Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1917-07-25
William Bennett. sixty Years old !

William Bennett, sixty years old, q
wealthy farm operator Of Galesville,
Wis, shot and killed himself while
seated in a rocking chair at a hotel
in Winona. Dependency because Of
i'll health is given as the cause.
L. D. Cushman and Mrs. Victor
Tereau were killed when the motor
cycle on which they were riding was
struck by an automobile at st. Paul
The driver Of the auto is held by the
police on the charge of reckless driv-
ing.
Investigation of the grain exchanges
OF Minneapolis, Duluth and Chicago as
the first step in it's nationwide food
! price inquiry will be recommended to
the federal trade commission by Rep
resent Halvor Stevenson q Min
Duluth's first cases to determine
whether or not the city is bone dry
under the liquor ordinance which went
into effect July resulted in the con-
viction of two brewery wagon drivers,
charged with having liquor in their
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possession.
w. F. Houk, state labor commits
sioner, has been appointed by Gov
ernor BurnQuist to represent Mime
sofa at the conference July q at
| Washington, D. c., on the new federal
child labor law which becomes effec.
tive Sept. 1.
| Socialist delegates to the convention
of the Minnesota State Federation of
Labor at Faribault opposed a resolu-
ton pledging support to the govern
ment in the conduct of the war with
Germany, but were defeated by vote
of 1856 to SO.
E. E. Corliss, aged seventy-six, Gus.
todian of the state capitol, is dead at
! his home in st. Paul. He served with
the Second Minnesota regiment in the
Civil war and was member of the
commission which superintended the
building of the state capitol.
The James ]. Hill farm at Northcote
will be colonized and disposed of at
once. The land will be sold to farm
ers only and will not be disposed of
to any person who does not intend to
cultivate it. The land will not be sold
in more than 320-acre tracts to any
one person. sn Y
| The auditor for the war department
has informed J. A. o. Preus, state
auditor, that Minnesota will be unable
to recover from the federal govern.
ment any of the $4,000 advanced by
the state to pay national guardsmen
who were sent to the Mexican border
last summer.
| Frank j. Dunn Of St Paul broke
down and wept as he entered the state
prison at Saltwater to begin life sen.
tence for the murder of his wife on
April 26. 1t was the first time Dunn
showed the slightest emotion regard.
ing his fate since he was arrested the
day Of the murder. =. :.
t The Socialist delegates to the State
Federation Of Labor convention bolted
in a. body following passage OF a reso
luton endorsing the governments war
plans. =. G. Hall of Minneapolis was
reelected president and George w
Lawson of st. Paul secretary. Next
| years convention will be held at Vir.
ginia.
Because two saloon keepers at Gil.
bert sold liquor illegally on Sunday
to Andrew Fest, who was drowned la.
ter in the day while under the influ-
ence of the liquor, their bondsmen
must pay $4,000 to Martha Fest, the
widow, the state supreme court de.
cided in affirming a verdict of the
lower court.
Pursuant to a resolution passed by
the state public safety commission re.
Gently Governor Burnquist has ap.
pointed as commission to investi.
gate food and fuel prices in Minnesota
Colonel Charles March of Litchield,
member Of the commission, George w
Lawson, secretary of the State Fed.
Grafton of Labor, and w. s. Moscrip, a
farmer of Lake Elmo.
The state railroad and warehouse
commission has issued an order direct.
ing the Northern Pacific railroad to
restore passenger train service over
the old st. Paul and Duluth line
through Minnesota territory and tc
furnish equitable passenger rates be-
tween Duluth and all other intrastate
points on it's line within twenty days
or to show cause why the proposed
relief should not be granted.
Two men and two women were
drowned in the st. Louis river near
Morgan Park hospital in efforts to
rescue girl. She was saved by a
boatman after the others sank. The
dead are Miss Ray Niemi, twenty
years old; Miss Tena Mclean, twenty
one; Arthur Henry, fifty, superintend-
ent Of finishing mill at the Minnesota
Steel company's plant, and Melvin
Olsen, twenty-eight, assistant auditor
Of the steel plant.
The authority of the Minnesota pub
lie safety commission was upheld in
the United States district court at
Minneapolis when Judge Wilbur r.
Booth denied the prayer of Phil Cook,