The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-07-18
GATHERED FROM ALL
SECTIONS OF THE STATE
Happenings Of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience of the
Busy Reader.

| busy Nea0er.
| Mrs. Louise Samuelson, sixty years
old, pioneer resident of St. Paul,
is dead.
Company A, Second regiment, Min
nesota national guard, has been
transferred from New Ulm to Luz
verne.
Dennis Mangan, eighty-fve years
old, hanged himself at his home in
st. Paul. He was Respondent over i'll
| health.
Arthur Bergstrom of Strandquist,
this state, fighting with the Cana
dian troops in France, is reported to
have been wounded.
The state of Minnesota had cash
balance of $6,605, 637 .l6 on hand on
June 80, 1917, according to state
treasurer Rines.
The monthly report of the state
hospital for the insane at Rochester
shows that 1885 patients are now be-
ing cared for there
An engineer from the bureau of
mines at Washington will be sent to
| Minnesota shortly to inspect the iron
! mines of the state.
The Minneapolis Association Op-
| posed to Woman's Suffrage has de-
cided to abandon it's political efforts
and take up Red Cross work.
Joseph Lowey of Rochester, four
years old, was drowned while at
tempting to recover ball which had
fallen into a barrel partly filled with
| water.
The Federal Loan bank of St. Paul
has made loans totaling $417, 1000, ac-
| cording to figures on the first quar-
ter year of operation of the institu-
| ton.
| John Otter, aged thirty-seven con-
tractor and builder at Hamel, was
! killed in that village when his horses
! ran away and threw him out of a
| wagon.
William Rain, who for twenty
years has been widely known in Min
! neapolis musical circles as violin
list, was drowned while bathing in
! Beebe lake, Wright county,
James F. Bell of Minneapolis, has
been appointed chairman of a provi-
sional national committee to mobilize
the milling industry to help win the
war for the United States.
James F. Wallace, ousted from his
| seat in the Minneapolis city council
by the courts for violating the state
corrupt practices law, was returned
to office at special election.
Lloyd and George NUM-, fourteen
| and sixteen years old, brothers, were
| drowned in Lake Francis, near James,
vile, when wave capsized the boat
from which they were fishing.
Nearly 5000 Scandinavans from
the Twin Cities attended a picnic
| under the auspices of the Minnesota
Scandinavian grand lodge of the In
| ternational Order of Good Templars
Tearing down an American flag and
crushing it under his heel, while ut
tering vile epithets, almost cost Vic
tor Salmi his life at Kinney. When
rescued by the police he was badly
dis1igured.
! Annual license fees collected from
hotels and restaurants throughout
the state amounted to $8,698, accord
ing to report to the state treasu-
rer by William G. Nee, state hotel
Inspector, for the fiscal year ending
June 80.
| Margaret Croft, nineteen years old,
and Mrs. Bessie Frisk, aged twenty,
both of Minneapolis, were sentenced
to ninety days each in the workhouse
by Municipal Judge Smith of Mime
apolis for wearing soldiers uniforms.
Minnesota may lead the entire Uni
ted States in the reduction of fire
loss through Fourth of July celebra-
lions this year, only few fires and
one or two minor accidents having
been reported to State Fire Marshal
Hargadine
The Hanna Ore Mining company of
Duluth, capitalized at 100000, has
filed articles of incorporation with
the secretary of state. The business
OF the new corporation will be min
ing, smelling and refining of iron ore
and other metals.
John M. Brooks, a farmer residing
near Blooming Prairie, was instantly
killed when heavy car owned and
driven by his son-in-la law, John Schultz,
Slid off high grade and turned tur-
tie. Other passengers in the car
were badly bruised
Work on second state and federal
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