceding, according to figures
given out by State Treasurer Gooding.
While attending Christmas dance
at Pipestone Nellie Johnson, eighteen
year-old daughter of August Johnson,
dropped dead at the feet of her part
ner on the dance floor. Heart disease
,is believed to have caused her death.
Charles Powers, negro, was shot
five times in a quarrel in rooming
house at Minneapolis and died short
gress, was arrested and has con-
fessed, according to the police, to fir.
ing the shots.
Minneapolis automobile thieves set
a pace for all others when they
smashed in "a rear window of an au-
tomobile company's garage, opened
the rear doors and stole new seven
passenger car that was on exhibition
in the front window. 8
Mrs. Jahanna Minske, aged fifty four,
who lived on farm with her brother
near Waseca, was found frozen to
death beside the rural mailbox. 1t is
supposed she went out to get the mail,
had an attack of epilepsy and froze
before she recovered.
For the tenth consecutive year, be-
er;r
passed the billion dollar line in bank
clearings, the total for 1916 being ST.
469,874,329.12, an increase of approxi-
mately s1O0,000,000 over the former
highest year of record.
A movement has been started by
Senator George H. Gardner of Brain
erd for the organization of state
conference on taxation among repre-
sentative men from all parts of the
state during the session of the legs
latrre, probably late in February.
Arthur Warner, twenty-seven years
old, of Minneapolis, was killed Instantly
and w. C. Davis and Christ Olson re-
'ceived minor injuries when the auto
mobile in which they were riding
skidded on a Mill City street in a
snow storm and plunged over ten
foot embankment.
Approximately 100000 acres of
Northern Minnesota land will be sub
jected to soil survey if the legisla-
ture passes a bill that Northwest de-
velopment committees of the St. Paul
Association of Commerce and the Min
neapolis Civic and Commerce associa-
ton will recommend.
Agitation fostered by the Industrial
Workers of the World among men en-
ployed in the sawmills of the Virginia
and Rainy River Lumber company at
Virginia, said to be one of the largest
of it's kind in the world, employing
LOO men, may cause the suspension
of the plant for the winter.
The high prices of coal in Duluth
have drawn the attention of the fed
eral government and the department
Of justice will send special investiga-
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