The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-06-05

Blooming ton-LeRoy Girard, TWEEN
ty years old, was killed by lightning
while driving his fathers cows home.
Spooner-A man who grasped at his
hat which had blown off, while he was
on railroad bridge. lost his balance
and fell to his death.
North st. Paul-Albin Wallin,
driver for local grocery store, was
held up while he was delivering
goods and robbed of SIS.
Mankato - Commercial travellers
spending Sunday in the city had in
tended to test Mayor Andrews order
prohibiting Sunday baseball.
Crookston-More than 100 farmers
gathered at Erskine, twenty-five miles
east of here, at the big pay day of
the Erskine cooperative creamery.
Hamline-Six lecturers from the
state agricultural college started out
to hold a series of forty farmers In
stitutes in different parts of the state.
Blackduck-A certificate has been
issued by the controller of the cur
rency authorizing the First National
Bank to commence business with a
capital of $4,000.
Crookston - Communication has
been entered into between influential
Crookston citizens and Fergus Falls
authorities regarding new dog or
dinance for Crookston.
Hastings-Three men were injured
in an accident here when the cable
which carries the sand bucket where
the Ramsey street sewer is being dug.
letting the bucket and contents fall.
st. Paul-Ten thousand dollars dam
age resulted from head-on collision
between two freight trains on Bunker
Hill. Both engine crews escaped in
jury by jumping. Traffic was delayed
until late in the day.
neapolis-Caught III an ava
lanche of rushing sand a. the bottom
of a partially constructed sewer at
Oxford street and Goodrich avenue,
Otto Mageson, a laborer, 230 East
Tenth street, was buried to level
with his nose.
Minneapolis-In celebration Of the
thirty-fifth anniversary of the estab-
lishment of the free mail delivery SER
vice in Minneapolis the mail carriers
will hold banquet in The Donaldson
tea rooms June %. Speakers of prom
inence will respond to toasts.
Minneapolis-John p. Nash and
Charles Ehlers have received notice
from Frank B. Kellogg, Minnesota ma
tional committeeman, that they have
been appointed assistant sergeants-at-
arms at the Republican national con-
vention to be held in Chicago next
month.
nneapolis-Rather than face
workhouse sentence, Ethel Cook, col
ored, twenty-three years old, preferred
to die and after being sentenced to
sixty days at the workhouse by Judge
Hanft for vagrancy, attempted to
hang herself in the bull pen of the
police court.
Brainerd-Lying all night in the
cold beside the Northern Pacific rail-
road tracks near Wheelock, with one
leg crushed at the ankle, was the fate
of George Richard, laborer with the
Campbell Bros. shows, which passed
through here going to the iron range
from Staples.
st. Paul-Two squads, consisting of
three lecturers each, were started
out from the Minnesota agricultural
college by A. D. Wilson, superinten-
dent of farmers institutes, to begin
the greatest campaign of education
among the farmers that the state has
ever experienced.
st. Paul-Governor Johnson granted
permission to Company A of the Nine
ty-eighth Canadian militia infantry to
pass through the state of Minnesota,
carrying it's arms unlocked, on its way
to and from the provincial encamp-
ment at Winnipeg. The company is
located at Fort Frances.
Spring Valley-In fistic encounter
over their grandchild, Mrs. ]. B. Sam.
pie won out over Mrs. DR.. F. w.
Thornhim, and with her daughters
assistance took the baby to her own
home. Several blows were struck dur
ing the encounter, but as far as is
known nobody was seriously injured.
Duluth-Stanley R. Muson was in
stantly killed while working for the
Zenith Telephone company. He was
on a pole that carried electric light
as well as telephone wires, and came
in contact with wire carrying 1890
volts. Musolf fell from the pole dead.
He was thirty-three years old and Is
survived by widow and one child.
East Grand Forks-East Grand
Forks has decided to wage an unre-
lenting war on 'big nit" men who
have been doing good deal of work
here, in spite of the fact that the
lid" has been on as far as open
gambling is concerned. Bert Fairness,
who swindled John Skrubata, of Win
nipeg, out of $3.50, was sentenced to
ninety days in the county jail with
out the option of fine.
st. Paul-Fred Eschle, charged by
the grand jury with killing Of John
Smolensky on March %, withdrew his
plea of not guilty and pleaded guilty
to the charge of murder in the first
degree.
Frontenac-At the commencement
exercises the gold medal of graduation
will be awarded to Miss Laura Coons
of Lake City, Miss Rose Picha and
Miss Anna Kaye of st. Paul.
Duluth-Prominent Winnipeg bust.
ness man rushes little daughter to
Minnesota pasteur institute in the
hope of saving her life.