The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-07-11
1|leState Newsof
The Week in Brief
An Epitome of All the Big and
Interesting Event. Of the Past
+ Few Days In the State. =


guilty.
A jury at Ivanhoe, Mimi, has dis
agreed in the case of John jacob,
whose trial on charge of manslaugh-
ter was the outcome of a prank in
July, 1916.
Chisago county is indignant over at
tacks by socialist speaker, Allen S.
Broms, on Washington, Lincoln and
other American patriots in a speech
at Almelund June 10.
The Red River Valley Development
association and the Red River
Valley Live Stock Breeders associa~
ton held their fourth annual summer
meetings at Red Lake Falls, June Fl
and 20.
Cooperative marketing and selling
of dairy products were discussed by
dairymen of state repute at the first
annual summer convention of the Min
nesota State Dairymen's association,
held at Brainerd, June % and 20.
Growing of buckwheat to increase
Minnesota's wartime crop production
of the state and country. Because
buckwheat will mature in 13 weeks, it
is being suggested as second crop.
Despite injunctions from authorities
forbidding parades in which the Amer
lean flag is not prominently displayed,
5000 Finnish picnickers, each wearing
a red ribbon marched at Virginia with
out the national emblem. No arrest
was made.
The appraisment committee of the
Balkan Federal Farm Loan association
has completed it's labors in apprais-
ing the farms of applicants for farm
loans. It is expected federal money
will be in the hands of Chisholm farm
ers within the next week.
Because of an epidemic of scarlet
fever at Goodridge, Minn., this village
has been placed under quarantine The
children of the village will not be al
lowed to leave their yards, according
to an announcement of city officials.
There have been no deaths.
Increased production ard shipment
of coal to the Northwest automatically
should cause lowering of prices, is
from F. S. Peabody, chairman of the
committee on coal production of the
Council of National Defense.
Isabelle Palbitski, 10 years old, es-
capped death in a remarkable manner
in a severe electrical storm at Winona
when lightning struck the bed in which
she was sleeping and demolished it.
Not until the bed fell to the floor in
a heap of splinte1ed wood did the girl
awaken.
Horses belonging to farmers in the
vicinity of Jonesville have been poi
soned mysteriously and others have
been badly mutilated. An investiga-
ton is being made. Deputy Sheriff E.
B. Baldwin of Waterloo and blood
hounds have been brought here and
placed on the trail of the men.
A large attendance of clergy and
laity at pontifical high mass and a
luncheon of zoo covers at a hotel, were
the first events in the golden jubilee
celebration of the ordination of the
Right Rev. James McGolrick, bishop
of Duluth, which was brought to a
close with a public reception held in
the cathedral auditorium.
The transfer of many freight cars
from railway lines along the Missis-
sippi river to inland divisions, thus
compelling shippers along the river
to transport their goods by boat, has
been advocated at Winona by Roy
Streckfus of the Streckfus Steamboat
line as method for partially reliev-
ing war time traffic congestion.
Ed Bosky, editor of the Referen-
dunn, newspaper of Faribault, in
dicted by the Ramsey county grand
jury for discouraging enlistments, has
been released on $1,000 bonds.
Stillwater's seventh annual Chautau-
qua will open here with program in
Guiding talks and entertainments by
Judge Ben Lindsey, Gypsy Smith, Sar-
ah Tyson Rorer and Representative
Abercrombie of Alabama.
First steps to relieve congestion of
slackers in St. Louis county were TAX
en- by sheriffs' forces of St. Louis and
1tasca counties, when thirty men, held
for lodging registration, were removed
from Virginia to Grand Rapids.
A threatening letter received by
Frank Anderson of Boy River, near
Leech lake in Cass county, has been
forwarded to Commissioner Carlos Av.
cry of the state game and fish depart.
ment and turned over to the Federal
postoftice inspectors for investigation
Anderson is said to have been aiding
in prosecution of game law violators
Three boxcars were loaded with
clamshells in Fairfax last week, the
first of a large shipment which will
be made this year from hauls made
in the Minnesota river. Shells bring
~$32 ton. The bulk of the shells are
shipped to button factories in Iowa.
Waters of the Root river had sub
sided sufficiently at Lanesboro and
Preston for train service to be re-
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