The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-11-10
State News.

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The Spring Valley Vidette, weekly
newspaper, established in 1867, has
suspended publication.
L. c. Lane of Minneapolis was Sc
verely injured in an automobile acct
dent between Watson and Montevideo.
Mrs. John Holt, one of the pioneers
Of Minnesota and resident Of Ma
rine for more than fifty years is dead.
Arthur Anderson of Ravenna, aged
twelve years, managed to kill a wolf
with the help Of q younger brother, a
dog and a club.
George Schatfer, a wealthy farmer
of Dakota county was gored by bull
and was instantly killed. He is sur
vived by wife and family.
Dee Pratt, grandson OF Judge Pratt
of Fairmont, who was visiting on a
farm two miles west there. had his
foot crushed in a power hay press.
August Ziebell of Winona suddenly
dropped dead while seated with some
friends at a table in the sample-room
Of Friesel Brothers. Death was due
to heart failure.
Hans Edstrom of Mora, attem pied
to pull a shotgun out Of the buggy
with the muZzle toward him. Both
barrels were discharged into his wrist.
The hand was amputated.
The farmers of Grass Lake, in the
southern part of Kanabec county, are
holding meetings with the object Of
organizing a stock company for the
establishment of a starch factory in
their community.
Olaf Holmgren the elevator agent
at Parker's Prairie has been bound
over to the grand jury on charge of
embezzlement. He is accused of be-
ing S51S short in his accounts.
A man named Stein, living mile
south of Tenney, went to Fairmont,
N. D., for load of coal. In the af-
ternoon the team came home alone
and search was made for him. He
was found on the road dead.
To avoid death by escaping steam
that came through hole in the boiler
which a broken eccentric rod had
pierced, Louis Ellison, of Ortonville,
aged twenty three, a fireman. jumped
from the engine and was killed.
Matthew Otto, an aged farmer Of
Eden Valley, was run down by a train
in the railroad yards while picking
up sugar beets that had fallen from
the train. One wheel Of a fiat car ran
over his breast and crushed his life
ont instantly.
Frank Rookie of London, Eng
land, who has been in Winona two
years, has received notice from off,
Gals in London that he has fallen
heir to $4,000, and he has left for
New York, where he took a steamer
for London.
Rev. Alphonse Kuisle, o. S. g., Of
St. Johns abbey, St. Cloud is dead.
He had been i'll since July. At differ
ent times he was in charge of par
ishes at Minneapolis, St. Peter, St.
Paul. St. Cloud, Richmond and Still
water.
The chief of the St. Cloud fire de-
partment and fireman were seriously
injured by the falling of a thirty foot
telephone pole at the top of which they
were strapped while repairing some
wires. The chief had both legs broken
and the fireman assisting him was
badly injured.
Frank Boney of New. Brighton has
disappeared. Mr.. Boney is engaged
in business at New Brighton, and last
Friday he started for Minneapolis
with about $500 in his pocket to pay
some bills He told his wife that ne
would return home that same night,
but she has not yet seen or heard from
him.
L. A. Gebhardt, prominent young
dentist of New Ulm was brutally muir
dered last week by an unknown man.
The deed was committed at 10 O'Clock
at night. The murderer hit his victim
over the head with hammer and then
murdered him by severing the jugular
vein with knife. The murderer es-
capped. and there is no clew to his
identity.
St. Cloud was at the mercy of a
gang of robbers last week. Following
the robbery of Abeles Brothers cloth
ing store, where $1,000 was secured,
four different stores were simulta-
neously entered by burglars. There
were five men in the gang, one stand
ing guard while the others entered the
buildings. One robber was arrested,
the others escaping.
The Great Northern depot at Mora
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