The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-25
State News.

Glenwood will lay seven blocks of
sewer.
Mankatos charter commission has
finished it's work.
Excelsior is now enjoying light from
it's new gas plant.
Virginia has named it's new s65, 900
high school Roosevelt
The Populists of Marshall county
have nominated county ticket.
The ''public ownership party will
hold convention in Carlton Septem-
Der 9TH.
The local w. G. T. U. has completed
arrangements for gathering at Fra
zee the latter part of September.
The body Of John Pass, an employee
at Hant's brick yard at Perham was
found floating in Mcdonald lake.
Peter Schroeder, proprietor of the
Globe flour mills, has purchased the
Northern Pacific elevator at Perham.
The German Catholic Teachers as
ISOLATION of Minnesota completed it's
second annual session at St. Cloud.
Ernest Voelker, a pioneer resident
OF Washington county, is dead. He is
survived by a wife, six sons and three
daughters.
The apple crop around Spring Val
ley is enormous, by far the largest in
years, and many bushels are being
shipped from that point daily.
The tenth annual convention of the
Christian Endeavor Union Of the
Buffalo district was in session in Elk
River Saturday and Sunday.
The first shipment of iron ore was
made from Two Harbors twenty years
ago. Since then ~, 5000 gross tons
have passed through the docks at that
place.
Wolves have become so numerous
Rochester that reward of S. for each
wolf has been offered in addition to
the usual bounty.
A fourteen-year-old boy from the
State school at OwatOnna. who was
adopted by a Perham man, stole some
money from his employer and was re-
turned to the school.
The body OF Miss Aagot Dahl, who,
with her father, was last seen alive on
April 3, at Mr.. Dahl's homestead near
During, was found under brush pile
about mile east of where the body of
her father was discovered three weeks
ago.
Andrew E. Boon, a merchant of Fer
gus Falls and brother Of ex-Congress-
man Boon, was found dead in the out
skirts of the city. His buggy had up
set and his neck was broken. The
horse stood all night where the acct
dent occurred.
Jacob Hoffman, a St. Paul balloon
ist, was drowned in Lake Alice, Fer
gus Falls last week. He made a bal
loon ascension, and on coming down
in the parachute, fell into the lake.
He became entangled in the weeds and
drowned before assistance could reach
him.
An attempt was made to burglarize
the Northern Pacific station at Sank
Center. By the use of skeleton keys
the building was entered by two men.
The police were telephoned and in ten
minutes one was under lock and key
and the other was captured two hours
later.
The Lincoln Agricultural Society
and County Fair association has been
incorporated with a capital stock of
$4,000. The headquarters of the as
sociation will be at Tyler, where a
race track will be built, real estate
and buildings secured for fair pur-
poses.
Fish are dying in the lake near AL
bert Lea. Large pickerel, bullheads,
suckers, perch and all kinds are dy-
ing. They seem to sutfocate, although
there is a good stage OF water in the
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shores and must be hauled away and
buried.
A barn belonging to Edward F.
Cummins, a farmer in Redwood Falls
township, was destroyed by fire. Five
horses we're burned to death. The
loss was about $1,000, with light in
surance HWearv Wi71ies'; RESTING in
the barn and lighting pipes is as
signed as the cause of the fire.
Johanna Stack is dead after three
years sickness of cancer. She was
born in Limerick county, Ireland, in
1880. She married Patrick Stack in
1867 at St. Anthony and located at
Anoka the afternoon of her marriage
and moved into the home where she
bod La