Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-06-28

closed the headquarters.
John 8. Johnson of Minneapolis was
elected president of the Minnesota
Elks at the closing session Of the an.
nual convention at Winona.
julius Weidner of st. Paul, fore
man for L. w. Baumeister & Co.. st.
Paul contractors, died of heart disease
at Red Lake Falls while swimming.
James A. Kerr, employed as an en-.
gineer at the government high dam
near Fort Smelling, is dead from IN
juries received when he fell from the
lock wall at the dam. Mr.. Kerr was
seventy-nine years of age had had
been q resident of Minneapolis fol
more than half century.
Isabelle Palbitski, nineteen years Of
age, escaped death in remarkable
manner in q severe electrical storm at
Wincna when lightning struck the bed
in which she was sleeping and de.
molished 1t. Not until after the bed
fell to the floor in heap of splintered
wood did the girl awaken.
Henry 8. Goff, educator, author,
poet. soldier and pioneer of the North.
west. is dead at his home in Mime.
apolis. aged seventy-f1ve. After the
Civil war Mr.. Goff served as county
superintendent Of schools of Blue
Earth county and later was an instruc-
for in tho state university
The question of voting st. Louis
county dry. will be submitted to the
voters Sept. 10 under the county op.
ton law, according to plans which
took shape at Duluth when q temper.
airy dry county committee was com.
pleted and State Senator Richard
Jones of Duluth as engaged to manage
the campaign.
Charles E. Lamberton, transfer man
and garage owner and we'll known in
Southern Minnesota, was shot and
killed at Redwood Falls. William Ro.
sendahl, an automobile agent, Is un.
der arrest. Friendship of long stand.
ing between the men ended recently
when they became competitors in the
automobile business
Lionel c. Long, Minnesota pioneer,
one of the founders of the Farmers
alliance and prominent in state poll.
tics for quarter Of century, is dead
at Minneapolis. Mr.. Long came to
Minnesota in 1856, settling in Fill.
more county, and later took q home.
stead in Mobiles county. He removed
to Minneapolis about fifteen years ago.
The state public safety commission
has taken measures to suppress or
control I. w. w. meetings in North.
ern Minnesota where syndicalism in
interference with military enlistment
is declared to have been advocated.
Every mayor and police chief in that
part Of the state received warning
that he will be expected to enforce the
1917 laws covering these offenses.
DR.. Eugen Friedmann, German
chemist, now in the Hennepin county
Jail. will be informed as an alien en-.
envy for the period of the war. or until
President Wilson decides that his de.
tention is no longer necessary. The
order to intern was given by United
States Attorney General Gregory. Al
legged disloyal statements and actions
reported by acquaintances caused his
detentionA
A suit to test the powers of the
state publis safety commission in reg
ulating the sale OF liquor in the state
has been fled in United States dis
trict court at Minneapolis by Ernest
F. Cary, acting as counsel for Phil
Cook, saloon proprietor. The COM
plant charges that the state legisla.
ture violated the constitution of the
United States when it delegated legis-
lative powers to the commission.
Brewery officials of Duluth, called
into conference by Sheriff Meining.
have pledged their support to the re-
quirements OF. order No. 8, issued by
the state public safety commission
regulating the sale and disposition
of liquor in Minnesota during the war.
Only one case of beer a week to a
home will be sold or shipped by Du.
luth breweries and clubs and miners
boarding houses on the iron ranges,
that previously have obtained larger
ccnsignmepts. win be strictly shut
cut.