The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-08-06
MIN ESQ NEWS,



year-old son while shooting at q target.
& Michael Meyer was severely injured
In a saw mill at Winona.
s. Reichart, en- old resident Of St.
Cloud, was stricken with PAL lys1s.
Charles Llcius lost his hand in q /
flour mill at St Cloud.
"a private telephone line has been
+ constructed between Delano and Wat |
+ onWan.
a carpenter, repairing the O'Neal ele,
yator at SteWartsyille, fell forty feet ~
bin and was killed.
Robert G. Coleman and wife were ar. |
rested at Minneapolis for using the
mails for fraudulent purposes.
Lawrence Collins, q workman on the
postofice at st. Paul, fell from the
roof and was killed.
George Fisher, an old man living
near Tyler, was adjudged insane and
committed to the hospital at st. Peter.
"a man giving the name Of Sam Short
was arrested at Rosemount on
charge Of counterfeiting.
Andrew Wilson, charged with illegal
fishing in the river at Hastings, was
fined $50 or sixty days in jail by Jus s'gfe'
Marshall.
Mrs. Amel Peterson, tWenty-seyen
wears Of age, living four miles west OF
| Lakeneld, fell backward into q well
| thirty feet deep and was drowned.
AT Olivia Kubesh & Braum's -four
mill with all its contents, was burned.
| Origin Of fire unknown. Loss, $l2,OOO
insurance, $500.
Harvesting around West Concord
is about completed, and, owing to the
raYages of the army worm, crops Will
hardly come up to the usual standard.
Rines & Co.'s warehouse at Prince.
ton was burned One hundred tons OF
starch was stored in the building,
Loss, $4,000; partially insured.
Ira G. Clark, who was beating his
way to Big Stone City, fell between
the cars at Renyille. Both legs were
/ amputated above the knee.
a Mrs. Swenson, who was at Sleepy
Eye visiting friends, fell from q puggg
/ and was injured to such an extent thai
i death ensued.
The president has pardoned john
i Gallagher, sentenced in Minnesota = e
j six months Imprisonment for assault.
ing an officer, and H H. Mallory, sen.
fenced to five years for robbery.
While threshing on the Slater farm
in Ramsey township, near A nc Gll.
igan Bros new separator, tose1nel
i with all the grain stacks, were de.
i stroyed by fire, at a loss Of $500.
Fire in Hornets Austin packing
i house at Austin burned out the upper
i part Of one building and damaged the
meats and building to the amount 81 O
i 1,5OO.
4 III. IA. schultze, of Winthrop, through
his attorney, Ed 81. Huebner, mas
commenced an action against fete s
Jensen and DR. D. w. Bolles Of Brown
ton ia recover $1,000 damages for false
4 imprisonment
One Of twenty five tramps fell from
4 Great Northern train at Sank Center
!. and had leg crushed 50 that am l
ton was necessary. He claims the
& trainmen compelled him to leave stin l
train while in motion. S f.
A number Of union teamsters hauling
rock from quarries struck at Wlnona
and their places We're s! lmHm nm
filled by non-union men. They clalmec
i their teams were being oyerloaded
and struck on that account
Aid. Joseph Adams fell dead at. Aus
tin without warning. Heart failure
was the cause Of death. He came te
Austin from DEBORAH, Iowa, twenty
nine years ago. He was Promlneul
contractor and builder.
Charles Nelson was arrested at Itch
field on complaint Of I. Kulset on g
charge of assault committed on his lit
tie ten-year-old girl. The act is
claimed to have been committed nearly
month ago. The child is in a serious
condition.
%. III. Stone of Elysian, the veteran
hotel keeper and merchant, is dead
He was eighty-three years old, and
years ago. He was we'll ard favorably
known among all the early settlers If
that section of the state.
News was received at st. Cloud OF
the suicide of George Milton, a pioneer
of Benton county, residing near Foley
He had shown signs of mental weak
]. ness several times. He went into the
barn yard, fastened a string to the
trigger Of shotgunt, the contents OF
which entered his heart.
The largest attended Christian En-.
deayor convention of Southwestern
Minnesota closed at a three-days' SEES
sion at Sleepy Eye. Officers elected
are. President, Rev. John Sinclair OF
Redwood Falls; secretary, Miss Name.
Starr Of Tracy; treasurer, Miss Kit.
stiles Of Sleepy Eye. The next an
Isnual convention will be held at Candy
in June next year.
"A party arrived at Montevideo a few
days ago, purporting to represent q
gasoline engine company at Winonaf
and drew two checks upon w. j
i Dohney Of Chicago. One of S35 he
succeeded in cashing with p. L. n or
man, hardware merchant, and the
i other of $50 at the Citizens State bank
Information has been received from
Winona that the engine company therts
has no such agent. A
Mrs. G. "a Outcalt, an old lady Of
sixty-fve years, accompanied by he
4 son Of forty years, were on their way
to Chatfe1d, and while going down hill
the team ran away. The tongue broke
and the occupants were thrown out
4 Mrs. Outcalt suffered a broken eollals
bone, a limb in two places, besides 8.
II disloao chandler nor, ,iy1,t