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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-10-24

stood that they were let out for fail
ing to comply with the rules relative
to the carrying Of "hoboes."
Twenty thousand dollars worth Of
Sleepy Eye school bonds were sold to
G. T.. Warren, Of Massachusetts, at
par, the bonds to bear 5 per cent and
to run for 20 years. The funds were
raised to complete the school house
now in course Of construction. The
building will lbe completed Jan. 1.
The sequel Of a tragic romance Of
ten years ago occurred three and q
half miles from Ortonyille when
Frank Kaatwitz, a German farmer,
brutally kicked and pounded his wife
to death. He had been drinking, and,
going home, quarreled with his wife.
Ten years ago Kaatwitz was a guest
ut the wedding Of the woman to q
young neighbor. The bride left the
side of her husband for Kaatwitz's
company, whereat the groom went out
and shot himself. The young widow
soon after married the man who so
cruelty murdered her this evening. A
family of several children are left
motherless. The sheriff of Grant coun.
ty has the murderer in custody.
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Washington.

The governments suit against the
Stanford estate is to be appealed I'M
mediately to the United States SUI
preme court.
AS Il result of tho repeal Of the wool
duties the exports from Uruguay to
the United States have nearly trebled.
The United States has been involved
in another diplomatic tangle with
Spain.
Second Assistant Postmaster Gener-
al Nelson, who has charge Of the rail
way mail, the street car mail and the
wagon mails, will recommend in his
annual report, an extension Of the SER
vice upon street railways.
Secretary Smith has directed the
force in the law division of the interi-
or department to work one hour extra
each day in order that the work Of
that division may be brought up to
date. 1t is now about ten months In
arrears.
The fall work of the national fish
commission will soon begin. The conf
missison has been unusually successful
with it's salmon catch on the Pacific
coast this year. In the early run over
100000 eggs We're collected at
Beard Station Cal.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-10-24
Tuesday. Oct %

Pine cOunty'S mysterious we'll, which
sends forth noXious gas in great guam
titles, constantly becomes more active,
and may prove to be the crater of a
volcano.
Sheriff Furhman of Winona passed
through Hastings with a prisoner
named Peter Chepiski, sentenced to
the state prison for one year for burg
larry.
Rev. H. J. Harrington, the new pas
tor of the Methodist church at Hast
ings, was given a pleasant reception
at the residence of Nj. F. Boice, corner
Of Seventh and Sibley streets. About
$50 guests were present.
Chief Of Police Vanransler Shepherd
and wife of Hastings were given a de-
lightful surprise at their residence on
West Fourth street in honor of the
twenty-ffth anniversary Of their we'd
ding. A large number of guests were
present.
New Paynesville has several spright-
~ old men, among whom Firman Boy
Ian, father Of our banker, is senior. He
celebrated his ntnetyfourth birthday,
and walked from the house of sons
to a daughters after partaking of a
hearty meal. He delights in the chores
breaks he took prominent part and
is mine for information of the pio-
neerS' days of Stearns county. He
says he is going to live to see his 1OOtb
birthday.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-10-24
MINNESOTA IN BRIEF
INTERESTING EVENTS OF THE
WEEIk IN MINNESOTA.
Important Occurrences In the North
star state Day by Day--A General
Ncsume Of the Weeks DOinEx Ar.
ranged for Rapid Reading.
Thursday, Oct. II.

James Crosby was arrested at Fer
gus Falls charged with setting a
prairie fire last week which did con-
siderable damage west Of the city.
Mrs Christian Deike, wife of Hon.
Christian Deike, died at their home In
the township Of Wheeling, Rice coun-
ty. MI. and Mrs. Deike were early
settlers In Rice county.
District court convened at Carleton
with large civil calendar, Judge Nor
ris presiding. No grand jury was
drawn, as there was no criminal bust
ness.
District, court is in session at Gale
donia, Judge Whitock presiding. There
are twenty-five civil cases on the dock
ct and two criminal cases. The session
is expected to last about two weeks.
While men were threshing on the
farm Of John Mealey, near Anoka,
sparks from the engine fired the straw
and the barn, grain and separator
wer4 burned. Loss heavy
An order was made to-day to the
probate court at Hastings removing
William Thompson Of West st. Paul
as guardian of Abbic Thompson, q
minor. J. NJ. Hawthorne for petition
or and A. r. Capehart for defense.
A Mora special says: A reward Of
$500 is offered for the arrest and con-
viction of the murderers CT Albert Pc
terson, Sozer, Mcclure & Co.'s logging
company offering $3.50 and I1anaDec
county $3.50.
The village Of Brandon was threat
ened with destruction bV fire TODAY.
The dwellings Of j. O. Schjaastad and
Mrs. Myron, along with a barn and
some lumber, were burned before the
fire was subdued. A spark from a
passing locomotive started the fire.
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hardware merchant, committed sui
eide hy shooting at New York. The
cause is unknown.
At Jeffersonyille, Ind, Magistrate
Eply Keigwen was buncoed out Of
$75 by woman calling herself Mrs.
Joseph Bulah.
At Washington, D. c., it was ru-
mored that Mrs. Elizabeth Flagler,
the society girl who shot G fruit-steal-
ing negro lad last summer, had been
indicted by the grand jury. I'D
David Hannigan, the slayer Of Solo
mon H. Mann, in New York city, was
declared sane by the commission to
determine this fact. His trial will be-
gin October "a.
John Miller Snyder Of Kingfisher,
O. r., has been found murdered In q
corntield two miles from Sedalia, Mo.
He WAS travelling overland to Adrian,
Ill.
In revenge for the killing Of their
father few years ago, Sheriff
Sylvania, Ga, at Baptist church
Zeigler.
Near Manchester, Tenn, Eugene Va
noy, a negro, was called out Of his
house by a crowd Of white men and
shot to death. He, was charged with
mistreating a, young white girl of
weak intellect.
Straight Head, the Indian police
man, who was recently acquitted for
killing Bill Fielder, has killed an
other man. He became engaged in a
general quarrel with a farmer at the
Forest City Indian agency in South
Dakota and shot him, death resulting
instantaneously. The farmers name
was st. Clair.
The talk Of Earlville, ILL.,, is the
elopement of Miss Ruth Wiley of that
city and a son Of eX-Sheriff Mcintyre
of Mendoza. They were married in
Princeton and left Immediately for
Texas. The young woman is the
daughter Of Samuel Wiley, ex-member
of the Illinois Legislature. The par
ents Of both are wealthy and all are
highly respected.
The defense in the Hinshaw murder
case have filed a motion for a new
trial at Danville, Ind, alleging errors
in the judges rulings and have filed
a great many affidavits against jurors
One jurors son made affidavit that he
knew before the trial what his faith
er's verdict would be. Hinshaw's
hopes are reviviug and he looks better
than at any time since the conviction.
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miscellaneous Itema.


At Atlanta. Ga, the Farmers Ma
tional congress passed resolutions IA
voring reciprocity with the South and
Central American countries.
A small but perfect pink pearl was
taken from the tooth of Mrs. D. NJ.
Bedell, New York. Its removal stop
ped a toothache.
At Rock Rift, n. Y, the pastor of
the Presbyterian church refused to Of
ficiate at a wedding on the ground
that it would not be valid If solemn
lied on Sunday.
At Peoria, ILL.,, the resumption Of
been followed by a 10 per cent. ad-
vance in wages back to the standard
of two years ago.
Mrs. John Langdon, the wife of a
farmer living near Toledo, and Delta
Ohio, has presented her husband with
five tokens Of her affections. The
little ones are all boys and are re-
ported to be thriving finely.
At Cleveland, Ohio, the maritime
board of the chamber of commerce de-
cided to start movement to obtain
an appropriation of $1,OOO,OOO from
congress for the improvement Of Cleve-
land harbor. ".. FL
1t seems likely that for the first time
in the history of st. Louis a negro will
have seat in the municipal assembly.
An intelligent colored man, Munroe
Cravens, was one Of the five Republi-
cans defeated on the face of his re-
turns at the last city election, but Il
recount, which revealed gross fr,,,d
| gives him more than 100 majority.
United States Senator Gray and II.
II. Ward. the counsel for the Cuban
patriots recently tried and acquitted
Of charge of setting on foot a mill
tary expedition against Spain, have
made formal demand upon Collector
of Customs, George l.. Townsend of
Wilmington. Del, for the twenty-seven
boxes of arms, ammunition and per-
sonal effects seized by United States
Marshal Lamar 1T PENIS Grove. n.
T., at the time tho Cubans were ar
| rested.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-10-24
Wednesday,. Oct. %.

A man named Rogers from East
Saginaw lay down on the track at
Sandstone and fell asleep. He was
run over by a train and cut 70 pieces.
The residence Of r. A. Van Nest,
proprietor of the large Bar1en fam
near Window, was burned, together
with the contents.
Mrs. Susan Lankard, aged thirty-six,
wife of County Treasurer j. Il. Lark
ard Of Redwood Falls, died Of con-
children.
Irving Todd, editor of the Hastings
Weekly and Daily Gazette, left for
Atlanta, Ca, to attend committee
meeting Of the National Editorial as
ISOLATION.
A series of union revival meetings
of the Baptist, Methodist and Presby-
tcrian churches will be held at Hast
ings next month, opening at the Bap-
fist church on the 18th, conducted by
Rev. e. e. Davidson of New York.
Hon. Frank M. Eddy, congressman
from the Seventh district, will deliver
an address in Fergus Falls, Nov. Z. on
''The Money question" in response to
an invita- ton from the Republicans of
Fergus Falls.
The postof1ice at Hills was robbed
last night, the safe blown open and
about 5000 in cash, q lot of stamps
and notes and three deeds secured.
Three suspicious persons We're arrest
ed, but were later released. as the
! plumber had been previously planted.
The Edward Livingston arrested ut
Ionia, Mich, is Edward McDonal
who escaped from the st. Cloud re-
formatory by removing plank il, the
| stockade. Warden Wolfer learned of
! his whereabouts, and reported to Supt.
Lee of the refcrmatory, who Sent
| deputy after him.
John Rooney, Il brakeman for the
Winona & Western railway met death
Sunday. He was bralzing on Il special
west-bound freight at Altura and went
| between two cars in motion to remove
a coupling pin. In some manner he
fell and the wheels passed over both
legs, taking off one below the knee
and the other near the ankle. He was
hastily brought on to Winona on a
special, and after being taken to the
hospital amputation was performed.
The shock was too great, and he died
at 8 p. M. He was single. thirty-tive
years old and had been railroading for
| fifteen years.
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Friday, Oct, IS.

Three prairie fires destroyed $4,000
worth of property in Otter Tail county.
While blasting rock at Window Ru-
dolph Wolf had his left hand blown
entirely off.
Walkers hotel at Kasson was burn
ed to the ground in thirty minutes.
Very little Of the contents was saved.
The Republican council of Winona,
after taking twenty ballots for city
weighmaster, elected John Breslauer
to the office.
The annual meeting Of the Southern
Minnesota Bee Keepers association
opened in Winona. The old officers
were all reelected.
Sparks from a locomotive set fire to
about 800 tons of hay at st. Cloud be-
longing to the reformatory, J. P. Will
son and others. The fire was just
back of the reformatory, and is still
burning.
The threshers at New Paynesville
have cut to the following very low
rates: Oats, 1 cent per bushel; wheat.
2 cents; rye, III cents; flax, 2 cents;
barley, 2 cents. The farmers are rush
ing things this fine weather, yet not
A<l1I luC SIuAA WALL NJ IulC SISu NY otlL-
urday night. The yield is very fair.
G. F.. LoWeth of st. Paul has been
engaged by the city of LIE Sueur to
make plans and superintend the con-
struction Of the electric light plant
and water works. Work on the arte-
sian we'll will be commenced at once
by J. F. Mccarthy of st. Paul, who
has the contract for putting down the
same.
The following officers were elected
at the annual election of Moorhead
fire department: Chief, Charles B.
Hill; assistant chief, Charles r. Wat
con; secretary, John j. Preston; treas
urer, G. e. Flaten. A. j. Wright, the
retiring chief, has served the Moor
head department in that capacity for
the past six years and last year was
president Of the State Fire associa-
ton.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-10-24

Last September was the hottest in
$50 years in Paris.
Hubay's opera, "Le Luther de Gre
mone,' has been performed with great
success at Leipzig.
France is about to establish evening
manual training in all schools for pri-
mary education.
A crop Of strawberries in September
is one result of the hot weather in
some parts of England.
The Due d'Aumale has just been
elected director of the French academy
for the next three months, and Paul
Bourget chancellor.
The Pectan, the largest tank oil
steamer ever built, has just been COM
pleted at West Hartlepool. She is 3SS
feet long by As broad and 31h deep. ~
Mrs. Kelley, the English actress who
will be 80 next month, is to have, a
benefit Oh her birthday, when she will
appear in BETSY Baker" at the Ly-
ceum.
Ten steamers for the China trade,
aggregating 10000 tons, were turned
out by one Greenock firm in pine
months recently. This is record for
quick work.
Africa is to be triangulated from the
Cape Of Good Hope to Cairo. DR.. Gill,
astronomer royal at Cape Town, has
prepared the plans and Cecil Rhodes
is backing him up.
Large coal deposits have been found
in Sunderoe, one of the Farce islands.
A French company is going to work
them, having obtained a concession
from the Danish government.
Russia is going to send astronomical
expeditions to the mouth Of the Amoor
river and to Nova Zembla to observe
the total eclipse Of the sun that will
take place on July q Of next year.
Frescoes representing the Salutation
of the Virgin and the Nativity, earlier
than the reformation, have been found
under the plaster of the parish church
at Ashampstead, near Reading, Eng.
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Monday Oct. Fl.

Mrs Evans, who was shot by her di-
vorced husband some time ago, at AL
exandria, died from the wound.
Elisha B. Owen, father of Apollos e.
Owen, died at Hastings, aged 81 years.
He was q pioneer resident OF North
field.
Gov. Clough has appointed Hon. w.
b. Dean Of st. Paul and J. e. e. John
son Of Minneapolis members Of the
state board Of arbitration.
Burglars entered the Norton Milling
company's office at Fairfax and blew
the safe open but it contained no
money. They also opened Bregal Il
Franks safe and secured SOB and
John Palmer'S safe, securing SIT.
There is no clue to the robbers.
Hastings received a visit from the
commissioners to locate the fourth in
sane asylum. They were handsomely
entertained by Mayor George Parker
and our citizens and seemed favorably
impressed with the appearance of the
proposed site and the beautiful sur
roundings.
A. G. Roberts, manager Of the Acme
Novelty company of Jackson, was
lodged I'm Jail at Mankato on the
charge Of fraudulent use Of the mails
at Jackson. Roberts had hearing be-
fore the United States commissioner
at Worthington, and was placed under
$4,000 bonds. His advertisement was
a circular sent out offering tracy" and
"spicy" pictures. His receipts were so
large that an investigation was made
with the above result. The pictures
sent are said to be of a harmless M
ture.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-10-24

1t is said that the duke of MARI
borough doesn't indulge in the habit
OF tipping servants and hackmen,
which has always been regarded as a
particularly aristocratic habit, and in
consequence the income of the fun,
kies has taken decided drop, as the
New York Anglomaniacs among the
New York swells consider it neces
sary to initiate the duke.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-10-24

The first days registration in Ne '
York and Brooklyn was much small .r
that usual, and the probable reas on
is that the Registration fists are to be
carefully examined. Under a new
law proprietors Of lodging houses are
called ON for descriptions Of their
dodgers, and every person is registered
will be looked up by the police t,e-
patment. There is a chance at last
for New York city to make the ac-
Auaintance of q fair election.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-10-24

The street railway systems in Phil'L
delphia, embracing 425 miles of tracks,
have been consolida ted, with capital
izaton of $1OS,OOO,OOO, or over $4,000
than the roads ever cost.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-10-24

1t is announced that Willie Wander.
bilt and Mrs. Vanderbilt will remarry
after their daughter Consuelo has
welded the duke of Marlborough.
Wouldn't it look more respectable for
the Old folks to get married first?
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Personal Mentor.

Mrs. Alexander, the poetess, died at
London.
Ex-Gov Elisha P. Ferry, of Wash
ington died at Seattle.
Rev. Richard Dunford, bishop of
Chichester, died suddenly at Basic,
Switz., aged ninety-three years.
Ex-Leut. Gov. Horatio G. Knight
died ut East Hampton, Mass. He has
been confined to his home since June.
caster, Ky, veteran Of the Mexican
and civil wars, is dead.
Samuel P. Hawkins, prominent
farmer of Newton, ILL.,, was found dead
in ravine near his home.
William Hastings, Brooklyn furni-
ture dealer claims to be the rightful
Earl of Huntington in the English
peerage, the title said to have been
held by Robin Hood.
Col. II. L. Wilson, who conceived the
idea of building railroad from st.
Louis to Dennison, Tex, in 1866,
which resulted in the construction of
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas rail-
road, died in Fort Scott, Kan.
George Davis, aged ST, a well-known
financier and formerly president of
the Louisville Q<y) Fourth National
bank, which were merged with several
others into the American National is
dead.
Mrs. Carlisle, wife Of the secretary
of the treasury, is the first one of the
cabinet women to adopt the bicycle.
She is taking lessons in riding nearly
every afternoon in Columbia field, the
training ground Of the Washington
cyclists. She is generally accompan-
led by two of her children, who are
good riders.
Rudyard Kipling lives in a quaint
old house in Vermont, which is nine
ty feet long by twenty-six wide. 1t is
built on a foundation Of rough unfin-
ished stone. The entrance is on tile
rear and in front Of the house con-
splcious sign on the fence post for
bids trespasing. In the winter the
writer is said to enjoy nothing so
much as shoveling snow.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-10-24
The Casualty Rec,r1

Three Mexican steamers are reported
lost with perhaps hundred people.
In q political riot in Knott county,
Ky. Josiah Combs. Thomas Howard
and Henry Patton were killed and
many persons were wounded.
James Hunter, William Reynolds.
Harry Steiner and Charles T. Walk
man were drowned at Ferry Bar, Md,
by the capsizing Of a boat.
At st. Joseph, Mo-, a little daughter
of Mrs. Carrie Mann was killed and a
son had both legs broken by being
thrown from buggy.
While eating supper in a shanty at
Jerome Park, New York, Robert Scott,
colored laborer, was probably fatally
mangled by a dog supposed to be mad.
Facts which have just some to light
raise the presumption that Alex Gray
ton, wife and child of INDIANAPOLIS
persisted at the Hotel Gumry fire at
Denver.
The 12-year-old daughter of School
Principal Lightcap of Dubuque, Iowa,
was found drowned in a bath tub. It
is supposed she tainted and fell into
the tub.
At Elyria, Ohio, Mrs. Celeste Bruce
has sued st. Mary's Catholic church
for $4,000 for damages sustained by
the falling Of the platform during the
dedication of the church two weeks
ago.
a horse named the Nipper, formerly
a jumper at races, could not stand har.
messed and plunged down a steep bank
outside Of San Francisco. A. Page
Brown, leading merchant, was
thrown out of the carriage and prob,
ably fatally injured.
The German steamer Emma col!ided
with the French bark Pacifique of
Spurnhead, and the Pacifique sank in
fifteen minutes. Twelve persons were
drowned, including Capt. Cigarro OF
the Pacifique and the pilot. The En-
MT was badly damaged.
panic was created on Midway
Heights, the pleasure resort of the eX
position, this afternoon by a fire whicl
originate in the Old Plantation kitch
ell, an exploding gasoline stove, beine
responsible. Eagenbeck's wild beas1
arena was damaged before the flames
were controlled.
The explosion of q gasoline genera
| tor on the first floor set fire to tho
| Southern laundry works at Birminc
ham, Ala. The building was in flames
| before a dozen girls working on the
second floor could escape by the stair
way and all jumped from the win
| dows, several being seriously injured
Criminal DoinHs.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-10-24

1t is estimated that the use Of the
fashionable big sleeves, in Chicago
alone have added $1.OOO,O0O year
to the cost Of women's dress. If this
cost for the world at large?
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-10-24

The little town Of Neilhart, Montant.
seems to be right in on the current
rage for gold discovery. 1t is reported
that gold vein has been struck three
miles north of town which runs on as
say from 500 to $4,000 a ton. If
there is much of this sort of rock, Nei-
hart can look with contempt Oh South
Africa.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-10-24

The spectacle of new corps Of
women missionaries starting for China
arouses neither admira ton nor SYM
pathy. Pity and wonder are the senti-
ments which naturally arise on the
contemplation of such deliberate
tempting Of fate.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-10-24

Ninety-nine out of every hundred
school boys Of this country would give
their cars, or think they would, for
the privilege of going to Cuba to in
struct the revolutionists in the use Of
firearms, as Sylvester Scovet, of
Cleveland, is about to do. 1t is long
since. anything has happened on this
side Of the Atlantic which has afford.
cd such an opportunity for romance as
the Cuban instruction does.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-10-24

Uncle Sam hasn't very large stand
ang army, but he has S,5OO,OOO citizens
capable Of bearing arms, and our civil
war shows that Americans can fight
when they have to.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-10-24

A farmer in Eastern Pennsylvania
has harvested 5000 bushels of pota-
toes on thirty-two acres Of land, and
his brothers crop on twenty acres Is
$500 bushels. The United States this
year will omit it's usual large impor-
tation Of potatoes, as the crop through.
out the country is enormous.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-10-24

1t is reported that Emperor William
finds that he has half an hour a day
to spare, and that he will edit a daily
paper of his own to occupy the time.
The solemnities of the comic press in
Europe are apparently about to be re.
lieyed.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-10-24

Scotland was named from the Scott,
4 tribe which had it's birth in North
ireland. 1t was called by the natives
Caledonia, "the little country Of the
Eaels." Gael proper signifying "a hid
den rover" The Picts, who inhabited
the lowlands of Scotland, were paint.
ed men"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-10-24

Mrs. Gait, the reformer. estimates
the number Of bad women in the
country at 100000, and the number
of bad men at 100000. No wonder
the women die young.