The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-09-05
STATE BREV|T|ES

John S. Ryan, 68 years old, an EN-.
ploye Of the Milwaukee railroad since
he was IL years old, died at his home
in Minneapolis, where he had lived
for ~ years.
Prof. G. P. Sharpe, who has taught
In the Pelican Rapids schools for sew
eral years, has handed in his resigna-
ton to the school board and enlisted
in the naval militia.
There will be no coal famine in WI
mona this year. 1t is estimated 60 per
cent of the supply required to heat the
city now is in private bins. The re-
naming 40 per. cent is in storage Of
dealers.
One hundred and eighty-seven men
of the quota of 238 from District No.
l, Stearns county, have been certified
for service in the new National army.
The exemption board has completed
it's work.
Bumper crops and bumper prices
are reflected in the price of land near
Mankato. The Siltenricht eighty-acre
farm, with small buildings and not all
under cultivation, was bought by
John Maloney for $3.50 an acre.
Organization OF. the Norman county
Red Cross chapter was effected at
meeting held in Ada and officers elect
ed as follows: B. F. Tenney, chair
man; Mrs. w. B. Holmes, vice chair
man; Mrs. E, w. Zamzow, secretary,
and Herman Thune, treasurer.
! E. V. Lund was struck and knocked
down by an automobile on Broadway,
receiving three broken ribs and scalp
wounds. The driver of the car hur-
ried away after the accident The Ii.
cense number of the car is said to be
114095,' Minnesota, and local police are
making an investigation to find the
owner.
| Selling moment when the only
clerk on duty was occupied, a strang-
or giving the name of Peter Chris
Hanson, said to have formerly been an
inmate of an Iowa insane hospital,
reached into the safe Of the general
store of Groh Brothers in Cleveland,
and helped himself to pouch contain
ing $500 in checks and currency. He
threw the pouch and checks away and
hid the money in a tree, to which he
afterwards took his captors and re-
turned to the owner $500.
% The same gun in the hands of two
brothers of John Jones, member of
the Rochester police force, brought
death by their own hands, according
to a message received from Big Tim
Der, Mont. Ill health, the message
said, caused Charles E. Jones to court
death at the end of the muzzle of the
weapon. William, the brother, re-
turned to the shack to find his kin
dead. The shock, coupled with the
crop failure this year, caused him to
turn the weapon on himself.
The order from General Barry of
the central department, Chicago, d.
recting Major F. B. Rowley, Minneap-
oils, commanding officer, to report i'm.
medlately the present strength of the
Fourth Minnesota infantry, does not
Indicate that the regiment will be
called into Federal service, according
| to j. F. MCGEE. He interpreted the
order as desire on the part Of Gen.
eral Barry to ascertain whether the
new regiment would be ready to re-
lieve the First Minnesota from guard
duty on September 1.
Interest is awakening in Red Cross
work at Sandstone. For Labor day
a parade, ball game and dance are be-
ing arranged. 1t will also be Tag day.
About 100 members have Joined the
good cause.
Governor Burnquist has issued in.
structions to sheriffs to prohibit all
meetings antiAmerican in their ma
ture in the state and to promptly ar
rest all speakers who make seditious
utterances. These anti-draft meetings
are to be treated the same as riots,
The. Minnesota exhibit of grains,
grasses, fruits and vegetables, in
charge d Commissioner Fred D. Sher-
man and w. G. King of the state i'm
migration department, has begun it's
annual fall tour. It first will be shown
at Rock Island, ILL.,, and the following
week at Streator. Ill.
Although there has been some anxi-
ETY. in Southeastern Minnesota over the
corn crop prospects, reports gathered
from scattered places give positive as
surance that the crop will be enor-
nous and that it will mature in nor
NAL time. The cool weather of the
first half of August tended to delay
the growth, but the return of more sea-
sonable temperatures with sunshine
are giving corn new life and the dan
ger of frost damage before the crop IS
ready to gather is said to be remote.
J. A. Bentall, former Socialist can
didate for governor, at liberty under
$4,000 bonds for alleged anti-draft &C.
tlvltles, spoke at the Lake Manuella
anti-draft meeting. Before he began.
Sheriff Konslak told him that he would
be permitted to speak providing that
he confined himself to remarks which
could not be interpreted as an attack
on the government or the laws of the
country. Although he preached So
clallst1c doctrines, Bentan was care
tul not to overstep the bounds set by
an order of Governor Burnquist.
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