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

Saturday.
DR.. Nye of Hubbard took carbolic
acid by mistake for swallow of
brandy. He is badly burned, but not
fatally.
Maurice Barnhart, aged thirteen
years, Of Little Falls, was seriously
burned by the explosion of can of
powder
Henry Rath, a painter Of WinOna,
had his eyes filed with powder and his
face badly scorched by the explosion
Of cannon.
William Exted, % years old of Glen
coe, committed suicide by shooting
himself at his home near Glencoe.
No motive for his act is known.
Fire on the night of the Fourth
wrecked the NJ. J. Reilly block on
Seventh street, Brainerd, entailing
loss of $4,000 on building and stock.
Two diamond and churn drills
operating on the svtreets of Sparta,
have made tests at distances of 200
feet. These prove that the ore body
underlies the town. This will be
worked next year.
Harvey Van Horn Of Nashwauk,
Mesaba range, was robbed Of $40 by
two highwaymen within sight Of the
bushes center of the town. J. H.
Brown and James Quinlan were later
arrested at Hibbing on suspicion.
The little son of J. A. Berg of Fer
gus Falls was seriously injured about
the face and eyes by the explosion of
toy cannon while engaged in q pre-
mature celebration of the Fourth. A
physician spent over an hour picking
the powder out of his face.
A three days convention of the Red
River Lutheran league was held at
Fertile. Leagues in northern Mime
sofa and the eastern part of North
Dakota was represented. The league
spent one day in Fertile, one at Little
Norway and one at Lake Arthur.
The residence occupied by o. H.
Havill Of St. Cloud and owned by
Judge D. B. Searle, burned last week.
The house was Quilted, entailing an al
most total loss on the building and q
partial loss on the contents. Loss
about $4,000, fully covered by insur-
ance.
Two men were seriously and perhaps
fatally injured and others hurt in a
head-On collision on the Minneapolis
& St. Louis road about a mile from
Chaska. Two Of the men are Crosby
Siegerfuss, a member of a bridge con-
struction crew, whose home is in Ex-
celsior, and Henry Hughit Of Mime
apolis, a fireman.
The creamery men of Freeborn
county held a largely attended meet
ing at Albert Lea and discussed how
to head off a central creamery plant
that is threatened for that place by
outside men. Some of the creameries
in the country have been refusing farm
separator cream on the ground that it
would not make as good butter as the
whole milk, but the meeting unani-
mously adopted a motion urging
creameries to take all cream and milk
offered if in good condition.
A Saltwater report says: Judge
Williston has issued an order commit
ting Edward Olson OF Marine to Jail
unless he closes his livery stable be-
tween this date and July 4. This &C
ton is taken at the instance of Edward
Carlson, who purchased the stable of
Olson on an agreement that the latter
wolld retire from the business. The
matter has been in the courts before.
but Olson has repeatedly ignored it's
orders and will now be locked up I'M
less he complies
Fred Cupper while working at Mer-
riam Junction at Shakopee slipped
between the platform and the rails
while trying to borad a freight train.
The train ran over the toes of his
right foot, and in his pain the writh-
ing man would surely have rolled be-
meath the wheels of the passing train
had not the agent and operator, who
saw him fall, reached down from the
platform and held him close to the
ground outside the rails until the
train passed. Cupper was taken to
Shakopee.
Frank Winnar, aged SO, a Polander
farmer living in Pike Creek township.
Morrison county, was brutally MUIR
dered last week. The body, when
found, was lying on the bedroom
floor, the head having been pounded
to a pulp with a club. The walls
were spattered with blood and blood
stained finger marks on the floor and
wall showed that desperate struggle
had taken place His wife aOe1 06