The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-07-23
MINI ESOT A NEWS,
Interesting Happenings, IN the NORTH
Stnr State. III!

Il SCuOOl &lOEia tIIlCO8tCOuuI.y
was held at Faribault, and was well,
attended by teachers. M
3. T.. Lommen was nominated for.
congress by the Pppulists of the Sew
enth district.
Judge Page Morris was nominated
for congress by the Sixth district Re-
publicans.
The Republican State Central COM
mittee has orga nized for campaign
| work.
It is estimated that the attendance.
| at the g. A. r. encampment at st.
Paul will number $1,000.
The National Real Estate convention
will hold it's annual session at st. Paul
next month.
Nine children in Sherburne county
are said to have died from poison III
lemonade.
William Wager, the prisoner recently
pardoned by Gov. Clough, died at Cas-
| tie Rock.
| st. Louis county sold the $15OOO0
road bonds, voted last spring, to Lee
land Tourie & Co., Boston, for par and
| accrued interest.
In severe thunder storm lightning
struck the windmill and granary Of
| A. II. Sperry, near Willmar and de
stroyed them.
The residence Of Charles Weymouth
at Sank Centre caught fire in an I'M
| known way and was burned. Insured
for 1880.
The Farmers Elevator company Of
Pine Island, Incorporated in May last,
have begun operations on their new
building which will be completed by
August l, at cost of 5000.
A severe electrical storm passed
over Montevft1eo The granary Of An
drew Swenson was struck by lightning
and 300 bushels Of wheat and ma
clinery burned. No dhmage to crops.
The Standard Cement works, at Man
kato were sold under mortgage fore
closure and bid III by Louis NJ. Fulton,
through his attorney, William Peet Of
St. Paul, for $4,000.
Nels Estensen, a deaf man who
claims to live at St. Peter, was pushed
from freight train at Granite Falls
by a brakeman and run over. An
ankle was crushed.
Haying is pretty well finished in the
vicinity Of Northfeld The crop is a
large one and has been secured in an
excellent condition. Grain-cutting has
commenced. Flax for fibre purposes
is beings pulled as rapidly as possible.
| = George A. blanchard, we'll known
farmer living five miles north Of Alex
andria, in the town of Carlos, was
l killed by a falling tree July II. It
struck his forehead and broke his
neck and back.
| Warden Wolfer of the state prison
says that the prison Irvine factory
will run night and day Until August 1,
the number Of small cash orders re-
ceived being far ahead of anticipa-
| lions.
Potatoes are so plentiful in Barnes
/ vile that they can be found in heaps
lying about, and are proving a source
of danger to stock, one COW having
been already choked to death by
them, and another barely escaped.
The postmaster general has decided,
after hearing the report Of the post
office inspector sent to Duluth to in
vestigate, that it would be impractical
BILE at this time to consolidate the
offices at Duluth and West Duluth and
make the latter substation. i
| The tax levy of St Louis county for
1896 has been prepared, and it will be
nearly a mill and half over that Of
last year. Last year the county rate
was 5.45 mills, end this year it will in
all probability be brought down to 4
mills. j
The legislative committee for the
Fifty-fourth district met at st. Cloud
and decided to call the legislative con-
vention for the district Sept. Is. The
state convention will nominate a can
didate for state senator to succeed
Hon. w. Z. Allen of Cloquet, who re-
Gently resigned.
The Southern Minnesota Veterinary
| association met at Albert Lea and
| elected the following officers: Presi-
| dent, DR.. Ames, Owatonna; first vice
| president, DR.. Thomas, Albert Lea;
second vice president, Dr. Mckenzie,
Northfield; secretary and treasurer,
DR.. Anderson, Rochester. 81
While battling at Lake Ninnetonka,
Florence Mills, aged seventeen; Birdie
| Mills, aged fourteen, daughters of T..
B. Mills, and Helen Cheney, aged thr-
teen, daughter of William Cheney, all
| of Minneapolis, were drowned. The
accident vas due to their walking into
a channel dredged some years ago to
accommodate steamboat traffic.
! The weekly crop bulletin for Mime
| sofa says: Except a few small, scat
! tered showers. no rain has fallen dur
| ing the week. and drouthy conditions
have spread until now the entire
northern part Of the state is affected
In the Red River valley the ground is
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