New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-06-06
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of Willmar, is dead.
Ronald Sickner of Duluth has been
killed in action while fighting with the
Canadian overseas forces.
Edward Howe Of Minneapolis, aged
twenty-eight, was drowned while fish
ing near Zumbro Height, Lake Mime
tonka.
Serbians on the Minnesota iron
ranges are organizing to return to the
Balkans and fight under the colors of
the allies. -,
Mrs. Benton McGahan, twenty years
old, of Somerset, KY, was killed IN an
elevator accident at the Windsor hotel
| at st. Paul.
st. Paul and Minneapolis Armenian
residents, at mass meeting in Min
neapolis, raised $1,700 for Armenian
| war sufferers.
Mrs. Martha L. Rhoades, sixty-five
years old, for more than fifty years a
resident of Minneapolis, is dead after
long illness.
Dennis F. Long, railroad contractor
and for fifty-eight years resident of
Minneapolis, is dead Of pneumonia
a! after brief illness.
A $4,000 fire at Motley destroyed
the postofice, the Office of the Motley
Mercury, Torgerson's general store
and blacksmith shop.
Bob Nukovich was killed and two
| other miners were wounded in a free
for-all knife battle which took place
in rooming house at Crosby.
Two Minnesotans, F. Johnston OF
Madison Lake and B. G. ClaSke Of
Ashby, fighting with the Canadians
| in France, are reported killed. 8
Recruiting in all branches Of the ma.
tional guard shows an increasing in
terest since the issuance Of the order
authorizing full strength enlistment
James Elliott member of the firm
of Elliott & Whitson, one of the best
known business men of Fergus Falls,
dropped dead while fishing at Otter
Tail lake. u
Two thousand dollars in fines for
speeding the largest assessment for
st. Paul in any one month of its his
tory-was paid in. municipal court
during May.
Congressman Jeanette Rankin Of
Montana will speak at the fifty-6fth
annual meeting of, the Minnesota Ed
ucational association in Minneapolis,
Oct 81 to Nov. 8.
Minnesota began June business with
/ the biggest June cash balance of rec
ord in its treasury. Treasurer Rines
announced $6,191,7 in, cash in his
official possession.
Benjamin Webb, assistant secretary
and treasurer of the Minneapolis Trust
company, is dead He was seventy
| seven years of age and was widely
| known in Minneapolis.
Thomas Kenny, widely known pio-
neer of South Minneapolis, resident
of Minnesota for sixty.one years, is
dead. Mr.. Kenny was seventy years
of age and was born in Ireland
R. NJ. Depew, forty years old, shot
and dangerously wounded his wife,
aged. twenty-eight, following a quar-
rel at their home in Minneapolis. They
had been married only a month.
A new regiment of artillery and a
field hospital corps will be, organized
at once to augment the Minnesota ma
tional guard and the states contribu-
ton to the fighting forces of the ma
ton.
Captain S. s. Brown, former sur
veyor general for Minnesota and a res
ident, of Minneapolis for more than
fifty years, is dead. Captain Brown
served in the Civil war with Maine
| regiment.
Three thousand persons participated
In st, Paul's Decoration day parade in
| spite of the fact that rain fell during
| the entire time. More than $4,000 spec.
| tators packed the sidewalk along the
| line Of march.
| Births in Hennepin county in May
were 6S4, nearly twice as many as the
deaths reported for the same time
| 1872 The report for the first five
months of 1917 showed 2,S47 births
and 1,676 deaths.
George w. Stenger, state secretary
Of the Catholic Order of Foresters, an
nounces that any member in good
standing prior to June who joins the
army or navy shall receive all the ben
efits Of membership.
| a soaking has quenched all brush
and forest fires that have been burn
ing internationally for weeks in the
northern part of Minnesota. The only
exception was near the Canadian line.
where bad fires are reported still rag
! ing.
Brigadier General Alexander Mac
kenzie, retired, has been named by
the war department to succeed Colo
mel p. H. Schulz, in charge of the Up-
per Mississippi river work, with head
quarters at st. Paul.
"A nine-year-old girl, the daughter Of
Finlander living thirteen miles south
OF Baudette, is the first fatality re.