Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-07-19
ABOUT THE STATE
News Of Especial Interest TO
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
happenings Of the Week Briefly Toto
for the Convenience Of the
Busy Reader.

Andrew Piechowiz jumped off the
Thirty-second avenue bridge at Mime
apolis and was drowned.
Philip Abbott, seventy-seven years
old, veteran of the Civil war and for
mer st. Paul business man, is dead
Joe SAVING, seven years old. was
trampled and killed by runaway
team in a vacant lot in which he was
playing at ST. Paul.
Captain William w. Bishop, eighty.
one years DID, veteran of the Civil
war and for thirty-three years resi-
dent of st. Paul, is dead.
w. B. Sands of Minneapolis was
elected president Of the Minnesota
Letter Carriers association at the an
nual convention at Saltwater.
Mrs. Rebecca Forder, seventy-one
years old, one Of the early pioneers
Of Thief River Falls, is dead. She
came to Minnesota fifty years ago.
Theodore Backholz, an inmate of the
state hospital for the insane at Roch-
ester, committed suicide by hanging
herself from window sill by bed
sheet.
Henry A. Flint, for many years a
resident OF Minneapolis, is dead. He
was seventy-fve years of age and had
been prominent in Masonic circles for
fifty years.
Matthew G. Norton, eighty-six years
old p;opoor Iumhormop ~ yViunpo md
president emeritus of Hamline univer-
sity, st. Paul, is dead at his home in
Pasadena, CAL
Judge Frank C. Brooks, one Of the
most prominent members of the Min
neapolis bar, is dead, aged sixty-four.
Judge Brooks was on the Hennepin
county district bench from 1898 to
1909
The state high school board voted
3 to 2 to pay Immediately the out
standing state high school and graded
school aid deficits of 1914-15 and 1915.
16. totaling $1,O70193, from available
funds.
DR.. w. j. Parker. veterinarian at
der his overturned automobile about
eight miles east of Austin. He was
alone in the car when the accident &C.
Cured.
J. M. Tawney, son of former Repre-
sentative James A. Tawney of Winona,
has resigned from the foreign service
in Japan and will return to join his
company in the Second Minnesota in.
fantry.
Mrs. Samuel Haight, formerly Miss
Zoa Fuller Of Rochester, this state,
and we'll known in Minnesota club cir
cles, is the first woman to hold a seat
in the parliament of the province OF
Saskatchewan.
The removal of Adjutant General
Fred B. Wood from Office I'm the In.
terests of the Minnesota national
guard" has been recommended by the
state military board to the public
safety commission.
A. L. Riley, fifty-nine years old. mil.
lionaire railroad contractor and mine
owner, is dead at st. Cloud. For a
number OF years Mr.. Riley was asso-
ciated with Guthrie & Co., st. Paul
railroad contractors.
Mrs. D. Dario, fifty years old.
walked into the Mississippi river at
st. Paul, knelt in the water and
drowned herself. She Is said to have
shown symptoms of mental derange-
ment for some time.
A resolution demanding that the bu.
reau OF Indian affairs be abolished and
charging that officials at the head OF
the bureau ere incompetent was
adopted at the council of Minnesota
Chippewas at Bemidji.
One hundred and forty Moorhead
normal school girls are knitting socks
for soldiers. Daily knitting classes
are maintained and the girls are max
ing rapid progress in the early stages
OF their knitting lessons.
One hundred and thirteen indict.
ments were returned by the federal
grand Jury at Duluth against men who
failed to register June 5 and are now
held in the st. Louis county jail or
have been released on bond.
William Bennett, sixty years old, q
wealthy farm operator OF Galesville,
Wis, shot and killed himself while
seated in q rocking chair at hotel
in Winona. Dependency because OF
i'll health is given as the cause.
The Farmers State bank of Holt,
with q capital stock OF 100000 has
been closed by order OF r f.. Pearson,
state superintendent of banks. An
examiner has been placed in charge
and the assets will be liquidated.
Governor Burnquist has appointed
]. N. Searles OF Saltwater IS Judge OF
the Nineteenth judicial district He
succeeds Judge J. G. Nethaway, who
died recently. Mr.. Searles Ii an at
torney and veteran OF the Civil war.
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 driy-