The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-04-22
MINI ESOT a NEWS,

III INN EDUlA- IN u wa, I.
Interesting Happenings in the North
Star State.
4 The village council Of Royalston
una nously passed q curfeW ordi-
nance. f f sG
The Southern Dental association held
its annual session at Mankato The
usual number were in attendance.
Brakeman Will MUNICH, an employee
Of the Great Northern, had his tight I
arm severed while coupling cars at
CrookstOn. js
81 The Red River Lumber company,
whose planning mill at Crookston was
destroyed by fire, has new mill in OPP
Grafton
Peter Meis of Hastings is dead Of I
drcpsy, aged n years. He leaves 4
wife and one daughter, Mrs. M. g.
Tautges of st. Joseph, MINI. Mr.. Niles
located here in 1855.
"A five-year-old child Of Peter Colbe-
son died near Rushford from the eff {
fects of seven burns received by the !
accidental OYerturning of kettle of
boiling water.
The people at Saltwater are trying to |
keep the old street car line, and have
served an injunction to prevent Fink |
&ssScott, the new owners, from tearing
up the line and selling it as junk.
Mrs. NJ Campbell Of Elysian is dead
ter Of = &C. Swain, one Of the oldest
settlers in the county, an ex-menber Of
the legislature and a prominent citizen
Of this county for the past thirty years.
Two persons were drowned at Belle
Plaine in the Minnesota river in a large
boat that is being used to convey pas
stngers to town, owing to the height Of
the stream There were ten in the boat,
| but the others luckily escaped.
The three-year-old son Ct John Wal
shad, 100 Sixty-frst avenue w, Duluth,
lost his balance while playing on
which had been swollen by floods, was
| drowned.
The Nausea Chautauqua this year
will open July 6 and close the 23d. Its
attractions for the year will be greater
than ever, and many leaders in all
lines of education and research will be
present and take part.
John Werner, a prosperous farmer
living two miles east of Fulda, and for
sixteen years agent Of the G. Il. Col
man Lumber company, committed sui
eide by hanging. He leaves q wife and
4 family. ~
i The three-year-old boy of Fred Kuy-
all, a farmer living four miles south of
Waseca, was frightfully scalded. A
kettle Of boiling water was standing on
the floor, and the little fellow tipped it
over himself. He may live.
The grand court convention Of For
esters for Minnesota, Wisconsin and
+ Iowa will be held in Waseca May IL,
for a two-day's session. The conven-
ton will elect officers and select dele
: gates to the supreme court convention,
to be held in Denver.
August Hagerdown, a young farmer
living at Brandon, was fined So and
costs for abusing Isaac OFT, a boy he
had taken from the state school at
Owatonna. It was abuse of the great
est brutality, and complaint was made
by the agent Of the school.
4 Farmers generally around Elysian
y have begun seeding. The prospects for
a good harvest were never better. The
soil is full Of moisture, and few
warm days will make the conditions
for starting crop all that can be de-
sired.
John Vail, alias Curly Jack, who bur
glarized the hotel and machine shop at
Pelican Rapids, was captured by q
posse in the brush a. mile northwest of
the village. Jack Willett, whom Vail
duplicates in the crime, is also under
arrest.
The thirteenth annual encampment
Of the Minnesota Division, Sons of Vet
Grams, which was to occur at Prince
ton. June s, 8, 10 and II, has been
postponed a week. The change was
made to accommodate teachers and
pupils in public schools.
The Lily creamery at Lake Crystal
was broken into and several hundred
pounds Of butter stolen. Footprints
leading to and from the creamery
showed clearly in the mud, but no 9th
err clew has been found as to who die
tie act.
First Lieut.. Frank B. Mccoy, THIRD
infantry is now assigned by the secre
tary of war to do duty with the nation
al guard Of Minnesota. Private Will
: lam McFadden, Third infantry, now a
Fort Smelling, has been ordered dis
charged.
Wllldm "A. DICkSOn, IA piOMlueu
farmer living in the town Of Terrace
Pope county, was found hanging deat
| in his barn. He had been sick for som
time and treatment did not seem t
. help him. Becoming Respondent b
committed suicide. 1t is rumored tina
$4,000 was recently left to him.
At the special election held at Mont
gomery for the reorganization Of tn
village charter, a majority We're in "a
vor Of reorganization. Several add
, tions will be included in the new char
; ter, which will about double the popu
lation, and it also gives the presiden
}, and council greater powers.
=, AS w. L. Rice, living two miles sout
|, Of the village Of Grand Meadow, wa
driving his team with a load of corr
his only son, Il boy of nine years, VIII
!, was playing with a companion, fell VI
! der the wheels, one Of which passe
: over his chest. The Child fingered
:, great agony until he died.