The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-04-23
THE NORTH EST.
Y Summary Of the Important Events
Of the Week in the Northwestern
States.
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North
and South Dakota News in a
Nutshell.
MINNESOTA.

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Jos. A. Eckstein was reelected city at
torney Of New Ulm by the council.
The wire and Picket Fence manufactory
OF Mortified has begun work.
The Eagle mill of N ew Ulm will increase
its capacity from 500 to 1000 barrels day
The contract was let for about $4,000.
J: .. Blake died at Winona after a lin
gerlng illness, Of consumption. He has
been resident of Winona since 1871.
The Mankato council elected R. D. Hub
bard vice president of the council and W.
y. Young city attorney for the coming two
years.
Mrs, Sarah b. White. who sued Michael
Pastoret at Duluth for trespass and tor
damages to her reputation, was given a
verdict of $1,000. ..l
Mrs. Laura Aldrich, wife of ]. G. Aldrich,
prominent business man and treasurer
OF Falrbault, died. Her age was fifty -one
years.
Owing to the high water the dam at For
est mills, Zumbrota, has been washed out.
The damage to the proprietors, Rust & Ma
soD,'ls estimated at 81 200.
A mutual accident insuran ce company
has been formed at Winona to be known
as the North Star Mutual Accident In
surance company
Hon. Timothy Doyledied at Montgomery
at the advanced age Of eighty-three years.
He was borne in Kilkenny, Ireland, and he
has been resident in this state since
1856. 49,. ". @:s
About 10000 bushels of potatoes have
been shipped from the Caledonia station
east and south, and last fall 5000 bushels
were shipped from here. They were nearly
all raised in Caledonia township.
A sneak thief at St. Cloud stole certified
check tor 500 and, $50 in cash from the
safe, which had been left open, in J. B.
Hardebech's saloon in the Grand Central
hotel. No clue.
A special agent of the treasury has been
sent to Mankato to examine the sites offered
for the new public building The agent
will not be confined to the sites offered in
the bids but may purchase any other site
subsequently offered. .."-..
A special on the Great Northern road,
having on board general Manager Mohler
and other officials, ran into freight train
near New London. The locomotive on the
special was badly damaged and three men
injured. go. -s 49, III - ..
Gov. Merriam has appointed as commits
sioners to select the Minnesota monument
for the battle field of Gettysburg Judge
William Lochren. and G. B. Heffelfnger of
Minneapolis and Matthew Marvin at Wi
mona. .- '..s .-.fa .-
The Duluth, Red Wing & Southern rail-
road has decided to build this summer
twenty-five miles of track in asouthwester-
w s1iroofior n,,1,,@ i,,4o 4lo rio
lumber districts owned by the Mcclure
Lumber company, of saginaw, Mich.
The house of Samuel Gowell Of Hassan
took fire and burned with almost all its
contents, including furniture. provisions,
ETC., and 5000 in money. The whole loss
is about 81 800, and ther is no insurance.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gowell are old people, and
the loss is heavy one to them.
Mrs. Kate Marsden of Chatfield ate some
wild parsnips, which she mistook for arti-
chokes, dying within three hours She
was ffty-seven years old and very estima-
BILE lady. Miss Zoe Johnson ate some of
the same. She was quite sick, but is now
out of danger.
Religion has driven s. Merrill, ofWaseca,
insane. Recently he has had habit of
drawing pistol and asking his wife if she
believed in God. He would then hold the
cold barrel of the weapon against her head
and tell her to kneel and pray He is now
in Jail yelling like Commanche for liber-
ty.
The shortage of the Milwaukee depot
agent of Mankato has been found to be
about So, 700, a greater amount than was
hitherto supposed. Samuel G. Pond and
J.W. Fowler became Workers. sureties to
secure his bad bond. He has gone to Iowa,
where his wife will stay with relatives un-
til the matter is cleared up.
Quite sensation was caused at St. Cloud
the other day when it became known that
Henry Branch, proprietor of the Grand
Union hotel andSa man of considerable
wealth, had eloped with Mrs. Hart, a
widow Branch took with him about
$4,000 in cash, and before he left made
numerous debts with clothing merchants.
He leaves wife and family of grown-up
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