The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-05-09
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE.


! was convicted of drawing his dead
brothers pension.
Henry B. Fargo, formerly of ST.
Paul, shot and killed his wife, Nettie,
in ST. Louis, Mo.
The Swift County Land company
fled articles of incorporation with
capital stock of 100000.
H. Well, driver of butcher wagon,
has disappeared. He lived on Con-
cord street in st. Paul.
The Cannon Falls Farmers Eleva-
tor company filed articles of incorpo-
ration. Capital stock, $4,000.
L. H. Glen, laborer at Duluth,
hanged himself in Bowery lodging
house. Dependency was the cause.
The 3-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles l.. Anderson fell in a
ditch and was drowned at Moorhead.
The ST. Paul city railway company
is experimenting with crude oil as
fuel in place of coal at the Hill street
power-house.
John Ayotte, a Great Northern en-
gineer, had his head struck by pill
lar in passing under bridge in the
ST. Paul yards and was seriously in
jured.
The Union block, Fourth and Cedar
streets, ST Paul, was damaged by fire
The loss by fire alone was not large.
| Most of the damage was due to
| water.
A Northern Pacific passenger train
| bumped into freight near ST. Cloud.
| The engines were telescoped, the
crews jumped, and no one was much
| hurt.
MILFORD Larson, II years old, was
run over and instantly killed by an
Omaha transfer train in the yards at
Ninth street and Central avenue N E,
Minneapolis.
A 13-year-old Swede boy, who had
been ticketed through from his native
land to Deerwood, Mimi, arrived In
Duluth on the South Shore train, al
most famished.
City Clerk Matt Jensen of st. Paul
accepted the name of J. Henry Fitz
as prohibition candidate for mayor,
and ordered it filed for place on the
| May election DallOI.
Burglars entered McGrane's saloon
at Rochester, and rifed the money
drawer. When they were leaving the
bartender awoke and fired at them,
but they escaped.
The body of the man who commit
ted suicide in Loring park, Minneapo-
lis, was identified as that of Richard
G. Corners, until six weeks ago ho-
tel clerk at Little Falls.
The trouble of the engineers of the
Duluth & Iron River railroad was set
! tied at conference. The settlement
resulted in an increase of "A cents
mile for the engineers.
Herbert Gallehugh was sentenced
to life Imprisonment in the states
prison at Saltwater for the murder
of Charles Collins, colored cook of the
San Angelo hotel, Minneapolis.
Game Warden Johnson of Minneap-
oils went to Kilkenny, LIE Sueur coun-
ty, where he arrested two fishermen
for selling bullheads out of season.
They were fined S. and costs each.
There will be no school in Mime
apolis during state fair week. This
was decided by the board of educa-
ton, and is notable departure of
the board from their former custom.
Jennie, the seven-year-old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Tressler of 352
Geranium street, st. Paul, was run
down and killed by street car at
Greenbrier and Case streets, ST. Paul.
Another case of Minneapolis citi-
zen being bitten by a dog was re-
ported to authorities. The animal,
it is said, belongs to Fred Bean,
Waterman in the Pillsbury elevator.
A new factory may soon be built
in Minneapolis. Some time ago
manufacturer wrote to the CONNER
cial club for the purpose of ascertain
ing if local capital could be interest
| ed.
In the river just above the boom
at st. Paul, was found the body of
John Westling, who disappeared from
his room at Cedar avenue and Second
street south more than five weeks
ago.
DR.. S. B. Brimhall, in charge of the
| veterinary department Oh tne Stdte
board of health, believes that hogs
contract tuberculosis from drinking
the milk of cows infected by the dis
| ease.
Two men were drowned in Lake
Bemidji by the capsizing of their boat
while crossing the lake near Diamond
Point Their bodies have not yet
been found, but the lake is being
dragged.
The demand of the Longshoremen's
union at Duluth for 60 cents an hour
for lumber loading was refused by
the vessel captains, and the $50 MEM
bers of the union thereupon refused
to GO to work.
A writ of certiorari, returnable
May %, has been obtained in the SUI
preme court by Gideon S. Ives on be-
half of John Utrick and other land
owners in Polk county to test the
constitutionality of the state drain
age law. The Rainy lake ditch runs
through the property of the appli-
Giants and they object. They make