The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-08-15
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office here, and his wife are the only
two negroes in the city.
Virginia.-Mrs. Margaret Ozonich,
convicted Of blindpigging, must spend
ninety days in the county jail, being
unable to pay her fine. She is the
mother of eight children.
East Grand Forks.-Prospects for an
abundant corn yield this year are the
very best, according to business men
in the city who have just returned
from a tour throughout the adjacent
country.
Moorhead. - A movement for the
erection Of steel and concrete bridge
across the Red river connecting Front
street, Moorhead, and N. P. avenue,
Fargo, has been inaugurated by the
Moorhead city council.
Mora.-The Kanabec County Fair as.
ISOLATION will give $4,000 in premiums
for exhibits at the fair to open here
Aug. rs. An airplane has been en-
gagged for three days and Walter Bull
lock will make flights.
st. Paul.-The annual meeting of the
Great Northern railroad will take
place here Oct. 9, and it is said, will be.
one Of the most important meetings
ever held by the stockholders and d.
rectors of that railroad.
Red Wing.-Most of Margaret Ohm
sted's scalp was torn from her head
when she was drying her hair before
the f1ywheel Of a gasoline engine near
Bennion. Hospital physicians here
sewed the scalp back into place. -.
Hibbing.-Farm exhibits at the St.
Louis county fair here Aug. 80, 81 and
Sept. l (Labor Day., this year will
surpass any ever made as the favor
able weather has brought out some of
the finest crops ever seen in these
parts. .E
st. Caoud.-Twelve hours after he
had escaped from the state reforma-.
tory here, 9ohn Johnson, an inmate
serving sen-year sentence on a.
charge of forgery, was apprehended at.
Rice. He had served only six months
of his time. p
Moorhead. = Concordia college Of
Moorhead will have football team
this fall, it has been announced by DIR.
]. A. Aasgaard, president of the COL.
lege, who added that A. M. Satire
would again be in charge of athletics
at the college. ....
Center City.-At the annual meeting
of the Observation-Disclosures Counties
Bar association held here the old Off
GERS were reelected as follows. T..
Markham of Rush City, president; S.
G. L. Roberts, Pine City, vice pfesi-
dent; ]. c. Pope, Mora, treasurer, and
w. H. Lamson of Hinckley, secretary.
st. Paul-Another call for the max
imum allowance of $1,700 for enter
tainment of Minnesota soldiers and sail
ors reaching New York city during
August and for maintenance of the
Minnesota desk in the Hall of States
in that city was made On the state pub
lie safety commission by Secretary
Charles P. Berkey and honored by Gov
ernor Burnquist as chairman and H.
w. Libby, secretary of the commission.
neapolis.-Marines in the north
west who belonged to the famous Fifth
and Sixth regiments, which stopped
the Germans at the gateway to Paris
and began the drive which resulted in
the ending of the war six months later,
will take part in a big review and
parade at the Minnesota state fair on
Thursday, Sept. 4, which is Soldiers,
Sailors and Marines day. It is ex-
pected that at least 1000 marines will
march.
Minneapolis. - Practically all the
wounded soldiers who have been under
treatment at Base Hospital 20, Fort
Smelling, have been discharged or
moved to other military hospitals. The
work of the Bureau of Camp Service
and the Red Cross Field Director will
continue in such measure as may be
required by the units of infantry which
are to be placed in barracks at the
Fort. The fate of the Red Cross Con-
valescent House is matter of consid-
cradle discussion among both Red
Cross and military authorities. ~.
Grand Rapids. -1tasca county au-
thorities arrested Mrs. Nick Stupar
and brought her to the county jail
here on suspicion of being implicated
in the murder Of Bude Cevetich, miner,
but are not disposed to say much about
the charge against her. It is said that
Cevetich was last seen talking to Mrs.
Stupar and that it was in her pigpen
that the revolver and other things
were found and that trail of blood
led from shed belonging to the Stu
pars to where the body was found.
Crookston.-The exciting career Of
Clarence Stout, "a, farmer formerly
living near here, came to a prosaic
ending with his application for IL
cense to marry Johanna Hulst, Is,
with whom he eloped to Des Moines
to be brought back to Crookston after
living in Iowa and posing as the girls
husband. After being convicted on
charge of abduction, Stout drank vial
Of carbolic acid in an attempt to COM
NIT suicide when the parents of Jo-
hanna Hulst forbade his seeing her.
He was then judged insane and taken
to the asylum at Fergus Falls. He was
discharged from that institution az
cured and applied for a license to mar
ry with the sanction of R. B. Stout, his
father, and Rudolph hulst, the father
of the girl
st. Paul.-Governor Burnquist has
returned to st. Paul after more than
two weeks stay on his farm near
Clinton. He exhibited tan and bis
tiers on his hands as evidence that he
was not merely directing the harvest.
The crop on his farm, he said, will
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