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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1911
Page
2
A five minute gale on the southern shore of Lake Erie leaves nine known dead, 30 to 40 injured, six missing, and $1,000,000 in property loss. Most victims were in rowboats on the lake, with deaths at Lorain and Cleveland.
At St Paul Auditorium on June 2 the Minnesota Democrats and neighbors praised party gains and welcomed possible nominees. Bryan attacked Supreme Court rulings as usurping legislative power to shield trusts, while the banquet drew 600 supporters from several states and included leaders like Burke Folk Hammond Lind Clark and Wilson among the attendees.
Northern Minnesota Development association delegates passed resolutions condemning the legislature for failing to enact a new apportionment and for the seven senator bill. A new immigration bureau will be headquartered in St Paul with funds for advertising the north. A committee will promote good roads and trunk lines, meet Crookston soon, and push a statewide reapportionment campaign with county visits.
Minnesota through James J. Hill plan issues bonds totaling 600 million dollars for the Great Northern railroad. A mortgage registry tax of 60,070 dollars is due on the filing of the trust deed. The bonds mature June 1, 1961 and are secured by a trust deed to Bankers Trust Company of New York.
Mrs L B Berg wife of the NM C railroad president was killed in the wreck of Sea train No 109 caused by a washout in a cut a mile south of Vergas. Mr Berg and about a dozen others injured minor to serious with eight cars derailed three burned and the private coach destroyed. Only the iron substructure and wheels remained on most cars.
Joseph D. Bren cashier of the University of Minnesota was arrested by Minneapolis police charged with embezzling 14000 claiming three highwaymen robbed him on university grounds. Chief Mealey and investigators examined Bren while regents and officers disputed his story as others contradicted his robbery claim. Police found Maud Eddington with access to university funds vault as questions about the accounts continue.
Frederick Kingsland eighteen and Louis Kemmer twenty two Hamline University freshmen drowned when their canoe capsized near the Cedar Avenue bridge in St Paul. Six companions watched as the youths disappeared and rescue efforts failed along the river with help from others nearby.
President Taft directs Secretary Knox to ignore a house committee summons and finish the investigation into the $2,450 state department voucher. Taft will be informed of any fraud findings and may compel the committee to be advised with the results.
A hotel fire in Cincinnati caused partial destruction of the Hotel Walton and threatened several other local hotels theaters and department stores. About 100 guests escaped in night attire as rumors of fatalities circulated but not confirmed. Loss estimated at 50000 dollars.
Governor Eberhart’s aide files formal complaint with the board of control seeking removal of F A Whittier superintendent of the boys and girls training schools over alleged brutal beatings with a leather thong. The complaint, drawn by A D Stephens and attorneys, cites punishments of inmates and girls at the institutions.
Chris Christopherson, about fifty, plunged headlong into a thirty-foot well at South Stillwater and died after being pulled out. He suffered multiple cuts to the face and forehead. his head was submerged. He worked at sawmills and in the pineries and apparently slipped while drinking from a water bucket.
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