New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-06-20

A 100000 theatrical corporation
with Minneapolis as the nucleus has
been formed by a company headed by
Frank E. Nemec, St. Cloud exhib-
~itor. The company has engaged to
operate, lease and buy theaters and
handle films.
Roy Rasmussen, eighteen years old,
slayer of his cousin, Ralph Rasmus-
sen, former Rochester restaurant man.
was sentenced to life Imprisonment by
Judge Granger in Olmsted county dis
trict court. The boy pleaded guilty to
charge of murder:
The Minnesota public safety com
mission has taken hand in the strike
of union plasterers in st. Paul, with
Recommendation that conference be.
called Immediately between the strik-
ers and the master plasterers looking
toward settlement of the dispute
1 Agnes Mlynczak, eighteen years old;
Frances Mlynczak, twenty-three; Mi
chael Stolpa, tWenty-three, and Ludwig
Stoltman, nineteen, were drowned in
the Mississippi river while returning
. to yWinona from an island several
smdes below that city. Their launch
collided with submerged dam.
Harry P. Peterson of Duluth was
given an indeterminate sentence OF
one to fifteen years in state prison for
killing Nels Nelson last November by
reckless automobile driving. He was
convicted June on charge of man
slaughter. Evidence was introduced
to show that Peterson had been drink
ing
The official Minnesota returns, show
ing 221,747 selective draft registra-
tons, have been forwarded to Wash
ington. This number is 1884 below
the government estimate of 240,551
but is subject to corrections on re-
checks of the summaries and to sup
Elementary returns on late registra-
TONS
Leroy Quinn shot and killed his
former wife and himself at the farm
on which she was living near Eden
Valley. Jealousy is suggested as the
probable motive. Quinn was the wom-
ans second husband, but she was d.
vorced from him recently and two
weeks ago married a man named
Brassard.
Salaries of the presidents of the
five state normal schools were in
creased from $4,000 to $4,000 a year
by action of the state normal school
board. Ell Torrance of Minneapolis
was reelected president of the board,
the five school presidents were given
new terms and the faculty members
we're voted contracts
Frank ]. McCool, alleged accomplice
of Joe Redenbaugh in the murder of
Alice McQuillan Dunn in st. Paul and
Patrolman George Connery in Mime
apolis, was found guilty of murder in
the third degree in the Hennepin
county district court In connection
with the death of Connery The max
imum penalty is thirty years.
Governor J. A. A. Burnquist will be
a candidate for reelection to his pres
ent Office, if in politics at all next
year, he said. Renewed reports that
Senator Knute Nelson has determined
to retire next year have been received
by his friends, giving rise to new spec
ulations about his successor Governor
Burnquist h4 been considered a pos
sibility
Lieutenant Colonel w. J. Murphy
Of st. Paul, First Minnesota Field Ar
tillery, has been promoted by order
of Governor Burnquist to be colonel
of the new Second Minnesota Field
Artillery. Major William c.. Ruther-
ford of st. Paul was taken from the
reserve and placed in charge of organ
ization and in command of the new
field hospital corps.
Des Moines, Ia, has been selected
as the cantonment site for the national
army of the Thirteenth divisional
area. Fort Smelling had been recon-
mended by Major General Thomas H.
Barry and strong fight was made to
have the big training camp located on
the outskirts of the Twin Cities, but
the secretary Of war ruled otherwise
ana Des Moines was named.