New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-25
News Of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
happenings of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience Of the
Busy Reader.

| Fred Noehern, banker of Ocheye-
dan, a., was drowned in Freedom
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, farmer residing
| near Owatonna, is dead from the ef-
feet of injuries inflicted by a bull.
| w. A: Wittbecker of St. Paul will
succeed William G.. Nee as head of the
state hotel inspection department.
! Philip Abbott, seventy-seven years
| old, 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.
T. of the Crookston Lumber company
at Bemidji.
/ Levi B. Morrison, a resident of Min
neapolis since 1874 and a 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 a. resi-.
dent of st. Paul, is dead
While unloading hay at his fathers
farm near Weaver Joseph Giem. 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 a 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
| a northbound freight train crashed
into a 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 1892 to
| 1909
| The state high school board voted
to 2 to pay Immediately the out
standing state high school and graded
Is, totaling $1,070,193, from available
! funds.
! Dr. w. J. Parker, a 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. n. TaWney, son Of former Repre-,
| sentative James A. Tawney of Winona
| has resigned from the foreign service
I 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 a seat
il the parliament Of the province of
Saskatchewan. H. "
T. The removal of Adjutant General
|" Fred B. Wood from Office Sin the in
terests of the Minnesota national
| guard" has been recommended by the
| state military board to the public
safety commission.
A. L. Riley, ffty-nine years old, mil
! lionaire railroad contractor and mine
| owner, is dead at St. Cloud For
| number of years Mr.. Riley was asso-
ciated with Guthrie & Co., ST. Paul
| railroad contractors.
| Mary Tousley, eleyen-year-old daugh-
ter of c. E. Tousley of LIE Sueur,
was drowned in the Minnesota river
when she attempted to let down the
apron of a ferryboat. which slipped