The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-09-22
State News.

Frazee has new -four mill with a
capacity of 100 barrels daily.
DR.. N. r. Hurd, one of the pioneer
dentists of the State. died at Madison
last week.
The corner stone of the new building
of Gustavus Adolphus college at St..
Peter was laid last Sunday.
The annual reunion and banquet OF
the St. Croix Valley Old Settlers as
section was held in Saltwater yester-
day.
The butter maker at Buffalo while
out hunting Tuesday accidentally shot
himself in the right shoulder and the
wound may prove fatal.
Tom Jensen, a farmer living near
Crookston was sent to the Fergus
Falls asylum. He went insane be-
cause he could not get rich quick.
Joseph Pickering, an old resident
and a veteran of the Sikh Minnesota
regiment in the Civil war, died sud
denly at Lake Benton aged about
seventy. He leaves a wife and five
children.
Miss Mary A. Hanson, superintend-
ent of schools OF Becker counyt,
made 2lO visits to schools the past
year. She has been superintendent
four years and has no opposition
for denomination.
A young man named Elmer Bjornas.
living in the town of Svedrup, Otter
Tail county, was accidentally shot
through both lungs by a companion
named Nygaard while hunting part
ridges. His recovery is doubtful.
A posse of guards and officers of
the State reformatory have been
securing the country for Ernest
Clumpka, alias Ernest Whitney, an
escaped inmate of the institution sent
up from Minneapolis for grand lar
ceny.
At a stockholders meeting of the
Battle Lake mills it was decided TO
sell the mill to Head & Mcclellan of
the Otter Tail County Bank of Battle
Lake. The mill has 200-barrel capa-
city and is one Of the finest in the
State.
S. G. johnson, a deckhand on the
e L. q
fell through a hatch OF the vessel at
Two HarbOrs and was instantly killed.
Johnson was unmarried and has a
brother in Chicago and another at
DEBORAH, Iowa.
Special Agent Mason of the post
office department, division of rural
free delivery, is making arrangements
to give Anoka county ''solid" service.
A REIMBURSEMENT Of the present routes
will be made, so that neighborhoods
heretofore omitted will be moulded.
Three people were killed and forty
injured as the result of the collapse
of a span of the passenger bridge over
the St. Croix river at Saltwater. The
bridge caught fire and in the falling
of the span a hose wagon, the entire
fire department of Houlton, Wis.,, con-
sisting of eight men, and some forty
spectators, were plunged into the
water. Many legs and arms were
broken. The bridge reaches from
Houlton to Saltwater.
While filing a long piece of boiler
tube with powder for bicycle feat at
the fair, two kinds of explosives which
Waletr James manufactured himself
came in contact and ignited the result
being terrific explosion which shook
houses for blocks around. James was
terrible burned and a young son of
James O'Neil of the Mile Laos lake
road was badly burned at Aitkin.
James is the balloonist who has had
some thrilling experiences here before
and was engaged to give an ascension
and parachute leap for the county fair
this week. He was also preparing for
a bicycle fireworks exhibition and
ultimately expected to make sky
rocket ASCENSION