New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-06-13
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Minneapolis for fifty-fve years, is
dead
Cokato's high school building has
been destroyed by fire, with loss of
nearly $4,000.
G. K. Sharood, aged sixty-four, for
merly a prominent wholesale shoe
manufacturer of st. Paul, is dead.
N. J. Johnson, eighty eight years old,
sustained fatal injuries when he was
struck by street car at Minneapolis
Ole o. Ohmdahl, 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 a rife at his home in
Minneapolis.
Minnesota will supply 1885 men
when the draft is applied to registered
men. This is based upon 625, 200 for
service in the first increment
Osakis, with twenty young men now
in the military service of the nation,
registered seventy-five more on the
CONSUMPTION rolls. Thes population Is
1913.
Cyril Pelo, an eighty-year-old deaf
man of Northfield, 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,
ss -. F. sHlavacek, editor of the Hop
kins News, was killed when his auto
mobile was struck by a car on the
M:nnetonka interurban line at cross
ing near Hopkins
Mrs. Rose Y. Tracey, aged eighty
three, "a st. Paul pioneer, is dead at
her home in that city. Mrs. Tracey
was born in Ireland and came to the
United States in 1855
Registration day passed off quietly
in Minnesota. Without the slightest
disturbance 100000 citizens of. the
state enrolled themselves for service
in the army under the selective draft
system.
Herman c. Hage of Duluth, a North
ern Pacific brakeman, died shortly
after having both legs severed from
his body when he fell under a moving
car while switching at Klondyke, near
Brainerd.
Governor Burnquist has issued a
proclamation designating the week of
June 1926 for statewide campaign
to raise Minnesota's $2,O0O,OO0 portion
Of the proposed $10O,OOO,OO0 for the
American Red Cross.
As the result Of an accident in the
rear Of the Minneapolis Ruling and
Book binding company, ROLAND Woeh-
ming. fourteen years old, suffered a
fractured skull and died short time
later at the city hospital.
Fred n. Lincoln, secretary of the
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 tank on
the roof of the Ryan annex at st. Paul
caused the death of James Griffin Of
Cleveland, O., steeplejack, who had
painted the tops of some of the high
est skyscrapers in the United States.
Rev. w. c. Pope, st. Paul's oldest
active preacher both in years and
point of service, who founded the
Church of the Good Shepherd in that
city more than fifty years ago, is dead.
Rev. Mr.. Pope was seventy six years
old
: Mrs. f 0. Palmes, ninety-six
years old, LIST member of the Inter-
national Sunshine society, prominent
church worker and member of the
first Red Cross society ever formed,
is dead at the home of her daughter
in Minneapolis.
= The appointment of ]. A. Fisk Of
Pennington as creamery inspector in
the state dairy and food department
has been announced by Commissioner
J. J. Farrell Mr.. Fisk succeeds o. F..
Peehl of Chisago City, who resigned
to begin farming.
James H. Eye, former sheriff Of
Hennepin county, former municipal
Judge of Anoka and widely known in
6. A. R. affairs, is dead at the Min
.nescta Soldiers home hospital Mr..
EGG reached Minneapolis in 1867, after
serving in the Civil war.
False statements of facts concern
ing his opponent were held by the
state supreme court as ample ground
for annulling the election of Alderman
James r. Wallace Of Minneapolis A
nonpartisan primary and election will
be. held to fill the vacancy.
Minnesota's quota for the second
officers training camp, Aug. ~ to Nov.
s26, is 361, the war department an
Application for admission to
the camp, which will be at Fort Rip
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