The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-12-22
MINNESOTA ITEMS

with gOO0 dinner on Christmas.
J.. v. Brewer has presented to the
state historical association his valuable
collection Of some 10000 specimens.
The state printing commission has
reaprointed Capt. @. g. Whitney state,
expert for another two years.
possible successor to Secretary OF the
Interior Bliss.
United States deputy marshals have
been exonerated by officials who I'M
yestigated charges against them at the
Leech Lake outbreak.
Factory reports from the labor COM
uissioner's Office show considerable
decrease in the number of accidents
due to machinery.
Insane hospital trustees and the state
board of corrections and charities are
unanimously opposed to fourth hos
| rital.
depot and saloon at Adams, and then
tried to enter the Bank of Adams, but
We're foiled by man with shotgun.
Peter Shield was strlck by falling
tree and instantly killed. He was en-
ployed at the Barnes camp, just east Of
Menhaga.
At q special election held at Pelican
! Rapids, it was voted to bond the vii
lage for $14 600, for electric lights, wa
ter supply and town hall.
| The high school building at Marshall
burned recently. It, is a total loss,
nothing being saved. The loss is about
| $4,000, with an insurance of about
SIS, 600.
| w. D. Parish of Houston was killed
at Ramsey while coupling cars on the
! Milwaukee road. He slipped on the ice
and a freight train passed over him
| lengthwise.
The drug store of Holden & Hamre
at Granite Falls was found to be On
fire recently. The wareroom was COM
pletely destroyed, and the rear part of
the store proper badly scorched. Wa
ter did much damage to the stock. G.
Olson's saloon, next door, was also bad
ly damaged. All losses are covered by
insurance. -+.,.
Marshal Joseph Thomas of Pine City
reports an extraordinary number Of
tramps, having had some sixty already
during the month of December. He
locks them up as soon as he finds that
they belong to the tramp fraternity, If
in the evening, and hustles them out
of town during the daytime. Many Of
them try to spend the night at the de-
pot till thrown out by the operator.
r. B. Allen of Chatfeld very narrow
~ escaped a serious accident recently.
He was coming in from the country in
a cutter, and met a runaway team be-
longing to a farmer named Schermer-
horn. The runaway horses ran over
Mr.. Allen, throwing him from the cut
ter, disloeating the bones of his wrist
and badly injuring one leg.
Jesse Fitzpatrick, a grain buyer Of
Altoona, twelve miles north Of Pipe
stone, was assaulted recently by
Charles Kiesberg, a section man on the
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern.
He secured $500 after a hard tussle.
and fled, leaving Fitzpatrick in critic
al condition. Kiesberg is still at large.
In the United States court at Duluth
an action has.been begun by George w.
Thayer against the City Of Little Falls.
He seeks to prevent an issue of bonds
Vt 100000, recently voted by the people
Of that city, to build a water and light
system. 1t is evidently a fight between
the city and the Little Falls Electric
and Water company.
Lloyd A. Little, aged forty-six years,
and a farmer of Spring Lake, Blue
Earth county, committed suicide by
| shooting himself through the heart
while temporarily insane. He made
his home in Mankato during the win
ter and was at his sisters house when
he took his life. Deceased leaves three
brothers and a married sister, Mrs. F..
s. Bragden of Fegus Falls.
| Sheriff Peterson Of Ada arrested DR..
Shrender Of Shelly, charged by one
Dryodal with having sold him a bottle
Of whisky. The doctor had charge Of
Bottom Bros. & Moen's drug store. He
was taken before Justice Hintze at
u Ada, where he was bound over to the
district court, Mr.. Bottom going on his
bond. -
| The first farmer in the vicinity Of
Fergus Falls who has thls-far taken
advantage of the Nelson bankruptcy
law is j. J. Bakken of Akron, Wil1in
county, who has filed the necessary pa
pers in the Office Of T.. A. ,Levorsen,
deputy clerk of the United States court
in that city. Mr.. Bakken's Liabilities
amount to $500 and his assets to a
small fraction Of that sum.
There has been raise Of 10 per cent
in the wages Of the Palmo and New
port mines, on the Gogebic range,
bringing these mines UP to the scale
adopted by the Norrie Tilden Dec L.
The average increase in wages at large
iron mines has been 40 per cent in the
last twelve months. A few mines on
the old ranges are still paying the
scale Of Dec. 1, but will be forced to
advance soon or lose their men,
A cooperative company is being
formed at Duluth for the purpose Of
manufacturing wagons and sleighs OH
i large scale. A meeting was recently
held, and Nels Nyhus is chairman and
]. Allyn Scott secretary of the prelim-
mary organization. None but stock
holders in the company can be en-
ployed, and provision will be made to
prevent the stock passing into the con-
troll Of any one person. The plant will
be at West Duluth.