The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-05-11
NORTH WEST NEWS BUDGT j
THE WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF
IMPORTANT NEWS.
AConctse Account OF the Happen
Ings Of the Past Week in Min
'nesota, North Dakota, ~
Iowa and Wiscon- @......5
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Minnesota.

| Hal ID. Graham was given a verdict of
$5,OOO against the Omaha Railway com
pany at Mankato. -. II
John J. Murnick & Co.,, Tower mcr-
chants, have assigned Liabilities. S24,-
600; assets, $4,000 - F.
Fred Plaf's dwelling, in the southern
part Of St. Cloud burned. Loss, $1,000.
The tenant lost 500.
bralner' has let a contract for the
erection of four new school houses at a
| total cost of $39,672
j.. Geresky, brakeman in the Great
Northern yards at Breckenridge, was in
stantly killed by the cars.
I .Crookston fishermen are catching sixty
| pound sturgeon and other fish in the Red
! Lake river
John Ottman of Mankate has been ar
rested on charge Of taking improper
| liberties with his ten-year-old daughter.
The Hendricks school at St. Paul is
closed owing to an outbreak of scarlet
| fever
Swan Nelson, residing near Newpcrt.
while repairing the roof of his dwelling.
Tell to the ground and received fatal in
| juries.
Joseph Cappo, booklkeeper for the Iron
at rover on a charge of embezzling
$734.5O
William Horn, while blasting boulders
at Renvllle, was seriously injured by a
premature explosion. He is thought to
have lost his eyes. One finger was blown
off. '0 W Il
Farmers in Otter Tail county are in q
Quandary as to when they NAV begin
seeding. The fields are still covered
with snow, and it may be weeks before
they will be sufficiently dry to drag.
Mrs. J. c. Curry of St. C1oud has re-
ce'ea $9.OOO from her mother. Mrs.
donald McIvic of Ontario, who inherited
$9S,OOO from a Scotch relative. Lord
Brandelbane Of Edinburgh.
A six-year-old daughter of l.. +. Rice.
dalryman at Lakeside, near Duluth,
was assaulted by an unknown boy about
fourteen years of age. He succeeded in
overpowerins the child and accomplished
his purpose.
The Minneapolis firm of Croker &
Co., which failed some time ago, is about
to make Il settlement with it's creditors
on basis satisfactory to all, and in con-
sequence a receiver will not be ap-
pointed
The assets of Simon Clark & Co.. the
Duluth merchants, amount to $SO,5OS;
liabilities about 100000. The liabilities
Of the individual members of the firm
bring the total Indebtedness of the con-
Germ up to $147.7OO.
Ihe appearance Of a fine buck deer on
an ice foe in the Duluth harbor put tug
men on the qui vive for capture. After
it had apparently satisfied it's curiosity it
bounded off and swan directly up the
lake, despite numerous efforts to inter-
cept it.
Suttlele Blerangee. an old and we'll
TODD farmer of Lafayette, mysteriously
disappeared from home on April Is and
has not been heard Of since His family
and neighbors are wholly at a loss to
account for his sudden and strange de-
parture.
Wood Lake is to have a $4,000 cream
cry. The lumber has arrived and ground
is being broken for the foundation and
a well is being bored. Farmers are re-
Stunning work after a two weeks recess,
occasioned by bad weather.
The remains of three human beings,
presumably Indians, were ,unearthed at
the point Of the bluff on the lots of J.
l.. kithel, near Montevideo No white
man has any knowledge of any burying
ground in that locality.
Roy Burger, the fourteen-year-old son
OF Teller Burger, of the First National
Bank of Duluth, was arrested. charged
with criminal assault upon the six-year-
old daughter of Louis f. Rice, the Lake
side dairyman. Burger waived examina-
ton and was held to the grand jury. He
gave bail
The family of Thomas Greer, a prom
inent business man of Fairfax, suffered
great agony by being poisoned, caused by
using sour milk in new tinware. DR. II.
+. Lucas was summoned, and after ap-
plying antidotes, succeeded in relieving
them. At this writing they are rapidly
recovering. ="
Another misfortune has befallen Mrs.
Schwartz of St. Paul, the mother of
Mabel Schwartz, who was abducted from
her home about year ago. She has suf-
fered stroke of paralysis, which de-
prives her of Aer power of speech. No
trace of her little daughter has vet been
found, despite the fact that Gov. Mel
son has offered $500 reward for any in
formation concerning the missing child.
At the recent meeting of the Grand
Lodge, A. o. U. W., held at Duluth.
the following officers We're elected: Judge
J. e. Porter, Mankato, grand master;
w. B. Mccormack, Minneapolis, grand
foreman; F. NJ. Lloyd, St. Paul, grand
overseer; Olaf Olson, Willmar. grand re-
corder; J. 7. McCardy. st. Paul, grand
receiver; Alfred Anderson, Red Wing,
grand guide; George Fisher, Winona. h-
side watch. Several important changes
were made in the constitution.
An old man known as Nels sweeney
has lived alone in a shanty on the island
across the river from Red Wing. He had
not been seen by his neighbors for several
days, and when they broke into the house
they found him dead. Nels was Il famil-
lar figure on the streets of Red Wing.
He had lived in the city over forty
years. He served four years in the war
with Company D, Third Minnesota regi-
ment- + d
Wisconsin - l..a
The four Cinnamon at Marinctte have
complied with the new registration law.
The death is announced Of Mrs. George
w. Smith, an early settler of Sun Prairie.