The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-04-24


have made about 100000 this sea.
son on their skins.
Mankato-Frank w. Hunt withdrew
as candidate for delegate-at-large to
the Chicago convention.
Bemidji-Nary was visited by a fire
which totally destroyed six buildings
and entailed loss of $15,700.
Winona-Miss Emma Panzer, a do
nestle in the home of George Hirsch
of this city, was found dead in bed.
Mankato- Gopher State Malt
ing Company has been organized by
local capitalists, with a capital stock
of 100000.
Thief River Falls-The body of Au-
gust Peterson was found in Red Lake
river. Peterson was an old resident
of this city.
Minneapolis-The American Ii
brary association will hold its annual
conference at Lake Minnetonka June
20 to q, inclusive.
st. Paul.. w. Timmons, a teller
in the Capital National Bank, tainted
and fell from his seat while sitting
as a juror in the district court.
Roseau-The Roseau river is reced-
ing and will be back to it's normal
stage in about week The water
was fourteen feet high at the highest
stage.
st. Paul-Two masked men held up
the drug store of Karl L. Fieseler,
Hampton and Raymond avenues, shot
the clerk and robbed the cash
drawer,
Warren-Two sons of John Khune,
aged and Is, were arrested and
bound over to the district court on
the charge of attempting to wreck
the Great Northern passenger train
on the Greenbush extension.
Hibbing-The body of an unidenti.
fed man was found frozen in the ice
four miles west of Headquarters
camps near this city. Coroner But.
chart held an investigation, but moth.
ing can be learned as to the mans
identity.
Observation-Disclosures Erdell, the
liquor dealer, has completed a three.
months term in the Ransom county
jail for selling firewater in that coun.
ty. While taking the rest cure Mr..
Erdell tried his hand at writing poetry
some of which appears in the Lisbon
Free Press.
Duluth-John O'Neill of Duluth, a
brakeman in the employ of the Du.
luth, Missabe & Northern railroad,
was killed at Saginaw Station, thirty.
five miles from here. He attempted
to board a freight train in motion
and fell under the wheels. O'Neill
was thirty-five years old and had a
family residing here.
eapolis-Awakened by a noise
in her room, Minnie Nelson, 5000
Longfellow avenue, opened her eyes
to look directly into the muzzle OF
revolver held by a man whose face
was covered by handkerchief. She
was too frightened to scream, for the
man threatened serious consequences
in case she made an outcry.
st. Pathfinder the influence of an
acute attack Of nelancholia, R. s.
Miller, fifty-four years old, an inmate
of the Mounds sanatorium, Dayton's
Bluff, threw himself beneath the
wheels of Rondo and Maria car or
Earl street just below the ''Y." Both
his feet were so badly crushed that
it was necessary to amputate them.
Hibbing- Kesolo, a Finlan.
der, aged &c, was fined $25 and costs
in municipal court for assaulting Lin.
ton Packard, the 10-year-old son OF
Rev. J. F. Pickard, pastor of the
Methodist church here. Kesolo in,
terfered in squabble among group
of children where Linton Pickard was
only an onlooker. He slapped the boy,
knocked him down and kicked him.
The evolution of the Swedish-Amer-
lean type of drama is shown in the
latest addition to the list of Swedish
plays, "Tillle Olson," which Is I'M
derlined for presentation at the Bijou
Opera House, Minneapolis, the week
of April Goth. The play should prove
especially interesting to Minnesota
people, as it's earlier scenes are laid
in the northern part of this state and
the later ones in Minneapolis.
Minneapolis Arnold Frye OF
the University of Minnesota was Sc
lected at the meeting of all che col
lege presidents of the state in Presi
dent Northrop's Office, to be the Cecil
Rhodes scholar at Oxford, England
for the next three years. He will take
the place of Harry Mitchell, Mime
sofa, 1905, whose term expired this
spring.
Crookston-By Aug. 1, 1908, the
| state of Minnesota and it's counties
will be excavating twice as much
earth as the United States govern
ment on the Panama canal. At thai
date there will be fifty dredges in &C
tive operation on projects within the
state, each averaging capacity Of
$4,000 yards of dirt month, and over
meaning an average monthly excava
ton of approximately 100000 yards
or twice that of the Panama canal.
st. Paul-With the head almost sew