The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-07-03

nneapOnS-Prlmaryr returns In all
parts of the state give Jacobson a big
lead.
Heron Lake-The state teachers
training school opened here with an
enrolment of fifty-two.
Austin-Floods at Austin, Roches-
ter, Owatonna and other Minnesota
cities do immense damage.
Hamline-For the first time in many
years the Twin Cities are to have a
race meeting in midsummer.
Claremont-Daniel E. White was
appointed postmaster at Claremont,
vice Bessie Edmond, resigned.
Minneapolis-G. W. Townsend, a
New York travelling man, was found
dead in his room at the West hotel.
st. Paul-Governor Johnson honors
requisition for extradition to Illinois
OF Oscar Lund, also wanted in this
state.
st. Paul-Albin Johnson, truck gar
dener, gets neck tangled in reins dur
ing runaway and is choked into in
sensibility.
Winona-Word has just reached
here of the suicide of William Kiester,
a farmer living two and half miles
from Arcadia.
Ada-Dr. B. F. Budworth of Shelly,
this county, was sentenced to sixty
days in the county Jail and fined $50
and costs for selling liquor without
a license.
st. Paula blaze that started in
the saloon of j. Poetzl, 104 Fifth
street east, caused loss of $4,000.
and for a while threatened adj
joining buildings.
st. Paula freight train crashed
into a Hagenbeck G Wallace circus
train at the foot of Chestnut street
shortly after midnight, seriously in
juring eight people and slightly in
juring twenty others.
st. Paul-Dragged down Rice street,
strangled into insensibility, Albin
Johnson, gardener, AZ Como-Phalen av-
enue, was saved from death by the
breaking of a rein, which had become
entangled around his neck.
st. Paul-Edward Fillmore, aged
fifteen years, was accidentally shot
and instantly killed by Fred Forseen,
aged sixteen, on the dairy farm Of
Zuecher Brothers, SIG Idaho street,
near the northern limits of the city.
Bruno-Bruno will celebrate the
Fourth of July in grand style this
year. The roar of 100 guns at sun
rise, grand parade of 10 o'clock,
horse races, wheelbarrow races, foot
races and various other sports are
on the program.
Brainerd-The office of J. C. Hes
sells machinery warehouse was burg
larized. The burglars were unable to
open the safe, which contained notes
valued at over $4,000, and so cents
in postage stamps were the only
things taken. There is no clue.
Rochester-The annual convention
of the Catholic Total Abstinence So
ciety of the Winona diocese was
opened in this city. More than 100
delegates are present from the south
ern part of the state and they were
welcomed at a reception held in the
parlors of st. Johns church.
Duluth-The main show tent Of the
Hagenbeck-W Wallace circus collapsed
just before the performance was to
begin. The tent was about half filed
with people and it is considered re-
markable that none was killed or even
seriously hurt. Many women tainted
and were dragged out by circus en-
ployes.
Washington-The postofice depart
of clerks and carriers in postoffices
in the northwest as follows: Little
Falls, one clerk, 5000 to $1,000; one
carrier, $500 to $500; three, 5000 to
$1,000; Wilmar, one clerk, $500 to
$500; two, $500 to 5000; two carriers.
5000 to $1,000.
Crookston-Albert H. Kleven, the
Crookston land man robbed in Be-
midi during the Elks' carnival by
sneak thieves of $4,000, received by
mail about $500 in checks and drafts
on Twin City banks. This act of res
titution calls from Mr.. Kleven the
comment that he twas robbed by gen.
tlemen, anyway"
Crookston-Albert Jordeau, a far
mer living in the French settlements
near GENTLY, in Polk county, brought
to this city corn grown to the height
Of man and beginning to tassel. He
says he has forty acres Of such corn,
having planted it for an experiment.
The corn is the No. red and was
brought to the valley from Illinois,
where it has proved successful.
Minneapolis-A considerable de-
crease in the number of smallpox
cases in the state is shown by the
reports of the state board Of health
for the last few weeks. Reports by
weeks for the period from the week
ending with May II to the week end
ing with June Is show decrease from
231 to 73 cases. The number for each
week during that period are as fol-
lows: 231, 17S, 200, 1873, 14S and 70.
Mankato-The appointment by
Mayor j. W. Andrews of park COM
mission to serve without pay and ad-
wise with the park authorities was
turned down by the council without
a voice being raised in it's behalf.
Brainerd- Summer school opened
Monday afternoon under the charge
of P. P. Colgrove of the st. Cloud nor
NAL. The enrolment is los, all wo.
men.
Observation-Disclosures Is practically
isolated. Traffic on three railroads Is