The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1899-02-23
NEWS In MIN N ESQ IA

NEWS In MI NES OT!A /
Candy has voted $12, 900 bonds for .
waterworks system
John w. Eastman, the pioneer miller
Of Minneap Ills, is dead, aged -.
The Duluth and Iron Range railroad
has paid the state $82, 465 gross earnings
tax. IN 1
President George Kleeberger Of the
st. Cloud normal school has suffered !
stroke Of paralysis.
. The state encampment, G.. A. r., will
meet at st. Paul Thursday and Friday
Of the present week.
The Fifteenth Minnesota and all other
volunteer regiments now in the United
States are ordered mustered out.
Hamline college sophomores kid
mapped the freshmen's president and
held him prisoner until after the class
banquet. r.s:@
Otto Polratz of Company E, Fourth
Wisconsin regiment, is dead from pneu-
monia. He was from New Albin, Mimi,
and will be buried there. p
The Chippewa Indian delegation
called at the White House Saturday had
an interview with the president and
asked for the repeal Of the law of 1889.
The warm weather of the past few
days has practically ruined the logging
roads and unless there is change to
colder soon many of the camps will be
broken up. g. .>.&s Ii
Directors of the Pillsbury- Washbur1
company have issued a circular tc
shareholders saying that the company's
property Will never go into the Mcln
tyre -four trust. - '.>r-. X
Fire destroyed John Hugstad's resi-
dence at Moorhead, valued at $1,5O'
During the fire Sandy McLain. police
man, was struck by a falling Gimme.
& and instantly killed. ~..">- &. 49, r..
At Minneapolis, Marshall Kent, aget
8 years, fatally shot 3-year-old MAI
shall Stacy with whom he was playing
The boys found a revolver in an uI
stairs room and the older boy playful
pointed it at his young playmate.
At Pipestone, Judge Brown sentence
, William Timm to three years aud 81
months in the state prison for arson i
: the third degree, and Charles Kreishe
to the state prison under the reform;
! tory law for grand larceny in the secon
J.. degree.
|. The Germans of St. Paul are about
g organize probably the strongest Germa
e society that has ever been organized
e the state. It is to be known as the &c
e man-America Central Society of Mi
d nesota, and twill include all the &c
man societies of that city, Of whatev
kind. .s. -
}. The tranfer of so women patien
from the Rochester insane hospital
- Fergus Falls gives a population Of z
~ insane patients at Fergus, the large
" number ever gathered in the state
= one institution, probably the largest
- the Northwest. Rochester was abol
- inably crowded. Fergus had a lit
:, more room. $685.
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80 rnles Of the civil service commission
= applic for the clerk and carrier
s the classified postofice service will
- held at the postofice building: ST. Pa
~ between March Is and Agril 1, the {
~. act date not yet having been Diet
y. mined. Applicants must file their +:
- plcations not later than March l.. -
The St. Paul Central high school "
declared the champion high school
3. the champion contest held in
armory at the state university, MINI
Ia apolis, with 20 points. The Minneape
~ Central was second with % points, a
an the Minneapolis South Side high sch
NJ third with 10 points. The acaden
N: Minneapolis East Side high school a
m: Saltwater were the other contestants
me The state railroad commissioners v
Iee have another session with the railro
III. this week relative to grain rates. ]
1es commissioners intend to make this
zen vestigation exhaustive and compile
au and they will take plenty of time to
ew at the facts. The railroads are {
~ preparing to combat any argument t
1u' may be made for reductions and h
IL prepared tariff sheets, tables and OF
documents to prove that the rates I
- in force are reasonable and just.