The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-12-01
State News.

hospital.
Winona is to have new Y. M. C. A.
building
Dodge Center was visited by bad
ire this week.
Anoka's Cargenie library will be
opened the middle of this month.
The Odd Fellows of Red Wing will
erect a three-story brick building.
John Schultz of Cannon Falls had
his right hand taken off in a corn
shredder.
An attempt was made to blow up the
safe in the postoffice at Ely, admission
being gained by back window.
The first blizzard of the season
struck the Red River Valley last
Monday. The wind blew a gale and
much snow fell.
The bank of Forest Lake was
broken into by robbers last Friday
night, but the men we're frightened
away before getting any booty.
liver Tostenson fell from a passen-
ger train at Watson. His left arm
was cut off above the elbow and he
was bruised about the face and head.
Two sons of D. G.. Emmons of St.
Francis, fourteen and fifteen, were
drowned Sunday morning in small
pond mile east of St. Francis, where
they had gone to trap muskrats.
The town of Robbinsdale, Hennepin
county, has sued Matthias Otter for
$11.25 for 'maliciously and wrong
fully appropriating to his own use five
perch of rubble, or rock, belonging to
said town."
Sheriff Petrie of Hubbard county
arrested nineteen Finlanders who were
captured fishing with seines in the
Grow Wing lakes. They were found
guilty, and their fines, including costs.
aggregated S152.
Frank Schubert, an 1862 settler of
Brown county, is dead of dropsy,
aged seventy He had held many
public Offices, being city and county
at different times.
The Masonic emblem which was
placed on the corner stone of the new
high school in Anoka has been re-
moved owing to popular protest
against having the stone marked by
the emblem of any civic order.
Loggers along Rainy river will not
be compelled to ':tote' any freight in
this winter by team-a very unsatis-
factory and costly method because
the good weather has enabled the
boats to bring in all needed supplies.
Henry Sharon and wife we're thrown
from buggy in a runaway and were
seriously injured at Little Falls.
Sharon's head struck on railroad
tie, fracturing his skull and several
ribs that were broken punctured his
lung. It is thought he will die.
According to a travelling man, a
hypnotist who gave an exhibition at
Fertile, Minn., recently put nine
year-old boy, named William Burg
son, son of Adolph Burgson, farm
er, into hypnotic state, and has
been unable to bring him out Of it.
Frank Roman, near Fergus Falls,
while hunting cartridges was struck
in the face by some scattering shot
fred by an unidentified hunter. One
shot penetrated his eyeball and will
cost him the sight of the eye in all
probability, while the others pene-
trated his cheek, inhicting a severe
wound.
Jesse N. Richardson of Richfeld, a
Minnesota territorial pioneer, died
Saturday evening at his home in Min
neapolis, aged eightythree years.
Mr.. Richardson arrived in Mime
apolis, then St. Anthony Falls, in
October, 1850, and engaged in lumber
ing until 1852, when he pre-empted a
farm at Richield.
David Hartman, an old resident
of Sterling township, Blue Earth
county, mysteriously disappeared last
week. AS yet nothing has been heard
of him. Mr.. Hartman got up in the
night and took his horse and grips
and went away. Hartman is about
ffty-fve years old and has been a
book agent in the vicinity.
Bemidji was visited by the most dis
astrous fire in its history last week.
It broke out in the Swedbach block,
owned by Senator Swedbach. entail
ing loss of $4,000. The fire started
in the basement from the boilers and
spread rapidly through the structure.
The loss on the building is S12, 900,
protected by only 81, 900 insurance.
A large barn belonging to P. O..
Haugen near Granite Falls, caught