The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-07-21
State News.

Madison has voted bonds for a
drainage system.
Winnebago City is to have a new
500, 1000 business block.
Anoka has borrowed $50, 900 from the
State for a new high school.
A blind pig near Fergus Falls was
treated to a Carrie Nation raid last
week.
Albert Lea claims a population of
6,532, according to it's new city direc-
tory.
Anoka will provide bathing place
on Rum river with all the comforts
desired.
Walnut Grove has sold $4,000 in
public Improvement bonds and will
spruce up.
The Great Northern superintendent's
Office at Me]rose was destroyed by fire
last Friday.
Sank Centre will hold street fair
and merchants carnival the latter
part Of July.
Archibald Currie, ST., one Of the
early pioneers Of Winona and Murray
counties, is dead.
A very destructive hail storm dam
aged crops in the southeastern part Of
Todd county last week.
Miss Laura Selck the Elk River mil
liner has sold her stock to a local
party and will go out Of business.
Neston Heinonen, sitxeen-year-old
son Of Nike Heinonen, was drowned
in Bass lake near Detroit Sunday
The II. E. Walker Lumber company
has sold it's Excelsior yard to mem
bers Of the W. O. Brandt Lumber COM
pany of Minneapolis.
Rev. Asahel Bronson, the Oldest
Methodist minister in the west, is
stopping with his son at Winona.
Rev. Bronson is 81 years Of age.
Hiram F. Wood, a homesteader liv-
ing in the northern part Of Aitkin
county, accidentally shot himself. The
coroner decided that an inquest was
unnecessary.
Albert Johnson, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. August Johnson Of Crookston
was drowned in the river at that place
Sunday evening. He was q good
swimmer and strong Tor MS eleven
years.
The body Of James Carrigan, Il
cruiser. who started for Sandy Lake
last week, was taken out Of the Mis-
sissippi at Aitkin. He leaves a wife
and three small children, as well as
his aged mother. ....
Leo McConnon, the Winona boy
who dislocated MS neck over a week
ago while in swimming, is still alive.
The case is one Of the most remark
able ever brought to the attention of
the local physicians.
The large freight shed and ware
houses Of the Omaha road at Duluth
were destroyed by fire Friday night.
Three tugs and much adjacent prop
erty was burned. One man was killed,
and the property loss was 1926, 200.
An irrigation ditch has been. pro-
vided for in the southeastern part of
Hubbard county, which will drain
large area OF land and either drain or
lower the level of several lakes, the
water passing into the Grow Wing
river.
Clement Martin Of Willow City, N.
. D., kidnapped his little three-year-old
daughter from the home OF her grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Fritz Lehman
of Tracy. AS the child was playing
on the porch it was seized and hustled
away in closed carriage.
Almost starved to death, and with
his clothing torn from his little body,
the four-year-old boy, son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Weirauch OF Frazee,
was found three miles from his home
in the woods, nine miles east OF town.
He lived On berries five days.
The Standard Lumber company is
6HlOHS olie Ills l'1 tllc o1S SOlllpd11eS
that will do summer logging on the
Chippewa Indian reservation Of Min
nesota. But five years is allowed in
which TO cut and remove the timber.
and it may be necessary to cut during
the summer.
The crop for the territory west OF
Winona along the Minnesota and Da-
kota divisions OF the North Western
railway, just issued, indicate that
there will be a banner crop this year.
Some conditions may arise which will
cut it down, but on the whole it is
q bound to be good.
Lincoln county commissioners have
called a special election to be held