New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-06-13


national army to be raised by the Sc
lective draft Minnesota must furnish
more than 10000 men for the regular
army and national guard. These ranks
will be filled by draft If enough volun-
teers do not come forward.
Saloon keepers who permit men to
become intoxicated in their places and
who help or allow their bartenders to
supply men with liquor are liable to
damages for death or injuries that
may result from the consumption of
the liquor, according to decision of
the state supreme court
An additional battalion of artillery
and new field hospital corps will be
recruited at once, under orders issued
by Governor Burnquist, as commander.
in-chief Of the Minnesota national
guard. The new artillery units proba-
bly, will be recruited in towns in the
southern part Of the state.
Recruiting Offices to raise q com.
plete battalion of Canadian troops in
Minneapolis and st. Paul have been
opened in the Mill City. This action
was taken following an agreement be-
tween the United States and Canadian
officials by which reciprocity is to be
recognized in the recruiting of Ameri-
cans in Canada and the enlistment of
Canadians in this country.
G. o. Smith, fifty years old, super
intendent of mills for the Cloquet
Lumber company was shot and per
haps fatally wounded by Jess Stevens,
a former employee, as he sat in rear
seat in the Grand theater at Cloquet.
The shooting caused a panic in the
theater. The crowd made mad rush
for the exits and several women
tainted during the scuf1le.
Found guilty by a jury of seven
clergymen on charge of immoral
conduct for having written letter ex-
pressing the hope that President Will
son might be shot before the close of
the war, Rev. Charles L. Lehnert, for
mer pastor of the Central German
Methodist Episcopal church of Mime
apclis, has been ordered suspended
from the exercis, of ministerial duties
pending the annual church conference
at Winona Sept. 20.
A drastic order, based on state
ment from Secretary of War Baker
that military camps cannot be main
tanned where moral conditions are not
of the best, has been issued by the
state public safety commission, which
will result in the immediate closing
of cabarets in which intoxicating liq-
uors are sold in all cities in Minnesota
over $4,000 population. The commits
sion also ordered that all saloons in
the state be closed from 10 D. M to
8 M, that no women be served with
drinks at any time and that no women
be allowed in saloons.
Joe Redenbaugh, confessed slayer of
Mrs. Alice McQuillan Dunn in her
parents home at st. Paul on April 26,
went on the stand at the trial of Mike
Moore, alleged 60 between, and told
the tragic details of the woman's cold
blooded murder. The witness testi-
fed that he shot Mrs Dunn three
times, he identified the heavy 44-cali-
Der gun that he did the shooting with
and he testified that Mike Moore paid
him $4,000 out of fund of $4,000,
which he testified Moore told him had
been paid by Frank j. Dunn to have
his wife put out of the way.
Mike Moore, st. Paul bartender and
alleged ,payoff man in the Alice M.
Dunn murder plot, was found guilty
of murder in the first degree by "a
Ramsey county district court jury and
was sentenced to hard labor for life,
in the state prison at Saltwater. The
jury reached it's verdict Oh the first
ballot and returned to the courtroom
in less than an hour When the de-
cision was announced Moore leaped
from his chair and launched frenzied
TRADE against the jurors and the court.
He kept up string of abusive Ian.
guage until he had been sentenced and
taken back 70 his cell in the county
ja.i.