The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-06-04
Recent Happenings in Minnesota
Given in Brief Items for
Busy Readers.
ENTIRE FIELD COVERED
News of Events In Gopher State
Gathered From Many Different
Sources and Arranged in
Crisp Readable Form.

celVed diplomas.
Winona-John Schuppel, ST., 81
years old and for As years of this city,
died here. He is survived by six chill
dren, Is grandchildren and eight great
grandchildren.
Wheaton-Eighty thousand pike fry
were received by Representative E. C.
Neuman from the state fish hatchery
at Granite Falls and were placed in
deep water in Lake Traverse.
Hibbing-The tentative program for
the Minnesota State Library associa-
tons convention in Hibbing, Sept. Is,
16, II and Is is announced by Miss
Dorothy Hurlbert, local librarian
Hibbing-Lake docks from which
water may be pumped with which to
fight fires, may be built at several
summer resorts in the wood country
this summer, if suggestion made by
forest rangers is followed.
Crookston-Henry L. Smith of Mon
director Of Crookston. He has as
sumed his duties. Mr.. Smith will take
charge of both the Citizens and the
Juvenile bands of the city.
Moorhead-A farm boys encamp-
ment from the counties of Clay,
Becker, Norman and Mahnomen is be-
ing planned for the last part of June,
according to announcement by o. M.
Olson, Clay county agricultural agent
SYSTEMATICALLY business men of
Sherburn and Dunnel have purchased
327-acre farm on Fox Lake, at $500
per acre and will use it for a public
amusement park and summer resort
The project is to be put through this
season, according to announcement.
Gilbert-Burglars entered the home
of Rev. Father Matthias Bilban here
during his absence and took $500 in
Liberty bonds and between 5000 and
$500 in cash from the safe The burg
lars cut the telephone. wires after en-
tering the house through side win
dow
hisholm-Arraigned in municipal
court here on charge of destruction
of property in having, it is alleged,
dynamited the automobile of Louis
Swenby, Balkan township farmer,
William Henderson, also a Balkan
township farmer, is held for the grand
jury.
Red Wing-Six seniors of the Pine
Island Goodhue county high school
had a miraculous escape from death
when the automobile in which they
we're riding smashed into a Chicago
Great Western engine at that place.
Two were seriously injured and the
,ther four escaped with minor cuts
md bruises.
Chatfield-Charles Cotton, who on
October 81, 1919, shot several high
Ichool boys with bird shot, who were
playing Halloween pranks, one being
seriously injured, was indicted by the
,rand jury at Preston, charged with
assault in the second degree. Cotton
vas given a preliminary hearing and
pleaded not guilty.
Alexandria-Coswell w. Crist. ath-
etic coach and manual training teach
n in the Alexandria high school, was
drowned in Lake Carlos when heavy
Wind upset a canoe in which he and a
7oung woman were padding. The ac-
:ident occurred in the middle of the
AXE. By clinging to the keel of the
lpturned craft the young woman saved
Ter life.
Albert Lea-Michael Ahern, an old
.ailroad man aged rs years, was in
itantly killed here at the union station
,y an incoming Minneapolis & st.
louis road freight, which severed
Ahearn's head from his body The en-
,ineer did not see the man and thought
lie must have fallen under the train as
t passed near some tall weeds grow
ng by the track.
Luverne-High school commence
nent exercises here have been post
)oned, the result Of Irregularities in
connection with state examination
questions. Early last week it was
,ound that copies of state examination
questions had been taken from the
,afe in the school here, and had been
distributed to high school students at
Worthington The question sheets
lad been removed from the container
n such a manner that authorities
1oubt if the loss would have been
earned had not certain students at
Worthington appraised the school au-
:horities there of the fact that the
question sheets had come into the
hands of certain students
Fergus Falls-In the United States
court here Emil Muchelstedt, st.
Paul man, was found guilty of smugg-
ling 40 quarts of whisky across the
Canadian boundary and Judge Morris
sentenced him to spend 80 days in the
Ramsey county :ail and to pay line
Of $500. He claimed he had bought
the whisky on this side of the border
paying S. per gallon for it.
Crookston-The year old daughter
If Mr. and Mrs. Emil Luckow, of this
city, was drowned in a water filled
basement. The child was found by it's
mother half hour after she had been
left playing in the yard.
st. Paul-Governor Burnquist has
appointed Col. Albert F. Pratt of
Anoka, assistant attorney general, to
prosecute former Hennepin county at
torney, w. M. Nash. now under sus-
pension from office under charges of
irregularities in his Office in connec-
ton with the alleged whisky snug
Cling cases, as the governor intends
there shall be thorough investigation
of the whisky conspiracy.
Virginia. travelling i, orchestra
composed of musicians from high
Il u
ginia is being formed to make tours of
The range this year.