New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-11

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News Of Especial Interest to.
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS.
happenings Of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience Of the
Busy Reader.

Company A, Second regiment, Min
nesota national guard, has been trans
ferred from New Ulm to Luverne.
Dennis Mangan, eighty-fve years
old, hanged himself at his home in St.
Paul. He was respondent over i'll
health.
Arthur Bergstrom of Strandquist,
this state, lighting with the Canadian
troops in France, is reported to have
been wounded
The state of Minnesota had a cash
balance of $6,605, 637.16 on hand on
June 80, 1917, according to State
Treasurer Rines.
The monthly report of the state
hospital for the insane at Rochester
shows that 1885 patients are now be-
ing cared for there.
An engineer from the bureau of
mines at Washington will be sent to
Minnesota shortly to inspect the iron
mines of the state
The Minneapolis Association Op-
posed to Woman's Suffrage has de-
and take up Red Cross work.
Joseph Lcwey Of Rochester, four
years old, was drowned while attempt
ing to recover ball which had fallen
into barrel partly filled with water.
The Federal Loan bank of St. Paul
has made loans totaling $4,000, &C
cording to figures on the first quarter
year of operation of the institution.
John Otter, aged thirty-seven, con-
tractor and builder at Hamel, was
killed in that village when his horses
ran away and threw him out of a
wagon. a-.. -. z=
William Rain, who for twenty years
has been widely known in Minneapo-
lis musical circles as violinist, was
drowned while bathing in Beebe lake,
Wright county
James F. Bell of Minneapolis has
been appointed chairman of provi-
sional national committee to mobilize
the milling industry to help win the
war for the United States.
James F.. Wallace, ousted from his
seat in the Minneapolis city council
by the courts for violating the state
corrupt practices law, was returned
to Office at a special election.
Lloyd and George NUM-, fourteen
and sixteen years old, brothers, were
drowned in Lake Francis, near James
vile, when wave capsized the boat
from which they were fishing.
Nearly 5000 Scandinavians from the
Twin Cities attended picnic under
the auspices of the Minnesota Scandi-
navian grand lodge of the Interna.
tional Order of Good Templars.
Tearing down an American flag and
crushing it under his heel, while ut
tering vile epithets, almost cost Victor
Salmi his life at Kinney. When res
cued by the police he was badly dis
figured. ~'
Annual license fees collected from
hotels and restaurants throughout the
state amounted to $S,69S, according to
report to the state treasurer by
William G. Nee, state hotel inspector,
for the fiscal year ending June 80.
Schroeder, fishing village on the
north shore of Lake Superior, in Cook
county, is in the throes of smallpox
epidemic. Twelve entire families are
stricken and the infection has been
carried into practically every home.
Margaret Croft, nineteen years old,
and Mrs, Bessie Frisk, aged twenty,
both of Minneapolis, were sentenced
to ninety days each in the workhouse
by Municipal Judge Smith of Mime
apolis for wearing soldiers uniforms.
Minnesota may lead the entire Unit
ed States in the reduction of fire loss
through Fourth of July celebrations
this year, only a few fires and one or
two minor accidents having been re-
ported to State Fire Marshal Harga-
dine
The Hanna Ore Mining. company Of
Duluth, capitalized at 100000, has
filed articles of Incorporation with the
secretary of state. The business Of
the new corporation will be mining,
smelling and refining of iron ore and
other metals
John M. Brooks, a farmer residing
near Blooming Prairie, was instantly
killed when heavy car owned and
driven by his son-in-law, John Schutt,
slid off high grade and turned tur-
tie. Other passengers in the car we're
badly bruised.
Work on second state and federal
highway from the Twin Cities to Du-
luth is to be pushed forward at once
as a result of conference between
the delegation from Anoka, Isanti,
Kanabec and Pine counties with c. M.
Babcock, state highway commissioner.
The accounts Of Adjutant General
Fred B. Wood Of Minnesota have
been audited by the treasury depart
ment at Washington and approved.
This means that the treasury depart
ment will open an account with Cap
tain Harry .. Brady, property and dis
bursting officer of the Minnesota ma
#tional guard ], and that the state will