The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-02-15
MINNESOTA news

yOD was 0OlOTeQ with banquet IN
commemoration for his % years SER
vice as mayor.
MinneapoIis-Five elderly persons
were killed by automobiles. one hit
and run, to bring the total to IL up
to February 6.
New Uim-Henry ]. Berg. IS years
old, county treasurer of Brown county
for over % years, died here after sew
eral weeks illness.
crookston-The twenty-ffth annu-
al Red River Valley Farmers week
program was held here with the best
sessions since 1928.
DuIuth-Albert B. Graham, 81 years
old, former state representative from
Duluth, died here a victim of tulare-
mia, contracted while on duty.
Worthington-The Civic and Com
merce Association will take a census
of the city soon to ascertain the
growth since the national census in
1880.
virsinia-Harry Names ,5s-year-old
trapper, confessed killing his partner,
Joseph Bigelow, Sc, with a hunting
knife in their isolated north woods
cabin.
Lake Crystal whirling circular
saw severed one Of Howard Benefits
legs when he fell in front of the blade
while cutting ice on the Blue Earth
river. Bennett lives at Amboy.
MinneapoIis-on the largest hill
west of Lake Placid, N. Y, Harold So
renson of Norfolk, Conn, set a Sec
tional record and won the northwest
ski tournament with a leap Of 205
feet
Balaton-Residents Of Balaton are
cooperating in campaign to raise
funds for use in feeding starving
pheasants. Rural mail carriers have
been enlisted TO carry the feed and
place it along their routes.
Albert Lea-Nine men are under
Freeborn county grand jury indict.
ments charged with rioting in connec-
ton with strike violence at a foun-
dry here, when eight persons, includ-
ing the sheriff, were injured.
-Michelangelo Gentilcore,
who was released from Saltwater
penitentiary recently, after serving
25 years, went back to Italy to claim
the girl who was supposed to be
waiting for him, only to find her mar
ried and the mother Of several chill
dren.
Rrainerd-John William Bush, aged
father Of Bullet" Joe Bush, former
major league baseball player, died a
lonely lingering death in his shack
near here. Bus hwas found dead in
his cottage on Ten Mile lake near
Walker. He appeared to have been
dead several days.
st. Paul-State revenue from liquor,
beer, wine and wholesale license
taxes for January reached $685..
9S7.95, David R. Arundel, state liquor
control commissioner, announced. This
was S133, 20S.07 more than collected
in January, 1884, the first month of
repeaI Tor Minnesota.
StiIIwater-The Washington county
commissioners and members of the
Saltwater city council set up regula-
tons prohibiting purchase of mate
rails, supplies or services by the coun.
ty or city from anyone delinquent In
tax payments, and making it manda-
tory that county and city employees
have taxes paid in full as condition
to their continued employment.
st. PauI-Minnesota farmers will
determine in the next two weeks,
through their signing of AAA corn.
hog contracts, whether or not they
want return to the condition of IN.
restricted production which brought
on low prices Of 1888, says Andrew
Boss. State AAA indications point to
a sign-up as high as the Is per cent
OF eligible signers who participated In
1884.
MinneapoIis-More than half of the
exhibition space on the main floor of
the Minneapolis Auditorium has been
sold out to exhibitors for the Build
ers Show, Home Beautiful Exposition
and Flower Show which will be held
March 25th to 30th. The Fifth DIS.
trict Minnesota Federation Of WON.
ems Clubs viii stage their annual
patchwork quilt show in connection
with the Builders Show Headquar.
tiers for the show have been opened
at 5o3 Tribune Annex, Minneapolis.
| Observation-Disclosures -2.ooe,o 900 and
100000 articles Of planting stock in
addition to 100000 seedlings to be
furnished by the federal government
are to be used in Minnesota this
spring to complete the tree shelter
belt project authorized by the feder.
al relief department and which is to
! be supervised by the SERA. State
dealers and nurseries are to supply
the stock so far as possible. The
| first paintings are to be made in the
| following counties: Big Stone, Chip.
pewa, Douglas. Grant, Kandiyohi, Lac
| qui Parle, Lincoln, Lyon, Morrison,
Pipestone, Pope, Stevens, Swift, Todd,
Traverse, Wilkin and Yellow Medi.
| cine.
Observation-Disclosures of loan
activity on 6.022 applications held in
suspense since Nov. Is by the Home
Owners Loan corporation In Mime
sofa, was announced by Otto Bremen,
state manager, upon instructions from
Washington.
St Paul-Minnesota's federal tax
bill for 1894 was almost double the
1888 figure, internal revenue figures
made public in Washington show. The
1884 contribution for federal levies of
all kinds was s5S,201,232 as against
s29,474,941 for 1888, an increase of
| SIS. 726.291.