The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-08-01
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE.
The State Bank of Hanska has been
organized with $4,000 capital.

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Minneapolis was destroyed by fire.
For five days the receipts at the
public baths of ST. Paul amounted to
$644.S5, and the number of actual
| bathers 2S,9S6.
| The board of education of Lake
Crystal awarded the contract for the
new high school building to j. B.
Nelson, of Mankato.
| The $1,000 school bonds recently
voted have been sold to o. III. Havil
of the Bank of Royalton, for $7,1O0.
The bonds bear Az per cent interest.
The Minnesota state fair program
this year will equal the great eastern
circuit association meets, and it will
| surpass all western association races.
The Ramsey county commissioners
| appropriated $500 to contribute to
| the good roads movement, at the So
| licitation of President George w.
Cooley.
Michael Reddington and Nels Nell
son, 13 and years respectively, were
drowned in South ST. Paul. Nelson
fell off raft and Reddington tried
to save him.
Sydney Olson, a graduate OF the
University of Minnesota, in the en-
ploy of E. J. Longyear, mining eX-
plorer, of Hibbing, was drowned at
SNOWFALL lake.
John Kelley, tramp, was run over
by railroad train at Isinours. He
got bad scalp wound and his right
hand was so badly crushed that it
was amputated.
Workmen commenced putting in
cement sidewalk in Jasper. The or
der calls for a ten-foot walk, with
four-foot stone gutter and curbing,
on four business blocks.
Charles Snow of Webster City, Ia,
was sentenced to thirty days or $50
for seining for fish in Lake Dakotah.
at Waterville. His brother, Frank
Snow made his escape.
Lenora Showalter, nee Lane, once a
well known actress, was probably ia
tally injured in runaway accident
at Preston, caused by the horse TAX
ing fright at an automobile.
Thomas Sullivan, switchman en-
ployed by the Railway Transfer, met
horrible death beneath the wheels
of the merchandise transfer at Cedar
and Franklin avenues, Minneapolis.
The petition contained 1,611 sigma
lures, and was found to be properly
prepared. A proclamation submit
ting the question of the division to
the people at the November election
will be issued.
A recent storm lasted twenty min
utes in ST. Paul, and for brief peri
cd was the fiercest in many years.
Rosie Froehler, one year old, living
at 1876 Abel street, was struck by
lightning and may die.
The commissioners of Cass county,
at their regular July meeting, award
ed the sale of the 100000 road and
bridge and courthouse bonds to Ma
son, Lewis e. Co., of Chicago, at a
premium of $1,G50.
S. H. Hall will build potato ware
house at this place this summer and
have it finished for the fall potato
market. The warehouse will be 2sx
4S, with large basement, and have a
capacity for twenty cars.
There were s31 cases of typhoid
fever reported to the health depart
ment of Minneapolis in the first six
months of last year. For the CORE
spending time this year there were
reported only 90 cases.
Five horses belonging to Michael
Farrell and two belonging to Miss
Mary Scott, in Lebanon, Dakota coun-
ty, were killed by lightning, and a
windmill on John Paine's farm in
Douglas was blown down.
Hennepin county commissioners
have been asked to appropriate $500
to be used in defraying the expenses
of the experiments to be carried on
by the Good Roads association at the
state fair this fall.
A most unusual wedding took place
at Minnetonlla when John B. Griffith
and Anna B. Christofferson, members
of the Salvation Army of Minneapo-
lis, were married on the steamer Pur-
itan at 10 o'clock p. m. in the midst
of the severe storm which visited the
lake that evening.
John Thompson, sand dealer, met
deatn at OWatOnna by sand bank
caving in. A mass of earth fell thirty
feet and he was buried alive. He
was discovered an hour later under
three feet of earth. The upper part
of his body was crushed to a pulp
and every bone except those of the
legs broken. He was As years old
and leaves a wife and three children.
L. B. Marshall, chief grain inspec-
tor, has resigned to take the position
of general manager of the National
Elevator company. f. w. Eva, chief
deputy in Duluth and formerly a
member of the board of grain APP
peals, will fill the vacancy created by
MarshalPs resignation. III. e. Emer-
son, first assistant deputy at Duluth
will take the position left open by
Eva's promotion.
The state entomologist f. L. Wash
burn, has found that the reports of
grasshoppers near Hill river have
been exaggerated. He says. the
grasshoppers have been feeding in
section about one mile wide and four
miles long. The amount of damage
within this boundary is not so large
as has been, reported, and as the in