The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-03-12


hearing the state withdrew its COM
plant against him and he was re-
leased.
Winona.-Most of the market gar.
deners and fruit growers in the VI
cinity Of Winona have gone into a
regularly incorporated organization
to be known as the Winona Fruit
Growers association.
Delano.-At caucus held, the fol-
lowing ticket was named. E. T. lie
barth, president; Joseph Bauman,
John Schaust, Fred Brueshaber,
trustees; Fred Braudes, recorder; L.
P. Probst, treasurer; Simon Weldele,
assessor; ]. A. Merriman and c. L.
Belt, const&bles.
Minneapolis.-"The Smart Set"
one Of the best colored organizations
in the country, will be seen at the
Bijou Opera House, Minneapolis, the
week of March 14th, Offering some
thing out Of the ordinary in the
amusement line. It Is q comedy
drama welded to sweet music of the
infectious, 1ingling kind, and is called
The Black Politician"
nneapohs.-Gustave Berg, saloon
keeper, testified before a Jury and
Judge John Day Smith of the district
court that he and his partner,
Charles Anderson, had paid $40 to
Tom Mccarthy, in the presence of
William Baxter, private detective, to
keep Mccarthy from going to Judge
Waite Of the police court with story
OF having lost money by gambling In
the Berg & Anderson saloon.
Waseca.-Mrs. Edwin Elwell, wife
of the pastor of the Congregational
church Of this city, while putting on
her rubbers, was seriously burned by
an explosion of the coal stove be-
side which she sat. Her head was
near the stove door and the fire from
the stove ignited the celluloid combs
that she wore in her hair. She threw
her skirts over her head and with
her husbands help extinguished the
flames.
Rochester.-The annual city cleo
ton will be held Tuesday and both
parties have held their caucuses and
named the men they desire to rep
resent them. Interest centers in the
election of the mayor. ]. c. Thomp-
son is the Republican standard bear
er, and the present mayor, julius j.
Reiter, next door neighbor of his
opponent, is the Democratic nominee.
There is no issue before the people.
merely the selection Of the men.
Little Falls.-Paul Krause, who
pleaded guilty to arson and who was
sentenced by Judge Taylor to a term
In the reformatory, the length de-
pending on the prisoners conduct,
left for st. Cloud to enter upon his
work. Krause was allowed to go to
st. Cloud alone, the first case of the
kind known in the city. Krause con-
fessed setting fire to a disorderly
house during the month of January,
and in the destruction of the house
one man was burned to death.
Minneapolis.-Walter L. Fruen,
aged Sc, was found dead with his
throat cut in the engine room Of the
Fruen Cereal company's mill by his
sister Henrietta, aged Is. Deputy
Coroner r. G. Rome was called and
pronounced the case one of suicide.
There was a cut on the left side Of
the mans throat and the razor with
HI lob hn n,,f
the body. Mr.. Fruen was vice presi-
dent of the Fruen Cereal company
and had charge of the mill. No def
mite cause is given for Mr.. Fruen
committing suicide except that he
had been worrying.
Grand Rapids.-There is vigorous
opposition here to the bill fathered
by Senator Gum and Endorsed by
the Grand Rapids Commercial club,
providing for an increase Of salaries
of county commissioners in Itasca
county. By it the salaries of the
Itasca county commissioners will be
raised from $3.50 year and mileage
to $500 a year and mileage. No
sooner had the Commercial club in
dorsed the proposed measure than
some Of the men who voted for 1t
formulated a plan to send state
ment of the facts to members Of the
legislature objecting to the bill.
Cloquet.-The little town Of Scan
Ion, three miles from this city, where
are located the mills Of the Brooks
Scanlon Lumber company OF Mime
apolis, will soon pass from existence,
since the mills on which the town is
dependent, will cease saving next
June. Already many houses have
been moved to CloQuet and the stores
are selling out. The company rec
commended to the town board that all
Indebtedness Of the town be deter.
mined and the mill properties taxed
to meet it. This has been done, and
there is enough money In the treas
ury to make the town comfortable.
st. Paul.-Mrs. Susanna Burnell.
an aged woman Of st. Paul, was
burned to death. The fire was
caused by an exploding lamp. The
burning oil was thrown all over her
and her body was near consumed be-
fore the firemen. arrived. Small dam
age was done to the building.
Red Wing.-Ernest Swanson, en-
ployed at the Trout Brook tannery,
while operating a setting machine
had his left arm caught in the ma
chine and so badly mangled that am
putation was necessary. He is about
thirty-five years old and unmarried.
Duluth.-Matt MARTHA, saloonkeep-
er, and L. @. Samicolo, grocer, both
of Eveleth, were fined $25 and SIS,
rocnanfiualY hv Iudoa Prince of