New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-18
News Of Especial Interest to d
Minnesota Readers.
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Happenings Of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience Of the
Busy Reader.

the rivers and harbOrs bill
Mrs. Rebecca Forder, seventy-one
years old. one of the early pioneers
of Thief River Falls, is dead. She
came to Minnesota fifty years ago.
Henry A. Flint, for many years a
resident of Minneapolis, is dead. He
was seventy-five years of age and had
been prominent in Masonic circles for
fifty years.
Mrs. D. Dario, fifty years old,
walked into the Mississippi river at
St. Paul, knelt in the water and
drowned herself. She is said to have
shown symptoms of mental derange-
ment for some time.
A resolution demanding that the bu-
reau of Indian affairs be abolished and
charging that officials at the head of
the bureau are incompetent was
adopted at the council of Minnesota
Chippewas at Bemidji.
- Norman Burleson was drowned while
swimming in Channel lake near Albert
Lea. About six weeks ago a daugh-
ter was killed when struck by train
as she was going to meet her father
returning from work.
One hundred and forty Moorhead
normal school girls are knitting socks
for soldiers. Daily knitting classes
are maintained and the girls are max
ing rapid progress in the early stages
of their knitting lessons.
One hundred and thirteen indict-
ments were returned by the federal
grand jury at Duluth against men who
failed to register June 5. and are now
held in the St. Louis county jail or
have been released on bond.
The Farmers State bank Of Holt,
with a capital stock of $4,000, has
been closed by order of F. E. Pearson,
state superintendent of banks. An
examiner has been placed in charge
and the assets will be .liquidated.
Governor. Burnquist has appointed
J. N. Searles of Saltwater as Judge of
the Nineteenth judicial district. He
succeeds Judge J. c. Nethaway, who
died recently. Mr. Searles is an at
5torney and a veteran of the Civil war.
Alfred Canfield's third attempt at
suicide within a year was successful
He shot himself through the heart at
his home in Ironton, using double
barreled rifle. Attempts to kill him
self by hanging and drowning were
frustrated.
Mayor Thomas Van Lear of Mime
apo!is startled the National Editorial
association when, in his address of
welcome, he attacked the press in
general terms for submitting to "the
business mems thumbscrew in the ed
itorial Office" II
Wholesale shipments of beer and
other liquors from Minnea polls, ST..
PaEl and Duluth to blind pigs in the
vicinity of Puposky and Nebish, Bel
trami county, have been seized by au-
thorities and are being held in the
jail at Bemidji
j. j. Lomen, sixty-one years old, for
many years active in Minnesota poll
tics, is dead at St. Paul after an ILL
ness of six. years. He had been as
sistant secretary of state for three
terms and chief clerk in the secretary
of states office f9r many years.
Two contracts for approximately
100000 pairs of shoes have been
awarded by the war department to
to Foote, Schulze G. Co. and c. Gotzian
& Co., st. Paul. The two contracts
involve about $1,0O0,o0O.. The shoes
are to be ready for delivery Feb. Is.
John Homberg, sheriff OF Hennepin
county from 1894 to 1898, known as
the hangman of Harry Hayward, is
dead at Denver. While Mr.. Holm
berg did not pull the lever that sent
Hayward to his death he was sheriff
at the time. He removed to Denver
in 1900.
Seven persons are believed to have
lost their lives when the excursion
steamer Muskegon overturned on Big
Stone lake, near Ortonville, during a
heavy storm. Two of the nine persons
known to have been on the boat were
rescued.
S. o. Simonsy of Albert Lea was
elected commander of the Minnesota
encampment of the Spanish-American
War Veterans at the closing session
Of their annual encampment at Wa
SEGA. Dora Brandt of St. Paul was
made head of the women's auxiliary.
The applications for clemency of
Walter J. Smith, former state treas
urer, and Robert c. Pickit, former
state investment clerk, now serving
indeterminate sentences in state pris-
on for misrepresentation of state funds,
have been denied by the state pardon
board
The war department has asked the
Dunwoody Industrial Institute at Min
neapolis to take on the huge task of
training 1,20O army wireless telegraph
operators and the institute has agreed
to do the work. With its present task
of instruction for the navy department
the Minneapolis institution shortly
.sone ofssths, most important