New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-11

! administrator.
Miss Belle NJ Comstock and Miss
Adelia Swanson, who lost their lives
in the Christopher Columbus disaster
at Milwaukee, were teachers in the
Rochester (Minn.) public schools.
They were at Chicago attending teach
ers' summer school at the Chicago
university.
The state military board has re-
| quested the state public safety COM
mission to replenish the state guard
fund. When war was declared artil-
lerymen and infantrymen we're called
upon to guard buildings and were
paid out of this fund. SO that the fund
is nearly depleted.
Frank Schley, said to be wealthy
farmer, was arrested at Osseo on a
charge of having made insulting re-
marks about the American flag. J. E.
Smith, a member of the Hennepin
county public safety commission,
made the arrest and placed Schley in
! the Hennepin county jail.
/ Judge John G. Nethaway of Still
| water, former assistant attorney gen
eral of Minnesota and Democratic pol
i itician, is dead at Shakopee. He was
sixty-seven years old. Mr.. Nethaway
was appointed to judgeship in the
Thirteenth district by Governor Burn
quist more than year ago.
A deal involving all the active Great
Northern ore properties has been
closed with the M. A. Hanna company
of Cleveland, @. The deal involves
the. mining equipment and mines
/ which have been under operation by
the Great Northern ore trustees.
About 25,000,O00 tons of iron ore is
! involved.
! Clarence E. Robb, sixty years old,
an employee of the 500 Line for many
years, was found dead in bed at his
home in Minneapolis. Heart disease
| was the cause. His family was absent
at the time and Mr. Robb's body was
discovered by neighbors who went to
1 his apartments after not seeing him
about for several days.
Jacob Franciscus, aged 102, is dead
| at0Belle PLANE, where he had lived
fifty-seven years. He was five months
old when the battle of Waterloo was
fought only seventy-fve miles from
the cottage where he sat in his moth
er's lap. Mr.. Franciscus began smok-
ing at the age of seven and kept it
up until the day of his death
| 3o1
Major William H. Hart of st. Paul,
for several years in charge of account
ing payrolls in Adjutant General Fred
B. Woods Office, will resign shortly.
| Sergeant Harry Radclift, connected
with the regular army for more than
seven years and former Minneapolis
license inspector, will be Major Harris
successor.
| A resolution providing for the ap-
pointment of committee to make a
sweeping Investigation throughout Min
nesota into the high cost of living,
the alleged practice Of spectators in
storing immense quantities of COM
modities to await higher prices and
the railrad car situation with regard
to the coal supply was adopted by the
state public safety commission.
Frank Connors. Indian agent, is in
a hospital at Cloquet, seriously in
jured, and J. F. O'Neil, railroad sta
ton agent at Carlton, is held by the
authorities as the result of shooting
at Sawyer. It is said Connors was
watching a resort at Sawyer for evil
! dence of illegal sales of liquor to In
| dians when he became involved in an
argument with O'Neil and compan.
ion.
| John Halloran, 103 years old, who
/ lived on the same Minnesota home
stead for sixty-two years, is dead at
st. Thomas, Scott county Mr.. Hal
loran was born in County Cork, Ire.
land, in 1914 and came to the United
Etates in 1880. He was married in
Ohio in 1850 and at once removed to
Minnesota, working for time as en-
gineer on steamboat on the Mime
sofa river.
Thousands of men, women and chill
dren cheered and waved flags, and
dredge and factory whistles shrfeked
as the United States steamer Dande-
lion chugged up the Mississippi river
to the Washington avenue bridge at
Minneapolis, the first vessel through
the dock Of the new government high
I5dam and the first river steamer to
reach Minneapolis since old steam
boating days: 4 !.