The Princeton union., 1877-11-14

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A man in Camden, by the name of
Michael Redkin, had aleg broken on the 22d
ult by falling tree. -. A colony of Sweeds
have emigrateG from this county. and taken
up all of town H6, range a., and part of the
township in Lac qui Parle county,
and part of town 115, range A, in Yellow
Medicine county. =, re- 4
A son of Judge J.. L. Macdonald Of
ShakOpee died recently of Inflammation
caused by scratch from dogs foot The
grist and saw mill of Mr.. Skinner of Spring
Lake caught fire about midnight on the 3Oth
and burned to the grouud. s.
E8zf WRIGHT. 81
Killing deer is in order from Nov. 1st
to December 18th. - - .-.s
COTTONWOOD.
Prairie fires have been unusually num-
erous and considerable property DESTROYED
thereby, including buildings, fencing hay etc
In Sprin gfeld, since a large prairie fire, Mr..
Evans has been unable to find 125 sheep that
either perished in the flames or wandered off.
CROW WING.
/ A Green Prairie calf, three months old,
weighed when killed and dressed, four hun
dred and fifty pounds. fF5'3TT ~ J
JACKSON.
/ Joseph Goetzel of Murray county, who
was some time ago committed to the jackson
county JAIL charged with the commission of
an unnatural crime with his own daughter,
escaped from the jail on the 2Sth, and is still
at large.
Leonard Gaitze, Of Havana, while
working around threshing machine one day
recently, attempted to step over the tumbling
rod and was caught, and turned around the
rod ten or twelve times. His head struck the
tongue of the thresher and knocked him
senseless, also cutting severe cash on the
back of his head. :. All the school and agri-
cultural lands in Steele county remaining un-
sold, are offered for sale at the County Audi
tors office. :. The county Jail in Owatonna is
now finished and ready for business. Gus.
Linderquist, employed by VIM. Patton, four
miles west of OWatonna, met with an acci-
dent which was as painful as it was singular
While eating a piece of bread he swallowed q
| large sized needle which stuck about three
to the city he visited DR.. Hill who extracted
| the needle with pair of forceps. Mr.. Ker-
| man, brakeman on the c., NJ. & st. P. r. R
who had gone on duty at Austin on freight
| train No. z, fell from the cars while they were
| switching at station betweeni Owatonna
and Austin, and was badly injured, his right
arm and left leg broken and his head severely
| bruised and cut. He was brought to Owa-
| tonna and cared for.
BROWN. s.
A little child of Adam Schommburg,
aged about two years, fell into boiler of hot
| water on Tuesday last, andIwas so badly scald.
ed as to result in its death the following day.
The land entries in the New Ulm land of.
| fee are more numerous than at any previous
period for five years. In October 100 home.
/ stead entries, IS preemptions and IS tree claims
1 were taken, and the demand for land seems tc
be on the increase. =. .. = 80 s.&
wABAsHAw.
A Lake City sportsman recently killed
at two shots, eight wild geese, the aggregate
weight of which was, when dressed, ninety
/ eight pounds #.s z." 4ar =. .st--l
/ The residence of, Albert Knudson, sew
en- miles from Sauk Centre, was on the night
of the 31st ult., set on fire by the explosion O.
a kerosene oil lamp and totally destroyed.
!. Frendenberg, an agent of a New York
I Jewelry house, was arrested at Sauk Centre
last week, charged with breach Of trust in moi
paying over monies collected by him, belong
ing to the firm He was released after being
La Flesh were out hunting partridges one day
recently, they suddenly came on large bear
which started straight for them. They ha6
4 no other weapons than shot guns loaded witt
fine shot, and they thought they were in pret
ty bad fix As the bear was coming close tG
them, both fired in his face and run for thei
lives. When they had run some distance the,
looked around and found that Mr.. Bruin hat
InOt followed them, but was running ava,
shaking his head and wiping his face with hi:
clumsy paws 8
Il s, ii = WATONWAN. R at#S IS
i A fire broke out in Madelia on tn,
night of the 3lst ult., and destroyed five build
tings. Fortunately the buildings destroyet
were not among the most valuable. -. Tin
Larkinh2a his stable, farming tools, grain AM
hay Burned by prairie fire recently.s... Saw
run by wind are used to cut wood in st
James.
BLUE EARTH.
Aassingle printing office in Mankat,
printed over A., 600 election tickets-more thai
two tickets to every man, woman an,
child in the county.
80 More Puts and Calls.
II The State sDnreme court of Illinois ha