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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1916
Page
6
A compact digest of notable events from the week across local life. Highlights cover community happenings, cultural activities, public notices, and small-town milestones that reflect regional interests and ongoing storylines.
The article lists winners by party for state offices including Senator Kelloge and Burnquist with party forks, Rines and Smith for treasurer and attorney general, Mills and Hedin in railroad and warehouse, and Anderson and Quinn for supreme court. It notes incumbents generally won renomination, Smith defeated in Fifth district, Lindbergh retiring in Sixth with Knutson securing the GOP nod, Van Lear leading socialist for Minneapolis mayor with Langum as opponent, and a vote to keep Dutch saloons out by 200.
A 1917 report notes Hyron J. Mosler appointed postmaster at Stillwater five. The item lists various regional incidents including a fatal dynamite accident near Albuquerque, drownings in White Bear Lake, a political shift in Virginia reducing saloons, a tornado near Crooks, thefts at Parke Davis, and a fire in Cambridge with significant damage.
Minnesota river catfish 48 pounds landed near Fort Ridgely by Joseph Winkler. Laborer Fred Jeffries died after being engulfed by sand in St Paul. Beltrami County option vote may include 1400 names. Murder conviction in Minneapolis. Bragdon to prison after assault conviction. stay of execution granted. Freight car hits auto in Marshall. driver injured. Senator Clapp appoints cadet Len tlhon Wheeler at West Point. Duluth shooting at Union Station linked to National Guard dispatch. Tornadoes in Thief River Falls. dog hurled by wind. Miner strike impact at Oliver Mining. potential mine closures. Road rebuilding near Staples and Motley by volunteers. Pickit suit. former Ramsey official involved. Minnesota manufacture growth 1909–1914 noted. Addie Nieme drowns. wife and baby escape. State institutions workforce policy on National Guard service. Robert C. Wiley, Minnesota pioneer, dies in Los Angeles. Governor Burnquist calls mayoral committees to fund National Guard relief.
Reports from El Paso describe General John J. Pershing leading about 12,000 troops in a ready state near Colonia Dublan with no wounded, while General Trevino occupies San Geronimo and Bachinaba after the San Geronimo engagement. Tensions rise as American and Mexican lines run parallel for 150 miles and orders threaten decisive action.
El Paso reports hastily concentrated Carranza troops along the Mexican railway between Juarez and Chihuahua City with eight troop trains sent from the state capital toward Villa Ahumada and Laguna. Pershing forces near El Paso are linked to a parallel line in the Santa Maria valley. large Mexican concentrations at Villa Ahumada and Montezuma raise fear of clashes. Both sides deploy patrols, fueling anxieties of broader hostilities as starvation fears grow in northern Mexico and food worries rise for natives near American supply routes.
Minister Ignacio Calderon of Bolivia leading a regional bloc asked Eliseo Arredondo, Mexico’s ambassador designate, if Carranza’s government would accept mediation in the U S Mexico dispute. Arredondo said he would relay the inquiry to General Carranza but could not offer an answer now.
Wireless report from Mexico City to Columbus New Mexico on June 27 states that twenty three American soldiers are known to have died in the Carrizal engagement. Major Jenkins commanding the Eleventh cavalry reports two squadrons continue to search for survivors from C and K troops of the Tenth. He notes none of the Mexican troops has been encountered and that of eighty four men in the two troops one officer and forty three enlisted men have reached American lines. One enlisted man is reported to be missing northwest Wigway.
Carranza asks for a full report from General Jacinto Trevino as the arrival of six more prisoners coincides with incidents at Carrizal. Two prisoner sergeants, Felix Page and Ira L. Lloyd, sign a statement supporting the Mexican view that Americans were not ambushed. Mexicans report capturing 31 rifles, pistols, and 3,000 rounds at Carrizal.
Brownsville June 27 a proclamation to Starr county citizens, largely Mexican or of Mexican descent, announces the formation of the defense social a group aimed at surrounding and guarding Rio Grande City to resist an invasion of the United States and prevent hostile demonstrations.
Minnesota troops from the First Second and Third infantry regiments and the First field artillery regiment are in camp at Camp Bobleter on the Fort Snelling reservation as of June 27.
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