The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-11-26
THE NORTH EST.
ASummary Of the Important Events
Of the Week in the Northwest
ern States.
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North
and South Dakota News in a
Nutshell,
MINNESOTA

MINNESOTA
The village hall and jail at Carlton were
totally destroyed by fire.
Burglars secured $4O0 at the store Of d. G.
Young & Co. Mt Aitkin.
Gov. Merriam issues a Thanksgiving
proclamation.
The free delivery system will be put in
effect Jan. LIST at Faribault.
Wood and Redding Of Lake City, who
were indicted for violation Of the Sunday
law, were acquitted.
The drug store of w. e. White in Lake
City has been closed by the sheriff on exc
cutions for debt. r.
The public schools at Pelican Rapids have
been temporarily closed on account of an
pidemic Of maglinant diphtheria.
B. B. Hughes, Of New York city has
leased the Fleck Hotel at Austin, and will
enlarge and refit it. .~n' ..
There are IS cases of scarlet fever in
Moorhead and several of the schools have
been closed. r..
Mrs. Bryan, of Luverne, has come into
possession of real estate III Chicago valued
at $780, 900.
William Bonness, aged g. was instantly
killed on his farm at Ashley, by runaway
team. rs II
Dolly Mason, 4years old, was accident
ally shot by his 6-year-old brother at Min
nesota. "- -
Fred Beer, Jr., of St. Bonifacius, shot
himself accidentally and it is feared fatally
while hunting.
The Schlitz Brewing Company has let
contracts for the erection of buildings at
Winona to cost $35, 900.
The office Of the Park 4 Nelson Lumber
Company at Brasington burned. Valuable
papers were destroyed.
BY the explosion of threshing engine
at st. Hilaire, the owner, Mr.. Ames and
the engineer were fatally injured.
Winona has subscribed SIS, 600 toward a
radiator manufacturing plant proposed to
be erected there by Eastern capitalists.
Frank A. Day vs.. H. NJ. Blaisdell, at Fair
mount. verdict for Day for $500 damages
was rendered.
A car famine in Fairbault is prevailing.
The elevators are all nearly full, and the
grain dealers will have to stop buying if
cars are not soon produced for shipping.
Among the people Of Northfield there is
some opposition to the assessment Of 81, 100
for Rice county made by the Worlds Fair
commissioner, but probably the majority
favor raising that amount.
The auditors report shows that forty
wolf bounties were paid at Red Wing dur
ing the year ended Nov. Is, amounting to
1882. During the previous year $24O was
paid for sixty wolves.
A. P. Swenstrom Of St. Paul, assisted by
Mr.. Baldwin of Redwing, instituted a Royal
chapter. Of the Order OF the Eastern Star at
Chatield with ninety-two charter mem
bers. -.
w. H. Patten & Co. have commenced
putting in the wires for the electric light
plant Tor lie Sueur, and it is expected to
have the city lighted by electricity by the
middle Of December.
A meeting of the board of trade was held
at Winthrop and 20 citizens signed a JOINT
note of $780, Winthrop's share Of Sibley
county's apportionment of 500 for the
Worlds Fair.
A Duluth & Winnipeg engine and ca
boose, while backing up to Carlton from
Cloquet, ran into handcar containing six
persons, one Of whom, Mrs. Christine Le-
beck, was killed.
Mrs. Nellie B. Luce, wife of W. s. Luce,
of Minneapolis, who was taking special in
struction at the school for the blind at Fari-
bault, died from an overdose Of laudanum
taken accidentally.
The jury in the case of Miss Emma Bone
steel against H. A. Pearson, prominent
business man of Duluth, to recover $50, OOO
damages for alleged SANDER, returned YER
dict for the defendant
The case of The Cannon River Manufac-
turers' Association VS.. L. q Rogers, OF
Watervllle, has at last come to an end.
| The amount involved is somewhat over
$4,000. The verdict was for defendant
| Rogers. Ut
The grand jury at Lake City, failed to
find an indictment on charges made by a
committee Of the Lake City alliance against
| II. J. O'Neil and McMichael for an alleged
combination to control the price Of grain in
this market.
A wreck occurred or the Midland rail
| road near Hammond. Eight cars were
ditched and twenty hogs and several cattle
| killed. All the train hands escaped un-
injured. The accident was caused by a
broken axle
Analyses of sugar beets raised at Red
| Wing which were made at the state expert
| mental farm show them to contain about
324 pounds ofsugar to the ton Of beets, and
the sugar shows purity Of over IS per
| cent on the scale Of 100
Alfred Davy, who was indicted by the
grand jury at Wabasha, pleaded guilty be-
| fore Judge Start to selling liquor without a
license at Plainview He was sentenced to
pay fine of $50 and costsand to imprison-
ment for thirty days in Jail
| The Sank Center Brewing company's
plant burned. Loss, $751; A large
quantity of malt and many barrels of beer
were destroyed. The building was owned
by the BONNER estate of Melrose, and man.
aged by T. e. Minnette. There was no in
uran ce.
The board Of education, Of Moorhead, on
the suggestion of DR. Kuertz, of the board
of health, closed the city schools on ac-
count of scarlet fever. There are thirty.
five families in the city afflicted with the
disease. The high and grammar schools
will not be closed.
A peculiar and fatal accident occurred
near Pine City. An Indian shot and
wounded buck deer and was about to