The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-03-17
NEWS OF STATE
TERSELY TOLD
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.


Crisp Readable Form.
Jackson, Minn.-John Hranicke, 81
years old, resident of Jackson county
since 1886, died at his home here.
Fergus Falls.-Traffic on this divi-
sion of the Northern Pacific was
opened east of here following tieup
as result of drifting in of snow.
Warren-An old landmark, the Man.
chester building, erected 1882, was
completely destroyed by fire. Very
little of the property of the tenants
was saved.
st. Paul-George w. Wells 7as ap-
missioner by Commissioner Gustaf
Lindquist. Mr.. Wells succeeds Frank
j. LorenZ.
ST. Paul.-Minnesota had 43 deaths
from Sleeping sickness" in 1919, com.
pared with Is in 1919, according to a
report from the census bureau, depart
ment of commerce. Washington.
Canby-Two farmers were driving
herd of cattle down a business street
of this town when two of the calves
strayed onto the city sidewalk. Los
ing their footing the animals crashed
through a plate glass window. 1t cost
the price of several calves to pay for
the damage.
White Bear-White Bear will have a
special village election March 80 to
decide the contest for mayor, which
resulted in a tie vote at the regular
village election last Tuesday. Earl F.
Jackson and Peter Fournelle each
polled 34S votes.
st. Paul-It cost Minnesota $751;
411.21 to maintain the National Guard
troops at South st. Paul to guard the
property of the stock yards and the
packing plants during the strike Of
packing plant employees, Adjutant
General w. r. Rhinow said.
Luverne-Farm tenants in this To-
cality who have hoped to get farms
for the coming season at more favor
able terms were disappointed March
1. The prices still remain high and
many have been compelled to hold
closing out sales and seek new terri
tory.
Worthington.--Sn reply to an invi-
tation sent to Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.,
to be the honored guest and speaker
here on Independence day, he has re-
piled that it will be impossible for him
to come here, as he desires to follow
an established custom of speaking at
Oyster Bay on July 4.
Pipestone-Shake & Barnett Co.'s
mems furnishing store was completely
destroyed by fire here. The building
was in the center of the business sec
ton of the city and only by the hard
est kind of work were the firemen able
to keep the flames from communicat-
Ing from adjoining buildings.
Minneapolis.-One man was serious
Iy injured, another slightly injured
and several mail clerks were shaken
up when transfer locomotive draw
ing "a boxcars, collided with passen-
ger train No. IA, on the Minneapolis
& st. Louis railroad 1nder the st.
Anthony Falls bridge. The passen-
ger train was standing still when the
wreck occurred.
Duluth-Coast guardsmen and gov.
eminent lighthouse keepers are daily
scanning moving ice foes in Lake Su.
perior in the hope of picking up traces
of two small boats, which are believed
to have contained the bodies of two
persons-James Maher, Cook county
commissioner, and Mrs. Alfred Peter
son, wife of French River, Mimi,
fisherman, who were lost on the lake
in January.
Crookston-"Give up your stills dur.
ing Lent was the advice given his
parishioners by Bishop Corbett of the
Crookston Catholic diocese in IL ging a
strict observance of the Lenten sea-
son. Everybody is running STILL"
declared the bishop. People trade
liquor recipes like neighbors trade re-
cipes for cakes. Even high school
boys bring home liquor formulas from
school. Home brewing and moonshin-
ing seems to be the great popular in
door sport, but good Catholics should
forego making it during Lent"
Caledonia. Gunder Midboe and
four children were drowned while her
husband and George Wesland, neigh
Dor, escaped, when the sleigh drawn
by two horses in which they were re-
turning to their farm home from visit
At the home of Mrs. Midboe's mother.
overturned in fording Beaver creek,
near Caledonia Mr.. Midboe made a
vain attempt to save two Of the chill
dren, but lost them from his grasp in
the swift current. Wesland claIg to
the lines and was drawn ashore by the
horses. The children were aged c, 4
and years and months.
Minneapolis.-One Negro bandit is
In the morgue and another in the city
Jail because they chose for their vic
tim detective fully prepared to cope
with them instead of the unarmed
pedestrian they took him for. The
dead Negro is Frank .Barrock, also
known as Smith, and the. other is
Horace Giles.
Duluth.-Kasper Sokolinski, Pc lish
priest, who was convicted after a sec
ond trial on charge of second degree
grant larceny, was sentenced to serve
an I.determinate term at Saltwater by
Judge Ber- Feeler in distric. courf
here