The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-10-13
State News.


and killed while currying horse.
The Women's State Suffrage asso-
citation was in session in Anoka last
week.
Mrs. Caroline Belinder of Cannon
Falls died at the age of ninety-two
last week.
The village of Lewiston is again to
have a weekly paper. 1t will be called
the Lewiston News.
G. A. Haggstrom, aged seventy
eight and a pioneer Of the town of
Leon in Goodhue county died last
week.
0. A. Sanders, a prominent Cass
county farmer, committed suicide by
drowning himself in the Red river
He is believed to have been insane.
George Cordell, ditcher of Fair
mont was terribly battered and bruised
about the head by footpads who slug
ged and robbed him of $50 on the out
skirts of town.
Susanna Dransfeld and John Con-
nor, Jr., of Duluth have Just received
information that leads them to believe
they will share in an old Inheritance
valued at $50, 900, 900.
Frank J. Artz Of Bemidji: accused
Of murder in the first degree, was &C.
quilted. He was indicted for the kill
ing Of John Wellander. q homesteader.
The trial lasted six days.
A rainfall of two inches, covering
the greater part Of the Red river val
ley, has stopped all threshing opera
tions, and work cannot be resumed
till the latter part of next week, as
the shocks are soaked through.
The semi-centennia of the founding
of New Ulm was celebrated in Tur-
ner theater last week. There were
present nearly 200 people who were
there previous to 1862 and who were
the guests of the Junior pioneers.
Charles Palmer, brick mason en-
ployed on the new Catholic church at
Rush City was injured by a fall from
broken scaffolding. Limbs were
broken and internal injuries are
feared. Palmer's home is near Stacy,
MINI.
James Shipman, a farmer sixty-six
years of age. was attacked by an
enraged bull near Fairmont. One of
his legs and three ribs we're broken
before the Infatuated animal could be
driven off. He was also badly bruised
and lacerated.
The sale Of the reservation lands at
Crookston has closed after every piece
has been offered. There were 129 de-
scriptiOns sold, covering 20, 1888 acres,
out of over 1000 pieces offered, cover
ing about 100, 900 acres The amount
for which the land was sold is 800, 557,
and the amount collected on first
payments was $1S, l11.93.
Miss Agnes Geering. aged seven
teen, was killed by a Northern Pacific
freight train at Anoka. She was en-
ployed at the Hotel Blanchett and had
been sent to the depot on an errand.
She started to return to the hotel and
did not see a special freight train
which was approaching. She was
struck by the engine and killed almost
instantly.
William Lennon of Hutchinson, a
veteran of the Civil war died at the
age Of sixty last week. His infancy
was spent in an orphan asylum in
New York, and he never knew father
or mother. In 1862 he enlisted in the
Eighth Michigan cavalry and served
until the battle of Shiloh, where he
lost leg. He spent a portion of his
time of late years in the Soldiers
Home and was drawing a pension of
$46 a month.
Fire originating from unknown
causes at Heron Lake, Mimi, last
week destroyed two mammoth eleva-
tors owned by the Benson Grain COM
pany and the St. John Grain company.
together with 100000 bushels of wheat,
sixteen freight cars belonging to the
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis &
Omaha line, loaded with grain and
coal besides damaging three other
cars. The loss is about $75, 200. The
elevators will be rebuilt Immediately.
N. M. Anderson, an old settler of
Grass Lake town, Kanabec county,
met with an accident last week that
ended his life. He had been to town
and had become Intoxicated. On his
way home his team became frightened
and ran away. When turning in at
the gate, the team ran into the fence
Anderson fell and his head was COM
pletely torn open by the broken
boards and timbers. He lived but
short time after the accident. He is
s11rvive6 nv O. wife and family