The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-05-26
MINNESOTA NEW

The State Homeopathic Institution held
its annual meeting at St. Paul, last week.
EX-GOVERNOR C. C. WAsHBuRN calls Min
neapolis the most prosperous city in the
United States.
The fishing is very good at Faribault.
Parties that went to Robard's lake last week
were very successful.
The lack of places in which to live is be-
coming serious matter in St. Paul. Already
small single rooms are commanding enormous
rentals.
LAST week Mr.. Fielder, of st. Cloud, had an
cancer in the hand, causing dangerous
hemoryhage.
DIVINE to the railroad strike at Chicago
considerably badly decayed fruit is reaching
the Minneapolis market, and will prove loss
to the shippers.
little girl, 9 years old, a daughter of Luzi
Schneider, ESQ.,, was accidentally shot by her
10-year-old brother.
A WIND and hail storm passed over Blue
Earth City, breaking s1s panes of glass in
eighty one buildings on one street. No other
serious damage was done.
M1NNEToNKA will have this season line of
boats large enough to transport an army.
Over two thousand passengers can be carried
at single trip with comfort.
In the vicinity of Jordan the farmers are in
creasing the acreage Of amber cane. Enocll
Cragun has planted five acres and D. D. Dick
erson has planted twelve acres.
EVERY stall in the Minneapolis market is
now either occupied or rented, state of
affairs that has not before existed since that
institution first came into existence.
Gov. PILLsBURY has contracted with Mr.
Isaac Miner, one of the best known and most
| competent stone masons in st. Paul to build
the foundation walls for the new capitol build
ing.
A M1NNEAPoLIs man has skipped out, tax
| ing with him woman and $500, which he
realized from the sale of his home where his
wife and family reside. His family is left
pcnniless.
THE salaries of the supreme officers Of K.
| of H. are as follows: Supreme dictator, S.
500; supreme reporter, S2,5 0, and 1000 for
clerk hire and extra for extra clerks; supreme
treasurer $4,000.
A NoRTHFIELD man has COW that he has
to milk three times day. She gives twelve
quarts at nieht, twelve in the morning and
nine at noon, making grand total of thirty
three quarts of milk per day. ....
AT Pine City May "a, was celebrated the
fourteenth anniversary of the battle of Poke
gama Only two white men who witnessed it
are now living-Mr. jeremiah Russell, of
Sank Rapids, and Mr.. E. T. Ely, of California.
| CARL CARLSON, Scandinavian blacksmith,
young and unmarried, grieved that his lady
| love would not come to him from the old
country, committed suicide by drowning in
the Pomme de Terre river, in Grant county,
| last week.
WHILE j. H. Breidert, of St. Paul, was
standing in front of his store, a piece of the
stone cornice fell, striking the sidewalk close
to his feet. This little piece of stone was
about fifteen inches long and four feet wide
It was close call.
FIRE destroyed the store owned by Mr.. Mar
tin and occupied by Wyatt Johns, in Delano
its contents, stock of general merchandise
valued at 81 500, together with Sims paint
! shops. Johns, stock was totally consumed.
The loss was about $4,000. r.
| GOVERNOR PILLsBURY has issued and order
that applications for pardons must be accom-.
! panied by a recommendation from the Judge
and prosecuting attorney who tried the pris.
oner, as we'll as bya petition from at least
! two-thirds of the jurors who convicted him.
! Miss IDA KELLY, of Pennington, who
made a desperate attempt to kill her lover
with razor, was arraigned before justice
of the peace, and held in 81 900 for trial al
Hastings in June. Griesmer, the victim oil
her assault, is recovering rapidly.
| NEGOTIATIONS are going forward for the
purchase of the water power at Taylor'e
Falls by Saltwater company. A competent
engineer is to make survey from the head OF
the rapids to the bridge, distance of about
six miles, to ascertain the volume and fall OF
water, number and location of the dams,
chances for canals, mill sites, etc.
A. c. WEDGE, of Freeborn county, has bee,
nominated for collector of revenue for the
| First District of Minnesota. The Minnesota
Senators have united in recommending the
following appointments: Gen. c. c. Andrews
of St. Paul, minister to Mexico; Hans Matt
son of Minneapolis, minister to Denmark
and o. v. Tousley, of Minneapolis, for an i'm
| portant European copsulship.
A CARAVAN of emgrants laden on half a
dozen prairie schooners, and accompanied
with large number OF cattle, recently passed
through st. Paul. The destination Of the
party can he inferred from the following
legend which was inscribed on the cover Of
the front wagon:
In God we trust;
For Shell Prairie, or bust"
AN emigrant woman en- route from Poland
tn Glencoe, MIMI, was taken to the central
police station at Milwaukee, in fainting con-
ditioh. In fifteen minutes after her arrival
| she gave birth to twins, both well formed
girl battles. The woman was kindly cared
for, and in few days continued on her jour
ney with her slightly increased family.
THE honey crop of Wisconsin will not cover
many hot biscuits this summer. Bee keepers
| are out of luck. Owing to the severe winter
a large apiary near Milton which two years
since numbered nearly three hundred swarms,
had dwindled down to forty-four last fall. and