The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-07-28
State News.

The new town of Dent in Otter Tail
county, will incorporate.
Philadelphia capitalists are talking
of operating an electric street railway
in Mankato.
Tracts of land near Ortonville and
Big Stone stations have sold as high
as $3.50 an acre.
Otter Tail county will pay 50 bounty
in addition to the State bounty for
each cub wolf killed.
Seven applicants took the examina-
ton at Elk River for rural carriers
for the county of Sherburne.
From Jan. 1st to July 1st of the
present year Frazee City shipped 949
cars, mostly lumber and wood.
The Cedar Lake creamery, located
at Cedar Lake, has been destroyed by
fire. Total loss is estimated at 5000.
The farm implement house Of G. A.
Erickson at Willmar was totally de-
stroyed by fire. The total loss, 81, 900.
Loss on building $4,000.
Anton Polsik has been committed to
the reformatory at St. Cloud to serve
one year for the robbery of the Motley
postoffice.
Harvesting has begun in earnest at
Jasper. The yield and quality is not
excelled by the bumper crop Of 1895,
while the acreage is much larger.
Oscar Freibgre was drowned in
Detroit lake. He dove from a row
boat which was unanchored and
drowned before he could reach the
boat.
In fight at Two Harbors between
Mike Conroy, crazy man, armed
with an ak, and Sheriff Emil Nelson,
Conroy was shot. He is in the hos
pital and may recover.
For the first time in the history of
Rice county, a woman's name will ap-
pear on the ticket at the primary cleo
ton. The woman is Miss Alice J.
Mott for superintendent of schools.
Edward Bransham, the colored lad
Of seventeen whose leg was crushed
Saturday evening under Northern
Pacific freight car near Becker, died
at St. Raphael's hospital at St. Cloud
At public meeting at St. Cloud,
$4,000 was pledged toward the con-
struction of the Minnesota Central
railway, which will run from Mankato
via St. Cloud and Mile Laos lake to
Duluth.
The postoffice at Royalton was burg
larized and the safe blown to pieces
by dynamite. The thieves secured
5000 worth Of stamps and 500 in cur
rency. The building was wrecked.
The robbers escaped.
A case involving 1000 worth of
logs is on in the district court at War
rem, between the mortgage and the
Canadian Northern Railroad COM
pany. The road claims the purchase
of the logs previous to the placing of
the mortgage.
J. W. Johnson, postmaster of Scan
dia. Washington county, for twenty
six years, is probably the Oldest
postmaster in the State. He will be
eighty-one on Sept. % next, and still
attends to his duties. He arrived at
Scandal from Kromberg, Sweden, in
1853.
Joseph H. Gardner shot and killed
William Garrison on the latter's claim
in section 81, 64-23 last week. The
trouble grew out Of a Quarrel over the
killing of moose and deer last winter,
Gardner having informed the author
tiles that Garrison had killed the
moose and deer for lumbermen. Gard
ner has given himself up.
Ole Skugrud, a farmer living near
Rothsay was accidentally killed while
returning home with a load of brick.
His horses took fright and refused to
pass some object in the road. He
went to their heads to try to lead
them, whereupon they knocked him
down and ran over him, tramping him
to death. He was a young man and
unmarried.
County Attorney q. W. Crane of
Brainerd was arraigned before the
insanity board at Brainerd and was
committed to the insane hospital at
Fergus Falls. Mr.. Crane is a grad
uate of the University of Minnesota
law school, and has lived at Superior,
Iron River, Wis, and Minneapolis.
He was at one time connected with the
Minneapolis papers.
John Covell, an old resident of White
Bear, fell from load of hay at White
Bear Beach last week and was killed
instantly, his neck being broken. He
was hauling hay with his grandson,
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