New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-01
News Of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
happenings Of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience Of the
Busy Reader.

Eben F. Thompson, aged sixtyseven
for years a member of the Minneapo.
lis bar, is dead.
Governor Burnquist has announced
the reappointment of Carlos Avery as
state game and fish commissioner.
Charles H. Conner, for twenty-five
years a resident of Minneapolis and a
prominent member of the Elks, il
dead.
1t is estimated that the royalties tc
the state on state owned iron ore
mines for the quarter ending June SO
will reach $1s5,oOo. - ..
w W. Rich, prominent in Minnesota
politics for more than twenty-five
years, has been appointed doorkeepe1
at the new state capitol. ....
Patrick Larkin, aged thirty-eight, /:
Brainerd automobile liveryman, wa
drowned in Gull lake in sight of hi
wife and seven children. <.-....
H. B. Harrison, forty-three years ole
is dead at Red Wing of tetanus con
tracted on July when a toy cannon
exploded, shattering his hand.
A. NJ Opsahl of Brainerd, now stat.
oil inspector, is slated to succeed Johr
E. Kienitz of Cambridge as deputy
state immigration commissioner
Miles Mc1nnes Dickey, ninety-three
years old and a pioneer of the state,
is dead at Wayzata, where he had
been postmaster for many years. ~
Albert L. Larson forty-two years
old, was fatally, injured when he fell
four stories in an elevator shaft in
the Palace building at Minneapolis.
James Ticcis, twenty-seven years Of
age. porter, was instantly killed
when he fell down flight of stairs
at Minneapolis, fracturing his skull.
Floyd Campbell, twenty-eight year,
old, killed himself near Oronoco, west
of Rochester, to keep from going to
war He was selected at the recent
drawing
4 Former State Representative Asher
Murray of .Wadena has been elected
to succeed Andrew D. Stephens Of
5Crookston en- the state board of i'm.
migration
Jess Dunning, secretary of the In.
sdustrial workers of the World at Be-
midi, was bound over to the grand
jury charged with displaying sabotage
literature.
Cordenio A. Severance, widely
known lawyer and member of the law
firm of Davis, Severance e. Odds OF
St. Paul, will head a Red Cross mis-
sion to Serbia.
Five persons were injured, ons
probably mortally, and five others es
capped almost miraculously in triple
collision of two automobiles and I
street car at St. Paul.
Dances in school buildings were ap
proved at q special election in Vir
ginia by a vote of 399 to &c. The
vote was ordered after an evangelist
recently attacked the school board fo1
permitting dances.
The state of Minnesota has $9,947,
900 in cash in its treasury, the largest
state. State Treasurer Rines predicts
that new high records may be esta5
lished during August.
A large number of slackers con
victed in federal court at Duluth fol
failure to register on June were
sentenced: by Federal Judge Page
Morris to terms varying from thirty
days to year in Jail.
Justin A. Mccarthy, a steward in 4
Winona club, shot and probably IA
tally wounded his wife, shot at an
other woman and attempted to kill
himself. Mccarthy is thought to have
been crazed by the heat
Ella Hanson, who was with William
Fugniato, a. Japanese, when he fell
from rowboat on Lake Harriet, al
Minneapolis, and was drowned, com
mitted suicide. the following day il
: her room at Mill City hotel.
P. M. Endsley, fifty-seven years old
for many years prominent in Minneap
ellis financial circles, died suddenly al
his home in that city. He was sec
rotary and. treasurer of the Minneapo
lis Savings and Loan company w..
DR.. Arthur Boucher, formerly a den
fist of Ely, this state, was killed on
the battle line in France while taking
part in a charge on German lines. DR.
Boucher was thirty years of age and
was born and reared in Waseca.
Mrs. Ida McGill Boynton, forty
three years old, only daughter of for
mer Governor Andrew R McGill, il
dead at the McGill home at st. Pau
just four months after the death oil
her husband, Wilbur D.. Boynton o.
Meadville. Pa.
Ernest Koch, fifty years old, presi
dent of the St. Paul Bricklayers' I'm
ion, Is dead as the result Of injuries
sustained when, he fell three stories
down an elevator shaft at the Elk
change annex at South st. Paul, nov
under construction.
Louis Lagone, aged thirty-nine. and
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