The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-09

their fifth birthday.
Morris.-During heavy rain and
thunder storm two bolts of lightning
struck the Indian school building.
Washington.-The application of ].
D. Schroeder and others to organize
the First National Of Mountain Lake,
Mimi, with capital of $4,000, is alp
proved by the controller of the cur
rency.
Duluth.-Charging that Miller and
Bede exceeded statutory limit of ex-
penditures in primary election, Carl
E. Taylor asks encouragement to pre-
vent their names going on ticket in
general election.
Duluth.-Fire in stumps and peat
boys is all that remains of the forest
fires on the iron range, according to
Edward Peterson, state fire marshal,
who has returned from a recent visit
to Chisholm and Hibbing.
st. Paul-The state received over
$4,000 from the Virginia Lumber COM
pany OF Duluth, being payment for
2,155,390 feet of pine lumber cut from
state land, and $34O interest on an
overdue draft for the same.
st. Paul.-Reports received by DR..
H. N. Bracken, secretary of the state
board of health, show that during the
current year there have been but 16
deaths from smallpox in Minnesota.
Five thousand cases were reported
Duluth.-Edward Edstrom, a home
steader near Northland, forty miles
from Duluth, on the Duluth, Messabe
& Northern road, was killed as the
result of being struck by falling tree,
which was blown down by the wind
Two Harbors.-R. w. Pullman of
the forestry service, Washington, D.
c., completed his work of estimating
losses by forest fires on the ranges
and Northern Minnesota. He finds
that between 100000 and $4,000
600 worth of timber was destroyed.
Faribault.-The fifty-third annual
meeting of the General Congregational
association of Minnesota and the thir-
ty-sixth annual meeting of the Con-
gregational Minnesota Woman's Home
Missionary union will be held at the
Congregational church in this city on
Oct. 6, Z, and 8.
Duluth.-For neglecting to keep his
promise to marry a young woman by
the name of Peterson, whom he had
brought over from Sweden, and for
the alleged robbing her of $1,15O, E.
Ullander, who has conducted restau-
rants in Duluth and Superior for the
past four years, was arrested in SUI
perior.
Faribault.-Joe St. George and his
son Fred were both badly injured by
premature blast. The men were
blasting in stone quarry when a
charge of powder failed to go off.
st. George, senior, began probing with
a crowbar, when the entire charge ex-
ploded, throwing rocks over both of
the men.
st. Paul.-The Wisconsin Central
railway wired that they would honor a
draft by the state for $1,644.75, being
the amount of back taxes claimed by
the public examiner to be due on &C.
count of certain errors and omissions
in the report of the company to the
state. The unreported earnings
amounted to $5O,S12.
Red Wing.-The state board of con-
troll instructed F. A. Whittier, head
of the girls training school at Red
Wing, that all girls coming under the
decision of Judge Williston in the
Mary Pittman case, should be released
Immediately from the institution. This
will affect seven girls now in the
school and eight others on parole.
isis Hopkins" that delightful rrral
drama, of such strong heart interest
that it has almost become one of the
classics of the American stage, will be
the attraction at the Bijou opera house,
Miss Rose Melville, the famous char
acter actress, who originated the part
of Sis will, Of course, appear in her
familiar role.
Moorhead.-Two gamblers who gave
their names as Charles Lundgren and
liver Johnson, and their place of resi-
dence as Duluth, f1eeced Tony Jorg-
enson, harvest hand, out of $50.
They were hailed into police court,
where they each. was fined $25. They
were compelled to refund Jorgenson's
money and were ordered out Of town.
They took a train for the east.
East Grand Forks.-William Wilson,
of Skagway, Alaska, went into a news
depot here to buy some souvenir postal
cards, and left his pocketbook contain
ing $500 in cash and certified check
for $500 on the counter. Three hours
later he missed the pocketbook and
broke all the speed records to the
news store. He found the book just
where he left it, although score OF
persons had visited the store.
Minneapolis.-Com preparations
have been made by the department of
health for the inspection and registra-
ton of all homes for the care of in
fants and institutions of that charact-
err.
Pipestone.-Miss Jessie E. Walkup,
county superintendent of schools, has
announced Saturday, Oct. 10, as the
date for holding the exhibit in the first
annual county industrial contest.
Crookston-Wordw was received in
this city that Benjamin Brenn, prom
inent and wealthy farmer of Taber
township, shot himself.
Rochester.-When Sunday morning
members of the family went to call