New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-05-23

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dered to report at once to Fort Sher-
idan illinois for active service. He
attended the Plattsburg IN: W camp.
Anton Gutgesell, twenty five years
Old, was thrown from his bicycle
against the railing of the Twentieth
avenue bridge at Minneapolis when
MS wheel skidded in the mud. He
died a few minutes later while in an
ambulance.
John Holmquist, ffty-year-old farmer
OF Skaters, this state, was killed in
stantly and three companions mar
roWly escaped death when a touring
car plunged from Westminster street
bridge at st. Paul down fifteen-foot
enbankment.
Twin brothers, eighty years of age,
who have lived together since BIRTH
have been separated by the death at
.Red Wing of 0. A. Sutherland. The
other brother is Andrew Sutherland
The lnen reached Red Wing from
Sweden forty years ago.
The old state capitol building in St.
Paul will be improved and altered,
Governor Burnquist announces, to
make more room for state departments
and relieve crowded conditions in the
new capitol A fund of $4,000 is
available for the work.
Professor Robert M. Yerkes of Har-
ward university, one of the best known
American authorities on psychology,
has resigned to become professor of
psychology at the University of Min
nesota. He will begin his work at
Minneapolis in September.
Commissioner of Highways Bah
cock has appointed Charles r.. Nagel
as chief bridge engineer Of Mime
sofa with a salary Of $500 a year.
Mr.. Nagel has been connected with the
highway commission and road work
in the state for seven years.
An ordinance is before the Still
water city council which prohibits
dealers or others selling or setting off
fireworks en- the Fourth of July or at
other times during the war with Ger
many. The penalty is a fine Of from
$50 to $50 and Imprisonment.
] Ralph Rasmussen, a restaurant mar
Of Rochester, who was shot about two
weeks ago by his cousin, Roy Rasmus
sen, after, according to the police, he
had foiled an attempt to rob the res
taurant, is dead. He did not regain
consciousness after the shooting.
Private Howard Williamson of a
machine gun company in the First
Minnesotayinfantry died at the hospi-
tai at Fort Smelling from a pistol shot
wound accidentally inflicted by COM
rade while going on guard. William.
son was resident of Minneapolis.
June 1 will mark the last official
meeting Of the Old Settlers associa-
ton Of Minnesota. Then the Terrific
rial Pioneers will be asked to carry on
the work of the association, whose
list of members, the original Forty
miners, Z & has dwindled to four mem
bers.
Mrs. Ruth Helen Morrison, a ST.
Paul pioneer, eighty-three years Old,
is dead. John H. Morrison, with whom
Mrs. Morrison reached st. Paul from
Indiana in 1856, was builder OF the
Wabasha street bridge, the first struc-
ture to span the Mississippi river at
st. Paul
While his mother was working in
the same room Vincent Bruggeman,
twenty rome years old, drank two ounces
Of poison and died five minutes after
a. race with death in the police ambu-
lance ended at the city hospital. Brug-
geman had been respondent for weeks,
his mother said
The Sioux Indian colony on the res
ervatiQn at Prairie Island, near Red
Wing, is rapidly being depleted A
few years ago there were 200 Indians
there, while now there are less than
fifty. The white mans mode of living
is said to be responsible for the thin
ming out of the race.
Sweeping changes in the admins
tration of several state departments.
involving the elimination of several
high salaried Offices and the conse-
quent saving to the state Of at least
$4,000 in salaries and expenses in
the next two years, have been ordered
by Governor Burnquist.
Mrs. Fannie A. Odell, direct de-
scendant of Ethan Allen of Green
Mountain fame and a resident Of
Litchfield for thirty-seven years, is
dead. Mrs. Odell was born in Maine
in 1854. She was a member of the
Minnesota Territorial Pioneers and
prominent in church and social work
Official notice of war department
plans to bring national guard units to
war strength has been received by
Captain w. f. Rhinow, military secre-
tary to Governor Burnquist. This is
in line with the intention to recruit
tc maximum strength all national
guard regiments not yet in the fed
eral service
Rochester has decided by a vote Of
1,194 to 225 to issue $65OOOO bonds
for the construction of a municipal
power dam to furnish electricity for