The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-03-27

this summer.
Minneapolis-Car Nelson, a me-
chanic, dropped dead in Hoff's sa-
loon, 126 Fourth street south.
st. Paul-Western roads agree on
$3.50 as basing rate for round trip
on summer tourist business.
Minneapolis-Im officials
ordered to rid Twin Cities. Of anar-
chists and undesirable aliens.
Moorhead- Dakota and Min.
nesota men unite to oppose closing of
the channel of the Red river.
Young America-Fire destroyed the
elevator Of the Security Elevator Com
pany, which contained about 5000
bushels of grain.
Crookston-The Farmers Institute
speakers shun wheat in talks on agri-
culture, in effort to win farmers to
diversified farming.
Mankato-The school board has
unanimously reelected Superintendent
J. M. Mcconnell, and practically ev-
cry other public school teacher.
Rochester-The grocery stores Of
Hendricks & Olson and Campbell &
Holland were broken into by thieves
last night and small sums taken.
Minneapolis-The chance visit of
Officer Bleed to the tracks of the Mil
waukee freight yards was all that
saved John Swanson, a farmer of Ma
pie Plain, from being ground to death
beneath the wheels of a train.
East Grand Forks-Mayor Hugh
Dunleavy put the lid on tight in East
Grand Forks. Since the mayor took
office the saloons had been allowed to
keep open day and night except from
5 am. Sunday to am. Monday.
Observation-Disclosures and Clay
county Democrats have established as
their campaign motto, johnson for
the Presidential Candidate" and a
number of the faithful gathered at a
local hotel and organized a Johnson
club.
st. Paul-Out on $4,000 bail, with
a sentence of seven years in the state
penitentiary hanging over him, s. A..
Phillips, promoter, was arrested by
United States postoffice inspector,
charged with using the mails to de-
fraud
Crookston-LionelS Smelling, the An
gus farmer who was burned about
the face and hands by molten brass
on Sunday, had been successfully
operating wireless telephone over
a distance of 1000 yards during quiet
weather
Brainerd-The city council unani-
mously passed a resolution submit
ting the question of bonding the city
for $4,000 for the purchase or erec-
ton of waterworks and for power for
an electric light plant to a special
election on April %.
Hastings-Alfred Wooden, who es.
capped from the North Dakota peni-
tertiary at Bismarck, and who after
ward was captured by prison guards
fifteen miles west of Mandan, is a
former Hastings boy, being the eldest
son of Mrs. Stephen Winner.
Moorhead- General Manager George
T. Slade, General Superintendent F..
w. Gilbert and Division Superinten.
dent ]. e. Craner, of the Northern
Pacific, have held a conference with
Agent l.. T. Stodder regarding build.
ing new passenger depot in this city.
st. Paul-Considerable excitement
was caused in the union depot by
Miss Eda VOTERS, 242 Iglehart av-
enue, getting her hat ignited at the
cigar lighter of the news stand. The
girls hat was ruined and her hair
was singed. Joe Lennon, who jumped
over the counter to rescue the girl,
had his hands burned.
Hamline-Charles s. Kidder OF
Marshall, Howard Robinson of Red
wood Falls, and George Drew of Ham
line, and Roy Eckenbeck of Appleton,
James Moorehouse of Hamline and
Eugene Hickman of Aberdeen, S. D.,
are the two teams chosen to repre-
sent Hamline University in two in
tercollegiate debates to be held this
spring.
st. Paul-Democratic county con.
ventions will be held all over the
state May 9, to select delegates to
the state delegate convention, which
meets May H. Primaries are to be
held May 6. These dates were agreed
upon by Frank A. Day, chairman of
the Democratic state committee, and
G: A. Quist, who was appointed with
him as committee to fix the county
convention dates and frame the call.
Minneapolis = Shortage to the
amount of over $4,000 has been dis
covered by the state public examiners
department in the accounts Of ]. A.
McDermott, former state oil inspector,
who resigned and turned the Office
over to w. E. McEwen Nov. 1, 1907.
The examination has brought out a
number Of Irregularities, but they are
all matters of bookkeeping, and ev-
cry cent that is due the state has
been paid. The state will lose moth.
ing.
CHARLOTTESVILLE the official car of
the Minnesota & International Rail
road Company was in the yard here
a watch, suit, etc., belonging to the
porter Henry SatherS and all the