The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-09-28
BRIEF MINNESOTA ITEMS.

MlIlnedpOIlS-1ue SoNciuor SuSSSSts
an inquiry to find whether the Mime
apolis & st. Louis has granted rebates
Mankato-Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Spar
row celebrated the fiftieth anniversary
of their marriage.
Faribault-Maj Chase makes the
best record ever made on the 1000
yard range at Seagirt.
ST. Paul-St. Paul Christian En-.
deavor societies want 1903 convention.
Moorhead-A motor car got away
from the driver and smashed in the
front window of a saloon.
ST. Paul-The charter commission
favors abolishing the workhouse
board.
Minneapolis The immigration
movement into the northwest this year
breaks records.
International Falls-Ericsburg is
the name chosen for the new town
on Rat Root river on the new line of
the Duluth, Rainy Lake & Winnipeg
road.
Two Harbors-The first threshing
machine on the north shore of Lake
Superior has been ordered by the
farmers of Maple Hill, in Cook county.
just back of Grand Marais, the county
seat.
Mankato-Deputy County Auditor
C. L. Kennedy has a SNOWFALL bush in
his yard that has blossomed for the
second time this year. 1t is now COW
cred with white blossoms.
Preston-Jesse Read. a colored man
from Austin, is locked up in the Jail
here on the charge Of stealing a horse
and buggy and watch at Harmony.
ST. Paul-As result of North Da-
kota holdup last week James O'Heagan
was brought to the city hospital with
a bullet hole in his left hip.
st. Paul-Through the efforts of the
business league the Desmond Barrel
company of Minneapolis has been To-
Gated at 300-302 Chestnut street They
manufacture light barrels and are a
growing concern.
Argyle-Lightning struck the resi-
dence of r. G. Marlette, stunning the
inmates and splintering a chair, from
which Miss Marlette had just risen,
and killing dog which lay on the floor
beside the chair.
st. Paula L. Cole, Republican
candidate for governor, called on Sec
rotary of State Hanson and filed his
certificate of nomination and paid the
$50 fee necessary to have his name
placed on the ballot.
apolis-Michael Maloney, who
was injured at the government dam,
died at the Cobb hospital. The body
will be sent to AnOka for burial To-
morrow. He is survived by a widow
and three daughters, living at 2170
Marshall avenue.
Sank Rapids-John Svedlins was en-
gagged in piling lumber in the yard Of
the j. Neils Lumber company when
a severe electric storm broke. Sved-
Inns was struck by a bolt of lightning
and was thrown from the pile of lum-
Der on which he was working.
Duluth-News reached here last
night of the death by drowning of
Capt. L. Davidson, master of Standard
Oil barge No. Sc. According to Capt
Mulholland Of the steamer Alva, which
had the cargo in tow, Capt. Davidson
fell overheard at a point about five
miles south of Two Harbors.
Moorhead-Unless the city council
decides to settle, a damage suit will be
started against the city of Moorhead
by Mrs. Magnus Johnson. who was
arrested through a mistake of officer
Ben Elstad.
Glyndon-George Rented, of Little
Rock was killed here at midnight while
riding brake beam on Northern Pa
cific train No. 4, having boarded the
train at Fargo. His body was badly
mangled. He had been a laborer on
construction work in the neighbor-
hood.
Crookston-Andrew Olson, an en-
ploye Of Castle Bros, was instantly
killed while working on one of Hheir
ditching contracts near Ada. The man
was walking behind the sweep of a
capstan to which four horses were
attached when the sweep suddenly
broke and flying back with terrific
force struck Olson in the head, killing
him instantly.
Scandia-C. w. Magnuson, general
merchant here, has sold out his bust
ness to the farmers in this vicinity
and 1t is being made a part of the
farmers store at Lindstrom. c. A
Victor's big store and two elevators
have been acquired in that village and
large business in potatoes and grain
will be transacted at Lindstrom on the
Northern Pacific railway.
Duluth-Capt. B. F. Howard. of Du-
luth, prominent lake man, who has a
small sawmill on the outskirts Of
Birdy, met with a terrible accident to-
day. He put his right hand down to
feel whether a moving saw was hot,
and the teeth caught his coat sleeve
and severed the arm at the shoulder.
1t Is believed that he will survive the
shock.
st. Paul-Safeblowers cracked the
safe at Jacob ]. Sauerwein's saloon. 961
Rice street, and escaped with about
s171 in cash and checks. Sauerwein
was unable to catch glimpse of the
men, but thinks there were two, as
he heard voices in the saloon follow
ing the blowing of the safe
Detroit-Edward Holmes, formerly
postmaster at this place, and who mys-
teriousiy disappeared April 10, last,
has returned here. He stated that the
most of the time he had been away
he spent in San Francisco, but declined
to give out formal statement as to