The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-09-15
State News.


Engebret Haaginson, who was
kicked by horse about ten days ago
at Battle Lake, died last week.
Several persons belonging to
threshing crew were killed near Brice-
Ign last week by the explosion of the
boiler
James NJ. Iverson of Moorhead, has
been declared insane and taken to
Fergus Falls. He is about thirty and
has worked as locomotive fireman.
The general store of O. c.. Reed at
Crookston, was damaged by fire. Mr..
Reeds stock, valued at $4,000, is al
most worthless. The insurance is
$4,000. The cause of the fire is un-
known.
James W. Malloy of Cannon Falls
lost his left arm while threshing on
the farm of David Franklin in Belle
Creek. The arm was so badly
wrenched that amputation was found
necessary.
Nels Nelson, harvest hand, be-
came violently insane at the Wiede-
mann farm near MOOrehead. His
home is in Wisconsin, and he has been
in asylums at Oshkosh and Chippewa
Falls. He will probably be returned
to Wisconsin.
Buried for six hours under several
thousand tons of ore, $50 feet below
the surface, Joseph Stobloz, Henry
Krenziag and John Keswics, all Elm
lander miners working in a drift at
No. 2 shaft of the Adams mine at Two
Harbors we're saved by sixty miners
who heard their cries and dug down
and saved them.
A threshing engine crashed through
a bridge over culvert, near Ada,
killing two men and injuring third
badly. John Rockestad, had one leg
severed from his body and the other
crushed. He died shortly after the
accident occurred. John Holumn was
instantly killed by being crushed to
death. The injured mans name is
not known.
Rev. NJ. Francis, the pastor of the
First Baptist church of Minneapolis
died as the result of eating mush-
rooms. Three other members of the
family are recovering from severe ILL.,
ness caused by partaking Of the same
dish. Mr.. Francis considered him
self a judge of the edible and poison
Gus fungi and picked the articles that
caused his death.
When starting out hunting Sunday
morning at an early hour two young
men employed by the American Type
Foundry company at Minneapolis dis
covered the body of Henry Fashant
near Annandale. 1t was lying face
down on the railway track about half
a mile east OF Annandale. The head
was scalped and the skull crushed by
single blow. Coroner Moffatt and
County Attorney Cutting decided that
an inquest was unnecessary The
victim was about thirty years old.
Alex Fashant OF Annandale is his
father.
A Lindstrom report says: "Accord-
ing to the most reliable reports the
potato crop in Chisago county will be
less than twenty-five per cent Of the
average yield, owing to blight, which
wrought such havoc with the tubers
last year. The crop gave promise OF
the largest yield in the history of the
county, but recent heavy rains caused
the rot to spread rapidly, and even
with the most favorable weather the
crop will not exceed the above esti-
ANTE. Except on high, newly broken
ground the crop will be total loss,
and many farmers are already begin
ming to pillow their fields without dig
ging the potatoes"
Warren Hall of Sleepy Eye, form
erly OF Redwood Falls; was assaulted
and robbed in North Mankato by two
acquaintance from Redwood Falls,
who had accompanied him to that city
evidently for the purpose. They in
duced him to go with them to a Sc
cluded spot, after first giving him
some drugged liquor, as ne believes.
They then bound him hand and foot
with heavy wire, pounded him with a
stone, and took s2S in money, check
for Sl5 and a ring. Giving him a
parting kick in the head, they left
him for dead. Several hours later ne
was able to come to Mankato and re-
port the affair. One of his assailants
was a negro.