The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-11-19
MINI NJ Il ESOTA NEWS.
Interesting Happenings I'm the NortlI
#$s Star State.

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The Farmers National congress will
sD pc held ne dat at st. Paul next year.
The Southern Minnesota teachers
held a meeting at Mankato.
Grass Brothers Of Wabasha made
an assignment Assets, $1,000: LA
bilities, not known.
The trial of johnson and Kelly. the
Wyoming murderes, was commenced
at Center City. @
Caspar Peterson, a fourteen-year-old
boy, accidentally shot himself while
out hunting near Hallock Death fol-
lowed instantly.
John johnson, a tramp, pleaded
guilty at Wabasha to the charge Of
criminal assault and was sentenced to
Saltwater for thirty years.
David Blakely manager Of Sousa's
band and formerly connected with the
st. Pau Pioneer Press, died suddenly
in New York
Peter Lee, residing at Fiftieth street
and Lyndale avenue Minneapolis, ac-
cidentally shot himself while hunting
rabbits. -
4. ii. Ivey of 1915 Charles street. st.
Paul, was seriously injured in street
car accident near the corner of Smelling
and University avenues, and her thir-
teen-year-old daughter was also hurt.
Until Nov. 80 bids will be received
by the city Of Moorhead for $4,000
6 per cent 2O-year bonds. These bonds
were authorized by a vote at the late
election.
The little child of Conrad Kelfesch
OF East Grand Forks, while playing
with matches, got his clothing afire
and was badly burned before help ar
rived. He will probably die.
A Cottonwood county prisoner
named Emerson, lodged in Blue Earth
county Jail, made an attempt to saw
his way out, but was detected. He is
waiting trial for burglary. $780,. ... ~
It is reported at Park Rapids that
Game Warden Fullerton and deputies
have captured large band of Indians
with guns and q large amount of game
Illegally killed, including several
moose, near that place.
William Ableman of Faribau1t at
tached grindstone to horsepower
and run it to a speed sufficient to-
burst the stone. He was killed by a
piece of the stone, which struck him
on the head. s4.
A sad accident occurred at Milaca re-
Gently. A young man, Charles Curtis,
while crossing 4 dam above here, on
his way deer hunting, Slipped and felE
and, as he did so his rifle was dis
charged, the bullet going through his
brain and causing instant death.
John Clearly, arrested in Minneapolis
on a charge Of drunkenness, made an
attempt to commit suicide at the CEN
trail police station by hanging himself
up with a rope made of his clothing.
He was discovered before he had COM
pleted his job.
The preliminary examination Of
Louis Balser, proprietor of the Ameri-
can house, who shot his wife on Nov.
2, was held at NIankato. He was
bound over to the December term of
court. Balser made no defense, and,
maintains his Indifference.
d The United States court adjourneds
at Mankato. Edward Chimberski Of
Jackson, charged with sending obscene
letters through the mails at Jackson,
was sentenced, on account Of his.
youth, to one year in the state reform
atory at st. Cloud.
The afternoon passenger on the Fort
Dodge division Of the Minneapolis &
st. Louis road killed an old man on the.
track between Emmons and Norman.
He was walking on the track and
when warned by the engineer ran
ahead of#the train.
Word reaches Wiloua that sentence.
has been imposed upon John Johnson,
age twenty two years, by Judge 0. 3.
Gould Of WinOna, in the district court
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who recently assaulted, seventeen
year-old girl at Kellogg, having gagged
her mother first. The sentence was for
thirty years.
Adne GLADDEN., boy who has been
working at Winnebago City for some
months. has been struck by singular
good fortune, He received word that
an uncle had died in Wisconsin and
left him property valued at $4,000.
Young GLADDEN. is about eighteen years.
old. and has been working in Froelich
& Co.'S meat market.
A son of f. Breshoff Of Norwood,
while playing with a 22-calibre gun,
accidentally shot his brother. The
bullet entered near the eye and man
gled one side of the face terribly, al.
though it is hoped that the child wilE
recover. It seems that the boy with
the gun was at the head of a fight of
stairs and his brother below received
the charge.
Grant Brambel, of the Western
Union at Sleepy Eye, was given letters
patent for a rotary engine last Deem
her. Recently, it is said, he received
an offer of 100000 for his patent by
IAN English syndicate. Mr.. Bramble
has spent over twelve years in study
ing UP and perfecting this patent,
which is bound to revolutionize engine,
building if one-tenth of what is claimed
Tor it is realized.
!. Nels Wedmark, living near the depot
at Anoka, got into fight, was beaten
and went home for his revolver. Re
turning, he made several dance to his
will, firing two shots. Chief Harring
ton arrived, and Wedmark shot four
times point blank at him. Harrington
was not pleased and put a bullet in
Wedmark' s right leg above the knee.
Wedmark was said to be drunk.
81 A bold robbery was committed at ST.
Joseph, Stearns county, recently.
Thieves entered the general store nf 4