New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-01-17
News Of Especial Interest 10.
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Happenings Of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience Of the
Busy Reader.

Dodge county is dead at West Con-
cord.
The Northern Minnesota Editorial
association will meet Jan 10 and 20
at Brainerd
Mrs. Mary Shaw Louden, seventy.
nine years old and an early resident
Of Minneapolis, is dead.
w. H. Conver, eighty-seven years
DID, former vice president of the
Standard Oil company, is dead at st.
Paul. H
Elias J. Lien of ST. Vincent will be
|reappcinted state librarian, according
to announcement by Governor Burn,
quist.
James F. Cargill, widely known
Minneapolis grain merchant, is dead
at Pasadena, Cal, where he had gone
for his health
DR.. H. E. Sutton of Cold Springs
has gone on a trip which will take
him to Germany, where he will study
army surgery:
Hans Haugen, a merchant of Gran
ite Falls, shot himself to death in a
hotel at Pipestone No. cause for the
act is known.
DR.. r. t. Frank Of Warren was Sc.
lected president of the Minnesota
State Veterinary association at it's an
nual meeting in St. Paul.
The jury in the case of b. G. Strand,
mayor of Two Harbors and state leg
islator, gave a verdict of not guilty,
on the charge of having accepted a
BRIDE
. William Drettner of St. Paul, Great
Northern sWitchman, was crushed TO
death when he fell from the top of
freight car in the railroad yards at
St. Paul.
In the past year the Minnesota
Bankers association has moved to
sixth place in membership among the
state bankers associations of the.
United States.
The National Editorial association,
600 strong, will pour into Minneap-
oils July Z and for four days an
nual convention. Headquarters will
be at the West hotel.
The state board of control has sub
mitted it's budget to the governor and
it was turned over to the legislature
just as submitted The budget calls
for a total of $7,758,9O0.
Blinded by the heavy snowfall at
the time, Mathew Biernat, Minneap-
oils section hand, was run down and
killed by switch engine in the 500
railway yards in the Mill City.
J. @. A. Nickerson, a resident Of.
Minnesota sixty-eight years, is dead
at Elk River at the age of ninety-two.
He came to Minnesota in 1S49 and
spent the first four years at St. An
thony.
Professor A. G. Smith of the Uni.
versity of Minnesota agricultural col
lege was elected president of the Min
nesota State Poultry association at
the annual business session at Mime
apolis.
Warner r. Whipple, Duluth attor-
ney. has been appointed on the state
board of law examiners by the state
supreme court to fill vacancy caused
by the recent resignation of Edward
Lees of Winona.
Timothy B. Buckley, superintendent
of garbage collection at Minneapolis,
reported to the city council that he
had collected, dead, in 1916, 1850 dogs.
9OS cats, 81 chickens, l alligator and
l box of snakes.
Nineteen Minnesota and Wisconsin
cities will be visited by the st. Olaf
college (Northfeld) concert band on
its annual tour, starting Jan 20. The
organization is made up of fifty-one
student musicians
The, First Minnesota infantry
ranked first among all national guard
organizations in camp at Llano
Grande, Tex, during the month of
October. The First Minnesota re-
ceived a mark of 80.
First filings in, the appeal of Joseph
w. Bragdon for a new trial following
his conviction in Minneapolis on an
offense against young girl have
been received in the supreme court.
Arguments are set for Jan. 81.
In a bare bedroom, on the third
floor back of a ST. Paul lodging house,
William Maenner was found dead in
Ded, ending in poverty musical ca
reer which began in Vienna conserva-
tory under Franz List, world famous
composer.
During 1916 the Ninth Federal Re
serve bank Of Minneapolis earned
$238,000, as compared to gross earn
ings of 500 900 in 1915. The total re-
sources Of the bank now are $37 ,487,- -
00O A year ago the resources totaled
16,466, 900. t.5. 3l..s
Charles L. Haas, head of the Haas !
Commission company, was elected ]
president of the South st. Paul Live !
Stock Exchange over Gilbert A. Wood
at the annual election . Mr.. Haas,
who was one Of the original incor-
porators of the exchange, served as |