The Princeton union., 1896-08-27
MINNESOTA NEWS
Interesting happenings In the. North
Star State.

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Star State.
Mrs. O'Toole, who was run over by a.
buggy at St Paul, died Of her injuries.
Col. Kiefer has Withdrawn from the.
contest Tor the Republican congression-
al nomination in the Fourth district.
The newspaper men will have charge
OF the programme at the state fair Sat
urday.
Musgr0ve and Cingmars, murderers
of Sherltf Rogers Of Glencoe, have been
indicted for murder in the first degree.
The veterans of Minnesota regiments
Will hold joint reunion at Fort Smell
ing Sept. 1.
burlars ransacked the residence Of
PRESIDENT Wallace, of Manchester col
lege, St Paul. : :
State officers decide to make a test
case to determine the title of pur-
.cnaser OF state lands on which the first
purchaser has defaulted.
Michael Ryan Of st. Paul has been,
declared insane because Of his peculiar
aHectlon for woman who did not
know him.
Richard Hammett for many wears q
resident Of Mankato, seventy-tWo wears
old, died. Among surviving heirs is
Mrs. Streeter Of Minneapolis.
Gov. Clough of Minnesota has an
pointed delegates to the annual conven-
ton of the National Prison association
which meets in Milwaukee Sept. 26.
stratton Bros drug store, at Belle
f1alne, was burglarized recently. Jew
cry ana money amounting to $125 was
| taken. y.
Attorney General Childs renders an
oplnlon holding tEat clerks of courts
must be elected this year in counties in
Wnlcn me term of Office expired in Jan
uary, 1896.
Two men arrived on horseback at
| MIS-. UnderWood's house, near Madi-
| son, lake, during the absence Of her
nusDand land one assaulted her while
| the other chased her younger sister to
a neighbours
Mankato was visited the other night
| ny burglars, several houses being en-
tered. Little plunder, however, less
tnan $oO, was secured. P. A. Gunder.
county auditor, was visited twice dur
| frank Ze1geb1em was run over nv his
team at Tileston's mills, st, Cioud
Inc team got frightened and knocked
MN down, and he lost one eve and
broke his collar bone and nose. he is
prominent st. Cloud town farmer.
and is in a critical condition,
A very heavy rain visited Ellsworth
recently, accompanied by sharn light
ming. Lightning struck the barn of r.
J.. Ash, setting fire to it and burning
IT to the ground. Two boys were Sleep
ing upstairs in the hay, but thew es-
capped uninjured.
John W. Anderson, a butcher of Ma.
della, charged with assaulting the
eight-year-old daughter Of John W.
Miller, was by the court commissioner
bound over to await the action Of the
grand jury. Anderson has been a re-
spected member Of society.
Patrick Carroll, an aged citizen of
Houston county, committed suicide YES
!, !, terday1 He deliberately walked into
small pond on the farm Of DAN
Flynn, two miles west of Caledonia,
and drowned himself in water not over
foot deep. -~.-,...- -.
| Another obstruction suit has been
filed at Duluth to delay the building of
the city water works, presumably by
the gas and water company. r. D.
Mallet sues to have the council en-
joined from selling the issue Of 81, ,1O6,-
OOO bonds to a. G. Jones company, sue
cessful bidders, on the ground that it
impairs the city's credit and raises the
bonded Indebtedness above the legal
limit of 5 per cent.
j. L. Sanderson, the brakeman sent
out to flag trains and protect the
Wrecker at the scene Of the Great
Northern freight wreck on the Hinck-
ley branch, went to sleep ON the edge
| Of the ties after twenty-seven hours
watch. The red light was by his side,
but freight train from Superior
struck him, and he was knocked over
an embankment. He was badly in
jured, but may recover. His home is
at Melrose, where he was taken.
A heavy storm passed over Luverne.
Many stacks Of grain were burned and
the wind leveled the corn to the
ground. The barn of Christ Bourchest
was struck by lightning and six head
of horses burned, together with the
structure and a large quantity Of hay
| and grain and farm machinery. The
loss will reach nearly $4,000. Thomas
! Colby lost five stacks of wheat, Will
| Thompson four stacks and several
others were losers to a greater or less
| amount. About an inch of water fell.
After his arrest for hitting his wife
| in the head with an ak, J. M. Anderson
hanged himself in Jail at Biwabik. He
was a Swedish -Finlander, about fifty
years old, and had large family. He
had had trouble with his wife and
grown sons for three years, and fire.
quently threatened to kill them and
himself. He was a hard-working man
| and it is thought was somewhat IN
balanced mentally, although his family
made home life unpleasant. He evil
dently thought he had killed his wife,
though she was not seriously injured.
George Thompson, an inmate of the
state reformatory at st. Cloud, sent up
from Faribault on the charge Of as
sault in the second degree last June,
took French leave the other morning.
He was engaged in farming on the
state farm, about mile from the insti-
tuition. The guard is understood to
have had more men than he could well
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