The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-08-11
MINI A ITEMS.

4 Ole Vallan, leading merchant at
zlumla1brota, was drowned at Oronoco.
Honolulu papers are loud in their
praise Of the Thirteenth Minnesota.
The Northern Pacific crop bulletin
shows most favorable conditions in
this state. s
5sa The wheat yield Of Minnesota and the
Dakotas is estimated at 100000, 600 to
#22O,OOO,00O bushels.
New regulations are to be issued for
timber operations on Minnesota Indian
reservations.
County conventions for the nornina-
ton OF candidates for county offices,
nave been held in most Of the counties.
g Willis Landon, eight years old, was
drowned in Rice lake, near Braineru.
while fishing. He was son Of W. j.
Landon.
The condition Of Col. Shandrew, of
the Fifteenth regiment is reported as
showing a slight Improvement, and his
physicians now say all danger is past.
The Rollingstone Farmers Mutual
ERE insurance company will prosecute
Paul Kargus, who set, fire to Mr..
TlmlEs' straw stack last week.
NJ: NJ. Armstrong. cattle buyer, living
at Bass Lake, Wis, was robbed of
S;'O4 three miles east of saltwater. He
was held up by three men who jumped
from the brush along the road.
. Yesterlandet, the Swedish weekly pa
per published at Saltwater by a stock
company in the interest Of prohibition,
mas ceased publication, owing to a lack
of patronage. @'s|
The residence Of Harry Heisel at
saltwater was scorched by fire recent
~, and Heisel was burned about the
shoulders by the explosion Of a gaso-
lie stove. Loss, $500. ~.
Mrs. Ida Martins three-year-old child
fell into tub Of scalding water at Elk
river, and was burned so severely that
the skin came off from neck to feet
When the clothing was removed.
While freight train No. 76, on the
Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad, was in
Hanley Falls, one Of the brakemen got
into a row with a negro, and, in self
uetense, shot him, inficting but q
slight wound.
Hans Hanson, from Turtle Lake.
Wis, was killed by the cars at Elk
River. He was going to Dakota to get
work, and was struck at $50 D. m. bv
the Northern Pacific passenger, diving
immediately.
Prof. Frederick E. Scare of Massa-
cnusetts has been elected teacher of
physical sciences in the Winona nor
will
duties Oct. 1. succeeding Prof, F.. 7.
freeman, resigned.
The stock and fixtures of Heimer II.
Lee, boot and shoe dealer of Winona.
who recently assigned, were sold to 7.
Stlrneman for $6,O0O The stock and
fixtures were sold separately at first.
sbut it was found that more could he
realized by selling them together, and
the first sale was set aside.
The teachers summer training
school, which has been in session at
Buffalo the past month, has closed. 1t
mas been the most successful and Iars-
est attended Of any vet held, the total
number registered being ia. All speak
very highly Of Prof. Gains and his
able assistants.
William Klussman, a prominent and
Well-to-do farmer living about ten
miles north Of Jackson, was found
dead in his grove. He was at home
alone in the afternoon, and, presuma-
bly,, took a walk through the grove.
when he died from heart failure. to
Which he has been subject for some
time past. He was about fifty years
old.
At a meeting Of the Bemidii Gun
club, stranger named Eau Claire, at
tended the trap, and visitor who was
taking part in the sport lifted his gun
somewhat too slowly, as he pulled the
trigger, and sent charge of shot into
the back and shoulders of Eau Claire.
as the latter left the trap. The in
Jured man may recover although the
shot penetrated his lungs.
John Albert Carlson of the town Of
Parnell,, Traverse county. was before
a justice Of the peace last week.
charged with carnal abuse of q small
child under the age of ten years. Up
on examination before A. G. Swanson.
he was bound over to await the action
of the grand jury in November.
While the crime charged is a very seri-
Gus one, yet the evidence was far from
being satisfactory, and the nature Of
the case would seem to indicate. that
no serious crime has been committed.
The Minnesota men interested in the
pulp mill project at Koochiching are
expected to visit the townsite soon and
make arrangements for constructing
the dam and appurtenances requisite
to the operations of the mill. The dam
is to be completed in year from date,
or the charter will be forfeited. There
are some 10000 horse power at the
falls there, and some Of this will be
utilized for pulp mills. It is almost en-
tlrely Minneapolis capital that is at the
back of the enterprise.
James Curran was held to the United
States grand jury at Duluth on the
charge of holding up the Northern Pa
chic train last September near Moor
head, with two other men. The grand
jury will meet at Fergus Falls, Sept.
y. Anthony Stevens, the United States
prisoner who identified him, testified
that Curran told him, after the hold
up, that the job might have been worth
$4,000 it they had not pulled the
wrong coupling pin. Recently Curran
told him in Duluth, that he was going
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