The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-03-05
.!.Ml n ESQ IA NEWS
xnteresting Happenings IN the North.
Star State.

was held at Lakefield.
i Chief Grain Inspector Clausen has
issued an interesting report on the
!, washing Of smutty wheat. Ii
Commander-in-Chief Walker has
signed the formal order fixing st. Paul
as the place Of the encampment.
The Seventh district immigration
convention held an enthusiastic meet
ing at Fergus Falls.
I; The Commonwealth club, composed
OF the business men of Browns Valley,
organized recently
Peter Sjodal, employed in Fred PEN
ningtOn's camp, near White Beach,
committed suicide.
q. J. Lowry, charged with horse
stealing, was caught at Waterville by
Marshal Reynolds.
School buildings Of the United Nor
wegian Lutheran church may be locat-
ed in the Midway district between St.
Paul and Minneapolis.
The Mankato city council accepted
a proposition from T.. e. Watkins of
Boston to light the city by electricity
at $50 per arc light.
The Ramsey county Republican con-
vention to select delegates to the state
and district conventions will be held
March 81.
Freeman county Republicans are
called to meet in convention March 81,
to select delegates to the state and dis
trict conventions.
Charles Grant, alias Anderson, who
escaped from Jail at Caledonia a month
ago, was captured in Wisconsin. He
is wanted for forgery.
Representatives Of the Populist party
to the number Of twenty seven met
and organized the Douglass County
Peoples Party league.
Laird & Dornberg, hardware mer-
chants, made. a voluntary assignment
at Redwood Falls in favor Of w. r.
Dickinson, banker.
The Republican committee Of the
Seventh congressional district met at
Moorhead and decided to hold their
convention at Crookston, March %.
State Senator J. @. Cronkhite Of Mar
shall county is out in an announcement
that he has forsaken the Populist par
ty, and will hereafter ahliate>with Re
publicans on all safe silver questions.
Judge Williston Of the district court
at Saltwater granted the street rail
way company time until May 1 to close
up the receivership and settle it's ac-
counts.
Two thousand letters have been re
ceived by the United States land office
at Crookston asking for informa ton
concerning the Red Lake reservation
opening.
The tenement dwelling belonging to
w. E. Corcoran, corner Eddy and
Tenth streets, was burned at Hastings.
The fire is supposed to be the work Of
an incendiary.
A man who is thought to have been
a tramp was run over and killed by a
train on the Green Bay road, near
Whitehall, Wis, a few miles from WI
mona.
Parties from Minneapolis are NOV
ing houses from Walcott to Mankato.
A house was taken through the city
on two wagons, drawn by twelve
horses.
At Redwood Falls Clerk of the Court
J. l.. Bryan has filed notice of appeal
from Judge Webber's decision in the
libel suit of Bryan against the Red
wood Gazette.
Theodore Petit and Lock Culp were
arrested at their homes in Vaudeville
and taken to Buffalo for hearing.
They are charged with attempting to
commit highway robbery.
Maria Kicks, the noted window
sri1asher, arrived in Winona recently
and was Immediately committed to the
county" jail and afterwards shipped to
Rochester.
The heavy suits to the number Of
four, brought by Assignee Kells, in
the matter Of the assignment Of N. p.
Clarke & Co., for the purpose Of re-
covering from alleged preferred credit
Ors, have been commenced at st. Cloud.
The Marshall county Republican com.
smittee met at Argyle and named
March p as the date and Stephen the
place to hold the county convention to
elect delegates to the state convention
to lie held in Minneapolis, March "a.
A large mass meeting was held at
Tower for the purpose of discussing
proposed bond issue to build a wagon
road from Duluth to the head Of Yer
million lake. The object is to improve
and settle the county.
A Red Lake Falls advice saws: A
new county road, shortcut to Red
Lake reservation, is being constructed.
This new road was laid out by the
county commissioners in view Of the
opening Of the reservation.
.s George LANCER and William Land
graft of Renville county were Jailed at
Redwood Falls to await the action of
the Renyille grand jury for grand lar
ceny in the second degree. The two
rifed a Bird Island hardware store.
The question Of bonding the city of
Rochester for SIS, 1000 to build a new
bridge across the Zumbro river at
Fifth street was submitted to the yot-
ers at special election, and resulted
as follows: Five hundred and sew
enty-four against and ninety-seyen for.
David Waugh was found insensible
on the street at Duluth and was taken
up as a drunk. He spent the night in
Jail, and in the morning it was discoy-
cred that he had been sandbagged and
was likely to die. The police are look
ing for his assailant. sss #
Winona is soon to be given an in
surance rerating. The last time this
was done was in the summer Of 1899.