The Princeton union., 1898-10-13
MIlvl.NESO ia ITEMS

The October apportionment of the
school fund divides $697 600 at $2.l5
per capita. '55i
Diphtheria has been reported at
Knife Lake, about five miles above
Mora. The school has been closed.
| Or. Lyman B. Sperry is delivering a
course Of lectures on hygiene and kin
dred subjects at Northfeld before the
students of Carleton college.
Mrs. M. "a. Tyron, who for the past
year has rented the Arnold House, at
OWatonna, has purchased the same
and will continue to operate it.
"A COW kicked over q lantern in John
Jchnlckey's barn two miles east Of
| Woodstock, and the barn and contents
We're burned with small insurance.
The machinery warehouse Of Frank
Graham at Little Falls, together with
all its contents We're burned. Loss,
$1,000; insurance, 5000.
The contract for the vacuum, tanks,
pumps and machinery in the Schuster
brewing establishment at Rochester
was let to the r. F. Vacuum company
Of New York for the sum of $4,000.
Julius Buckholz of Rochester was
seriously injured by heavy iron fur
mace falling and striking him on the
head. Several stitches were taken near
the left ear. H.. K. E.. u
Mrs. Angeline Blaisdell of st. Cloud,
| against whom information Of insanity
had been filed by her brother-in-law,
Coleman Bridgeman, has been de-
clared sane.
Casper Janikula committed suicide
at DelanO by cutting his throat from
ear to ear. Financial troubles are sup
posed to have been the cause. He
leaves a wife and five small children.
While coupling cars at Argyle, Gale
kiyel, brakeman, slipped and fell,
the cars passing over one arm, sever
ing it below the elbow. Kivel former
sister living there. ~s.. ... -..-
Burkart's saloon at aokah was badly
damaged by fire. The bartender, Fred
Geier,. was burned to death. A barrel
OF alcohol exploded probably set off
by the bartender, who is thought to
| have set fire to his clothes by starting
a fire in the stove with kerosene.
The Morrison electric light plant at
Mora is now running full blast. The
streets Of the village will probably be
| lighted from the plant. There is prob
| ably not another village in the state
| Of the population of Mora that has an
electric light plant. ..>
| The Minnesota State School for Fee
BILE Minded, at Faribault, held the first
| graduating exercises of a class of at
| tendants, nurses, etc., in the physiolo-
| gy training course, especially fitting
| them for school work with the feeble
minded.
DR. Andrew Fossman, instructor in
Greek at st. Olaf college, Northfield,
| has returned from Greece, where he
has spent three months this summer
| in archaeological research. He was
| specially interested in looking up mat
ters connected with the Greek theater.
| Two freigh trains collided at Bel
grade, a station on the 500 eighteen
miles east of Glenwood. One train was
standing on side track to allow the
other to pass, but the switch was
turned at the other end, throwing both
trains on the same track. An engine
and several box cars were badly de-
| molished. No one was hurt. .r,..-
An elevator in Glenwood, belonging
| to the Atlantic Elevator company.
burned Sunday, with 1000 bushels of
wheat. Fully insured. Hamm's cold
storage plant had close call, but the
fire boys saved it, Foreman Wallace,
of the hook and ladder company, re-
| ceived bad cut on the right hand
while working on Hamm's building.
On the farm of Kiole Furgeson near
Minneota fire destroyed 1900 bushels
of oats, 40 bushels of wheat, a barn
/ ~ r1,< @+r 1,a T.
60 tons of hay. The horses narrowly
escaped with their lives. Partial in
surance in the Norwegian Mutual Of
Eidsvold. Smaller hre losses have
been numerous this week. .a-s.@
Ole Severson of Winona, who was
convicted of carnally knowing and
abusing his daughter, a girl under ten
years Of age, was sentenced by Judge
Shaw to the penitentiary for life. AS
Scverson was being taken from the
court room he created sensation by
charging that his wife and nother-in-
law had murdered two of his children
several years ago in Cedar Valley.
Tom Dean, who has been working
for Faus & Silvernaile, blacksmiths, at
Montevideo, forged two checks Of 500
each, using the firms name, and Sue
l@ceeded IN passing them at the saloons
in that place at late hour. He was
seen to take the train going east about
1 o'clock, and as he bought ticket
and had his baggage checked to Min
neapolis, it is generally thought that
was his destination. -
| George A. st. Clair, son of G. A. st.
Clair, manager of the Sparta mine at
Eveleth, Mimi, a university man, and
well known in Minneapolis, where his
mother lives, was arrested recently,
charged with passing a number of
forged checks for amounts ranging
from So to $45. Checks amounting to
about $1OO have been discovered, and
several people identified st. Clair as
the man who passed them. He was
admitted to the bar few days ago. :.
Fire destroyed James Mackey &
Sons ice houses at Lilly Lake near
Saltwater, and the loss is estimated
at $5,OOO. a large barn was also
burned. The fire started in the barn
and in less than no time the barn was
a mass of seething flames and the fire
had communicated to three ice houses,
which were totally consumed. Five
horses were in the barn at the time
and only one was saved. The only