New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-09-12

Six hundred stockholders OF the
{ Farmers Terminal Packing company
Inspected construction Of the new
100000 building approaching compile
ton at Red Rock, q few miles down
the Mississippi river from st. Paul.
Attorney General Lyndon A. Smith
has returned from Saratoga, N. Y,
where he attended the meeting Of the
Association of Attorneys General Of
the United States. Mr.. Smith was
elected president Of the organization.
Corporal Harry q Cross, Red
Wing young man who enlisted in the
American Red Cross and is now on
French battlefields, was recently hon
ored by American military officers and
French government authorities for
bravery.
Minnesota will receive from the
federal government for the year end
ing June 30, 1919, road aid amounting
to $425, 865, according to an official
announcement from Washington. In
1917 Minnesota was apportioned $142,-
394 and for 1918 $2S4,792.
Richard Wise, an electrician Of
Shakopee, was electrocuted while re-.
pairing a broken connection. The lad
der on which he was standing slipped
and in attempting to save himself
from seVen-foot fall he. grasped a
live wire. He died instantly.
Private Fred Fess, eighteen years
old. of Renville, this state, member
of H. Company, Third Minnesota in
fantry, is dead at the cantonment hos
pital at Deming, N. M. His was the
first soldier death at the camp. He
had been in the service only month.
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.
P. D. Hishon of st. Paul, member
of the Canadian expeditionary force,
died of wounds in field hospital in
France. Mr.. Hishon had, been in the
Canadian army nearly two and half
years. He was wounded three times
and July 80 was decorated for bravery
by King George.
The 10000 school children of St.
Paul are to be organized into Junior
Red Cross society, according to plans
now being formulated by the st. Paul
branch of the Red Cross. The move
ment is part of national undertaking
to enlist 22,OOO,000 school children in
patriotic service.
Judge G. w. Granger of Rochester,
on the district bench of the Third jul
dicial district since May Is, 1915, has
resigend to become head of the legal
staff of the Mayo clinic at Rochester
Charles r. Callahan, Rochester at
storney, has been named as successor
Estu Judge Granger.
i. w. Foss, Joliet, Ill, committed
suicide by hanging himself while in
solitary confinement at the ST. Cloud
reformatory. The official report says
he had been acting strangely for a
few days, refused to obey orders and
was placed in solitary confinement the
day he committed suicide.
Edward F. Burns of Newark, N. j.,
has been named state deputy for Min
nesota for the Modern Woodmen of
America. Mr.. Burns is one of the So
ciety's lecturers and is one of the
widest known members of the order.
There will be 10000 members in Min
nesota under his jurisdiction.
Carl Ahlteen, editor of the Alarm,
j. w W. semiweekly, published in
Swedish in Minneapolis; has been ar
rested by special agent of the de-
partment of justice on charge of dis,
loyalty. In his paper he placed the
German flag on par with the Ameri-
can and urged his readers to refuse to
fight Germany.
Mrs. Park L. Day OF Frazee, de-
spondent over the i'll health of her
husband, who Is confined in santa
rum suffering from tuberculosis, her.
self Ill and unable to provide for her
three children, purchased poison and
mixed it with the family food. The
mother and two children are dead, but
the third will recover.
Mrs. Gunild Iverson, mother of Sam.
uel G. Iverson, former state auditor
and a pioneer settler Of the state, Is
dead at the home of her son in st.
Paul. Mrs. Iverson was born In Nor
way in 1s47 and came to America with
her parents in 1852, settling first in
Wisconsin and then moving to Fill
more county, this state, In 1855.
Governor Burnquist has appointed
James H.. Hall of Marshall, county
attorney of Lyon county, referee to
take testimony on charges of disloy-
atty which recently resulted in sus-
pension from Office of Mayor l. A.
Fritsche and City Attorney Albert
Ffaender, both of New Ulm, and Aud
sitor Louis Vogel of Brown county
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