The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-09-29
State News.
Perham has organized Roosevelt

FOSSUOn.
Stone masons are on a strike in
Rochester.
The Bank OF Harris has changed
hands, local parties becoming owners.
A new paper to be called the Durkin
Opinion will be published at Frazee.
Wolves in the town of Royalton are
giving much trouble in the care of
= sheep.
Mrs. J. D. Stanton, seventy-six, q
pioneer resident of Blue Earth is dead
at her home.
} A barber named Charles futile at
East'Grand Forks was found dead in
bed, presumably from an overdose OF
morphine.
The seventeen-year-old son of W.
H. Heitritter of Bigelow, MIMI, was
accidentally shot and killed by his
brother while hunting.
While trying to get on the trucks OF
Chicago, Milwaukee q St. Paul
train in the yards at Ortonville, an
unknown man was killed last week. =.
Lightning struck barn on the E.
II. Ostrander farm, two miles south OF
Widen. One child was killed and two
others and the hired man seriously
burned.
A threshing machine engine ex-
plOded northwest OF Kimball. The
engineer was killed outright and a
farmer named John Kramer seriously
injured.
The grand jury at Winona has given
the county warm report on the con-
dition Of the county jail at that place,
and strongly recommends that it be
repaired
John Falber Of LIE Sueur, section
foreman of the Omaha road at Ottawa,
was run over on the track and killed.
His father was killed in the same man
ner many years ago.
John J. Lawler, father of Rev.
Father Lawler. pastor of the cathed-
raj in St. Paul, died suddenly of heart
failure at Rochester. He was a pio-
neer Of Olmstead county.
At Pine City a well-arranged jail
delivery was accomplished, when four
boys, three held for burglary and one
for horse stealing, dug their way
through the brick walls to liberty
Work on the new Chicago Great
Western passenger station at Roches-
ter will be completed by the lst of
October. The structure will be one of
the best on the company's entire line.
After a residence in Albert Lea
most of the time, for over forty-nine
years, George Gardener died at his
home in that place Friday morning.
Mr.. Gardner first visited the land
upon which the city of Albert Lea
now stands in June, 1855.
While crossing a culvert with a
traction engine near Argyle, the cul-
vert broke and Peter D. Felix, the
fireman, was pinned under the engine.
His left foot was badly crushed, and
he was otherwise bruised and scalded.
His home is at Little Falls.
Judge Arthur Il. Snow of the dis
trict court at Winona sentenced Louis
Bundy to the reformaotry at St.
Cloud for attempted abuse of Martha
Buerman, aged thirteen. Bundy is a
young married man, and his only de-
Tense was he was intoxicated.
The old settlers of the St. Croix val
ley held their thirteenth annual meet
ing last week at the Sawyer house,
Saltwater. The officers elected were:
President, E. W. Durant; vice presi-
dent, Peter Berkey, St. Paul; secre-
tary, Adam Marty, Saltwater; treas
urer, A. L. Larpenteur, St. Paul.
Edward D. Mcdonald of Proctor,
who is in charge of the entire pump
ing equipment of the Missabe road,
met with a terrible death. He was
inspecting pump at Iron Junction
when he was caught by the hy-wheel,
whirled around several times and
dashed to the floor.
Ed Klawitter of Hutchinson received
a fractured skull and broken arm and
ribs in a peculiar accident, and there
is little hope of his recovery. He
stopped his threshing engine on a
bridge twenty-five feet long and ten
feet high across the Croweriver, four
miles west of Hutchinson. Starting
the engine suddenly, the bridge slip
ped backward under it on the abut-
ments, dropping the machine into the
water. Mr.. Klawitter was rescued
more dead than alive by members OF
tthe threshing crew.
At Graceville while workmen were
making connections with the sewer,
little Michael equity, son of one of
the cOuncilmen went down the ladder