The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-01-10
GATHERED FROM AL SEC
y Tl0NS or MINNESOTA
Happenings Of tho Week Briefly
Told for tho convienoe Of the
Busy Reader s>

| DR.. Ethelbert F. Geer, we'll known
St. Paul physician, is dead, aged fif-
ty-eight. a.. Il
Record increases in shipments of
live stock to South St. Paul are re-
ported for 1916.
Some men, like the cinder in your
eye, are remembered chiefly for the
smart they leave behind.
Actual work on the construction
of the $5,000,000 Armour packing
plant at South St. Paul has begun.
Mrs. Mary Minister, seventy-nine
years old, was found dead of asphyx-
iation in her room at St. Paul.
Mrs. Anna M. Willes, widow of
Charles L. Willes, a pioneer of St.
Paul, is dead at San Antonio, Tex.
| Robbers entered the saloon of Ca
sey & Doyle at Minneapolis, broke
open the safe with a sledge hammer
and escaped with $500.
Ole O. Solem, convicted in Jack
son county of poisoning his mother
in-law, Sigri Halderson, has been a.
warded a new trial by the state SUI
preme court.
A pure white muskrat, a rare spe-
cimen of the fur bearing animal, was
caught in tap in the bottomland
country near Red Wing a few days
ago.
Liston B. Manley, Duluth bust
J ness man known throughout the
Northwest, died suddenly of heart
disease superinduced by pneumonia.
Mr.. Manley was senior member of
the Manley-McLennan agency.
The date of the annual meeting of
the All Minnesota Development as
! ISOLATION has been changed from
January 5 and to January Is and 19
and the place from University Farm
to the Old Capitol: St. Paul.
A bullet intended to kill COW
J glanced from the aniua and struck
: John Wallace of Brainerd, who work.
ed in meat market at Glenwood
! causing his death.
\ The Southwestern Minnesota tu
berculosis sanitorium being erected
near Worthington by seven counties
7 of that vicinity will be ready fol-
} occupancy soon after JAM l.
Howard Abbott, master in chan
; Gerry, was ordered by the United
States District Judge Wilbur F
Booth to sell the Dan Patch road t<
the highest bidder on or before Ma,
, 81 next.
Sir Rabindranath Tagore, Indiar
poet and philosopher, who was i
waded the noble prize for literature
in 1913, will speak at the Universit,
of Minnesota armory Jan. II.
Louis Herring, a farmer residing
near Waterville, was shot fatally
while hunting by James Slarak, {
: neighbor. The charge hit Herring
in one of his legs and he bled tt
death.
John Rooney, sixty years old, drop
ped dead in the Ramsey county jai
while fellow prisoner was feeding
him soup. He had been confined on
ly an hour when he died.
Minneapolis and St. Paul capital
will back a large paper mill to be
built near Big Fork, Mont, by the
Glacier Pulp and Paper company
The main office will be in Minnea.
polls
James M. Shrout, superintendent
Of the Brown & Bigelow plant at St
Paul and prominent in Royal Arcan.
UNI circles, is dead after a weeks ill.
ness. He was fifty-five years of age
Nick Sobtzson is dead at Spoone1
following quarrel with Billy Polak
The shooting is said to have beer
J the result of an argument over tax.
es. Polak claims he shot in self de.
= fense
Arnold Uhler, aged sixty-fve, drop.
ped dead while attending Christmas
mass at St. Francis e Sales Catholic
church at St. Paul. Mr. Uhler was
a pioneer resident Of the Capital CT
ty.
The four-year child of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Sherberth of Red Wing
while playing with a crochet needle
fell in such manner the steel hook
penetrated the abdomen. The child
will live.
Mrs. Johanna Minske, aged fifty.
four, who lived on farm with he1
brother near Waseca, was found fro
zen to death beside the rural mai
box. 1t is supposed she went out
to get the mail, had an attack OF
epilepsy and froze before she recov
cred.
For the tenth consecutive year be.
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