The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-04-30
Interesting Happenings in the North
Star State.

ordinance.
Seeding is we'll under way, according
to reports from various parts of the
state.
Cashier Buxton, Of the Minneapolis
postoffice, has been arrested, on t
charge Of embezzlement.
Booth & Lands have sold their drug
. and furniture stock at Alden to Henry
Fink.
1t is reported that numerous South
crn Minnesota farmers will emlgrate
to the Red River valley.
Baxter, the Minneapolis wife-mur-
derer has been sentenced to life-in-
prisonment
Attorney General Childs has filed a
bill of complaint in the Duluth & Win
nipeg road case
Michael Gilligan, probably the oldest
man in Anoka county, died, aged 1O3
z years.
The supreme court has denied re-
argument in the Renville county seat
contest between Beaver Falls and OH
via. -E ."-
An engine cut down two.cear-old
son of John DyOnek, an Ore-trimmer,
at Duluth, taking off both legs. The
boy will die. ...@r
Oliver G. Monroe, until recently clerk
of the fremont hotel, at Duluth, COM
mitted suicide at Long Lake, near
ELY, by shooting.
'John RATHER of Duluth, grain in
spector has sued the Northern Pacific
for $4,000 for personal injuries re-
ceived at Staples. !
The Weyerhaeuser syndicate, it is
reported, will secure all the Wright Il
Davis stumpage and logging road in
terests in Northern Minnesota.
The Delavan Cooperative Creamery
company has just completed the finest
equipped creamery in the county, and
win commence operations at once with,
500 COWS.
B. G. Church, general manager of
the Duluth Imperial Mill company,
and ex-president OF the board OF trade,
was seriously injured at Duluth while
riding on bicycle.
Leo Hellpern, who was $50 short in
his accounts with an insurance COM
pany, committed suicide at Winona.
He has been out Of the penitentiary a
year on good behavior.
Rev. II. e. Chase, who was bound
over to the grand jury at Bird Island
for alleged indecent assault on Annie
Rope, was not indicted, and is now
rs free. q.
Z, John Spencer, who, eighteen years
ago, lost his little two-year-old girl at
Buffalo, has at last located her. She
is in New York, and it is now claimed
that she had been kidnapped.
James Long shot and killed Mrs
John Pan and wounded John Pan in
the face at the same time. Cause. a
quarrel. All are Sioux Indians. The
fracas happened at Browns Valley.
The retail grocery firm of J. M.
Schaffer & Co. of Saltwater has made
an assignment, brought about by de-
sire to dissolve the partnership. 1t is
believed they will be able to pay near
ly dollar for dollar.
The new stone freight sheds at Du-
luth, just completed by the Northern
Pacific, 900 feet in length, were par,
TALLY destroyed by fire recently. Two
men were injured in the burning build
ing.
2. H. Randall, one of the oldest in
habitants of Sleepy Eye, died of kid
through the civil war in the Second
Wisconsin cavalry, and was present
at the capture Of Jeff Davis. -,
During a recent thunder storm light
ming struck the barn of Jacob Schmuck
Of Pine Island, burning the barn, four
horses and eight head Of cattle. While
trying to save property Mr.. Schmuck
was seriously burned about the hands
and face.
At the term of court Just closed at
Olivia, three were sentenced to the
penitentiary: William Iago, five years,
for rape; William WILDER, for stealing
a suit of clothes, two years; William
Landgraff was sentenced to the re-
formatory.
The Eostofice at Benson was bur-
glarized recently. The safe was blown
open and about 5000 worth of stamps
and S75 cash taken, besides what MAY
have been contained in registered let
ters. In their haste, the burglars over
looked sack containing considerable
money.
Charles Holmes, assistant cashier of
the Merchants bank, at Lake City, is
: under arrest at Worcester, Mass,
awaiting the arrival of an officer from
Minnesota. 1t is alleged that he and
his uncle, who was cashier Of the
bank, concealed about $4,000 Of the
banks funds.
John Corey, a lumberman, was run
I over and instantly killed by St. Paul
81 Duluth engine at Duluth. He was
terribly mutilated the upper part Of
his body being practically cut il two.
Earlier in the morning he had had a
quarrel in saloon and had hit Charles
Musolf, the proprietor, over the head
with a shovel. He was fleeing from
the officers when he was cut down by
the engine in a fog.
&& A severe electric storm visited Fari-
bault recently at about 2 o'clock in
the morning. Lightning set fire to a
barn owned by Aid. Lamereaux, west
of the Chicago, Milwaukee s. ST. Paul
railroad tracks and destroyed it with
most of it's contents Mr.. Lamereaux
saved his horse but nothing else.