The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-07-31

Washington-George w. Frost was
appointed postmaster at Rosehy, Hib-
bard county.
Little Falls.-The three-year-old
daughter Of Joseph Maroski of Pulaski
was instantly killed by horse.
st. Paul-James j. Hill says the out
look for crop this year is to 10
per cent larger than last year.
Glencoe-Ludwig Chandler, a laborer
aged IS years, was found dead in the
pig pen at his home in this city.
Alexandria-The town of Clinton,
stricken recently by cyclone, needs the
help of people throughout the state
st. Paul-The body of an unidenti-
fed man was found hanging in stone
yard at the foot of Chestnut street.
Merriam Park-Patrick McGary is
injured probably fatally by rolling
down an embankment with his horse.
Minneapolis-The Twin City Ep-
worth league rally at Groveland, Lake
Minnetonka, opened with a special
service.
Westbrook-The -four mill belong
Ing to the Westbrook Milling COM
pany, with its contents, was destroyed
by fire.
Crookston-The bank deposits in
this city July Is were $2,O39, 1888 go. At
the middle of May the deposits were
$1,960,OOO.
Misunderstanding struck and
destroyed the Union church in the
town of Charles, six miles north OF
Alexandria.
Roseau-Otter Tail County man,
craZed over infatuation for woman,
threatens neighbor with knife and is
shot dead.
Crookston-The fire chief resigns
when salary is cut off and fire in
surance companies consequently may
raise the risk rates.
Wayzata-A sneak thief invaded
the Lafayette club at Minnetonka
Beach and stole jewelry worth $500
from Mrs. George J. Fullerton of Min
neapolis, who was a guest at the
club.
st. Paul-The states pile of cash is
still mounting upward. There was 49,
1881 on hand the 23d. The $1,000
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for the first time in the history of the
state.
Mankato-The three-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr.. Stone of Harrington, Neb.,
who is visiting her grandmother, Mrs.
Judge, drank from q bottle of blueing
and later from kerosene can. A doc
tor was called and pulled her through.
400 lay on the street in full view of
pedestrians for nearly an hour and
were not discovered until a small de-
livery boy, Irwin Lyle, fourteen years
of age, living at 2311 Twenty-fourth
street east, found them.
Duluth-Preliminar steps toward
the organization of the Eleventh Ju-
dicial District Bar association were
taken here at meeting of the at
torneys, followed by banquet at the
Spalding. Howard T. Abbott is chair
man of the committee on orgaDiza-
ton.
Hamline-L D. Baird, superinten-
dent of privileges of the Minnesota
state fair, will hold the annual sale
of privileges this year on Aug. l, and,
as is the custom, he will hold the sale
for each lot upon the actual location.
Last year the total income from priv
ileges at the state fair was $4,000.
Minneapolis ten years preced-
ing last year, when the sane Fourth
idea was first realized in Minneapolis,
the average fire loss per year on this
day was $1,918.12. In 1907, when the
sane Fourth was first celebrated the
total fire loss was only $35. This year
the total loss from fire on the Fourth
was only $25.
Crookston-Mrs. George F. Carpen-
ter, wife of one of the prominent and
wealthy merchants of Crookston, was
buried beneath the ruins of heavy
automobile five miles west of Crooks
ton. Her legs were broken in two
places and she received other in
juries about the head and body. Her
recovery is believed probable.
Minneapolis generosity of one
visiting Shriner and his wife appeared
when a South Dakota noble and his
lady presented Maternity hospital in
Minneapolis with $500. Part of the
fund is to be used in endowing bed
for some little waif for one year, and
the rest is to be applied on the
mortgage against the hospital build
ing.
acknowledgements that the
Minnesota state fair has one of the
fastest, if not the fastest, mile tracks
in the world, and is in proud posses
sion of the champion track builder In
the person of c.. Milton Griggs, vice
president and superintendent of speed,
was made before 5000 people July
4, when Lady Maud G paced milo
in 2:O5h during the Twin City Driv-
ing associations meet.
Crookston-The merchants are fig
uring out a new scheme for making
deliveries of goods by organizing
delivery company and all turning in
the equipment and having all the de-
livering done by one management.
Duluth-Rt Rev. Joseph F. Buh. v.
G., of Ely, celebrated his golden jubi-
lee at the cathedral in this city. He
was ordained a priest July 25, 1883,
at Laibach, Austria.
Crookston-Swen Larson, seventy
years old, was drowned in the Lost
river near his home few miles south
of Plummer.
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