The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-09-08
MINNESOTA ITEMS

~ sASopCA Lie Ol.ELOulS County case.
Internal revenue receipts in Mime
sofa in Augustsamounted to 1928, 900,
Defsey Marshall died at Glencoe. He
had been a resident there over forty
years.
The state high school board awards
grants to standard schools, and issues
teachers certificates.
Matt Lorbecski was arrested at Wi
mona for brutally beating his step.
daughter, who had called to see her
dying mother.
G. b. Bucks term as postmaster at
Winona has expired, and, as result,
aspirants are anxiously awaiting the
fall Of the plum.
Jens X. Grondahl Of Red Wing was
nominated for representative from the
Third district. This, If he is elected,
will make his third term AZ
Gen. Reeve cables from Manila that
Captains Bjornstad and Seebach, and
other wounded soldiers of the Thir-
teenth, are doing well.
Mrs. Anton Schultz died at her home
in Hastings, aged forty eight years.
She was an old and esteemed resident
Of that city, and the wife of ex-Police-
man Cchultz. III
Maj. and Mrs. II. N. Davis, father
and mother of Minnesota's distin-
guished senator, recently celebrated
the sixty-first anniversary of their
marriage at st. Paul.
Fire at Altura badly damaged the
grain elevator of Hans & Simons. An
elevator belonging to the ,O'Neal Grain
company of Winona, was also slightly
damaged. -,s. ...
Mrs. F. J. Martin of Wood Lake,
while washing, turned some gasoline
in the boiling water, which exploded
as soon as it touched the water, burn
ing her face quite badly.
George Taylor, who escaped from the
Rochester asylum, was arrested at
Red Wing three months ago for horse
stealing. He showed signs Of insanity,
and was ordered sent to the asylum by
the district judge.
Miss Annie Dillner, eighteen years
old, and Halvor Floren, twenty years
old, both prominent young people of
Grove City, were drowned while bath
ing in Diamond Lake, north Of Atwa-
ter. ST.
Lieut. Frank Morley Of Red Wing.
who died at Manila from rheumatism
of the heart, was twenty-seven years
old. He married Caroline. Eisenbrand
Dec. 1, 1897. She, with his mother,
three brothers and three sisters, sur
yive him., -.
A motion for,a new trial was recently
argued before Judge Weber at New
Ulm in the now illustrious case of S.
G. Peterson against the Western Union
Telegraph company. The motion was
denied, and the case will now go to the
| supreme court for the third time
Peter Knudson, a section foreman of
the Duluth, Mesabe & Northern Rail
way company, was drowned at Dead
Mans lake., near Wolf while fishing.
His body had not been recovered at a
late hour. He leaves a wife and two
children.
The body of Nels Modine, a farmer
eight miles Northwest of Hutchinson,
was found at the bottom of a sixty
foot well. 1t is supposed he became
intoxicated, sat On the curb and fell in.
People have been using the water all
the time.
The Otter Tail county saengerfest
held a successful song festival at Peli-
can Rapids recently. A special train,
was run from Fergus Falls. Talent
from Fergus Falls, Underwood, Roth
say and Pelican rapids, under the man
agement of Rev. r. B. Haugan Of Fer
gus Falls, participated. y.
Fire caught from the engine Of Zas-
ka Bros threshing machine while
threshing for Joe Warner, four miles
south Of Renville, and destroyed ten
stacks Of grain and his barn. The loss
was 81 200, with light insurance; also,
while Julius Detritch was threshing
on his place, fire burned four stacks OF
grain. ~.
Swan J.. Anderson, well-to-do farm
er living near Crookston met with a
serious accident. He had driven along
the railroad right-of-way, when his
horse, buggy and himself, rolled down
the fifteen-foot bank to the railroad
track. Mr.. Anderson's ankle was bad
ly fractured and his neck and shoulder
slightly injured.
The Cloquet Lumber company, one
of the Weyerhauser corporations, has
ordered thirty-six miles Of steel rails
from the Illinois Steel company, to be
delivered Oct. 1. They will be used on
the logging road being built from the
fifty-second mile-post on the Duluth
& Iron Range, to Iron Lake, on the Clio
quet river.
Joseph Pavek's brewery, at VESSEL,
was burned to.the ground with its con-
tents. The parents of Mr.. Pavek We're
occupying a room in the building, and
were barely saved in their night cloth
ing, being taken out through win
dow. The origin of the fire is ,un-
known. Loss, s., 1900; insured for 3d.
200. s
A few weeks ago the Iron Range
road had shipped 10000 tons more
B ore this season than during the same
period last year. The total Of last
years shipments to date now exceeds
this year s. This is due to the short
age Of men in the mines. If 1000 men
T. 80 nor M