The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-09-04

clients. We are glad to know that Mr..
Merrill stands well in Aitkin and is pros,
pering.
jeff Orion, OF Foreston, was knocked
down and robbed of s25 by tramps at the
Manitoba freight yard in st. Cloud the
other evening. A policeman overloaded
the tramps. in East st. Cloud but they
drew revolvers, showed fight and es-
capped.
A. w. Cater was in attendance at
court, and he combined business with
duty by representing the cigar firm Of
Marx & Wire, st, Cloud This firm
manufacture excellent cigars, and Mr..
Cater knows how to sound the praises of
the smokables
All the old officers were renominated
at the Republican county convention
held at Cambridge, Isanti county, on the
9th ult. Our old friend, Chas. Van
Wormer, was the unanimous choice of
the convention for judge of probate. H.
F. Barker had no opposition for county
attorney.
In its report of The Fourth congress
sional district Democratic convention,
the Minneapolis Tribune says: "One of
the resolutions denounced the stand that
| Republican congressman from Mime
! sofa, with the exception Of Knute Mel
son, had taken. A wild eyed delegate
from Isanti county wanted Milo Whites
name included. He was called down.
Myron Harper, aged 16 years, second
oldest child of Mr.. and Mrs Frank Har-
per, died at his parents residence in
Princeton, Tuesday noon. The funeral
occurred yesterday afternoon and was
largely attended by the friends and sym
pathizing neighbors of the family. De-
ceased has been an invalid for years.
He bore his sufferings without. murmur.
Perhaps it is all for the best that his
trials are ended.
Government agents have been among
the Chippewa Indians around Mile Laos
during the past month and, we under
stand, their aim is to get the Indians to
peaceably remove to White Earth. Mr.
Chas. Beaulieu, who is engineering the
movement, has succeeded in getting the
chiefs and some braves, numbering about
thirty, to go and look over the White
Earth country, and whittier they depart
to- day.-Ado7u Times.
The fall terms of the village school
commenced, Monday, with Prof. Nc D.
Williams, graduate of Carlton college,
as principal, Miss Esther NJ. Green, a
graduate of the University of Iowa, in
the grammar department, Miss Freer, a
graduate of the School of Instruction OF
Minneapolis, in the intermediate.d depart
ment, and Miss Mary Huse, the loca
favorite, at the head Of the primary de.
partncnt.
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A child Of Mrs. Zettie Knight, now
Mrs. Max. Zimmerman, figures in the
Minneapolis courts. Half dozen diff
fercnt persons claim the child. The
mother gave the child to Kansas City
doctor in the first place. The doctor in.
trusted the little waif to an aunt, Mrs
Green. family by the name of Matt.
son took a fancy to the child and Mrs
Green let them have it. Now she wants
it back. Hence the legal squabble.
"With Brains," by Rev. Henry Faville
of La Crosse, Wis, at the Congrega.
tional church, was we'll received BY &
large and intelligent audience. The
lecture by the Rev. John Faville, of Ap
pleton, Wis, twin brother of the frs,
mentioned gentleman, last evening a
the same place was also entertaining an6
interesting, at least so the reporter ha'
been informed by parties who were pres
ent. The next lecture of the course by
Prof. Holmes, of Minneapolis, Will b.
delivered on the 23rd inst.
The ignorance of some people is sur
! prising We have heard people who
should know better, assert that til,
gauges on the creamery cans marked on.
inch measure an inch and quarter
Did it ever occur to these chronic fault
finders that the can is several lnche
wider at the top than at the bottom, ant
are they so blind as to not perceive tina
the hollow tube that runs through til,
centre of the can to few inches of til,
. top must be allowed for in the measure
ment. Letany doubling Thomas meas
ure gauge in the top Of the can, ane
then measure the nethermost gauge, anC
If the quantity of liquid in both gauge
is not exactly the same call the editor ,
liar.
AUCTION!
Fourteen Head Of Horses on Sat.
urday Afternoon.