The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-07-30
MINI ESOTA NEWS.
JnterestinE Happenings in the North
Star State. @a

Charles Gustafson attempted to COM
NIT suicide at st. Paul by hanging.
Mrs. "a. r. Dalrymple and Mrs
Blanche Dalrymple were injured IN a
runaway accident at st. Paul.
Fast horses and an Indian village
will be attractions at the Minnesota
state fair.
The socialist sections Of Minnesota
have completed their solidation and
made plans for the state campaign.
The convention Of the National Real
Estate association may be held in st.
Paul during encampment week.
a son Of August Strait, q Nicollet
county farmer, was drowned in. the
Minnesota river at Mankato, while
bathing. s
/ Mrs. AE-aha Shingeldecker Of Dem
mark, Washington county, died from
tumor, aged foct3-three years. She
leaves a husband.
Lumber has been ordered for a new
independent 10,O00-bushel elevator to
be built at Glenwood by J. F. Dough-
erty and w. ]. Wilson.
/ G. T. Booths wooden mills at Chat
field were burned Loss, $4,000; insur-
ance, $4,000. The fire started from
/ the picker. Nothing except the goods
was saved.
] Ami Cutter, one Of Anoka's oldest
settlers, has been committed to the in
sane asylum at Fergus Falls. In pi-
oneer days he was active in business
and politics. He was remarkable
During recent storm lightning
struck farm barn about two miles
from Henning, belonging to John Hal
vorson, killing three horses and burn
ing the structure.
The corner stone Of the new school
building at Heron Lake was laid by
the Masonic fraternity. Grand Master
Lawless Of st. Paul conducted the cere-
monies, assisted by Grand Secretary
Montgomery.
Richard Munroe, thought to be
counterfeiter, has been arrested by the
st. Paul police, and his alleged assist
ants have been arrested in Minneapo-
lis.
/ J. I. Vermilye has issued call for
conference of silver men of the First
congressional district, to be held at
Austin Friday, Aug. II. He asks that
a candidate be named at this confer
ence.
man, and helped greatly to build up
the city. He owns considerable prop
erty in Anoka. OF late years he has
made name and a fortune as mag
netic healer, having large practice in
St. Paul, Chicago and other cities.
| Lewis Sumner, aged twenty-four
years, living on a farm near Dundas,
was drowned while bathing in the
Cannon river. above that village. De-
ceased was the only son Of Joel Sum-
ner. L..
| Two boys named Gustav Zeiss and
Peter G. Hathaway, sentenced to rhe
st8te training school at Red Wing,
some two months ago, were released
upon writ of habeas corpus by Judge.
w. c. Williston Of Hastings. II Il
An order was granted at Hastings
Wherein Deputy Sheriff D. Il. Quealy
received $3.50 apd Policemen John
Casey and p. 3. Murnane of st. Paul,
$25 each, the state reward for the
capture and conviction Of Albert
Patchie, the horse thief.
The state training school for the
teachers OF Freeborn county opened at
Albert Lea with large enrolment.
The meetings are held in the assembly
nall of the city schools, and it is ex-
pected that over one hundred will be-
enrolled before the session closes.
/ John Gatz, a msscn employed in the
building of the new school Of st. Jo-
seph's society at Winona, fell from
scaffold to the ground, forty feet. He
alighted on his feet and suffered no
broken bones, but it is feared he suf-
fered internal injuries which will
prove serious.
| A stabbing affray occurred at New
i Paynesvllle. Two tramps got into an
alteration, and one drew a knife and
i stabbed the other. A long, deep cut
down the side Of the face and neck
was inflicted, severing the temporal
artery. It is thought that the Wolind-
ed man will live. The fellow who did
the cutting fed
A very severe wind and rain storm
struck Barnesville re Gently, and blew
i down the large franc addition lust MT
up for the Columbia hotel. 4 large
wind mill belonging to Editor Smell
was overturned, two stables lifted
from their foundations and several
windows on Front street blown in. one
of them badly cutting Mr.. Robinson.
Reports of lodged grain are expected.
I.
The Mankato council passed an Or
i dinance to deal with the tramp nui-
sance. It provides that the Migrants
may be set at work on the streets or
stone piles and in case they refuse to
work, shall be given diet Of bread
and water until they do. The city has
been greatly troubled with tramps this
summer, and the citizens have been
demanding protection.
While the boat Robert Harris was
returning to Winona with an excur-
sion from La Crosse, Adolph Francis.
forty years Of age, leaped from the
i barge which the boat had in tow. He
is said to have been under the lnflu-
ence of liquor at the time He was 3
farm hand and well known in Vino
ma. he had brother living at Mo
line. III. and brother at Lewiston,
MINI.
August Griefendorf is locked up ct
i st. Paul on charge of arson. The po-
live received a tip that he was going to
burn his dwelling which .Mas fnsulroa.