New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-01-31
ABOUT The I STATE.
News Of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
happenings Of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience OF the
Busy Reader.

Busy Reader.
An investigation of labor conditions
In the north woods by the house COM
mittee on labor has been ordered.
Louis Zimmerman, thirty-two years
of age, committed suicide by hanging
while visiting relatives at Ihlen, near
Pipestone.
One hundred and sixty-one carloads
OF live stock, bringing total of SILL
900, were shipped from Pelican Rap
irs in 1916.
Charles E. Woods was convicted at
st. Paul of the murder of Miss Ella
johnson and was given life sentence
In state prison.
The Farmers State bank of Stock
ton, Wtnona county, has been author
lied to begin business by Superin-
tendent of Banks Pearson.
New branches of the Minnesota
Game Protective league are being
formed at Montevideo, Sleepy Eye,
New Ulm, Rochester and Tracy.
One young woman, Miss jacob Roes
of Sebeka, was among the successful
candidates for registered pharmacist
who passed the recent state board ca
animation ..
The University of Minnesota foot
ball schedule for 1917 provides for
games with North and South Dakota,
Montana, Indiana. Wisconsin, Chicago
and Illinois. ~.
Mrs. Anna jKnutson, 102 years old,
is dead at the home of her daughter
in Blue Earth county. She was born
in Norway July 2, 1914, and was mar
ried there in 1914.
Christian Dyerson, ninety-five years
old, said to be the oldest Republican
voter in Minnesota, is dead at Zum.
brOta. Mr. Dyerson cast his first Re-
publican ballot for Henry Clay in 1874.
Two children of Andrew Zupon, four
and six years old, were burned 20
death in a fire which destroyed the
Zupon home near Mora. Four other
children narrowly escaped the same
fate. ~
Victor Anderson, aged forty-six, is
dead at Duluth from injuries sustained
when he was caught by broken ma
chine belt and tossed to the ceiling in
the foundry of the National Iron
Works.
Nathan R. White, thirty-one years
of age, brakeman on the Great North
ern railroad, was killed at Melrose
when he slipped while alighting from
a switch engine and was crushed un-
der it's wheels. ~s'* .-
James McGinty, aged sixty, dropped
dead on Minneapolis street car. Nc
Ginty was the second man to die ON
Mill City street cars in two days, J. A.
johnson having died on a car forty
eight hours before.
Duluth vets have secured sufficient
signatures to a petition for wet and
dry election on general election day
Tuesday, April g. Duluth will become
dry July next If the vets fail to win
at the coming election. -
Charles Brady was convicted at Min
neapolis of robbery in the first degree
for holding up Henry Hagerman on
the night of Jan. 6, securing 10 cents.
The penalty is from five to twenty
years In the state penitentiary.
The entire teaching force of the
rural schools of Southern Minnesota
will aid in the movement to save
starving quail and other birds as a
result of q move inaugurated by the
Minnesota Came Protective league.
Mrs. Alameda MacCreary, who ar
rived in Minneapolis with her husband
in 1857 and was widely known in the
Mill City, is dead at the home of her
daughter at Big Timber, Wash. Mrs.
MacCreary was eighty-dve years old.
The affairs of Virginia, wealthy iron
range town and neighbor of Hibbing,
the worlds richest village, are being
investigated by Andrew Fritz, state
public examiner, who recently con-
Quoted similar inquiry at Hibbing.
One hundred and nineteen indict-
ments were returned, by the Polk
county grand jury in session of sew
enteen days, just ended at Crookston.
More than one hundred of the bills al
lege violations of the anti-liquor laws.
The royalties on contracts on state
iron mines for the last three months
of 1916, now due, are expected to total
$25O,000 and to make new high rec
ord of more than 100000 in revenue
from that source during the year just
ended.
Harry Livingston, forty-fve years of
age, president of the Jones & Kroeger
Printing company of Winona and
prominent in the affairs of the city,
shot and killed himself as result of
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