The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-11
State News.


Bethel this fall.
John Diamond, one of the first set
tiers in Blue Earth county, died this
week at Mankato.
John Wanke of South St. Paul has
been sentenced to thirty days in the
county jail for assault and battery
upon his wife, Mrs. Lena Wanke.
A large new barn belonging to
Frank Tarraba, a farmer near
Montgomery, was struck by lightning
and consumed There was no insur-
ance.
The Mankato Railway, Light Il
Power company has been organized
by citizens with $1,000 capital, and
the council has granted it a franchise
to build a street railway in that ciyt.
At the advanced of age of three
score years and twelve, John Bitz of
Marshalltown, Iowa, has entered a
homestead filing for a claim in the
Wild Bear river district, short dis
He is an old soldier.
J. r. Chapman of Winona performed
an heroic act in saving the life of a
small boy, who had fallen into the
river near the bridge. Dropping a
distance of sixteen feet from the bridge,
he was able to seize the boy as he was
sinking the last time.
The Red River Valley Poultry asso-
citation has been organized at Crook
ston. The principal places for the
transaction of it's business shall be
Crookston, NIinn., and Grand Forks,
N. D., and such other places as the
business may require.
Two sons of r. A. Wheelock, living
on the Gale farm near Anoka, were
drowned in Rum river. The boys,
whose ages were fourteen and twelve,
were bathing, when they got beyond
their depth and were carried away by
the current, which is very swift at
that point. The bodies were recovered
the same day.
The Imperial Brewing Co. Of Min
neapolis will erect 100000 brewery
at Sandstone. The site for the
brewery has been given the company
by the Sandstone Land company, and
the stone for the several buildings
will be furnished at cost price by the
Kettle River Quarries company. The
company will manufacture high grade
ale, porter. ginger ale, beer and car
donated Sandstone water.
Moses Brown, a territorial pioneer,
e. died at his residence in Minneapolis
Sunday where he had resided since
1866. He was born at Milford, Me-,
Feb. 81. 1928, and came from there to
AnOka in 1852, where he operated
farm until his removal to Minneapolis.
In 1855 he married Miss Sarah G.
Anoka county. He followed the oc-
cupation of lumberman until 1891,
when he retired.
Wheat fields near Sherburn that
looked very promising are in every
case damaged greatly by black rust.
In some fields the damage is so great
that it is doubtful if the cost of cutting
will be repaid by the yield. The loss
will be from fifty to ninety per cent.
Oats are rusted, but it is red rust and
did not attack the crop early enough
to do much damage. Flax is fine
crop, and hay never was better. It has
all been safely stacked without dam
age from rain.
Mrs. H. N. Solomon Of Chicago.
aged seventy-eight, mother of Mrs. A.
Shrkie Of Wagner, Pine county, has
been found after being lost more than
three days in the woods. A haying
crew discovered her lying unconscious
with her face terribly swollen from
mosquito bites. Mr.. and Mrs. Solo,
mon were visiting at Mr.. Shurkie's
home and while she was on her way
to a mail box. a auarter-mile from
the house, she took the wrong path
and became lost.
3. G. Perkins, trainmaster on the
Southern Minnesota division of the
Milwaukee says the reports received
from points in Southern Minnesota are
that the crops will be better than for
several years. The crops in that Sec
ton were very poor the last two years
heca1Se Of excessive rains Init tho in
dications are that large crop of
good quality will be harvested this
year. There have been no reports of
rust in that section, and with few
more weeks of warm weather a large
crop is assured.
Joseph Warner of Elysian, stock
buyer, has solicited the assistance of
the Great Western railroad authorities