Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-06-14
News Of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Happenings Of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience Of the
Busy Reader.

Mrs. Evelyn X. Balch. resident OF
Minneapolis fifty-five years, is dead.
c. K Sharood, aged sixty-four, for
merly a prominent wholesale shoe
manufacturer of ST. Paul, Is dead.
Ole o. Ohmdahl. a farmer living
near Thief River Falls, was killed
when he fell from q load of hay near
his home.
H. B. Welker. eighty-three years
old. committed suicide by shooting
himself with rife at his home In
Minneapolis.
About fifty indictments have been
reported by the Polk county grand
jury, most Of them for violation Of
the county option act.
Minnesota will supply 1876 men
when the draft Is applied to registered
men. This Is based upon $4,000 for
service in the first increment
Herman Meusing. q wealthy farmer
sixty years OF age, was killed by
stroke Of lightning near his home in
Cherry Grove, near Spring Valley.
Osakis. with twenty young men now
in the military service OF the nation,
registered seventy.nve more on the
conscription rolls. The population is
1913.
Cyril Polo. an eighty-year.old deaf
man of Mortified, was instantly killed
when he was struck by an overdue
Rock Island passenger train in his
home city.
George N. Tapley. in the railway
mail service forty.fve years and the
oldest in time of service in the Tenth
division. is dead at st. Paul. aged
sixty-eight.
Mrs Fanny Sinykin, thirty.eight
years old. wife of Solomon Sinykin.
st. Paul Wholesale liquor dealer. COM
mitted suicide by hanging in the attic
of her home.
A. F.. Hlavacek. editor of the Hop
kins News, was killed when his auto.
mobile was struck by car on the
M!nnetonka interurban line at cross.
ing near Hopkins.
Minneapolis chapters of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution will
join in q nag raising ceremony at
Gateway park July 4. Governor Burn.
+quist will be the principal speaker.
Joeeph Elsinger. president Of the
Golden Rule department store at St..
Paul and founder and liberal supporter
vos several philanthropies in that city.
is dead. He was seventy years old.
w. J. Bryan will speak in Minnesota
during the prohibition constitutional
amendment campaign next year II
plans he has transmitted to the prOhi.
bition state committee can be carried
out.
DR.. Burnside Foster. prominent ply
stefan and medical writer OF st. Paul
for more than twenty-five years and
known as leader in st. Paul medical
circles. Is dead. He was fifty-six years
Of age.
Prosecution of an alleged combina
ton of Minnesota coal dealers on q
charge of organizing to initiate prices
was urged on Attorney General Smith
by Senator George II. Gardner OF
Brainerd.
Nick Luona. twenty eight years old
an !. w. W.. was shot In the back by
a policeman at Virginia while seeking
to escape arrest AZ a Stacker. Sixty
one arrests have been made in and
near Virginia.
Minnesota guardsmen. as we'll al
those of the Thirteenth divisional
area comprising Minnesota, Iowa
North and South Dakota and Nebras
ka. will put In their period of training
at Deming, n, M,
Governor Burnquist has issued 4
proclamation designating the week o
June 1926 for a statewide campaign
to raise Minnesota's $2.O0O,O00 portion
of the proposed $lo0.00O,000 for thu
American Red Cross,
Fred r. Lincoln, secretary Of thu
Brainerd Commercial club, was chosen
secretary of the Northern Minnesota
Development association at the CLOSING
session of the associations land clear
ing conference at Virginia
A fall Of thirty feet from a tank OIL
the roof OF the Ryan annex at st. Pau
caused the death of James Griffin o
Cleveland. O.. a steeplejack who hat
painted the tops of some OF the high
est skyscrapers in the United States
Rev. w. c. Pope. St Paul's oldes
active preacher both in years AM
point of service. who founded thu
Church of the Good Shepherd in tina
city more than fifty years ago. is dead
Rev. Mr.. Pope was seventy year
old
Stepping from behind an eastboun
Lake Minnetonka car directly in tn
path OF a westbound car Mrs. Ros
Hiliman was killed instantly and Mis-
Emma braves seriously injured a
Christmas lake, near Lake Mime
tonka.
Minnesotas quota for the secon
officers training camp. Aug. - to No,
&c, is 36l. the war department al
nounces. Application for admission /,