Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-08-09
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in Lake Phalen while bathing.
Abraham Hickey, twenty-stx years
old, was drowned in the Mississippi
river at Minneapolis while swimming.
George Odlum, real estate dealer in
Minneapolis for thirty seven years, IS
dead He was siXty-four years OF age.
William Huss, for the past seven
teen years chief electrician of the Aus
tin municipal plant, was electrocuted
while repairing wires.
St. Louis county will hold an option
election on Sept 10, petitions bearing
10000 sworn signatures having been
filed with the county auditor.
Richard M. Nicely, forty-nine years
old, president of the r, M. Nicely COM
pany of St. Paul. general agents OF
the Employers Liability Assurance
corporation, is dead.
Gorgen Nielsen, fifty-eight years old,
o pioneer painter and decorator OF St.
Paul, is dead. Mr.. Nielsen was a mem
Der of the Builders exchange and
prominent in Danish circles.
Minnesota Civil war veterans Will
have their annual reunion at the state
fair grounds at p. m, Sept. D. All
Civil war veterans from other states
are honorary members of the associa-
ton.
Secretary of War Baker has turned
down the request of Governor Burn
quist that the state national guard
troops be trained at home instead of
in the extreme south at the height OF
midsummer.
The Great Northern road is putting
additional men at work on the addi-
ton to it's yards at Fridley and when
the work is completed the Fridley ter.
minal will be able to handle 1000 ad-
ditional cars.
Mrs. Caroline NJ. King, widow OF
Colonel Bill King, one of the early
real estate operators of Minneapolis
and one time representative in con.
gress from the Mill City, is dead, aged
seventy-eight.
A. baby monkey, weighing but one
and one-half pounds, that had Travelled
all the way from Central America con
cealed in a bunch of bananas, was
found by Carmen Brondi, Minneapolis
market gardener.
J. F. Nicholson, treasurer of the
Standard and Model clothing houses
and long a prominent retail merchant
of Minneapolis, is dead. Mr.. NichOl'
son was f1fty-seven years of age and a
native of Sweden.
The old Northwestern Thresher
company plant at Saltwater will be
reopened for tool and machinery
factory by the newly organized Twin
City Forge and Foundry company, cap
italized at 100000.
The body of young woman found
shot through the heart in a vacant lot
in Minneapolis has been identified as
that of Lucy Truppe, twenty-three
years old, daughter of Mrs. Alice
Truppe of Milwaukee.
Machinists, boilermakers and help
ers employed at the Chicago Great
Western railroad shops at Red Wing
are on strike. The men demand an
increase of wages to equal that now
paid in the ST. Paul shops.
The First Minnesota infantry will
be continued on property guard serv'
ice in Minneapolis, st. Paul and Du
luth until Aug. Is, and possibly until
Aug. 81, depending on the organization
of the new Fourth infantry.
John w. Bergenholz, whose father
died recently in Denmark, leaving him
fortune of 10000 kroner (about $13,
400), committed suicide in his room
in Minneapolis. Relatives in the Mill
City could give no reason for his act
Charles e. Erwin, seventy-three
years old, a pioneer resident of Wi
mona county and retired locomotive
engineer Of the Chicago and North
western and Green Bay railroads
dropped dead at his home in Winona
Representative Harold Knutson Of
st. Cloud has made application to the
bureau of Indian affairs for the trans
fer Of the Cass Lake Indian school to
within short distance of Cass Lake
The school now is some six miles dis
'ant
An appeal to all patriots to join in
the suppression Of anti-draft action
and other expressions of seditious sen
timent now injecting some parts oil
Minnesota has gone out from the Of
fees of the state public safety com
| mission.
Minnesota sheriffs, one from each
of the eighty-six counties in the state
have been sent invitations by the
state public safety commission to At
tend a conference at st. Paul Aug. Ii
on war time problems relating to law
| endorsements.
The state bureau of investments
created by the last legislature, has set
aside a revolving fund Of $lOO,oo0 to
finance improvements on vacant state
land. Applications for loans for new
school buildings were received from
| several localities.