New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-08

olOueI dt 9z,fOO year.
Anthony G. McGuinn, seventy-eight
| years old, is dead at his home in Min
/ neapolis. Mr.. McGuinn, as member
Of the Forty-ffth Massachusetts cav
airy, accompanied General Sherman
on his march to the sea and fought in
| the battle of Bull Run
The taking of testimony in the case
of Victor S. Knutson, superintendent
of schools of Todd county, charged
with malfeasance and nonfeasance in
office, came to an abrupt end when
the accused official rendered his res
ignation, which was accepted
Roscoe w. Thatcher, professor of
plant chemistry at the state college of
agriculture, has been named to sue.
coed Albert w. Woods, resigned, as
dean of the college and director of the
experiment station by the board of re-
gents of the University of Minnesota.
Charles Stionke and William Hen
Grian, sons of prominent farmers liv-
ing near Hokah, were drowned in the
Root river. The young men had been
playing baseball and while in an over
heated condition went bathing. They
are supposed to have been seized with
cramps.
Stephen Huff, forty-two years old,
a farmer residing near Paynesville,
| was struck by lightning, and his wife,
in attempting to pull his body from a
blazing barn, was SO severely burned
that she is near death in a hospital.
All the buildings of the farm and much
stock was destroyed by the fire.
Mayor A. P. Pierce of Red Wing was
drowned in the St. Croix river at
South Saltwater when he fell over
board from the steamer Minnesota, on
which, with a party of friends, he was
returning from a visit to Saltwater.
Mr.. Pierce was pioneer resident of
Red Wing and had been mayor of
that city for nineteen years.
L. H. Slocum, former county auditor
of Koochiching county, who was re-
moved from Office because of alleged
irregularities, pleaded guilty to an in
dictment charging him with issuing
fraudulent warrants for $1,000 in con-
nection with the building of state
highways. He was fined $4,000 and
the other indictments quashed.
Reuben Robinson, for many years a
resident of Minneapolis and a Mime
sofa pioneer, is dead at his home in
Champlin. Mr. Robinson was ninety
seven years old and came to Mime.
sofa in 1854. He built a mill on Min
nehaha creek and engaged in milling
for several years until the outbreak of
the Civil war, when he enlisted in the
Sixth Minnesota.
Mayor L. A. Fritsche of New Ulm,
County Auditor Louis J. Vogel and
County Treasurer Henry ]. Berg OF
Brown county have been cited to ap-
| pear before the state public safety
commission to defend their participa-
ton in the recent New Ulm meeting
to protest against the sending abroad
of American troops. This action was
taken at meeting of the board be-
| hind closed doors.
| Minnesota entered upon the new u.s.
cal year more prosperous than ever
before, according to State Treasurer
Rines. Increasing $1,490, 1885 during
the last year, the states permanent
| trust funds now total $26,245, 162.50.
In addition there is credited to these
funds approximately $12 100000 of con-
tracts on sales of state lands drawing
per cent interest, which makes the
grand total of trust funds more than
$3S,OOO,000.
Edwin D. Bowen, dean of the grain
trade of the entire Northwest, is dead
at Minneapolis, aged eighty-nine years.
At the age of eighty Mr.. Bowen, whose
physical and mental strength was re-
markable, still was active on the ex-
change floor of the Minneapolis cham
Der of commerce. Mr.. Bowen was
born in Perry, N. Y, in 1928 and came
west to Delavan, Wis, with his pa
rents in 1897. When but twenty-five
years of age he went to California in
the gold rush days of 1850. He re-
turned to Wisconsin later and served
| through the Civil war in the Forty
second Wisconsin infantry. Mr.. Bowen
reached Minneapolis in 1881 and was
charter member of the chamber of
commerce. 2t- ~ aef4