The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-13
MINNESOTA NEWS
Interesting Items Gathered In the
!. ,z Conner State

~. Tdul.-hdymOnQ Mccoy, sixteen
years old, is killed in collision between
street car and express wagon.
Minneapolis.-Stama Dodak il fatal
ly hurt as the result of climbing lad
der to say goodbye to his wife.
st. Paul.-Board decides to ask
council for 100000 additional for
erection of four new high schools.
Minneapolis.-L H. Johnson is can
didate to succeed himself as speaker
OF Minnesota house of representatl yes.
Rochester.-The local high school
team defeated the Mankato CONNER
cial college football team here Is to 0.
st. Paul.-Little Canada farmer in
return for casting his vote, asks
Sheriff Gerber to help him in getting
his four daughters married off.
Faribault.-The ninetieth birthday
of s.. G. Dow of Wolcott, was cele-
brated by gathering at his farm
home of thirty relatives and friends.
Stillwater.-Twenty-five armed far
mers who live in the vicinity of
Mari1e are engaged in a man hunt
with two men armed with shotguns
as the quarry. At his May Lake farm
home, Fred Halmstrom is dying of
wounds inflicted by the fugitives.
Two Harbors.-Lord Bros, town
site owners of Beaver Bay, have or
dered all buildings on their land re-
moved by May 1, when they expect
to have the town plated. A single
mill will be built in the spring. The
town will be located at the mouth of
Beaver river.
Duluth-Four men were injured,
two of them fatally, on the new court
house. Late tonight it is said Charles
Nichols, foreman, for Contractors
LanQuist & Illsley of Chicago, will
die, and that Fred Mooney of Duluth,
a structural ironworker, cannot sur
vive his injuries.
Minneapolis.-Oct 1908, was
the biggest October in the history of
the city in connection with it's build
ing operations. A total of 544 building
permits were issued, aggregating
cost of $990,000. In October, 1907,
the record was AGA permits with build
ing valuations at s927.115.
Duluth.-Miss Sigla Sivertson, a
domestic employed in the family of
r. r. Baily, at Virginia, Mimi, was
fatally burned by mistaking gasoline
for oil for use in stove. The gaso-
line set fire to her clothing and be-
fore she could be rescued the flames
had burned her in a terrible manner.
Brainerd.-Judge w. s. McClena-
han of the fifteenth judicial district
was accidentally shot through the leg
above the knee. He was cleaning
32-caliber revolver when it was ac-
cidentally discharged and the bullet
penetrated the fleshy part of; his leg,
passed through and was taken out of
the other side.
Hoyland.-Forestry Commissioner
Andrews yesterday sent at letter to
o. B. McAlpin, county attorney of
Cook county, requesting that he in
stitute a criminal prosecution against
Louis Ellingson for negligence In caus-
ing forest fire, Sept. 5, and which is
alleged to have done damage in the
sum of $4,000.
st. Cloud.-Mrs. Almira Sinclair of
this city has brought action against
F. M. Wright, owner of a sash and
door factory, to recover $4,000 dam
ages for the death of her husband,
which occurred last January. A piece
of timber few from an unguarded saw
and struck Mr.. Sinclair just above the
heart, causing instantaneous death.
st. Paul.-Legislative contests fur
nished some surprises in some parts
of the state and several of the old
members who were candidates for re-
election were laid by the wayside. The
Democrats get twenty-three members
in the lower house this year against
fourteen, two years ago. The Prohibi-
tionists will have three members. the
same as last year.
Alexandria-Judge Baxter, SEN
fenced August Anderson, the cashier
of the Bank of Kensington, who last
week confessed to a shortage in his
accounts, to one year in the state
prison at Saltwater. This was the
lightest sentence that could have been
imposed under the charge. The cir
cumstances warranted the court in
light sentence.
Minneapolis.-Probably the most Inn
portant offering which the Bijou
Opera House in Minneapolis will pre-
sent to the theatre-going public this
season, is the famous musical comedy
extravaganza. Wine, Women and
Song" which will be seen at that play
house the week Of November 18TH,
with Bonita as its star. This attrac-
ton went into New York for a limited
engagement of four weeks at the New
Circle Theatre. All Now York was
talking of her unique entertainment,
and on Wednesday of the first week,
the attraction to follow was can
celled, and Bonita's company remain
ed at the theatre for over eight
months.
Madelia.-Anton Ellingsburg, Har-
ris Rice and Cliff sJprague, paid fines
Of 81 and costs each for catching and
killing muskrats cut of season, a day,