The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-02

been raging.
Savage.-George w. Johnson, one of
the six prisoners who escaped from
the guard house at Fort Smelling Mon
day night, gave himself up to farmerI
yesterday afternoon after having brok-
en- away from the station agent here.
| st. Paul.-The dry weather through
out the various districts of the North
west tributary to the Twin Cities has
shortened the city supply of milk by
about 40 per cent and of cream about
| 60 per cent during the last two
weeks.
Minneapolis-Dr Northrop was pro-
lessor of rhetoric and literature at
Yale from 1868 to 1884, and William
Howard Taft was in the class from
1874 to 1878. During these four years
the doctor had a chance to study the
youth.
Ft. Snelling.-That there is deep
laid plot on the part of the younger
army officers in the United States
army to oslerize and decapitate the
older heads of the department is the
opinion of certain officers at local
headquarters.
Cokato.-The unidentified man killed
here Monday night by the train near
| the depot has been identified by tag
in his pockets issued by clothing
| house at Eau Claire, Wis. He was w.
| B. Hilderblish and lived at 944 Main
street, Eau Claire.
st. Peter.-Two lives were lost to-
day in one of the most severe cleo
trical storms that has visited Nicoliet
| county in recent years. In CRANKY
| township Theodore Holl and his four
| year-old son Charles, were struck by
| lightning The boy was killed in
J Stantly.
Minneapolis Nelson, a
bartender at the Mint saloon, was
placed under arrest by Chief Malvey
on complaint OF one w. Forcberg,
made to the county attorney, in which
he charges larceny as bailee, the al
! legged improper Withholding of $50, or
Whereabouts, in money.
st. Paul.-There are $4,000 pianos
and $4,000 organs in Minnesota &C.
cording tc the powers of observation
! of the county assessors. The pianos
are valued at $4,267,00 and if they
were all played at the same time the
noise would exceed that produced by
an irresistible body meeting an i'm
movable body.
Little Falls.-A conf1agration threat
ened destruction to the entire city
| Sunday and Monday. A fire was start
ed in some meadows west of the large
! lumber yards of the Pine Tree Lum-
Der company and for a time 1t was
thought the flames might not be sub.
dued by the large number of men who
vigilantly fought the FIRE.
st. Paul-At a meeting of the Aus
tro-Hungarian Military association
Sunday letter from Emperor Francis
Joseph of Austria-Hungary, inclosing
a draft for $100 for the purchase of a
flag was received. Mayor d. w. Law
Ter and julius Moersch, president Of
the German-American Alliance of Min
nesota, were elected honorary mem
bers of the association.
Minneapolis.-Spo is absolute
ly prohibited in Minneapolis parks af
ter the court house chimes peal 10
p. m. Ole Berklund, a graduate Of a
missionary school in Christiania,
Sweden, on his way to teach Chris.
tianity to the heather Chinese, and
maiden of eighteen years paid small
fines in the police court Of Mime.
apolis for violating the spooning law.
Minneapolis-Mr Anna Larson
narrowly escaped injury at the hands
of an Infatuated mob of men, women
and children, who followed her for a
distance of ten blocks after she had
punished her two children on the
street. The woman was saved from
violence only by the appearance of
Patrolman James Roberts, who had
been called to stop the bowling rab-
BILE.
st. Paul.-Pleasure seekers who
have danced gaily on the barge Twin
Cities, tow of the steamer Purchase,
on Mississippi river excursions, have
had little suspicion that danger was
close to them as they made merry.
The license of the barge was revoked
yesterday by the state inspectors, ana
unless the craft is completely over
hauled it will never be used on the
river again.
Duluth.-"When next l see Speaker
Cannon" said Congressman Bede to-
day, 81 shall have to demand that he
reimburse the filing fee that paid to
run for denomination to congress In
this district. 1 paid the filing fee
| and he ran. That was not fair and !
shall have to tell him so. Besides,
he had no right to try and run for
congress outside of his own state. 1t
is unconstitutional"
East Grand Forks.-William W. Tay-
lor was held to the grand jury today
| in 81 900 bonds on a charge of abduct-
| ing lima Vraa, seventeen years old,
| and Grand Forks girl
Minneapolis.-H. L. Smith, elevator
| operator at the Rex hotel, 31S Sec
| ond avenue s., was crushed to death
| between the side of the elevator and
| the shaft casing.
st. Paul-William A. Chaple, 9S6
| Golf avenue, who celebrates his forty
fifth wedding anniversary, gets new
tooth by smoking two ounces of tobac-
CO a day.
Faribault.-John Kourk, farmer
residing five miles northeast of this