Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-07-12
News Of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
happenings Of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience Of the
Busy Reader.

The monthly report of the state
hospital for the insane at Rochester
shows that 1885 patients are now be-
ing cared for there.
Authority for the tri-state flood con
troll agreement between Minnesota
North and South Dakota is given IN
the rivers and harbors bill.
Joseph Lowey of Rochester, -four
years Old was drowned while attempt
ing to recover ball which had fallen
into a barrel partly filled with water.
The Federal Loan bank Of st. Paul
has made loans totaling $4,000 &C
cording to figures on the first quarter
year of operation of the institution.
John Otter, aged thirty-seven, con-
tractor and builder at Hamel. was
killed in that village when his horses
ran away and threw him out of a
wagon.
William Rain, who for twenty years
has been widely known in Minneapo,
lis musical circles as q viOlinist, was
drowned while bathing in Beebe lake,
Wright county
| James F. Bell of Minneapolis has
been appointed chairman of a provi-
sional national committee to mobilize
the milling industry to help win the
war for the United States.
James F. Wallace, ousted from his
seat in the Minneapolis city council
by the courts for violating the state
corrupt practices law, was returned
to Office at . special election.
Lloyd and George NUM-, fourteen
and sixteen years old, brothers, were
drowned in Lake Francis. near James
vile, when a wave capsized the boat
from which they were fishing.
Tearing down an American flag and
crushing 1t under his heel, while ut
tering vile epithets. almost cost Victor
Saint his life at Kinney. When res.
cued by the police he was badly dis
| figured.
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
|
returning from work.
| Schroeder, a fishing village on the
north shore Of Lake Superior, in Cook
county, is in the throes of a smallpox
| epidemic Twelve entire families are
stricken and the infection has been
carried into practically every home.
Margaret Groff. nineteen years old,
and Mrs Bessie Frisk. aged twenty,
both OF Minneapolis, were sentenced
to ninety tgs each in the workhouse
by Municipal Judge Smith Of Mime
apolis for wearing soldiers uniforms.
Minnesota may lead the entire Unit.
ed States in the reduction of f1re loss
through Fourth of July celebrations
this year, only few fires and one or
| two minor accidents having been re.
h portcd to State Fire Marshal Harga-
dine.
! Alfred Canheld's third attempt at
suicide within year was successful.
He shot himself through the heart at
his home in Ironton. using double
barreled rife. Attempts to kill him
self by hanging and drowning were
frustrated.
| John M. Brooks. a farmer residing
near Blooming Prairie. was instantly
killed when heavy car owned and
driven by his son,in-law. John Schutt,
slid off high grade and turned tur-
tie. Other passengers in the car were
badly bruised.
| Mayor Thomas Van Lear Of Mime
apolis 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"
| J. J. LOmen, siXty-one years old, for
many years active In Minnesota poll
tics. is dead at st. Paul after an i'll,
ness OF six years. He had been AS
sistant secretary of state for three
terms and chief clerk in the secretary
of states Office for many years.
| Work on q second state and federal
highway from the Twin Cities to Du-
luth Is to be pushed forward at once
| as result OI conference between
! the delegation from Anoka. lsanti.
Kanabec and Pine counties with c. NJ.
Babcock. state highway commissioner.
| With noted men of the country as
! lecturers and an extensive exhibition
Of food products the Minnesota state
fair. Sept. to S, will be a model for
other food training camps to be con-
Quoted at state fairs as a part Of the
governments food conservation pro
gram.
John Holmberg. sheriff of Hennepin
county from 1894 To 1898, known as
the hangman OF Harry Hayward, is
dead at Denver While MIR. 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.
Miss Belle Nj. Comstock and Miss
Adelia Swanson, who lost their lives
in the Christopher Columbus disaster
at Milwaukee, were teachers in the
Rochester tMinn.l public schools.
They were at Chicago attending teach