The Ely miner., 1903-04-17
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE.
The Morris band has been reorgan-
lzed under the leadership of George

secured to give the Memorial day
| address in Austin.
Joel Miller, employed at Alger,
Smith & Co.'S saw mill, Duluth, die
during rage at the mill.
William Ewart was appointed post
master at Vivian, Waseca county, vice
A. j. Tangeman, resigned.
The corner stone of the new NJ. E..
church was laid at Princeton, Rev.
DIR. Forbes officiating at the cere-
mony.
Judge Cant at Duluth sentenced
Richard Hannah, who was convicted
of manslaughter to fifteen years at
Saltwater.
Several concealed cases of small
poX were reported to the state board
of health recently from the town of
Benton near Belle Plaine.
President III. Allen of the Red Wing
ladies' seminary was seriously iniur-
ed and came very near being killed in
jumping from Milwaukee train.
Detective Moran of the Margaret
street police precinct, ST. Paul, ar
rested seven men on a charge of tres
passing in the Burlington railroad
yards.
Democrats had the best of the mu-
nicipal election at Winona. l.. l..
Brown, their nominee for mayor, de-
feating E. X. Tarbell (rep.) in hard
fight.
After deliberating for over thirty
one hours the jury in the case of
Chester Clegg, at Luverne, charged
with grand larceny, found him guilty
of petit larceny.
A daring robbery occurred in tho
saloon of w. Burns, 155 East Seventh
street, ST. Paul. The thieves got the
bartender's watch and $40 from the
cash register.
James A. Tormey, superintendent
of the Winona public schools, has
been elected to the position of super
intendent at Spokane, Wash, at sal
ary of $4,000 per year.
The Chicago Great Western round
house at Mankato burned and two
freight engines were destroyed. The
fire started in the oilroom. The build
ing was of no great value.
Total blindness has stricken Paul
RAIDER, noted football player and
Hamline coach, as the result of inju-
ries received in the Hamline-Carle-
ton football game last fall.
The mattress factory at the Mime
sofa school for the feeble minded at
Faribault caught fire but was put
out by the attendants. The entire
damage will not exceed $500.
A rich find of metallic iron ore has
been made on Andrew Johnson's
homestead on the Highland iron
range, thirteen miles from Two Har-
bors. This is the new iron range.
II. B. Knudsen and W. A. Eden have
secured contract from the North
ern Pacific road to handle the steve
dore work on the company's six
docks at Duluth this year. 1t is a
large contract and from 300 to 500
men will be required.
Death by bullets fired from revol-
YER in her own hands was the end
chosen by a young woman in the
edge of the woods near Nicollet ave-
nue. and Forty-second street, Mime
apolis.
A labor difficulty which threatened
to result in a strike, has just been
settled in Winona by arbitration. By
the settlement the sheet metal work
ers have been granted an increase of
20 per cent in wages per hour, and
the work day has been reduced from
ten to nine hours.
Material for the new sewer system
is on the ground at Slayton and work
will begin at once. The village coun-
Gil has given franchise to B. I. Weld
to put in gas plant for public and
private lighting.
The receipts at the Minneapolis
postoffice last month were $92, ,173.76,
as against S1,013.2S during March
1902. This difference of $11, 1,7OO.4S' in
dicates gratifying increase of ii per
cent.
The annual reoprt of the superin-
tendent of the ST. Paul workhouse
shows that during the year 9SS per-
sons were received at the house, over
half of this number beng sentenced
for drunkenness. Of the whole num-
Der GIL were first commitments, 118
second, 40 third, and two were sent
up for the fortieth time.
The Great Northern has just ac-
quired another iron mine on the Me-
saba range. 1t is known as the Mis-
saba Chief, and contains large de-
posit of low grade ore, estimated at
100000 tons.
Mrs. Mary Hickey was burned to
death at Northfield She was making
bread when her clothing caught fire
from the stove. She ran to another
room, but when her son arrived she
was dead. He succeeded in quench-
ing the fire in the kitchen.
The first boat to clear from Duluth
for lower lake ports left with 175,000
bushels of wheat. 1t was the Sultana,
Captain Driscoll. According to the
time-honored custom the usual fee
for the clearance papers was re-
funded.
William Behrns has been appointed
regular carrier and FL. William
Behrns, Jr., substitute, on the rural
route at Chaska; also Louis Ander-
son, regular carrier, and Carl Boyum
substitute, on the route at Kasson.
At the, twenty-ffth annual exhibit
ton of the Society of American Art
lists, which opened in New York, the
chief prize, the Carnegie prize of $500
was awarded to Douglas Volk, for
merly of Minneapolis, for his picture,
'Boy with Arrow"
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