The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-05-15

Ties nave been at work in the bays OF
ST. Johns lake.
Duluth-Napoleon LaPlant, a la.
borer, turned on seven gas jets and
died of asphyxiation.
Avoca-Mrs. o. K Rakness has left
her home and left no clue to the So
luton of the mystery.
St. Cloud Minnesota hay shippers
seek modification of demurrage
charges on hay shipments.
st. Paul-The clothes of six-year-old
Albina Captilane caught fire and she
was scalded by boiling coffee.
Washington-John o. Nelson was
appointed postmaster at Minnetonka,
Hennepin county, vice M M. Smith,
resigned.
Mankato-The Mankato Commercial
College team defeated the Pillsbury
Academy baseball team of Owatonna
in this city, to 4.
Winona-The Poles of this city, rep.
resenting more than 1000 citizens, in
mass meeting assembled, adopted
strong resolutions protesting against
the treatment accorded the Poles in
Prussian Poland.
Virginia. suicide which rivaled
the dramatic death of Ling, one of
the Chicago Haymarket anarchists, &C.
Cured here when John Urin, a young
miner, tied stick of dynamite to his
head and touched off the explosive.
Crookston-Fifty women, with gam
blers and tinhorn sports in their train,
boarded the train on the Greenbush
line Of the Great Northern, going from
Thief River Falls to Red Lake Falls,
the county seat of Red Lake county,
to attend court.
Brainerd-The restaurant of D. C.
Herbert was burglarized and several
hundred cigars taken. The jewelry
and gun shop of A. E. Veon also was
entered and several watches and re-
volvers taken. No clues to the bur-
glars have been found.
Mankato-The sinking fund com.
mission of the city paid off $4,000
of waterworks bonds that matured,
bearing per cent interest. Of this
sum $4,000 was saved in the water
works department during the last few
years by good management.
Duluth-Thomas w. Hyde died in
Duluth hospital a county charge.
Though he died pauper, he played
for big stakes in his time, and years
ago spurned an offer of $4,000 for
his claim in the Section 80" iron
mine, which property was then in liti-
cation.
Minneapolis-Asa Paine, lumber
man, capitalist and for many years a
prominent figure in the business life
of the Northwest, has been elected
general manager of the Minneapolis,
Rochester & Dubuque Electric Trac-
ton Company, better known as the
Dan Patch Air Line.
Stetson's "Uncle TOMS Cabin,o
will be the attraction at the Bijou
Opera House, Minneapolis, for one
week, beginning Sunday, May II.
The company comprises about fifty
people, including dozen speciality
artists, two quartettes, band and or
chestra, and a colored chorus to add
zest and realism to plantation scenes.
Duluth-Suit was filed in the dis
trict court by Mary A. Skinner, ad-
of the estate of John r.
Skinner, deceased, against Wellington
r. Burt and the Lake Superior Con-
solidated Iron Mines Company, which
involves the title to the Burt mine,
one of the most valuable properties
on the range, and estimated to be
worth $S,O0O,o00.
Mankato-The eighteen-months-old
daughter of Henry Madison sustained
a fractured arm month or two ago,
but it knit together without the par
ents having discovered that it was
broken. The child fell and the parents
slight ridge on one arm
and took her to a physician, who dis
covered the old fracture. Nature had
done such a good job that further
treatment was deemed unnecessary.
St. Paul-It was another Democrat
ic landslide. Not only was Daniel
w Ld "lCl ClCSICu VI ~. dul
by a larger plurality than Smiths over
Hoffman two years ago but the Repub-
licans have not held their own in the
city council. LAWYERS plurality over
Joseph McKibbin on the returns that
are in is estimated at about 1000.
Smith defeated Hoffman two years
ago by 1901. The result yesterday
surprised both Republicans and Demo
Gratis.
st. Paul-Memorial exercises in
honor of H. p Hall, the veteran st.
Paul newspaper man who died early
last year, will be held in the old CAPT.
toll building in September under the
auspices of the Minnesota Editorial
Association, of which Mr.. Hall was
one of the most prominent members
for many years. Governor John A.
Johnson probably will deliver the
opening address and it is expected
that Archbishop John Ireland will be
one of the speakers.
Washington-The house committee
on public lands ordered favorable
report on Senator Clapp's bill for the
creation of a forest reserve of about
1000 acres in Carleton county, which
is now part of Fond du Lac Indian
Eveleth-Sam Owens, yardmaster
for the Duluth & Iron Range at Fayal,
probably will make the run for sheriff
of st. Louis county.
South Park-Kissing his wife good
by James A. Fanta shot himself
through the head with a revolver be-