The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-01-01
MINNESOTA NEWS
Interesting Items Gathered in the
Gopher State

down on all gambling houses and I'M
licensed drinking places.
st. Paul-Suicide of James Dugan
at Saltwater marks the last Of the
famous Rice street gang.
Zumbrota. = Speaker-elect Rockne
denies any intention of securing re-
duction in salaries of house employees.
Washington.-Char B. Romkey
has been appointed postmaster at
Stockwood, Clay county, vice S. Sher
moen, resigned.
Minneapolis than 700 men,
women and children, from more than
half the states in the union, have been
reported missing in Minneapolis in
the last year.
/Minneapolis.-Six hundred more
building permits have been issued
by ]. G. Houghton, city building in
spector, so far this year, than issued
during the entire year of 1907.
Duluth.-The Duluth Belt Line set
tied a suit recently brought by the at
torney general with a draft for
$325.92. This represents the gross
earnings tax for 1907 at per cent
penalty for failure to pay within the
time limit.
Otisville.-John NJ Jonasson, post
master at Scandal for twenty-nine
years, died, aged eighty-five years.
TWO years ago he had q paralytic
stroke from which he never recov.
cred, and which left him nearly
speeches..
Minneapolis of the most i'm
portant engagements of the theatrical
season at Bijou Opera House, Mime.
apolis, will be that of the great COL
lege play, "Strongheart," which will
be seen at that playhouse the week of
January 3rd.
Two Harbors.-The Jordan mine in
the Chisholm district is exhausted
and mining operations have been dis
continued. The mine was operated
by Corrigan, Mckinney & Co., which
firm is now moving the machinery to
other properties.
Red Wing.-Winter fishing is be-
coming popular in Minnesota, both as
business and as a sport, judging
from the records of the state game
and fish commission. Within a few
days the commission has issued
total of over 1900 licenses for fish
houses.
st. Paul.-Work has started on the
bridge to be built by the ST. Paul
Bridge and Terminal company and
which will span the Mississippi river
| at South Park, facilitating to a great
extent the shipping of stock to South
! st. Paul, and shortening the present
haul by eight miles.
st. Paul.-The estate of the late
Franklin l.. Greenleaf of Minneapolis,
valued at $110,553.19, paid an inheri-
lance tax into the state treasury
amounting to $1,O43.4O. The estate
of Auguste E. Richards of New York,
paid a tax of s21O to aavsf certain
property situated IA Ramsey county.
Winona.-A pail of gloom has been
! lowered over the German Lutheran
congregation, the largest In Winona,
by the death of Rev. Philip Won Rohr,
the pastor for two score years, which
occurred here. All day messages Of
coincidence from all the Northwest
and the nation, as well, have reached
the sorrowing family.
Rochester.-In the morbid cravings
of weak mind, shattered by hysteria,.
and seeking to end it all, is found the
solution Of the mystery why Mrs. Jen-
ME Cook Turcell of this city, who
took her life last night by locking her.
self in trunk and inhaling chloro-
form, adopted such a gruesome and
novel method to accomplish her OBJ
ject.
Heron Lake.-Possibilities of muir
der for purposes Of robbery are seen
by the police in connection with the
finding of the dead body of Jacob
Kalmenson in shack a few miles
from here, where he had been living
alone for the last year. Kalmenson,
who was about As years old, was at
one time a prosperous merchant In
Philadelphia.
st. Paula. B. Stickney resigned
as receiver of the Chicago Great West
ern, ultimately, 1t is claimed, to re-
sign from the presidency. Horace G..
Burt, former president Of the Union
Pacific, and some time ago selected
by English stockholders to look into
the condition of the road and make .
report, becomes receiver in Mr.. Stick
ney's place, and will eventually sue
coed him as president of the road.
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ciety is not to be hampered, it will
be almost necessary for the new leg
islature to provide means to begin a
home for the society. The 400 daily
and weekly papers of the state which
the society receives have so crowded
the space it has in the basement of
the capitol that outside room soon
will have to be found, as room for
, 400 more bound volumes soon will be
required.
Minneapolis.-St bankers meet
, and decide to establish million-dollar
institution in Mill City to protect
themselves from national banks and
centralize their capital.
Rochester.-Aime Sickle testifies al
trial of F. A. Lloyd that she is not his
t legal wife, and that she forged check
2 to get money to join him in trir
! to England.
st. Paul.-Attorney Generalelec
) Simpson issues warning against prac
5 tice of clerks in governa:'s offic,
t signing governors name to publ,
documents
3 st. Paul.-The live stock sanitar.
: boards annual report recommend
: that the state dairy and food depart
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