The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-07-18
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE.

s. b. Lovejoy, postmaster of Mime
apolis died after long illness.
j. d. Kindly, brakeman employed
on gravel train on the Chicago
Great Western road, was killed at the
Randolph street gravel pit in st. Paul
the other night.
commercial club for Morris is
now an assured organization, as the
business men met and adopted their
constitution and elected officers for
the first year.
The restaurant conducted by Elias
Hanks, at Morton, was destroyed by
fire and the family barely escaped
from the second story with their lives.
Hanks was seriously burned about
the face and body. Richard Newman,
a merchant, was cut by broken glass
and suffered from loss of blood.
The Chicago Great Western track
was washed out at point about sew
en- miles south of Kenyon. The Chi
cago passenger would no doubt have
been ditched had not a tramp, who
appreciated the danger, remained to
flag the train. Repairs were made
and the train proceeded after a delay
of seven hours.
Burglars entered the Duluth Candy
company's store, but were frightened
away. AT the Duluth Paint and Dec
Grating store, they blew off the lock
and door with a dynamite fuse or
cartridge and stole the safe, which
was small one, weighing $50 pounds,
aud which contained no money.
Joel Clarke died at Lake City from
injuries received in a fall from a load
of hay. The deceased was an old res
ident of Goodhue county and was 81
years of age.
Directors of the ST. Paul CONNER
cial club yesterday refused to suspend
the rules and grant the privileges of
the club to colored persons. Owing
to occurrences some months ago this
question was a subject of lively dis
cussion among club members, and at
the last annual meeting the rules
were changed to limit the granting of
privilege to white persons only.
Considerable work is being done in
Red River valley drainage bitches this
year. The test case on the new
drainage law has not yet been heard
by the supreme court, but the county
authorities are proceeding on the as
sumption that the law will be sus-
tanned.
A stranger who has been preaching
on the streets at Black Duck for sew
eral days past, prophesying the i'm
mediate destruction of the earth and
other gigantic calamities, was found
in the mill pond in state of nudity
early yesterday, completely covered
with bloodsuckers and complacently
reading his Bible.
Four persons met death in and near
Minneapolis the Fourth by drowning.
Three of them resided in the city,
while the fourth was from Brooklyn
Center. The dead are r. w. Emerson,
21 years old, drowned in Lake Cal
houn; Paul F. Thompson, 10 years
old, in Cedar Lake; John Buckley, in
Lake st. Croix, and William Roberg,
81 years old, Brooklyn Center, in Fish
lake, near Osseo.
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bash Screen Door company were filed
in the Office of the register of deeds
at Minneapolis. The amount of the
capital stock is 100000 and the liza
bility is limited at 100000.
Safe blowers visited the office of
the Western Manufacturing company,
wholesale jewelers. in Minneapolis,
forced open the safe and secured jew
elry worth over $4,000. They gained
entrance to the room by climbing
through the transom, and then were
able to work at their ease until the
safe was opened and the jewelry TAX
en-.
Orville L. Knapp committed suicide
at Owatonna by shooting. He had
been dealing in options in corn and
oats, and had sold short He refused
to put up more margins, having al
ready lost over $1,000.
During a storm at the state fair
grounds windmill was blown down,
the Minneapolis gate and ticket office
were damaged, and nearly all the bill
boards in the enclosure were demol-
| ished.
A terrific windstorm, tornado in
character passed through ST. Cloud,
moving from the southwest and being
40 rods wide. Many shade trees and
outbuildings were blown down in the
city.
The two sons of P. H. Johnson, a
highly respected farmer living two
miles west of Cokato, were the VIC
Tins of a horrible accident. A toy
cannon exploded killing one and bad
ly burning the other.
Mayor A. A. Ames, of Minneapolis,
draws two new indictments. Warrants
are also out for Fred w. Ames, chief
of police, and "Red" Cohen, the al
legged collector" The latter is said
to be out of the city.
Judge Robert Jamison of Minneap-
oils and James A. Martin of ST. Cloud
will be joint managers of the republic
can state campaign.
In his quarterly report to the state