The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-28
GRAND mARAIs. COOK COUNTY. mINN, MARCH 2s 1917
GATHERED FROM ALL
SECTIONS OF The STATE
Happenings Of the Week Briefly
Told for the Convenience of
the Busy Reader.

the Busy Reader.
Frank Carpenter, eighty-nine years
old, pioneer of Cass Lake, is dead.
Mapleton voted dry by IS majority.
Three saloons were put out of busi-
ness.
H. L.dalborson, sixty-eight years
old, a pioneer Wadena county farmer
is dead.
Lauren E. Tranes sixty-six years of
age, artist and engraver, is dead at
Hastings.
William l.. Abbott, forty-nine years
old, publisher of the St. Paul Enter
prise, is dead.
Patrick Furlong, eighty-two years
old, a pioneer resident of Dakota
county, is dead
The Farmers Cooperative elevator
at Triumph was destroyed by fire,
causing a loss of $4,000.
Superintendent S. E. Hargis, for
the past seven years at the head Of
the Litchfeld schools, has resigned.
Mat r. Cluss of Brownsville, this
state, was killed in wreck on St.
Paul road near Preston.
Smith B. Hall, veteran MINNEAPOLIS
newspaper man, is dead from pneu-
1nonia. He was ffty-eight years old.
c. D. Sheldon, aged thirty, wealthy
lumberman, who held many interests
in Minneapolis, is dead at Westwood,
CAL
Henry Fruehling, twenty years old,
living with his parents near Ottawa,
LIE Seur county, committed suicide
by shooting.
Lycurgus R. Meyer, president of
the Montevideo city council, banker
and we'll known as historian in West
ern Minnesota, is dead.
Peter M. Dahlberg, seventy-six
years old, a pioneer settler of Good
hue county, is dead at his home in
Voss after long illness.
+ Mrs, Catherine 'Sliney, seventy
eight years old, a resident of Wash
ington county for fifty-five years, is
dead at her home in Oakdale town
ship.
S. G. Downing of La Moure, N. D.,
sold eighteen head of Galloway steers
at South St. Paul for $2,159.67, the
record for all time on that market.
BY vote Of q to 40 the state SEN
ate refused to impose tonnage tax
on iron ore in Northern Minnesota.
The measure already had passed the
house.
J. J. Pehler, member of the lower
house Of the legislature in 1903 and
1905, is dead of pneumonia at his
home in Winona. He was fifty years
Of age.
Albert Coenman, sixty years old,
section foreman Of the Great North
ern railroad at Freeport for thirty
years, was killed during a storm
when struck by an engine.
Joseph Bowen, who killed his wife
at Minneapolis few days ago, COM
mitted suicide in the Glenwood Jail
with the same revolver he used in
the Mill City tragedy.
William H. Helper is dead at Nor
ris at the age of ninety-seven years.
He was a veteran of the Civil War,
in which he served as lieutenant in
Company X, Third Minnesota.
Minnesota shipments of pine trees
and currant and gooseberry plants
are excluded from Nevada under a
quarantine established by proclama-
tion of Governor Boyle of that state.
Enraged because his nineteen-year-
old wife attended a dance with an
other man, Roscoe R. Albright of St.
Paul shot and probably mortal1y
wounded her and then killed himself.
Roy Miller of Randolph, this state,
a Chicago Great Western brakeman,
was murdered by tramps, who threw
his body from a train near McIntre,
la. Three suspects are under arrest.
Voluntary contributions resulting
from the 1916 Red Cross seal cam
naiPn raised a fund for health work