The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-01-03
GATHERED FROM ALL Sec
TONS Of minnesota
Happenings Of tho Week Briefly
Told for the Convience Of tho
Busy Reader

live SCOCh W 0OuCu ~. L du1 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,OOO,OOO 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 sledge hammer
and escaped with $500.
Ole 0. Solem, convicted in Jack
son county Of poisoning his mother
in-law, Sigri Halderson, has been a.
warded new trial by the state su-
preme court.
A pure white muskrat, a rare spe-
cimen of the fur bearing animal, was
caught in a tap in the bottomland
country near Red Wing a few days
ago.
A bullet intended to kill cow
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
of that vicinity will be ready for
occupancy soon after Jan. l.
Howard Abbott, master in chan
Gerry, was ordered by the United
States District Judge Wilbur F..
Booth to seM the Dan Patch road to
the highest bidder on or before May
q next.
Sir Rabindranath Tagore, Indian
poet and philosopher, who was a.
waded the noble prize for literature
in 1913, will speak at the University
of Minnesota armory Jan. IL.
Louis Herring, farmer residing
near Waterville, was shot fatally
while hunting by James Slarak, a
neighbor. The charge hit Herring
in one Of his legs and he bled to
death.
John Rooney, sixty years old, drop
ped dead in the Ramsey county Jail
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
the result of an argument over tax
es. Polak claims he shot in self-de
Tense.
Arnold Uhler, aged sixty-fve, drop
ped dead while attending Christina:
mass at St. Francis Sales Catholic
church at St. Paul. Mr.. Uhler wa:
pioneer resident of the Capital CT
ty.
The four year-old child of Mr.. ant
Mrs. Frank Sherberth of Red Wing
while playing with a crochet needle
fell in such manner the steel hool
penetrated the abdomen. The chile
will live.
An almost complete tieup exists il
the handling Of freight by the rail
roads between Duluth and point!
east of Chicago. Only one line will
accept shipments and that to a linn
tied extent.
The Second infantry, Minnesota ma
tional guard will be ready to leave
Camp Llano Grande Jan. for hom'
The members will travel to For
Smelling to be mustered out of thu
federal service.
Minneapolis on July 1, 1916, had :
population of 1863, 454 according to es
Inmates made public by the United
States census bureau. The estima
ted population of St. Paul is 247,23;
and of Duluth 3d. 95.
Two policemen fought revolver
duel with two automobile bandits il
Crowell's drug store in Minneapolis
and Patroman Adolph Nelson wa
shot above the left temple, but onl!
slightly wounded.