The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-05-08

st. Paul.-The State Sunday School
association celebrates is fiftieth an
niversary.
st. Paul.-George Front, one of the.
1anltors at the new capitol, died from
blood poisoning.
Neutrality-suspicious. M. Green was
appointed postmaster at Winsor,
Clearwater county.
Stillwater.-The Omaha road may
lengthen trip between st. Paul and
here by abandoning section of
trackage.
| Wells.-The Bank of Matawan To-
Gated at Matawan, Mimi, was con-
verted into the Citizens State Bank
of Matawan.
st. Paul.-Thomas w. Frankham,
cashier of the St. Paul & Western
Coal company, S04 Germania Life
building is missing.
| Brainerd. - One additional letter
carrier today was authorized for the
city delivery Lewiston of the post
office, effective May /.
st. Paul.-Owe GUIDE, recently ap-
pointed ambassador from Norway,
will be orator at the Norwegian day
exercises at the Auditorium May Is.
st. Paul. - James Gillespie, five
years old, % East Fifth street, is
killed by automobile on East Sixth
street. Henry Krieger, driver, re-
leased.
St. Cloud.-Odd Fellows, in COM
mon with brethren in other parts Of
the country, celebrate the eighty
ninth anniversary of the founding Of
the order
Minneapolis G. R. Will
liams is saved from being roasted by
the prompt action of Fireman George
Benepe when the engine rolls down a
500 embankment.
Springfield. public school was
burned causing loss of $35, 900, of
which $22, 200 is covered by insurance.
The high school and seven other de-
partments are without quarters.
Crookston.-The Sons of Norway
lodge of Crookston will make big
effort at the grand lodge meeting to
be held in st. Paul on June 10 next
to get the next meeting in 1909 for
Crookston.
Minneapolis.-Da w. Woodman-
Sc in his day one of the most famous
horsemen in the world, died at the
residence of his daughter, Mrs.
Blanche w. Martin, 521 Fourth street
Southeast.
Minneapolis of $500 which
he had on his person, R. D. Mcbride,
wealthy stock dealer of Forsythe,
Mont, was overpowered and thrown
into the Mississippi river to be
dragged from the water a corpse.
Mankato.-The undertakers have
combined in serving notice upon the
county board that hereafter they will
charge $25 for burying of county
charges. Heretofore the charge has
been but $14. The county board has
taken no action regarding the adj
vance.
Wyoming.-Afterw wandering around
the country for two weeks in her
brothers. clothes, Miss Elizabeth
Farnham, the fifteen-year-old girl
who ran away from her home at Min
ong, Wis, was found here and turned
over to her uncle, John Masterman
at Saltwater.
Stephen stephen was terrified at
an early hour by gang of six robbers
who dynamited the vault and the safe
of the Scandal State bank and carried
off $4,000 in cash after a revolver
duel with William Merdink, a mer-
chant who lives upstairs in block
adjoining the bank.
Little Falls.-N. Sackrit, an iron
worker who has been working on the
500 railroad near Royalton since
April 4, while trying to board a. pass
enger train north bound on the North
ern Pacific at S:15 was thrown under
the wheels, receiving injuries from
which he died shortly after.
Winona.-W. B. Arnold, who gave
a number of presents, including furni-
ture for her rooms, to a widow, Mrs.
Dorothea Newhall, and then took
them back under writ of replevin,
was compelled to give them back
when jury in the municipal court
brought in verdict against him.
Crookston.-Maj. Charles HI. Mix
has burned in the Presbyterian church
here mortgage dated twenty-six
years ago, during which time contin-
uously Mai. Mix has been a deacon
in the church. The mortgage was for
only a few hundred dollars having
been partly paid off at past renewals.
Crookston.-Four weeks beneath a
hay stack is the tail of a valley dairy
COW brought to this city by Ole Hoven
a farmer. Hoven has large hay
stack on his farm at which the cattle
feed. The stack tumbled over in
March. Hoven missed the leanest of
his cows and had given her up for
lost. He was amazed to see the COW
sleek and fat emerge from the ruins
of the big haystack.
Minneapolis. June bronze
| tablet will be unveiled on the shore
Lake Calhoun to designate the first
house built in Minneapolis, the cere-
monies being held on the seventy
fourth anniversary of its construction.
Grand Rapids. -Exhumation of body
of Axel Homan reveals fact that his
skull is featured and he is supposed
to have been murdered while at re-
sort in Holman.
Duluth.-Arthur III. Briggs, lieu
tenant of police, was killed while
making an arrest in the rear of a
Chinese laundry at West Duluth.