The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-01-04

tomobiles to as many of his st. Paul
| favorites.
| Red Wing-The infant son of Mr..
and Mrs. Herman Olson, residing near
Wacouta, was found dead OF their re-
turn home at midnight Saturday eve
ming. The child had died of an hem
| orrhage of the brain.
| st. Paul-The state game and fish
| commission has received returns from
| the various county auditors relative
/ to the issuance Of resident licenses
| for hunters during the season just
closed. From Sept. 1. to Dec. 1 there
were 1926 licenses issued. During
the same period last year the num-
Der was $500.
| Brainerd-Al Hagadorn, stationary
engineer was fatally shot recently.
Henry Towers, a foreman painter in
the Northern Pacific shops, is accused
Of the deed. The men had been quar-
| reling. Towers, it is alleged, went
| home and got a shotgun and shot
| Hagadorn through the lungs. Towers is
| in Jail and Hagadorn is at the hos
pital. He will almost certainly die.
| st. Paul-When the reapportionmont
Of the legislative districts comes up
before the next legislature, as it surely
will, it is quite probable that changes
will be made in the general plan Of
representation. Several of the legfs-
lators are making suggestions along
this line. They want something done
so that the representation will be dis
| tributed better.
dairy and food commissioner, has re-
| trr Toc rx,hnr
he appeared before the national pure
food commission in a hearing on the
matter of establishing the require
ments with reference to the amount
of butter fat and moisture in butter.
Rosemount-The Catholic church In
Rosemount caught fire this afternoon.
The fire started in the basement, and
was not discovered till the flames burst
through the floor in the center aisle.
| Owing to the large number Of people
in town at the time, together with
some hand fire extinguishers, the fire
was put out without doing much dam
| age.
Star Lake-John Mjellele lost a lux
| uriant beard, of which he was proud,
in a peculiar accident while chopping
wood. He was splitting out cord wood
and his ak became fastened. He tried
| to wrench it out, but being unable to
do so stopped down to get a better
| leverage. He finally worked the ak
out Of the split in the log, but as 1t
flew out the pieces Of wood closed
upon his beard, holding him a pris-
oner.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS because Of
the death Of his wife year ago, grief
over which wrecked his health, Peter
Medic, a contractor of this city, chok-
| ed himself to death with a rope in
the timber a mile and a half from Min
nehaha Falls. Medic went to his death
following a night spent pleasantly with
a brother. Winding one end of the
rope around the trunk of tree, he
threw the other end over a low limb
and made a moose for his neck. Bend
ing forward he slowly strangled him.
self to death. Medic was about 81
years old and leaves a daughter aged
| II. He was reputed to be worth
$4,000.
| st. Paul-Four pioneer residents Of
this vicinity died within twenty-four
hours. Edward H. Judson of st. Paul,
member Of the state board of control,
died last night in hospital following
an operation. His death was followed
within few hours by that of DR.. En-
anuel L. Hess, aged 81, who was for
eleven years rabbi of Mount Zion Tenn
pie in this city. Thomas Cochran,
aged 60, prominent business man Of
st. Paul, died suddenly this morning
after brief illness and later in the
day DR.. L. W. Babcock, aged sc, speak
er of the Minnesota house in 1908, died
| in st. Luke's Hospital. DR.. Babcock
was a resident of Wadena.
st. Paul-Joseph Indkage, twenty
eight years of age, farmer living
about thirteen miles from the city on
the Hamline road, was instantly killed
by Northern Pacific freight train at
Rosetown crossing, and Nicholas Ind
kage, a brother, was probably fatally
injured. He was taken to st. Joseph's
hospital. He has & broken left hip
and his.ribs are fractured. Their wag-
ons were smashed into kindling wood
and two Of their horses were killed.
Minneapolis-The dedication Of a
national holiday to the generation Of
men who laid the foundation Of the
first states outside the original thir-
teen colonies was proposed by Judge
William Gardnar Of Minneapolis in
his address at the annual meeting Of
the Minnesota Society of Sons Of the
American Revolution. We are too
prone to give, all the credit to the gen.
Grafton of re and forget the generation
that followed.
st. Paul-Governor Johnson will take
the oath of office for his second term
as governor on Wednesday, Jan. 9, and
will Immediately thereafter deliver
his message to the legislature, which
will be in joint sess sion for the inaug.
uration. The ceremonies will be con-
Quoted with Democratic simplicity
according to Private Secretary Frank
A. Day. The other executive officers
Of the state will turn over their re-
spective offices to their successors on
Monday, Jan. z.
Minneapolis-Th national guards
men plan to organize a state athletic
association.
Minneapolis-A small fire In the bar
Der shop under the United Cigar COM
2any store at Nicollet and Washington
avenue early last evening created q
scare. The firemen put the blaze out
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