New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-05-23
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happenings Of the Week, Briefly Told
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. IN minneapolis nIty-One years, is deaI,
aged sixty.
Leo Keubler, farmer, fifty-fve
years old, was killed when struck by
a train near Anoka
Mrs. Chris Veraguth, a pioneer resi-
dent of GAINESVILLE, is dead. She was
seventy years of age.
I Chester Barbau, tsix years old, of
Minneapolis was run over by a switch
engine and instantly killed
! Minnesota fire losses in April were
! $455,156 compared with $192,065 in
the corresponding month last year.
Adolph Moody, son Of Mr. and Mrs.
A. D.. Moody Of Albert Lea was
! drowned while fishing on Fountain
| lake.
James Tracy, ninety years old, pio-
neer of White Bear and for fifty
years a resident of that village, is
| dead.
Fred Gerlich, former sheriff of
Blue Earth county, is dead at Dick
inson, N. D. He was buried at his
former home at Mapleton, this state.
| G. H. Cleveland, for many years a
| Minneapolis hardware dealer, is dead,
! aged seventy-seven years. Mr.. Cleve-
/ land was a veteran Of the Civil war.
| Mrs. David H. Clarke, prominent in
| Methodist Episcopal church circles at
! st. Paul, is dead. Mrs. Clarke was
native OF Ireland and was fifty years
| Of age. s*~
Mrs George P. Flannery, wife Of the
| company of St. Paul, is dead at her
| former home in Minneapolis after a
| short illness. 49,.
Floyd J. Seavers, fifteen years old,
| was drowned while clam fishing in
Lake Pepin, near Red Wing. The boy
| was son of Mr.. and Mrs. John.
| Seavers of Red Wing.
Representative Thomas D. Schall of
Minneapolis has telegraphed to Colo
| mel Roosevelt tendering him a regi-
| inent of 1900 men and officers from
St. Paul and Minneapolis
Fred G. Neatly, son Of the late
Charles Neatly, proprietor Of one Of
the largest hotels in Chisholm, was
found dubbed and shot. to death near
the Sharon depot at Bull
Laurant La Doucer, eighty-six years
old, who came to the state in 1853
and went through all the hardships OF
a farmer of early minnesota, is dead
at New Canada, Ramsey county.
Thousands of cartridges and much
ether game, including young deer, are
perishing in the forest fires in North
ern Minnesota, according to Carlos
Avery, state game and fish commits
sioner.
Mrs. Lester Devereaux, bride of Q
week, is in serious condition at her
home near Park Rapids as the result
of a brutal attack by rejected sutton
| Hubbard county authorities are seek.
ing the man.
Shipments for the week ending Nav
IA from the state owned mines on the
Mesaba range were 49,575 tons. It is
expected that close to 100000 tons
ofore will be shipped f1~m the state
mines this year.
The Minnesota Music Teachers as
ISOLATION will hold it's annual conven-
ton at Winona June 10, 20 and Fl. A
number of artists of wide repute are
being obtained for the several pro-
! grams and recitals.
| Directors of the Minneapolis cham
Der of commerce have ordered suspen-
sion of trading in all futures until fur
tier notice. Wheat and rye are the
grains affected, no other futures be-
| ing handled at this time.
DR.. H. NJ. Guilford, city health com
missioner of Minneapolis, reported 121
new cases of tuberculosis and fifty
five deaths in Minneapolis in April and
11S deaths for every 100000 of popu-
lation in the year ending May /.
Frederick J. Clark, sixty years old.
vice president and Northwestern ed
! itor of the Northwest Miller, pub
lished at Minneapolis, is dead in the
! Mill City. He had been connected with
that publication for forty-two years.
Trials of persons accused of violat-
! ing the liquor laws have been simpli-
i fed by supreme court decision de-
'claring that person who, to get evil
dence, buys liquor that is sold unlaw-
fully, does not become an accomplice.
| Though four men fought desper-
ately, one, nearly losing his life, to
save him, Frank Batke, twenty-six-
year-old waiter Of the White Bear
j Yacht club, was drowned when his
canoe capsized 100 feet from the clubs
float.
Minnesota state banks collectively
held at the close of business May 1 a
cash reserve of $685., O7O, which is
S22.5S7,S12 in excess Of the amount
the law requires, according to F.
p. Pearson, state superintendent of
banks.
! William Ryan, aged eighty five, died
suddenly at his home at Coates Sta
ton. Or. John Ryan of the Catholic
university of Washington and Rev. IT,!
f. Ryan, assistant pastor Of tho CT