New Ulm review., 1917-03-21
News Of Especial Interest to.
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Happenings Of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience Of tho
Busy Reader.

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Mapleton voted dry by IS majority.
Three saloons were put out of busi-
ness. s&@ @"> 20
H. L. Halborson, sixty-eight years
old, pioneer Wadena county farmer,
is dead s.2-Et ..*..-
Lauren E. Trane, sixty-six years II
age, artist and engraver, is dead at
Hastings. ..ss.
William L. Abbott, forty-nine years
old, publisher of the st. Paul Enter
prise, is dead. .-
Patrick Furlong, eighty-two years
old, a pioneer resident of Dakota
county, is dead.
Mat R. Cluss of Brownsville, this
state, was killed in a wreck ON St.
Paul road near Preston. -"' =
The Farmers Cooperative elevator
at Triumph was destroyed by fire,
causing a loss Of $20,000.' ..,; l.. Z
Superintendent S. E. Hargis, for the
past seven years at the head Of the
Litchtield schools, has resigned. ~
Smith B. Hall, veteran Minneapolis
newspaper man, is dead from pneumo-
mia. He was fifty-eight years DID,.
c. D. Sheldon, aged thirty, wealthy
lumberman, who held many interests
in Minneapolis, is dead at Westwood,
Cal. ... . ..*.-. '.-.--
Henry Fruehling, twenty years old,
living with his parents near Ottawa,
LIE Sueur county, committed suicide
by shooting.
Lycurgus r. Meyer, president of the
Montevideo city council, banker and
we'll known as historian in Western
Minnesota, is dead.
Peter M. Dahlberg, seventy-six
years old, pioneer settler of Good
hue county, is dead at his home in
Voss after long illness.
Mrs. Catherine Sliney, seventy-eiglt
years old, a resident of Washington
county for fifty-five years, is dead at
her home in Oakdale township.
n S. G. Downing of La Moure, N. D.,
sold eighteen head of Galloway steers
at South St. Paul for $2,15967, the
record for all time on that market.
By vote of 27 to 40 the state SEN
ate refused to impose tonnage tax
on iron ore in Northern Minnesota.
The measure already had passed the
house. ..-
J. J.. Pehler, member of the lower
house of the legislature in 1903 and
1905, is dead of pneumonia at his
home in Winona. He was fifty years
of age.
Albert Coenman, sixty years old,
section foreman of the Great North
ern railroad at Freeport for thirty
years, was killed during a storm when
struck by an engine.
Joseph Bowen, who killed his wife
at Minneapolis a few days ago, COM
mitted suicide in the Glenwood Jail
with the same revolver he used in
the Mill City tragedy. -
William H. Helper is dead at Morris
at the age of ninety-seven years. He
was veteran of the Civil war, in
which he served as lieutenant in Com
pany K, Third Minnesota. ..
Minnesota shipments of pine trees
and currant and gooseberry plants
are excluded from Nevada under a
quarantine established by proclama-
tion of Governor Boyle of that state.
5Enraged because his nineteen-year-
old wife attended a dance with an
other man Roscoe r. Albright Of St.
Paul shot and probably mortally
wounded her and then killed himself.
Roy Miller of Randolph, this state,
q Chicago Great Western brakeman,
was murdered by tramps, who threw
his body from train near McIntire,
La: Three suspects are under arrest.
Voluntary contributions resulting
from the 1916 Red Cross seal cam
paign raised a fund for health work
amounting to $4,000, which places
Minnesota in line for a national pen
nant .....
More than 100000 of state revenue
from iron mines is at stake under a
question involved in test suit which
Attorney General Smith has been re.
quested to bring by State Auditor
Preus. 4+ 49,.
Fred B. Wood, adjutant general of
Minnesota, has been notified by the
war department to have the Mime
sofa national guard ready for any de-
mand which may arise from the Ger
man crisis. d.
George H. Skeate of Spring Lake.
Dakota county, shot large eagle
while the bird was devouring a Ply
mouth Rock rooster in his hennery.
The eagle measured five feet from tip
to tip of wing.
Minnesota is now doing about $780,
100000 business annually. State Treas
urer Rines says the volume of fnan-
cial transactions during the past year
was almost $4,0OO,O0O greater than
that of the previous year.
Preston R. Jones, sixty-seven years
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