Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1917-09-05
!, Minneso TIA State NeWsI


About $50 milk wagon drivers are
on strike in Minneapolis.
a. r. Olson, q resident Of Minneap-
oils for forty.eight years, Is dead.
Eight boy inmates Of the state
training school at Red Wing have es-
capped.
Superintendent =. L. SlonnigerS Of
the Hastings public schools. Is dead.
aged thirty-one.
Melvin Morrell is dead at Mime
apolis from injuries received when he
was crushed beneath an automobile
truck.
Minnesota has passed the 1000
mark Of soldiers enlisted in the regu-
lar army. It's original volunteer quota
was ALSO.
Two Of the children Of Charles Di-
mond OF st. Paul are dead from diph-
liberia and four other children and
the parents are seriously i'll from the
disease.
]. p. Whitwell Of st. Paul was elect
ed president Of the Minnesota Spirit.
ualists' association at the closing
meeting of its annual convention in
Minneapolis.
Minnesota corporations in the past
fiscal year paid $4,618,464.76 income
taxes to the government The returns
by individuals in the Gopher state to.
tailed $1,814,431.33.
Mrs. Mary Kinnane, ninety-three
years old, for sixty-three years resi-.
dent Of Minneapolis, is dead. Mrs,
Kinnane was born in Ireland in 1924
and came to America when child.
Major James Ronayne, u. S. A., re.
tired, has been detailed as professor
OF military science and tactics at the
University of Minnesota. He has been
instructor of the Illinois national
guard.
Mrs. d. w. McCourt of st. Paul
prominent in Minnesota D. A. R. cir
c]es for many years, is dead as the
esult of a paralytic stroke suffered
while addressing a board meeting OF
the D. A. r.
Miss Marguerite Davis Of st. Paul
Northwest tennis champion, defended
her title by defeating Miss Josephine
Cotton of Duluth in the women's sin
gle finals of the state tennis tourna
ment at Duluth. !.
Robert Crickmore of the state fair
board and prominent Minnesota dairy
and stockman, is dead at his home in
Owatonna. Death resulted from can.
ccr of the stomach from which he had
suffered several years. s.-s
The Peoples Council of America
scheduled to meet in national conven
ton in Minneapolis, has been prohib.
tied from meeting in that city or any
where else in Minnesota by proclama
ton of Governor Burnquist.
A 6x10 American flag was torn from
the wall behind the altar Of Prospect
Park Methodist church at Minneapo
lis. The pastor found the mutiIated
banner, on which was pinned this
note: Preach peace, or this church
goes up in smoke. :. s..s5. 3.
Mrs. Cora Biller, aged twenty-nine
was shot and killed at st. Paul siby
William Brinkbock, aged thirty-two;f q
recent deserter from the First Mime.
sofa field artillery Brinkbock then
killed himself. Jealousy was the sup.
posed cause of the tragedy.
Richard Wise; an electrician OF
Shakopee, was electrocuted while re
pairing broken connection. The lad.
der on which he was standing slipped
and in attempting to save himself
from a seven-foot fall he. grasped 9
live wire. He died instantly.
Consolidation Of the state dairy and
food and Oil and hotel inspection de.
partments recently effected by Gov
ernor Burnquist with the appointment
of James Sorensen as tri-commissioner
is held legal in an opinion from the
attorney generals department.
The Park Region Echo at Aexan
dria, suspended from the mails some
time ago by the postmaster general
for the publishing Of alleged seditious
or disloyel attacks on the government,
will be permitted to issue in the future
provided Objectionable matter is elm.
mated.
F. p. Pearson, state superintendent
of banking, will call conference in
Minneapolis early in September of the
heads Of the banking departments OF
the states in the Ninth reserve dis
trict for general discussion Of all
phases of the Northwest financial sit
uation.
Parts Of Northern Minnesota report
an earthquake shock, believed to be
the first in the history Of Minnesota.
The quake occurred In sections Of
Crow Wing, Morrison and Todd coun-
ties. Dishes ratified and chimneys
swayed, but no serious damage re-
suited.
"a. M. Woodward, prominent Mime
apolis banker and grain man, died
suddenly Of heart disease at his home
in the Mill City. Mr.. Woodward was
sixty-fve years of age and had been
q resident Of Minneapolis since 1866.
At the time Of his death he was presi-
dent Of the Franklin Avenue State