The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-08-15
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Company at Rochester were badly
damaged by fire.
John Lind is candidate for con-
gress from the Fifth Congressional
district which is Hennepin county.
Sergeant Major Frank E. Blair of
the Fourteenth infantry died of tuber-
culosis at the Fort Smelling military
hospital.
Henry Harrisberger, Tyrone farm
er, had two fingers on the right hand
crushed in a binder. Amputation may
be necessary.
B. Fangmeier committed suicide
last night at his home few miles
northwest of LeSueur by taking a
dose of strychnine.
Governor Van SAINT has donated a
gold medal to be given the winner of
the log-rolling contest at Harriet is
land on Labor Day.
The annual meeting of the Tenth
Minnesota Veterans association will
occur at the state capitol Wednesday,
Sept. 3, at II o'clock.
George Williams of Ada was in
stantly killed by lightning. He was
driving in his field and one of his
horses was also killed.
A tramp made a murderous assault
with a knife on Avis Schwab at Lee
Sueur. Schwab escaped injury and
the hobo was put in Jail.
The barn, six horses and sixty-five
sheep on julius Wepp's farm near
Slayton were destroyed by fire started
by child. Insurance, $500.
Harry X. Hare, brakeman on the
Duluth & Iron Range, was caught be-
tween the drawbars of two cars and is
dead. He was about % years old and
unmarried.
Curtis NJ. Haight, farmer near
Rochester,, committed suicide by
swallowing strychnine and carbolic
acid and hacking his throat with a
jack knife.
Mrs. John Caulcutt was run down
and killed by North Western train
near Lake Elmo on Sunday. She was
70 wears old and had wandered away
from her home.
The village of Emmons, on the main
line of the Minneapolis & ST. Louis
railway, in Freeborn county, is to
have a depot erected and a station
maintained by that .oad.
Governor Van SAINT issued a requi-
sition for George w. Williams now
under arrest at Havre, Mont, and
wanted by the state prison authorities
for violation of his parole.
David McNicol, vice-president and
general manager of the Canadian Pa
cific road, is given as authority for
the statement that the Canadian line
to Minneapolis.
1a1
the application for pardon of To
bias Eller, sentenced to the st. Paul
workhouse for wife-beating. The
board went on record as opposed to
pardons for such offenses.
At a meeting of the University re-
gents DR.. George F. James, a brother
of President James of Northwestern
university, was appointed to the chair
of pedagogy, left vacant by the res
ignation of DR.. Kiehle. Mr.. Thomas,
of Duluth, was made an instructor in
rhetoric, and Mrs. Waters, Instructor
in French.
The Winofla board of education
passed a resolution directing that the
principals of all buildings be required
to teach as we'll as supervise the work
in their respective buildings. The
change will reduce the teaching force
by six members and cut down school
expenses some $4,000.
The board of county commissioners
put the total tax levy on personal
property in st. Louis county at $321,-
900. Sixty thousand dollars of that
amount will be appropriated as ha-
sis for a fund for the erection of a
new courthouse.
A remarkable increase in the popu-
lation of Minneapolis is shown by the
1902 directory of Minneapolis, just is
sued by the Minneapolis Directory
Company. The new directory has no.
OIL names, which, using the low null
tiple of ~, indicates a present popu-
lation of 247,525, gain of 14,4S2 dur
ing the past year.
Governor Van SAINT has appointed F.
S. Stewart municipal judge in Anoka
to succeed the late Hiram Thornton.
Judge Sanborn has rendered de-
cision against the Aetna Life Insur-
ance company for $4,000 interest
claimed to ne due the county of Ham
iiton, Iowa, OF 100000 worth of bonds
purchased.