The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-02-20
MINI \ ESOTA NEWS
antereatinE Happenings In the Worth
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daughters Of Erin OF Minnesota are
preparing for state union meeting.
@2 A new A. o. U. w. lodge has been
organized at Rrownsdale.
A Mckinley club has been organized
at Crookston
a chapter Of the Eastern Star has
peen orga nized at Ortonville.
A movement is said to be on foot to
run J. ]. Parker as an independent
candidate for mayor Of st. Paul
The trouble between rival Hebraic
societies in West st. Paul has reached
the stage Of physical violence.
Hon. II. w. Lamberton of Winona
secured $4,000 of the recent bond is
sue.
Mortified has a new paid fire depart
ment. The number has been reduced
to thirty men.
The Minnesota Commandery, Loyal
Legion, celebrated the anniversary OF
Lincoln's birthday at st. Paul.
The I. o. O. f. of the state are dis
cussing the advisability of biennial
sessions of the grand lodge.
Mrs. Anna VAIL of Winona has ap-
piled for a divorce from her husband,
DR.. II. S. Wahl, who recently eloped
with another won
The Minnesota Flax company of
Northfield has orders from New York
linen mills for all the fiber it has on
hand. .....
A citizens meeting was held at Mont
rose recently for the purpose of taking
steps toward the erection of a creamery
at that place. -.." ~ L.
The summer training school for the
public school teachers of Blue earth
county will be held at Lake Crystal the
coming summer.
Mrs. Joseph Kiefer of Trimbelle com
mitted suicide by hanging herself in
the barn. She has been slightly de-
mented for some time. W
Harry Stewart, George Laduke, Z.
Daily and William G. Gillian were ar
rested at Mankato on the charge Of
gambling. " U.s. .
DR.. Edward A. Edholm, q promi-
nent Swedish physician Of saltwater,
died of pneumonia at the city hospital,
aged forty-seven years.
Hans J. Johnson, one of the pioneer
settlers Of Nicollet county at St. Peter,
died, aged seventy-three years, the re-
suit OF an ACCIDENT. ::
The wife of Sheriff George H. Mon
roe of Morris died after brief illness.
Mr.. Monroe is a brother-in-law Of
Chief State Grain Inspector Clausen.
Ed Schirm, express agent for the
Northwestern railway at Kasson, was
caught between the bumpers of
freight train and quite badly injured.
Diphtheria Of most malignant type
has broken out at Argyle. AS a pre-
c3utionary measure, the schools and
churches have been closed and all pub
lie meetings are prohibited. IT,.
Edward Shambrasky of Jackson,
charged with sending obscene litera-
ture through the mails, was bound
over In 81 900 bail, which was not fur
nished. - r.... tE e.. ~
Through the Mankato Free. Press,
Benjamin D .Smith of Mankato has for
mally announced his candidacy for the
position of attorney general of Mime
sofa. T. r.
p. The ST. Cloud land office received no
tice of the transfer of the larger part
of the Red Lake reservation to the
Crookston land office district. This
change takes over 100000 acres away
from tine St. Cloud district.
Frank Mickey of Grandin, N. D..
while attempting to board a Great
Northern passenger train at Moor
head. was caught between the cars
and dragged seventy or eighty yards,
being very badly injured.
Frederick w. hammers, one of the
pioneer residents of Washington coun-
ty. died of heart failure at his home in
Marine. Deceased was seventy years
of age, and had lived in the st. Croix
valley since 1916.
President Hill, of the Great Northern,
was before the government land office
at Crookston, recently. for the purpose
Of proving upon a timber culture entry
made by him in Kittson county thir-
teen years ago.
q The PASTORAL conference of the
Grand Forks district of the United Nor
wegian Lutheran church Of America
was held at the Trinity Norwegian
Lutheran church of Moorhead. Minis
tiers from fifteen churches We're in at
tendance. .
The Lakeside pumping station of the
Duluth Gas and Water company was
scorched by fire. The fire started in a
pile Of waste. The damage amounted
to 81 900. The machinery was not dam
aged and the water supply was not af-
fected.
Aid. Phil Westaway Of Duluth was
assaulted the other night, while going
home, by a man giving the name of
William Knox. Westaway had pro-
cured employment for Knox on city
work several times during the year,
and he claims he assaulted him because
he did not keep him employed.
An accident occurred on the Park
Rapids line at Sank Center in which
two coaches and the baggage car of the
east-bound mixed train were thrown
from the track. The accident was
caused by broken rail One coach was
comfortably filled with passengers sew
eral of whom were bruised but not seri.
ously injured.
At the Mortified city election in
March the proposition to levy annually
a one-haf mill tax for the support and
maintenance of a public library is to be
voted upon. The Y. NJ G. A. of the
city proffer their fund of $665 and their
library, and the free use Of rooms for
library purposes in the hnildinu ~