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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1911
Page
2
Fifty sons and daughters of University of Missouri faculty study in a seven grade elementary program linked to the school of education. They skip books, learn by doing in gardening and farming, cook and sew, visit stores and offices, and plan a graduation dinner served from garden produce.
Albany man Michael Donnelly traces a 1889 bill of sale dispute with brother in law P J McArdle through decades of litigation. The table lists years of litigation trials and days, lawyers and justices, witnesses and deaths, with Donnelly and McArdle in iron business. Referee H A Gildersleeve reported $41 000 share plus $20 000 counsel fees. Donnelly rejects this.
A North Dakota lawyer argues land patents lack validity because they bear only the president's signature. He sent a note to the General Land Office noting that Mrs Taft did not sign the patent. He cites a woman clerk authorized to sign the president's name at the president's request. The lawyer claims the president never signs in person and that the president’s wife should join the instrument.
In St Paul a grand fiftieth anniversary celebration honors the First Minnesota Regiment's fifty years since leaving for war. Veterans enjoyed events from morning to night including a capitol reunion, a gift of regimental colors, and a crown of laurel for Colonel Josiah R. King. Governor Eberhart and Mayor Keller greeted veterans at the Auditorium.
Superintendent Fielding reports Mike Davis, the alleged Poposky robber who escaped during a midnight clash a week ago, will be arrested within forty eight hours. Billy Behan, wounded and jailed at Bemidji, has signed a lengthy confession implicating others. Detectives say three others gave new evidence after third degree interrogations. One man tied to a prior Vuposky robbery is among the three.
Peter Vorbenich of Northern Minnesota was acquitted on a charge of attempting to kill deputy sheriffs after deputies accused him and his wife of driving them off their claim and firing on them. Two farm boys drowned on a Ruthton area farm lake when their boat capsized after chores. Ole Ringstad and John Williams were injured in St. Paul by a switch engine accident. Louis Sharp Enter and George Rolz both drowned while attempting a rescue at Prior Lake.
Congressman Frank M. Nye returns from Washington to discuss a proposed presidential summer residence at Lake Minnetonka with a Minneapolis Commercial club summer capitol committee. The panel outlines Minneapolis terms and Nye explains Washington’s stance. The matter will be addressed in the upcoming December session with hearings planned on Nye’s resolution accepting the offer.
Two Wat St Paul boys, Willard Myers sixteen and Robert Hurley eighteen, nearly drowned while swimming in the river near South Park. Myers could not swim and was swept by an eddy. Hurley tried to rescue him. Companions Irving Jones and George Hurley saved the older lad with a pole while Myers drifted downstream unconscious for several minutes before rescue.
The Minnesota Supreme Court upholds a 1909 law granting counties 10 percent of liquor license revenue collected by municipalities within their borders. In the Sibley county versus Gibbon case the county sought 300 dollars, arguing the tax funds schools and roads. the village argued the money was spent thus defeating the county’s right. The court ruled the county’s claim to the percentage could not be defeated.
Alfred Stringer of Minneapolis petitions Governor Eberhart to remove Hennepin County Commissioners R. J. Upton Frank W. Cook C. W. Waddell William Knight and C. M. E. Carlson alleging unbusinesslike conduct and unauthorized expenditures of taxpayer funds.
The state supreme court applies reasonableness to orders of the state railway and warehouse commission and upholds a commission order for a sidetrack from the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul line at Mendota to a nearby stone quarry and crushing plant.
Bernard Findling, charged with manslaughter and murder in the third degree, was captured by St Paul detectives after escaping a Minneapolis jail three weeks earlier. The case centers on the death of eight year old Lee Donahue who died May 30 at Norwegian Lutheran Deaconess hospital.
Bren, former cashier of the state university, indicted for embezzling 2616, jailed three times, released on 5000 bail plus 10000 pledged by his father and others, total bail 13000. Also Joe Cantillon and Hub Dawson pled guilty to disorderly conduct in St Paul police court after Lexington grounds incident May 31. Cantillon struck the colored rooter Napoleon Johnson with a bat.
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