The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-07

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state championship in the women's
state tennis tournament.
Duluth-Fe Federal government will
open 1925 acres of Minnesota land
for settlement on Sept. Is, 1908.
Duluth-Mrs. w. H. Singer, widow
of Captain Singer, was robbed of $3.50
in currency and ring worth $500.
st. Paul-George S. Wilson of Chi
cago had both legs cut off by freight
train under the Fourth street bridge.
Minneapolis Minneapolis deputy
sheriff is stripped of his star and com.
mission after being accused of at
tempting to graft.
Browerville- Bishop Trobec OF st.
Cloud officiated at the laying of the
corner stone of the new Polish Cath
Ole church here.
White Bear-Four-year-old son OF
George Haigh of Holly avenue is
drowned in a few feet of water at
White Bear Beach. ...r -
Red Lake Falls-Minnesota game
warden and sheriff raid Red Lake res
ervation and arrest Indians who killed
moose out of season.
Duluth-Minnesota Bankers associ.
alton passes resolutions opposing both
federal or state guarantee of deposits
and postal savings banks.
Duluth-Chicago financier urges
more liberal use of sound credits as
preventive of tight money, at conven-
ton of Minnesota bankers in Duluth.
Red Lake Falls. o. Tommerdahl,
43, farmer of the town of Star, COM
mitted suicide by taking carbolic acid.
He had wife and ten children and
was well fixed financially.
st. Cloud-Smallpox statistics gath
cred by the state board Of health for
the last six weeks show continuing
| decrease in the disease with the ad-
vance of the summer season.
Hamline-More light will be shed
upon, in and around the state fair of
Aug. 81 to Sept. than ever before in
it's history. The principal buildings
will be Illuminated in outline during
the evening programs. .-.-
Rochester-At meeting of the city
council President Heintz of the park
board presented the city of Rochester
with deeds for the property located
at the corner of Liberty and Zumbro
streets, the property to be used for
park purposes.
Crookston-At a meeting in the
Fifth ward plans were made for big
mass meeting Aug. 20, when commit
tees will report on the matter of sep
arating the ward from the main part
of the city and making a separate mu-
nicipality of it.
Minneapolis-Cl Clothing, jewelry and
house furnishings worth nearly $4,000
were stolen from the residence of H.
F. Williams, 2201 Aldrioh avenue N,
while the family was at Lake Mime.
tonka. A man and woman are sup.
posed to have robbed the place.
Faribault-Ernest Jacobson, EN-.
ployed with the Holder trained animal
show, now showing with the Kline car
nival in this city, was electrocuted
while putting up a guy wire. The guy
wire became crossed with a live cleo.
trio light wire while he had hold Of 1t
Hastings-J. D. McDiamond of Chi.
cago, boarder at the st. Johns hotel,
wouldn't take dare and jumped from
the spiral bridge into the river, a dis
lance of over sixty feet, and swan to
shore unframed. He Is employed by
the Des Moines Bridge & Iron COM
pany.
Hamline-For the third time in the
history of the state class in traction
engineering has been graduated from
the farm school department of the
Minnesota university, 81 young men
from nine different states receiving
diplomas following exercises at the
St. Anthony station.
Hamline-Among the many features
which will aid to the attractiveness of
the historical spectacle, Fort Ridgely
in '62" at the State Fair grounds each
evening of Aug. 81 to Sept. 5, will be
the Morgan G. A. r. drum corps, prob
ably one of the most famous organiza-
lions of its kind in the country.
Duluth-Edward Peace, night engi-
neer at the electric light plant at b.
vey, Mesaba range, was electrocuted
while showing the workings of the
machinery to visitors. He accidental
ly touched some part of the machin-
cry and received a heavy voltage. He
was 26 years of age and unmarried.
Faribault-Nicholas Klopp, a bust
ness man Of Faribault and an ex-ald-
erman, was picked up from the &C.
ment sidewalk on Third street uncon-
scious. 1t is not known how he was
injured, but it is supposed he fell and
struck his head He was taken TO the
hospital, where he died shortly after
wards.
Crookston-W. ]. Murphy's Waite"
works company has war on its hands
with the people over there, because
of it's refusal to put down water mains
where ordered by the city council.
Duluth-Arthur Olson, aged 81
years, a sailor, whose home was in
Chicago. was almost instantly killed
by falling off tramway while on his
way to his ship, the Prentice.
Two Harbors-Dr. p. B. Chandler of
this city, a graduate from Yale this
spring, was crushed between two cars
at Allen Junction, and died three
hours later.
Eveleth-The surprise of the week
in this section of the range was the
arrest of all the nine saloonkeepers
in the village of Gilbert for operating