The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-04-09
N. | NNESOI7A NEWS.
Interesting Happenings In the NortI
8 Star State.

ire at st. Paul is estimated at $57 600. !
Miss Lizzie Robinson was injured III
a runaway accident at st. Paul.
Delano has organized paid fire de-
partmcnt.
The Northwest Teachers association
held meeting at Crookston.
Douglass was visited by a small cy-
clone recently, and considerable dam
age was done.
Carl Wilke, farmer living north OF
Fergus Falls, fell out of his wagon and
was killed.
George Shakespeare, for forty-one
years a respected citizen OF Red Wing,
died, aged seventy-fve years
Moses *. Pike, living two miles north
OF Mortified, was kicked to death by
q horse.
A mother and eight children narrow
~ escaped death in a fire at Fountain
City.
The st. Paul postoffice receipts for
the fiscal year were S425,OOO, an in
crease of $4,000.
The Mankato postoffice has been
moved into the new government build
inc
Rev. Fl. e. Chase of Bird Island was
bound over to the grand jury on a
charge Of indecent assault
The report of Prof. Floyd Davis, en-
gagged to analyze Duluth's water sup
ply, shows that the water is RESPONSE
bic for the prevalence Of typhoid.
Scores of gamblers, who gathered at
iathiop, in anticipation of a rich har-
vest from lumbermen soon to be paid
OH, were forced to leave town. 81
The Southern Minnesota Bee Keep
er's association are arranging for an
exposition to be held at Winona the
coming summer.
Andrew Lewis, 4 we'll known resi-
dent of GOodhue county for more than
fifty years, died at his home on West
Third street, Red Wing. .a.~s
The State Of Minnesota will appeal
from Secretary Hoke Smiths ruling
on the Red Lake Indian reservation
swamp land case.
T. E. Graves of Minneapolis secured
the contract for rebuilding school
house at Sank Rapids. Consideration,
$4,000. ......
Irving, the three-year-old son of Mr..
James Milliman of Stanford, Isanti
county, fell into pail of hot water
and was scalded to DEATH 81
The Winona police raided two gam
bling dens. Five men in each were ar
rested and the paraphernalia contis-
Gated.
After being out twenty-nine hours,
the jury in the Sonlan murder case at
Duluth, brought in verdict of muir
der in the first degree. a.
Watonwan county's new court house
is completed and accepted by the
board Of county commissioners. 1t is
nicely furnished with all the modern
improvements.
The Winona city council passed an
ordinance placing the city, under the
act of the last legislature authorizing
street sprinllling and assessment on
abutting property.
]. FG. Rueber Of Rochester, while
talking: with friend was stricken
with heart disease and expired at once.
Rucber was one Of the pioneer settlers
OF Olmsted county.
The Pinney Milling company's mill,
warehouse and contents at Granite
Falls were burned recently. Insur-
ance on building, $4,000; none on grain.
Mill valued at $50, 900.
Joel Swanson, convicted at the pres
ent term of court at Red Wing, re-
ceived a sentence of five years at Still
water, for breaking into q store at
Nasa, and an additional five years for
breaking into barn.
United States Engineer Allen and as
sistant are making soundings in the ST..
CroiX, also a plat Of the harbor to aid
in ascertaining the actual amount Of
appropriations needed for improve
nents of the st. Croix. They report
20 the river and harbor committee.
Frank Pearson, found guilty of grand
larceny in the second degree at Red
Wing, was sentenced to six months
imprisonment, and George Richard
son, for grand larceny in the first de-
gree, to five years at hard labor on the
rcformatory plan. s
The house of Mr.. Refill, seven miles
southeast of Spring Valley, was struck
oy lightning and burned to the ground,
with all it's contents, burning to death
the hired man and one Of his boys, and
so badly burning his wife and one 9TH
CIR boy that they are not expected to
live.
at the annual school district election
n Heron Lake, DR.. G. r. j. Kellam and
J. +. Humiston were elected members
Of the board of education. The dis
trict also voted $4,000 in bonds to
erect j modern school house in the vii
lagc, by a vote of 25S in favor to 50
against the bonds.
The creamery at Graceville has re-
opened for business and the outlook
for & successful season is dattering
In fact, it may be continued through
the winter, hereafter, as the stockhoid-
ars claim it could have been run the
past winter on a profitable basis with
out any difficulty.
Leopold 5OgorelS Of Duluth, who has
been serving a ten days sentence for
drunkenness, was arrested by the sher-
if from Red Jacket, Mich, on the
charge of jumping a board bill. Ogorek
is a member Of a prominent and
wealthy German family Of Berlin, who
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