The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-27

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Hendrickson, seventy-five years old,
lies at his home near Zumbrota in a
serious condition. It is feared he will
not recover.
Erskine.-The county division fight
is to be gone all over again, for the
people filed with Governor johnson
a petition asking for vote of the
people on the proposition Of creating
new county with Erskine as the
first county seat.
Duluth-The authorities here have
under arrest Charles Wood, who says
he is nephew of Milwaukee hotel
man named Alex Genard, whom they
suspect was one of the two holdup
men who murdered Brakeman Con-
molly at Proctor.
Brooten.-Roberts Bros, st. Paul
contractors, have finished laying the
steel on the 500 line from here to
| Duluth and have withdrawn their last
establishment from the field of opera
lions, preparatory for delivery to the
railroad company.
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for next harvest are pouring into the
state prison at a rate of six to eight
cars daily and force of clerks is list
| ing them These orders are being re-
ceived from clubs of farmers and in
dividual farmers of the state.
st. Paul-Mary E. Marsh has filed
a $4,000 damage suit against the
Minneapolis & ST. Louis Railway COM
| pany, alleging that while she was
travelling from Des Moines to st. Paul
the coach in which she was riding was
derailed, she being severely injured.
st. Paul.-St. Paul and Minneapolis
banks have been experimenting quiet
| ly several months with a system for
| independent bank examination, which,
it is claimed, will result in the estab-
lishment of Twin City financial insti-
tutions on a firm and impregnable
basis.
st. Paul.-Helplessly drunk and
claiming that he mad been robbed of $40
man whose name the police did not
obtain was picked up on the side
walk on Jackson street between Sixth
and Seventh street and taken to the
central station. Later he was re-
leased.
st. Paul.-Two young well-dressed
youths, both armed with revolvers,
held up Otto Lindberg, clerk in the
teenth avenue south, at the point of
their guns, and rified the cash drawer
of $10.19. The highwaymen then
escaped.
East Grand Forks.-A fire drill in
the big Central school prevented a dis
astrous panic. The blaze broke out in
the lower portion of the building and
soon filed the rooms with smoke.
Under perfect control 700 school chill
dren marched from the building and
not one was hurt. The fire damage
was not large.
Faribault.-Harry Upright was &C
quilted on the charge of manslaughter
in the first degree. Young Upright
got into drunken quarrel and struck
a stranger in the face, from which
he died a week later. Self-defense
was the defendants plea. After be-
ing out three hours the jury this even
ing brought in verdict of not guilty.
rehabilitation Gunnefson, a
prominent Salem farmer, who has
been confined for some years in the
state hospital for the insane at
Rochester, made his escape from that
institution few nights ago and was
found unconscious by the roadside in
Rock Dell, six miles from his home
and twenty-five miles from Rochester.
He is now lying in a precarious condi-
ton at his brothers house.
Minneapolis. Beulah Poynter,
star, actress and author, will be seen
at the Bijou the week of November
10Th in her own dramatization Of
Mary J. Holmes popular and widely
read book, elena Rivers" The
piece, as play, is less than three
years old, yet it leaped into such in
slant popularity that at one time
there were three companies touring
the country in it.
st. Paul.-State Treasurer Dinehart
received from the United States gov
eminent draft for $20,361, being Min
nesota's 5 per cent of federal lands
sold in the state during the last year.
The money received goes into the in
ternal improvement fund, which with
yesterdays addition now amounts to
$51, 900, and will be spent in the i'm
provement of highways, including
roads and bridges.
Hibbing-Dan Larson, nineteen
year-old boy, accidentally shot and
killed himself in the woods south OF
Hibbing. With boy named Leon
Labreque he had started hunting with
| team. They left the team several
| miles south of town and started out
through the woods. In climbing over
| windfall Larson pulled the gun after
| him. One barrel was discharged and
| he was instantly killed.
Alexandria-Ole ]. Berg, defeated
candidate for register Of deeds, today
filed papers in contest against Oscar
Erickson, who on the face of the re-
turns was elected on the Democratic
ticket by eighteen votes.
| Minneapolis Frank Sfercliffe
arrives in Minneapolis to assist hus-
band to fight charge of holding up
Northern Pacific train in North Min.
neapolis.
| Minneapolis H. Johnson
says fifty votes are assured him for