The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-09-17
MINI ESOTA NEWS.
Interesting Heppenfngs In the North
Stnr State.


Stnr state.
The state board Of equalization has
added Is per cent to Hennepin county's
assessment on merchandise.
The state fuel commission rejected
all bids to furnish anthracite coal to
state institutions
Louis Quinnel was killed near Spring
Grove by being run over by traction
engine.
The Nicollet county fair was great
success. An interesting programme Of
sports added quality to the attractions.
The state auditor has prepared a
statement Of the valuation Of real
property in the state, which shows q
decrease Of $6OO76, 663.
w. s. Geer of Kandiyohi county Sc.
cured q writ Of habeas corpus in st.
Paul in order to get his six-year-old
daughter.
Ed Cousander of Mankato is out $55
as a result of cashing check for q
man giving the name of William John
son. It proves to be a forgery.
Fire at Northfield destroyed the
house owned by James Conan, valued
at $1,000. All the household effects Of
the occupants were also consumed.
Frank Haseidenze of Lakeville was
qdjudged insane at Hastings by Judge
T. P. Moran, and committed to the
Rochester asylum.
The firm Of II. G. Parrot g. Co.,
| wagon manufacturers of st. Charles,
has assigned to George Pfefferkorn,
cashier of the Citizens State Bank
A fresh young man Of Winona was
| recently knocked out by one of two
| young ladies, whom he had annoyed
| with his attentions.
Leonard, younger son of O. E. Hilli-
| goss OF Alexandria, drank some Paris
green which had been prepared for fly
poison, and the physician had lively
work saving his life.
While threshing on the Carhart farm
near Warren the engine exploded and
instantly killed the engineer, Mat
Main, of Warren. Nobody else was
hurt.
August Picklum, for several years
agent for the John Paul Lumber COM
pany at Wells, committed suicide by
shooting himself with a revolver at his
home in the north part Of the city n
The assignment figures Of the failure
OF D. 81. Morrison, retail shoe dealer
of Winona, have been made public.
The liabilities are $15,412.55; assete,
$15,107.5
Judge F. M. Crosby filed his petition
for denomination as judge of the dis
| trict &C urt, First district, at the coun-
ty auditors Office, at Hastings. It con-
tanned over 1000 names.
Frank Bresland, painter Of Hast
ings, beat his wife father severely
| about the face recently, and was SEN
| fenced by Justice Newell to sixty DAYS
in the county Jail.
The grade of the Mantorville Rail-
way and Transfer company is com
| pleted, and the Great Northern has q
crew of men laying ties ready for the
| iron, which will be put on next week.
While Mr.. Noah Piper Of Perham
was sitting on the floor with a coal oil
lamp beside him reading, he fell asleep
and while in that condition upset the
lamp, which exploded, burning him Sc
| riously.
The Great Northern hotel barn at
Mora was burned, with contents, in
Guiding ten head of horses, seven be-
saltwater. No insurance. Cause IN
| known.
Judge Wil1iston of saltwater made
an order directing the resale of the
saltwater Street railway, to satisfy
| creditors, bondholders who were form
er purchasers of the road having failed
to pay off the Indebtedness.
Alex Cameron, a highly respected
citizen of Brainerd, has been missing
| from his home since Sunday No trace
of him can be found. It is feared he
has wandered away or committed sui
eide in fit Of temporary insanity. He
is about go years old.
The dead body Of Ed Ryan, a lake
fireman, was found in the St. Paul g.
Duluth yards at Duluth. His head
was cut nearly from the trunk and the
body was badly mangled No one
knows anything about the man or how
he came to his death.
A bold attempt was made at St Paul
to destroy an entire family BY setting
fire to the building in which they were
sleeping in Merriam Park. The fam
lily was of Patrick Christie. He feels
sure that he knows who the miscreant
is and has given his information to the
police authorities.
The city Of LIE Sueur has been pre-
rented with an aerolite, Weighing over
1000 pounds, which will be placed in
Stewart park. The meteoric stone was
! presented by G. 81. Kinsey. It fell in
the fall Of 1868 on the farm of George
". Smith, four miles south Of lie
Sueur.
The state has interviewed in the case
Of the Republic Iron company against
the Moon and Kerr Lumber company,
involving the highly important cues
ton Of whether the state tracks in the
mineral lands includes the lumber
therein. PLAINTIFFS claim timber on
lands in 5S-18, leased from the state.
rnd the state has sold the lumber to
defendant.
A Winnebago City special to the
minneapolis Tribune says The swine
Hague has again struck this county.
Ifc losses to the county last wear
from that cause were estimated at
from $4,000 to 100000. MANY farm
ers went to work at once 10 replace
their herds, believing that fha dan