Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1917-07-25
Minnesota State
News

Miss Rose Morgan ended her life at
Minneapolis by inhaling gas fumes.
Fred Noehern, banker of Ocheye.
dan, Ia, was drowned in Freeborn
lake, near Albert Lea.
Eli southworth, Minneapolis attor-
ney, has resigned from the state
board of law examiners.
Andrew Piechowiz jumped Off the
Thirty-second avenue bridge at Mime
apolis and was drowned.
James L. Hayes, a farmer residing
near Owatonna, is dead from the ef-
feet of injuries inflicted by bull
w. A. Wittbecker of St. Paul will
state hotel inspection department.
Philip Abbott, seventyseven years
old, a veteran of the Civil war and for
mer st. Paul business man, is dead.
The municipal judge of Eveleth is
sentencing prisoners convicted before
him to work in the city's war gar
den.''
Traffic through the Minnesota Trans.
fer railway for April, May and June
and the first half of July broke all
records.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the big saw mill known as plant No,
/ of the Crookston Lumber company
at Bemidji.
Levi B. Morrison, resident of Min.
neapolis since 1874 and nephew OF
Dorilius Morrison, first mayor of Min.
neapolis, is. dead.
Theodore Backholz, an inmate of the
state hospital for the insane at Roch.
ester, committed suicide by hanging
herself with bedsheet.
Captain William w. Bishop, eighty
one years old, veteran Of the Civil
war and for thirty-three years resi-
dent Of st. Paul, Is dead.
While unloading hay at his fathers
farm near Weaver Joseph Glen, six
teen years old, was struck by light
ming and instantly killed.
Henry Larson, sixteen years old
was killed by lightning and much
damage was done by an electrical
storm in Duluth and vicinity.
w. B. Sands Of Minneapolis was
elected president of the Minnesota
Letter Carriers association at the an
nual convention at Saltwater.
Stanley Void, an expert swimmer
was seized with cramps and drowned
in Clear lake, Minneapolis, after res
cuing q girl companion whose life was
endangered.
Matthew G. Norton, eighty-six years
old, pioneer lumberman Of Winona and
president emeritus of Hamline univer.
sity, ST. Paul, is dead at his home in
Pasadena, Cal.
Twelve persons were injured when
northbound freight train crashed
into southbound passenger train on
the Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific rail
road two miles from Cook.
Two tramps entered the farm home
of Fred B. Gould, four miles southwest
of Fairmont, assaulted, bound and
gagged Esther Knoll, sixteen years
old, hired girl, and robbed the house.
DR.. Adolph E. Loberg, member of
the medical staff of the University of
Minnesota, is dead at his home in Min.
neapolis. DR.. Loberg was forty-one
years of age and a native of Mime.
sofa.
Judge Frank G. Brooks, one of the
most prominent members of the Min
neapolis bar, is dead, aged sixty-four.
Judge Brooks was on the Hennepin
county district bench from 1898 to
1909.
The state high school board voted
3 to 2 to pay Immediately the out.
standing state high school and graded
school aid deficits of 1914-15 and 1915
16, totaling $1,070,193, from available
funds.
DR.. w. ]. Parker, veterinarian at
Grand Meadows, was found dead un-
der his overturned automobile about
eight miles east of Austin. He was
alone in the car when the accident oc-
Cured.
J. M. Tawney, son of former Repre-
sentative James A. Tawney Of Winona,
has resigned from the foreign service
in Japan and will return to join his
company in the Second Minnesota in
fantry.
Mrs. Samuel Haight, formerly Miss
Zoa Fuller of Rochester, this state,
and well known in Minnesota club cir
cles, is the first woman to hold seat
in the parliament of the province of
Saskatchewan.
The removal of Adjutant General
Fred B. Wood from Office "in the in
terests of the Minnesota national
guard" has been recommended by the
state military board to the public
safety commission.
A. L. Riley, fifty-nine years old, mil
lionaire railroad contractor and mine
owner, is dead at st. Cloud. For a
number Of years Mr.. Riley was asso-
ciated with Guthrie & Co., st. Paul
railroad contractors.
Mary Tousley, eleven-year-old daugh.
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