The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-04-02
MINNESOTA NEWS,
tnteresting happenings I'm the Nortn
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j a lodge of the Eastern Star has been
organized at New Paynesville.
There is a row in educat ional circles
at Duluth.
William Verin Is on trial at Duluth
/ for the murder Of Samuel Demars.
j Carleton college has opened for the
spring term.
/ FaltNlers around Pine Island have
j decided to build an elevator.
! A complete fire department Of fifty
/ men has been organized at Pine Island
At Lake Crystal license was carried
by majority of 6.
| Reports from different parts of the.
| state announce that many farmers.
have commenced seeding.
! The Minnesota A. 0. U. w. report
gain of over 5000 members during the
past year.
Minnesota has nearly 100000 acres
of swamp land in the so-called indian
| reservations. .-...i.
The Winona Humane society held
their annual meeting recently and
elected officers.
Some of the farmers around Delano
are getting ready to begin seeding
soon.
Bertha Abraham, daughter Of August
Abraham of Stanford, Isanti county,
was burned to death recently.
The Farmers Elevator company has
been organized at Mortified, with Gill
bert Fish of Dundas as president.
| Charles H. Stuckey Of Duluth has
been acquitted on the second charge
and is now free man.
\ summer institute for Indian
teachers will be held in Duluth in
July.
The annual term of the district court
was held at Elk River last week, Judge
Baxter presiding. .E#-s
Plans were adopted by the Chippewa
county commissioner to build i BRICK
addition to the court house.
| 4: A bad cave-in occurred at Eveleth
at the high mine. Two men were
buried alive and a third one so seri-
ously injured that he may not survive.
| Gilbert G. Thorne. United States
bank examiner for Minnesota, has re-,
signed to become cashier of the North
western National Bank of Minneapolis.
At Minneapolis Miss Kitty T. Smith
wants $4,000 from the estate Of Alfred
J. Hill for preparations she made for
her expected marriage to Hill.
The suit Of Henry Phillips against
the Duluth, Redwing & Southern rail-
road for damages for the killing of his
son, was settled out Of court at Red
Wing by the payment of $4,000.
Charles Sehner was fined 800 and
costs in the police court Of Saltwater
for stealing $145 from Simonet Bros'
safe. Sehner is Chicago travelling
man. His father paid the fine.
Miss Nina Pratt, milliner Of Redwood
Falls, made an assignment in favor Of
/ her creditors to Hermann Schmahl.
/ Miss Pratt states that there is suffl-
| Gent property to meet all liabilities.
| Ryon Faber of Sherbun hanged him
self in the barn. He had been drink
ing hard of late. and was living in pow
erty. He leaves widow and eight
children.
G. w. Hoover, formerly agent Of the
Milwaukee road and the United States
Express company at Lakeland, has
disappeared, taking with him, it is
alleged, $500 Of the express company's
money.
| John Van der Sluis, an old citizen of
| St. Cloud, died of consumption, aged
g. He came here in 1867 from The
| Netherlands, and for % years was
| Ibookkeeper for Powell Bros. He leaves
wife and eleven children. -.-.+s
At Red Wing the jury in the case Of
Anna Kittleson against her brother-in-
! law, Peter Kittleson, for alternating her
| husbands affections. brought in YER
dict awarding the plaintiff 81 800 dam
ages. @.-.. .... ~.
! Frank a. Franklin, stepson Of DR.. J.
E. Finch of Hastings. died from gas
trio henlorrhage, aged q years. He
was student of the state university
and one Of the most prominent young
men Of the city. ,r-. ...a.. .
A side-tracker train collided with a
stock train and three fat cars at Glen
coe, badly demolishing them. The
cars damned into the pump house and
it's occupants were badly frightened.
i Nobody was injured.
! Philip Lambert, formerly Of st. Paul,
committed suicide by cutting his throat
near the ST.. Louis railway tracks,
three miles from Mankato. Lambert
embarked in the wholesale liquor busi-
ness at Mankato three months ago and
has lost about $4,000.
The Weyerhauser syndicate has
i closed deal for the purchase Of the
i C. N. Nelson Lumber company's inter-
ests at and in the vicinity of C1oquet.
The amount the G. n. Nelson company
/ gets for it's interests is placed at about
4 $4,OOO,OOO cash, or it's equivalent, max
ing the trade one of the largest that
has ever taken place in Minnesota pine
i timber interests.
Quite a sensation was created at
Glenwood by the arrest of III. o. Bush
and Stella Berman, charged with
adultery. Bush and Mrs. Berman re-
i gistered at the GleDwood hotel as man
/ and wife the sheriff and John Berman
broke into the room; found B-sh and
Mrs. Berman occupying the same bed.
The woman says she is divorced, but
has no proof.
Arnold Batter was arrested in Rem
vile county and brought to Mankato,
in charge of United States Marshal
j Campbell. In July last, it is alleged,
Blatter broke into the postofice at
Lintonville, Kandiyohi county, and
Il carried off money, stamps and all else
II of imnOrt.1llcn that cO1TId he removed.