The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-07-10
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE.

A young man giving his name as
John Burns of Cincinnati, Ohio, aged
twenty-three, was run over at Ava
tonna.
Ex-Congressman Page Morris, of
Duluth, the newly appointed United
States district judge, was sworn in
in ST. Paul.
Authority has been granted for the
organization of the First National
bank of Hallock, Mimi, with capt.
tai of $4,000.
The states loans from the perman-
ent school fund on June 20, for the
first time in the history of Minnesota,
reached the $2,000,000 mark.
Richard Kallusky committed sui
eide at Stewart by cutting his throat
with a pocket knife. Business trou-
bles are responsible for the deed.
Fred johnson, who lives four miles
southeast of Bertha, lost his barn
containing horses, calves, oats and
grain, by fire. Nothing was saved.
Seventeen shovelers employed on
an extension to the Hennepin pulp
mill at Little Falls struck for more
pay. They were getting $1.65. A new
crew went to work.
A carload of oranges has arrived in
ST. Paul from California under a new
system of transportation. 1t was the
first carload of fruit sent across the
country without ice.
A large barn belonging to Casper
Taubert at Luverne was struck by
lightning and burned. Eleven head
of horses were either killed Dy the
lightning or burned.
Miss Hilda Sneve and Miss Lizzie
Hanson of Rollag were drowned in
Pelican. Lake while bathing. The
bodies were recovered in an hour in
about eight feet of water
Water was turned into the new
bass pond at the state fish hatchery,
ST. Paul. The new pond is 400 by 500
feet, and will greatly increase the
facilities of that institution.
The monthly report issued by State
Treasurer Julius III. Block shows that
there is in the treasury balance of
$685., S12.72. There is a deficit of
$17,446.S4 in the general university
fund.
The premature explosion of a giant
frecracker in the fireworks ware
house of the Paris Murton company,
Minneapolis, started a fire which de-
stroyed nearly $4,000 worth of fire.
works.
The building owned and occupied
by S. j. Murray as drug store at
Rockford burned, and the postoffice
;~;, n ha
fire was undoubtedly of incendiary
origin.
The public examiner authorized
two state banks, the Nicollet State
Bank at Nicollet with a capital stock
of $4,000 and the state bank of Park
er's Prairie with capital stock of
$4,000.
State Superintendent of Instruction
j. w. Olsen, has been requested by
the similar official of the state of Mis-
souri, to forward plans and partic-
ulars of the best high schools in Min
neSOta.
A. B. Sage of Eyota, who disappear
ed on Jan. q of this year and, was
thought by some to have drowned
himself in the Zumbro river, has
been found at Oelwein, Iowa, in a
demented condition.
Nathaniel Case Rail, aged sixty-six,
for twentythree years a resident of
Rail Prairie, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the heart
with winchester. Dependency over
lingering illness was the cause.
A drive of 100000 feet of logs is
held at Red Lake Falls by low water
and unless heavy rains come will not
are the property of the Crookston
and Grand Forks Lumber company.
The body of an unidentified man
was found in the river at South ST.
Paul. The only articles in the clothes
were two keys and jackknife. The
body is that of laborer aged about
As years and of sandy complexion.
The 11-year-old son of James Gray
was drowned in the Clearwater at
Red Lake Falls. He was playing OH
some logs and fell in. His body was
recovered in a short time, but all at
tempts to revive him were unavail-
ing.
st. Paul osteopaths have opened
free dispensary at 1873 w Sixth street,
ST. Paul. On Mondays and Fridays
from s to 10 a. m. and from to s
p. m, one or more practitioners will be
present and treat patients free of
charge.
The bankers of the state, through
their state association, have just clos
ed arrangements with the 500 line
for their annual outing, which will
take them down the lakes this year
as far east as Collingwood and Parry
Sound.
John Reidelberger, farmer living
near Perham, was brought to the
hospital with both legs badly broken.
He was operating a stump puller,
when the whiffietree broke and the
sweep hit him Oh the legs, fracturing
both below the knees.
The railroad commission has issued
a circular providing that after Sept.
/, 1908, all freight tariffs issued in
Minnesota must bear a serial num-
Der for file with the Minnesota COM
mission, the same as will the inter-
state commerce commission. Under
the old practice, the roads have been
able to publish and maintain rates
that were, for some time at least, un-
known to the commission.
Beginning July 1, the new law gov
erning judgments went into effect.