The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-12-22
State News.

81 Gne week. fr
Mrs. G. w. Campbell, an old pio-
neer of Anoka county, died in Anoka
last week.
A new wagon road from Kelliher to
Beaudette is being built. It will be
seventy miles in length
The entire plant of the United Man
uiacturing company at Sank Center
was destroyed by fire last week. The
total loss is $1,000.
The hotel at Holding near ST. Cloud,
was destroyed by fire. A saloon and
blacksmith shop adjoining where also
destroyed. Loss $4,000.
The Holy Rosary church in Mime
apolis, one of the finest Catholic
churches in the northwest, was de-
stroyed by fire last week.
DR.. Geo. r. Koch of New Ulm has
been indicted for the murder of DR..
Gibhard. A plea of not guilty was
entered and the trial set for December
9th.
A pack Of wolves attacked the stage
between Grand Marais and Two Har-
bOrs one day last week. A deer car
cass on the stage attracted the wolves,
which were kept at bay with revolEers
and guns.
M. D. Grover, general counsel for
the Great Northern road died at his
home in St. Paul this week. He had
been connected with the Great North
ern and the old Manitoba road for
seventeen years.
Judge Jacob A. Kiester Of Blue
Earth is dead. In 1856 he came out
to Wisconsin from Pennsylvania, and
in April, 1857, journeyed to Minnesota
and located as one of the early pio-
neers in the Blue Earth valley.
John Iverson, father of State Audi
tor S. G. Iverson and one of the pio-
neers Of Minnesota, died at st.
Joseph's hospital. ST. Paul this week,
aged seventy-three years. Mr.. Iver-
son lived for forty-eight years at
Rushford, MIMI, leaving that village
for Ottofy, N. D., in 1896.
The S. II. Hall & Co. warehouse ait
Mora was destroyed by fire last week.
The warehouse contained about $500
bushels of potatoes, and about 900
bushels of grain, consisting of rye,
fax and barley. The total loss will
reach about $4,000: all of which is
covered by insurance.
Matthias Boil, business man and
member Of the city council Of St.
{ Cloud, passed away at his home Sun
day, Dec. 11th. He had been ill with
pneumonia and a complication of dis
eases for three months. He was one
of the early settlers of st. Cloud and
is survived by a wife and six small
! children.
George n. Spurbeck, E. r. Fitch
Z and M. L. Scott have pa4urchased 400
acres four miles north of Two Har-
bors and will raise sheep. This is
the first attempt of the kind in north
eastern Minnesota A large part of
the land has been fenced, and more
will be enclosed as fast as required.
Five hundred head of sheep will be
purchased at the start.
After compelling Arthur H. Cries
ser, cashier of the Bank of Chisholm,
to walk into the vault, robber locked
the heavy steel door and Looted the
cash drawer of all the money in sight,
more than $4,000, shortly after 10
O'Clock on Wednesday morning OF Last
week. Griesser kicked on the door of
the vault, and an attorney in an ad-
joining room released him.
The total shortage of Deputy County
Treasurer Charles Bernick of St.
Cloud now reaches Sc, 596.6O Another
Thousand dollar shortage was found
by deputies from the Office of the pub
lie examiner in 1902 tax collection ac-
counts. Bernick confessed also to this
and promised ultimately to settle for
everything. Bernick has invested
heavily in Angora goats, of which he
owns 500 head. He has his liberty I'M
der SIS, 600 bonds.
A wild cat was killed Sunday MORN
ing within three miles Of the heart of
st. Cloud. The animal was slain bv
sixteen-year-old boy named Arthur
Thurston, in the woods back of the
Startell brothers mill, on the Sank
river. The animal has been seen
many times by children on their way
home from school and they have told
their parents of it. The latter, how
ever, did not take any stock in the
wild cat story, saying that the child
rem probably saw a stray dog.
During the gale Monday night the
walls tn the Peck h,1i 11inp MinneanO1is