Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-08-02
ABOUT The STATE
News Of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
happenings Of the Week Briefly To'd
for the Convenience Of the
Busy Reader

EUcu T. uOIllpSOIl, dSeu oihts -oS'N->
for years a member of the Minneapo'
lis bar, is dead.
Governor Burnquist has announced
the reappointment of Carlos Avery as
state game and fish commissioner.
Isaac A. Barnes, sixty-five years old,
for more than thirty years practlc-
ing attorney of Minneapolis, is dead.
Charles H. Conner, for twenty-five
years a resident of Minneapolis and a
prominent member of the Elks, is
dead.
Conrad Hernlem, fifty-five years OF
age, a we'll known GOodhue county
farmer, was struck by lightning and
killed.
Willis Baker, well known pioneer
real estate man and resident of Min
neapolis for fifty-seven years, is dead,
aged eighty-six.
Patrick Larkin, aged thirty-eight, a
Brainerd automobile liveryman, was
drowned in Gull lake in sight of his
wife and seven children.
H. B. Harrison, forty three years old,
is dead at Red Wing of tetanus con-
tracted on July when a toy cannon
exploded, SCATTERING his hand.
A. M. Opsahl of Brainerd, now state
oil inspector, is slated to succeed John
E. Kienitz of Cambridge as deputy
state immigration commissioner.
William Rabies, twenty-three years
of age, a farmer residing near Fair
mont, was killed when struck by light
ming while working in a harvest field.
After his mother warned him to
stay away from the river. Clifford
Maness of St. Cloud, thirteen years
old, went in bathing and was
drowned.
Former State Representative Asher
Murray of Wadena has been elected
to succeed Andrew D. Stephens of
Crookston on the state board of i'm
migration.
Cordenio A. Severance, widely
known lawyer and member of the law
firm of Davis, Severance & Odds of
st. Paul. will head Red Cross mis-
sion to Serbia.
Lloyd Coon. twelve years old, died
in GAINESVILLE hospital of injuries
received when he jumped from pas
senger train and hit a switch, sever
ing leg and an arm.
Gilbert Stone, twenty-five years old
private in l. company, First Mime
sofa infantry, was fatally injured when
struck by train while guarding the
Westminster street bridge at St. Paul
The state public safety commission
has recommended the summary re
moval of Sheriff J. J. Urness of Nah.
nomen county from Office on charges
of abetting violation of the liquor
laws.
James Wood, teamster, forty-five
years old. employed by the South st.
Paul Stock Yards company, was
thrown from his wagon and instantly
killed when his team became fright.
ened and ran away
The state of Minnesota has s9,947,
600 in cash in its treasury, the largest
cash balance in the history of the
state. State Treasurer Rines predicts
that new high records may be estab.
lished during August.
A large number of slackers con
victed in federal court at Duluth for
failure to register on June were
sentenced by Federal Judge Page
Morris to terms varying from thirty
days to year in JAIL
Justin A. Mccarthy, steward in q
Winona club, shot and probably ia
tally wounded his wife, shot at an.
other woman and attempted to kill
himself, Mccarthy Is thought to have
been crazed by the heat.
Ella Hanson, who was with William
Fugniato, Japanese, when he fell
from rowbOat on Lake Harriet. at
Minneapolis, and was drowned, com
mitted suicide the following day in
her room at a Mill City hotel
DR.. Arthur Boucher, formerly a den
fist of Ely, this state, was killed .on
the battle line in France while taking
part in a charge on German lines. DR.
Boucher was thirty years of age and
was born and reared in Waseca.
Establishment of public markets In
Minnesota cities and suspension of Ii
cense regulations hindsring food prod
ucts sale are recommended to city
councils in resolution adopted By
the state public safety commission.
Mrs. Ida McGin Boynton. forty
three years old, only daughter of for
mer Governor Andrew r. McGill, is
dead at the McGill home at st. Paul
just four months after the death OF
her husband, Wilbur d. Boynton OF
Meadville. Pa.
l.. II. Slocum, former county auditor
of koochiching county. who was re
moved from office because Of alleged
irregularities. pleaded guilty to an in
dictment charging him with ISSUING
fraudulent warrants for $1,000 in con
neetion with the building of state
highways. He was fined $4,000 anc
the other indictments quashed.