The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-02-07

postmaster at Wayzata.
New Ulm-With much pomp the
Brown county poorhouse, $4,000
structure, was dedicated.
nneapolis-Nathan Bernheim, 1882
Ashland avenue, was found hanging
in the cellar of his home.
st. Peter-Physicians of the Nicol-
society held their annual meeting at
LIE Sueur.
Crookston-The annual business
meeting of the Crookston Twenty
five Thousand Commercial club was
held here.
Owatonna = Pillsbury academy
basketball team defeated the Man
kato Commercial college by a score
of 10 to II.
Delano-The village council cam
celed the license of a saloonkeeper
because it was shown he had sold
liquor to minor.
st. Paul-The Wells Fargo Express
company Friday has paid into the
state treasury $1,111.57 at per cent
tax on their gross earnings.
st. Paul-Plans for the reorganiza-
ton of the State Bank on Wabasha
street are progressing favorably and
| it is expected that the bank will re-
open for business within two or three
weeks.
st. Paul-Martin c. Lund has been
appointed clerk in the Office of Secre-
tary of State julius Schmahl to take
charge of the records of the United
States surveyor generals Office for
Minnesota.
Faribault-The reform wave has
struck the village of Nerstrand, about
twelve miles east of Faribault. A
petition is being circulated for vote
on the license question at the conn.,
| ing election.
Winona-Albert Hanson and James
Night Captain McCaffery of the police
force and slugged him in the head.
leaving him insensible on the street,
are both under arrest.
st. Paul-Frozen stiff in such q
cramped condition that it could not
be examined for Identification, the
body of well dressed man was found
under the Wisconsin Central railroad
bridge on Edgerton street.
ST. Paul-Members Of the state
board of control return from trip
| through the East in search of latest
ideas in constructing penal institu-
tions, to be used in erection of new
penitentiary at Saltwater.
Duluth-"Jesus wants me; I am
going to him." declared Louis Ron.
ming, a north shore fisherman, as he
climbed over the rail of the steamer
Moore of the Booth line and slipped
into the icy waters of Lake Superior.
Washington-A new revenue CATER,
to cost about $250,000, and to be
permanently stationed at Duluth for
service on Lake Superior, Is desired
by officials of the revenue cutter serv-
ice, who will probably ask an appro-
priation.
Minneapolis. stirring melodrama
of the golden West is A. H. Woods
''The Gambler of the West" which
will be seen at the Bijou Opera House,
the week of February 9th. The story
of the play carries strong heart inter.
est, and it is replete with hilarious
comedy and thrilling incidents.
Duluth-While bending over to put
wood in the stove at his homestead on
White lake, near Mckinley, on the
Mesaba range, Samuel Mattson, a
Finn, employed at the Monica mihe
was probably fatally stabbed. John
Johnson, fellow Finn, with WHOM
he had quarreled, is accused of the
crime.
Crookston-Mike Murphy, the man
who stabbed Frank Whitaker in an
East Grand Forks saloon few weeks
ago, pleaded guilty to assault in the
second degree before Judge Watts and
was sentenced to two years at Still
water. Murphy was indicted by the
grand jury a few days ago on charge
of assault in the first degree.
Hastings-Hallie Foster, nine-year
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of this city, was seriously injured
at the high school building. He was
found in the basement, unconscious
and it is thought that he was caught
in the wheel of the gasoline engine
and thrown on the concrete floor
His head was cut severely and his
face was also injured.
Mankato-Fritz Schritt, an ole
soldier, was badly frozen and had q
narrow escape from death. He at
tempted to boars train at James
Vile for Mankato, but it was already
in motion and the vestibules closed
He chung to one of the vestibules
however, and stooo upon the steI
until the train reached the next sta
ton, Eagle Lake, when he entered
the car. His hands, ears af.d nose
were frozen.
Rosemount-The residence Of
James Daley, a farmer living south
west of here, was totally destroyed
by fire. Mr. Daley is dangerously Ill