New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-02-14
ABOUT The L STATE
News Of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Happenings Of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience of the
>. Busy Reader.


Mrs. William Mollick, seventy-four
years old, pioneer resident of Hast
ings, Is dead.
Luther r. Weld, aged ninety-one, a
resident of Faribault for more than
sixty years, is dead.
Herman P. Jassoy, proprietor of one
of Stillwater's principal harness shops,
died suddenly, aged sixty-eight.
James Fenwick. thirty-five years old,
was run down and killed by North
ern Pacific train at Minneapolis.
The state fair board has asked the
legislature for an appropriation of $780,
900 for repairs and new buildings.
Fire at Ivanhoe destroyed all the
buildings on one side of the main
street for block, causing loss esti-
mated at $4,000. =.
J. F. Broderick, former president Of
the Commercial club and for many
years prominent in business affairs in
St. Paul, is dead, aged sixty-nine. "
B. c. Belcher shot and killed Julius
Gullickson during quarrel at the vii
lage hall at Aurora Both men were
employed on the night police force;
Grain elevators, docks and store
houses on the Duluth-Superior water
front are being guarded against pos
cih oafivifioc hxyx oof hiyorS
Frank DAM, ST., eighty-seven years
old, former band director in St. Paul
and we'll known in musical circles in
that city, is dead at Los Angeles, Cal.
Goodman Anderson of Hills, one of
the wealthiest residents Of Pipestone
county, has just presented each of his
eight children highly improved farm.
Rev. Justus A. Naumann, president
OF the German Lutheran synod of Min
nesota, died of apoplexy at his home
in st. Paul. He was fifty-one years of
age.
Minnesota has 1878 national guards
men, including 209 officers, subject to
the call of the president and orders of
the war department in the event war
is declared. ..
John Feeley, aged thirty-seven, was
burned to death in his cottage at
Woodbury., Washington county, when
he fell asleep and his pipe set fire to
his clothing. "
Magnus Johnson's bill prohibiting
discrimination grain prices between
different localities was passed by the
lower house of the legislature by
vote of SO to 2. -..a.f
AL Blood, farmer residing near
Wolford, fought wolf with jack
knife when attacked on a lonely coun-
try road. He killed the beast and Sc
cured the bounty.
Joseph D. Lloyd, eighty-seven years
many years captain and owner of the
Lloyd line of steamers on the Great
Lakes, is dead at Duluth. r, =.
Rev. C. e. Benson of Saltwater was
elected president of the Swedish Luth-
eran conference of the Chicago dis
trict at the closing session of a two
day meeting at Saltwater. \ =
E.riedlin Boil, one of the forty-seven
soldiers who survived the charge of
the First Minnesota at Gettysburg, is
dead at his home in Owatonna. He
was seventy-eight years OF. age.
DR.. j. L. Pollock of Hanley Falls
was frozen to death in snow drifts
near that village, having become lost
in blizzard while returning from vis-
iting his patients in the country.
il, William Bircher, aged seventy-one,
who reached st. Paul with his parents
in 1851, is dead at st. Cloud, Fla. Mr..
Bircher was drummer boy in the
Second Minnesota in the Civil war.
Miss Ethel Johnson of St. Paul, who
has just been appointed assistant sec.
rotary of the Eighth civil service dis
trict, Is said to be theHfirst woman in
the country to hold such a position.
James w. Henkenson, eighty-three
years old, resident of Minneapolis
for sixty years, veteran of the Civil
war and of numerous Indian cam
paigns, is dead at the Soldiers home.
Rev. J. D. Higgins, the Oldest Meth
odist minister in the world, is dead at
Los Angeles, Cal, aged ninety-nine
years and four months Rev. Mr.. Hig-
gins spent much of his life in Mime.
sofa. =
Fire starting from an overheated
stove destroyed the Northern Pacific
railroad station at Brainerd. With
heavy wind blowing part of the bust
ness section of the city was threat
ened. ~ . ... gs-r,..
Victor Anderson, aged forty-six, is
dead at Duluth from injuries sustained
when he was caught by broken ma
chine belt and tossed to the ceiling in
the foundry Of the National Iron
Works. IT,.
N. P. Roberts, blacksmith near
Red Wing, and his ive-year-old son
were seriously burned when a gaso-
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