The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-11-03
State News.

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II. V. Tucker shot a wild cat weigh
ing thirty-fve pounds at Nininger
slough near Hastings.
The Winona normal school football
team defeated the St. Cloud normal by
II to last Saturday.
The year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Taft of Two Harbors fell into
wash tub and was drowned
Norman W. King, detective con-
victed OF "grafting" during the Ames
administration. has been paroled from
the Saltwater prison.
The fve-year-Uld son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Bert Pierce of Winnebago City,
bled to death, caused from being
struck on the nose with an ear of
corn.
Bert Peterson, a married man, was
shot in the thigh by some person in a
Halloween crowd at Waterville. The
bullet has not been located and his
condition is critical.
Johannes Gulbrandson, one of the
old settlers of Freedom county, died
in Calendar, Iowa, and his remains
were brought to Manchester, Freeborn
county for burial. He was almost
eighty.
Josephine Holt, daughter of John
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bed. Examination revealed that she
had taken dose of paris green. Miss
Holt was about thirty-eight and no
motive for her suicide is known.
By jumping through the window of
train, James Cardy escaped from
Marshal W. II. Brownell OF Farming
ton. The officer was going to Hast
ings with Cardy and another prisoner,
sentenced to jail for minor offenses.
Crookston will build creamery
1t is estimated that about 200 gallons
of cream are shipped through Crook
ston from points on the north line and
from that vicinity to the twin cities,
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Much of this cream will be secured for
the Crookston creamery.
William Burau, sixteen-year-old son
of Mrs. Edward Burau of Elizabeth
township, Otter Tail county, was shot
through the foot while hunting. He
was lifting his gun out of buggy,
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charged and the charge passed
through the foot. shattering the bone
and causing a serious wound.
John Esselstein, the thirteen-year-
old son of w. F. Essesltein of Badora,
near Park Rapids, was accidentally
shot in the forehead with 22-caliber
rife and lived only a few hours. A
neighbor picked up the rifle: asked if
it was loaded, was told by the boy
that it was not, and upon examining
it accidentally shot the boy, who lived
but a short time.
A large quantity of money: COM
posed principally Of bills. was plowed
up by the sons of Brockway farmer
near Royalton. There was also some
silver. It is estimated that there is at
least S., 900 in the find, but it is doubt
full if the finders will realize anything,
as the paper money is badly decom-
posed. The money was found on the
farm of Daniel Sobieck. in section IS,
town of BrOckway
Frank L. Schimming, a blacksmith
at the David Tozer sawmill at South
Saltwater, met sudden death while he
was repairing some gang saw machin-
cry. The gang saw sash, weighing
1000 pounds, was held up by a chain
while the repairs were in progress.
The unfortunate man put his head IN
der the sash to examine the break.
In an instant the supporting chain
broke and the heavy sash fell upon
his neck, producing instant death.
To save himself from being crushed
to death by Great Northern freight
train, James L. Farrell of Austin
leaped from the railroad bridge over
the Mississippi at St. Cloud; falling
fifty feet to the bank of the river be-
low. Both of his wrists were broken,
his elbow dislocated, a rib fractured
and his face and scalp cut and torn.
He was conscious when picked up, and
as soon as his injuries were attended
to, left the hospital. Farrell and Will
liam Connolly, also of Austin, had
cars of movables in the train and
were going to Gray Eagle. The
freight stopped upon the bridge and
Farrell left his car to 60 to the car of
his friend. He had not accomplished
this when the train started and left
him the alternative of dying on the
bridge or jumping for his life to the
ground below.