The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-06-30
State News.

state bankers neld their annual
meeting at Lake Minnetonka last week.
Detroit is celebrating over the com
pletion Of the 500 road to that place
last week.
Electrical storm does lot of dam
age in the vicinity of Crokston and at
Fargo they had the most terrific cleo
trio storm Of the season last week.
Itasca county is suffering from a
plague Of mosquitoes. Everybody is
wearing bonnets and netting. Animals
are suffering from the pests.
John Murray, former we'll known
Benton county man, was found dead
last week about a half mile from his
claim in Golden Valley, N. D.
The forty-fourth convention of the
Evangelical Lutheran synod of Min
nesota met at the German Lutheran
church at Hutchinson last week.
A section gang found an unidentified
man two miles east of Doran, in a
ditch near the railroad tracks. He
appeared to have fallen from train,
and was unconscious.
Nelson P. Wright, late editor of the
Jackson Republic, left St. James
June II for Mountain Lake and has
not been heard from. He was known
to have some money and foul play is
feared.
farm, four miles west of Fergus Falls,
was burned together with young
horse and some machinery. The fire
is supposed to have been of incendiary
origin.
The Old Settlers association of
Faribault couny held it's annual meet
ing in Winnebago City, last week. A
fine banquet was served at noon, after
which addresses were made by old
settlers.
The annual conference Of the Welsh
G. NJ. church held a three-day session
at Lake Crystal last week. Several
hundred were in attendance and dele
gates were present from Iowa, Mime
sofa, Wisconsin and South Dakota.
The Southeastern Minnesota But
ermakers' association has just been
organized at Winona, including all
the prominent buttermakers and dairy
men in the southeastern part of the
State, and will hold its first big meet
ing on Thursday, June 80.
A corporation backed by Red Wing
capitalists has been formed and arti-
cles were filed at Winona, for the es-
Establishment of a million bushel ca
pacity mailing plant in that city. The
concern will be known as the Winona
Mailing company, and it is capitalized
at 100000.
The meeting Of the annual conven-
ton of the district v. G. T. U. was
held in Mortified last week. The ad-
dress Of welcome was made by Mrs. F.
Wilcox Of Mortified and responded
to by the district president. Addresses
were made by Miss Esther Wood and
Rev. M. G.. Shuman.
Josephine, daughter of Mrs. John
McKill Of Crookston, has been miss
ing several days. It is not thought,
however, that she has left the city, but
that she is somewhere with friends. In
1899 the girl was sent to the State
school for children at Owatonna by
her mother, then a widow.
The closing sessions of the central
conference Of Congregational and
Union churches of Minnesota were
held at Alexandria last week. Res
olutions were adopted in favor of
the organic union of the Congrega-
tional, Methodist, Protestant and
United Brethren churches.
Oscar Erickson, aged twenty one,
was killed by a Great Northern train
at Isanti last week. He was drunk
and had crawled under the platform to
sleep. The noise of the approaching
train disturbed him and he thrust his
head on the rail in front of the engine.
Death was almost instantaneous. His
relatives live near Isanti.
Aaron Anderson, section foreman
on the Northern Pacific railway at
Fergus Falls, was seriously injured
by the falling of a stone pier which he
was assisting in raising near the in
terloc]5ing switch. His left leg was
broken and he sustained severe in
juries about the head and possibly in
ternal injuries.
Lucky" O'Brien, one Of the we'll
known characters of Crookston, leaves
this week for the worlds fair with
dozen petrifed exhibits. He will make
the entire journey of 1900 miles over
land in a decorated wagon. The ex-
hibits are Of two petrifed bodies with