Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-12-06
MINNESOTA NEWS
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ments and knitted articles made by
the women of Kanabec county IN their
Red Cross work has been sent out
| from Mora.
Plans are well under way for the
second annual industrial short course
10 be offered by the st. Cloud Techni-
cal high school, which will open on
.Aonday, Jan 7, and will continue for
| ~ weeks.
Rev. Robert Brown, formerly moder-
ator for the Minnesota presbytery and
for Ave years pastor of the First Pres.
byterian church of Winona, has re-
signed to go to the church of Bad
Axe, Mich.
The assault case against Chief OF
Police D. s. Proper and Miss Augusta
Mettel, visiting nurse OF International
Falls, resulted in a hung jury after
the jury had balloted for "a hours
without reaching decision.
Verdicts of not guilty in the cases
Of Oliver Smith OF MOrristown and
William Van Hout Of Dundas, charged
with disloyalty. were returned in dis
trict court at Faribault. Smith was
accused of saying that the United
States never should have entered the
war and Van Ilout Of stating he
wished the president were dead.
F. E. Grindal, aged so, Of Cass Lake,
was taken before Judge B. F. Wright
at Park Rapids by the sheriff of Cass
county and pleaded guilty to charge
Of sedition, for which he had pre-
viously been indicted by grand jury.
The court imposed fine of 5000 and
costs, which was paid. Grindal has
Ii, ed in Cass county all his life.
Two messages to Coroner Vigen OF
Otter Tail county at Fergus Falls
brought the news Of the first skating
fatalities of that county. Jow Saw
ami, 13-year-old boy Of Vergas. was
drowned in a lake near there. A mes.
sage from Brandon announced the
drowning Of Freeman Olson, nine
years old. Both went through the
Ice
The water and light plant at Lake.
field. Jackson county, blew up. killing
Peter Nelson, engineer, and badly in
juring three other men. It Is believed
dry boilers caused the explosion. The
blast shook the entire town. Lake
field is without electric lights or wa
ter from the city system as result
The explosion blew the roof from the
brick building and the walls were
badly shattered.
Without one casualty in Minnesota
the big game season has ended. The
number OF hunters was below normal
because many OF the former big game
hunters were stalking foes In North
ern France. Hunting was largely con
fined to residents, who sought to hane
uD a deer to keep down the high cost
Of meat during the winter. The mum
Der Of moose killed in Minnesota was
proportionately higher than usual
Major Fred Won Baumbach. for II
years collector of internal revenue II
st. Paul and former secretary O
state. died at his home at Alexandra
after an illness Of several weeks. He
became secretary of state in 1879
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In 1898 he was appointed collector 81
internal revenue under the Mckinley
administration. He held the position
until the first Wilson administration
Edward Bosky. editor OF the Fari
tault Referendum, charged with VIC
ton of the state law prohibiting dis
couragement of enlistment, was fount
guilty by a jury and q sentence of 1:
months in the Rice county Jail wa!
imposed by Judge A. B. Childress
!, This conviction places all three per
sons responsible for for the publica
ton Of the Referendum in Jail, F.. n
Ford and Mrs, Elizabeth Ford havin,
previously been found guilty Of Xix,
charge. They were sentenced to
. year in Jail and to pay a fine of $50
each.
+. A. Cross. 80 years old, a Civil
war veteran. died at his farm hom,
near Bemidji.
superintendent H. X. w. Scott O
st. Cloud reformatory and D. H
knickerbOcker have returned fror
-" SAASoAS vACiC Su0y 0ttcuUcQ IN
National Prison congress.
Thomas A. Doniin. manager of tn
Thompson yards at st. Cloud, enliste,
In the forestry service for the eng
neers' corps and left for Fort Smell
Ing, where he has been ordered to n
port.
. Nearly 200 Crookston people, incluc
GLIDING the Home Guard and the CT
liens band, went to Ada on q specis
train to participate in the ceremonie
| incident to the opening OF the ne,
Great Northern depot at that place.
An appropriation of $1,000. 900 ha
been made by the Minnesota publi
safety commission to be used in pei
fecting the organization and suppl,
ing equipment for the Minnesota HON
guard. this action being taken q
advice OF Secretary Baker Of the d,
partment of war.
Representative A. c. Welch {
OF Glencoe, defendant In q suit fc
$4,000 brought by Representatiy
Charles kennig of Bird Island. for Il
Juries received in a fight at the la.
session of the Minnesota legislator,
, won verdict in district court at Gle,