New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-05-30
News Of Especial interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Happenings Of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience Of the
Busy Reader.

Thomas J. flaming, secretary of the
Minneapolis Plumbing company, is
dead.
The Minneapolis city council has
authorized an investigation of the
high prices of foodstuffs in that city.
Miss Oline Strand, sixteen-year-old
daughter of a farmer residing near
Mankato, is dead of infantile paraly-
sis.
John A. Harris, for many years
prominent in Minneapolis wholesale
dry goods circles, is dead, aged sew
enty-one. .
To permit students to work on farms
as long as they are needed Hamline
university's school year will not open
until Oct 1.
William Heck, venerable riverman,
is dead at Fountain City. He was
4seventy-6ve years old and had been
retired for several years.
Edward M. Randall, president of the
Prouty Commission company of South
st. Paul, is dead at his home in St.
Paul at the age Of sixty-four.
Seventeen buildings in the business
section of Gary have been destroyed
by fire, leaving only two business
buildings in the town standing.
/ Joseph Ludwig, aged nine, of St..
Nicholas, Stearns county, was killed
when he stepped in front of the auto
mobile of John VOTERS, a neighbor.
Ole Gardner, an employee Of the Min.
neapolis street department, fell six
feet from an oil tank and was dead
when fellow employees reached him. i
Major A. L. McHugh, we'll known in
the Twin Cities, was killed in action
in France May 10. He was a member
Of the Canadian expeditionary force.
George L. Bradley, aged seventy
nine, prominent in the milling and
commission business in Minneapolis
until his retirement ten years ago, is
dead.
: DR.. c. E.. Maxham, dentist, died at
Winona from an attack of pneumonia.
He was member of the G. A. r. and
had been prominent in military affairs
at Winona 49, Il 49, u
The University of Minnesota, it is
announced, has given 1895 students.
for military service or for work on
farms to help increase the nations
food supply
Commissioner Carlos Avery has All
nounced the establishment of a game
refuge in the prairie chicken country
south of Little Falls covering about
twenty-five sections.
Mrs. A. r. Hill, widow of the late
Allen Hill, is, dead at Lake Mime
tonka. Mrs Hill was born in Car
thage, Ind, in 1882, and reached Min
heapolis with her husband in 1865.
Thomas Mcmahon, eighty-four years
old, for many years connected with
the city of St. Paul in an official ca
pacity, is dead. Mr.. Mcmahon had
been resident of st. Paul since 1855
The epidemic of spinal meningitis
has caused 102 deaths in Minnesota
since the first of the year: There
have been 243 cases treated, according
to DR.. A. J. Chesley of the state board
of health. se
Andreas M. Miller, seventy-five years
old, lumberman and pioneer of DI-
luth and man who played large
part in the industrial development of
Northern Minnesota, is dead in New
York city. 5S..
The annual state G. A. R. encamp-.
ment will take place June and 6 at
the old capitol in St. Paul. Comrade
William j. Patterson, national COM
mander of the G. A. R., lis expected
from Pittsburg.
A silent Fourth of July has been de-
creed by Mayor w. A Hodgins of
Winona Notice has been served on:
local dealers that the sale of fireworks
OF any description on the nations
birthday this year will be barred.
Edwin Evenson, twelve years DID,.
son of Ole Evenson, living four miles
cast of Kiester, Freeborn county, was
struck by lightning and died instantly
His father, who was standing near
him, suffered badly burned foot
Anton Gutgesell, twenty-five years
old, was thrown from his bicycle
against the railing of the Twentieth
avenue bridge at Minneapolis when
his wheel skidded in the mud. He
died a few minutes later while in an
ambulance.
A plot to murder Mrs. Alice M. Dunn
OF st: Paul when she was in Montana
last fall was disclosed by William
Hickey, yeggman and former convict,
who is held by St. Paul police. Mike
Moore, alleged, go between in the plot
which resulted in Mrs. Dunn's death
April rs, also was the 'fxer" in the
former deal, according to Hickey's
confession.
The Great Northern railroad has
awarded to the Baldwin Locomotive
works of Philadelphia contract for
100 locomotives, costing more than
$2,000,0O0. This is the first step in a
big program by which the Great North.
sern is to increase it's equipment. to
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