The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-09-03
THE NORTHWEST.
ASllmmary Of the Important Events
Of the Week in the Northwest
ern States.
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North
and South Dakota News ina
Nutshell,
MINNESOTA

JACOB Mehl, Forest farmer, was killed
by bull. .a
Geo. 9. Stocking a Hutchinson pioneer,
suicided with gun.
Lightning destroyed barn and contents
at Argyle, owned by N. Swift.
John Miller was shot and killed by his
divorced wife at Nicollet .E
William Boyd, a farmer near Arlington,
was struck by an engine and killed. s.s..
Mrs. Kate Cove, who went to Mime
sofa in 1884, died at Minneapolis, aged
g.. -.
New Ulm has erected monument to
the men who lost their lives in the Indian
war of 1862. sa.. ami ,.ta,.t.... E.--. ....
VIM. Urquhart was caught in the leg by
a canthook at Towards Mill, Duluth, and
bled to death.
Elmer Bennett, of Kenneyville, was
killed while oiling harvester. A lever
fell on his neck, breaking it.
Willie Young IL years old, was drowned
at Minneapolis. He was walking on a
bridge and lost his balance.
United States Marshal Bracket arrested
two letter carriers at Duluth, Albert Wiley
and Thomas Nolan, for robbing the mails
Maria Wellner, who has been in the en-
ploy of Andrew J. Eckstein and wife at
New Ulm is under arrest, charged with
stealing $780, The young woman recently
arrived from Germany
Grace, daughter Of John Triton of Roch-
ester, was thrown from horse attached to
a reaper and instantly killed. She was
thrown in front of the machine, the bull
wheel passing over her head, crushing it.
A threshing machine belonging to Charlie
Rasch and four stacks of wheat were burned
near Zumbrota The loss is S $50; no insur-
ance. The fire was caused by sparks from
the smoke stack of the engine.
F. Mitchell, of St. Paul who has been
stopping in Mortified for some weeks, was
run over by train while drunk. One foot
was smashed and his head badly cut. His
foot was amputated, but recovery is doubt
full .... -~..a- .
Arrangements have been made for the
conducting at the Trout Brook Sorghum
works at Red Wing of series of expert
ments with Sorghum canes and sugar beets
to determine their adaptability to success
full cultivation here under conditions such
as we have had this year.
Nine years ago Sonney Searles was
knocked down and robbed by two men at
Mortified. One Of his assailants was
caught and sent to the penitentiary for
seven years. The other escaped and was
arrested recently at Red Wing.
Warrants have been sworn out at Vino
ma for the arrest of George Fockens and
Martin McGraw, who are supposed to be
the men who criminally assaulted Sophia
Helmer, a respectable working girl. Both
men have fled, and the police are at a loss
as to their whereabouts. rt1 .. IL. =.
"A tine silver cup nineteen inches in
height, beautifully embellished, has been
subscribed for by the citizens of Red Wing
as trophy in the company team match at
the Lakeview encampment. The cup is to
become the property of the company team
winning it twice in succession.
The corner stone of the Franciscan Sis
ters' new convent and hospital at Little
Falls was laid recently with imposing cere-
monies. The building will cost $75 600, and
the design is elegant. The spectators do
mated $3.50 on the spot 1t will be an orna-
ment TO our thriving city.
Lars Erickson threw himself under the
engine of the west-bound passenger train
on the Northern Pacific and was mangled
beyond recognition. The train was run
ming twenty-five miles an hour, and was
within four miles of Carleton. Erickson is
single, and has no known relatives in this
country.
The St. Louis hotel Duluth, which was
recently partially destroyed by fire, is
rapidly being rebuilt, The brick walls
between the old and the new parts will be
closed and two hotels will be made out O
one, and each will be run under different
management. The new portion will be en-
larged and magnificently fitted up,
S. D. Moles a dry goods merchant of AL
exandria went to Chicago where he is to be
married to Miss Belle, Ward sister of
Messrs. Ward of this place, on Sept. 8.
Col. Meadey, of Mankato, instituted
lodge of the uniformed rank knights of
Pythias at Albert Lea with q members.
There was large attendance and All Ella
borate banquet at the Gilbert house in the
evening. I'll" .- ..
William Ebel, of Mortified, is just now
wondering if the claim ofhimselfa and broth
ers to valuable land in Chicago can be es-
tablished. The land was owned by Charles
Ebel, who lived in Chicago frem 1916 to
1850. The other heirs are: John Adolph
Ebel and Albert Ebel, St. Paul; Henry
Ebel, Minneapolis, and August Ebel, West
Superior. *..
Cd Luverne attorneys claim to hold the
opinion that the chicken law is imperative
this season. 1t prescribes a close season
from Nov. 1 to Sept. l, but having been
passed in April it is claimed that it does
not and cannot take effect, so far as
chickens are concerned, until November.
The county attorney is said to hold this
opinion, and no attempt is being made to
prevent the shooting of chickens, which is
going on every day. If there is game
warden for this section he has no: an
nounced himself.
NORTH OAK OTA,
Wahpeton is to have flax mill.