The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-04
State News.

last week
The Methodists are building a new
church at Harwick.
St. Clouds new directory shows
population of 10, 400.
A branch U. S. weather bureau has
been established at Saltwater.
The Prohib itionists of Clay county
held rally at Hitterdahl this week.
Buffalo Lake has dedicated a new
M. e. church. Ditto Walnut Grove.
Fadden Brothers of Plato have sold
the creamery at Buffalo Lake to Mr..
Hays Of Minneapolis.
Peter E. Nelson, farmer, was in
stantly killed while attempting to cross
the railroad track at Rock Creek.
A total of CPS second citizenship
papers were issued on the iron ranges
last week by the ''court on Wheels"
Gov. Van SAINT has fixed Tuesday,
Aug. 80, as the day upon which Will
liam Chounard, Of Cass Lake, shall
be hanged for murder.
Joseph Schmidt, one of the Oldest
residents of Wabasha county, died OF
Bright's disease last week. He was
eighty-three years of age.
W. N. Kohl OF Alexandria, the newly
appointed receiver of the United
States land office at Cass Lake, will
assume his duties on Aug. l.
Gilbert Gilbertson, former resi-
dent of Fergus Falls, died at Lake
Park, across the Becker county line,
from drinking carbolic acid.
Harry Simmond Of Benson was run
over by work engine and his left
arm and right leg we're cut off. Not
much hope is held out for his recov-
cry.
The sales of binder twine at the
State prison amount to 10, 200, 22O
pounds, or more than 100000 pounds
above the output Of last year, an in
crease of about forty-three per cent.
The seventeenth annual convention
of the Finnish Temperance Brother
hood Of America was held at Hibbing
last week. There was an attendance
Of 5000 at picnic on the closing day.
The State board of control has de-
cided to complete a new cell wing at
the State reformatory at ST.. Cloud.
Men have been taken off the new ad-
ministration building and set at work
on the job.
John Jahusky was frightfully in
jured by blast at the Graham quarry
at St. Cloud. He was hurled thirty
feet and fearfully cut and bruised and
blinded in both eyes. Doctors say he
can recover.
At Bunker Prairie, six miles east Of
Anoka, a tornado overturned the
house Of John Giddings, carried it
twenty yards, and smashed it into
kindling wood. Mr.. Giddings sus-
, tanned a severe sprain in the back and
minor injuries.
A sawmill to have a capacity of
about 10000 feet daily, together with
a planer, hatcher, lath and single
mills, will soon be established near
Ashawaba, a new village on. the line
of the Duluth, Virginia and Rainy
Lake road.
James Doris, thirty years of age,
while loading cars on Eastwood lake
near Ely, was struck on the head with
piece Of timber and knocked into the
lake. He was dead when taken out,
but whether killed by the blow or
drowned is not known.
Edward Haw]zsley of St. Louis
Park a Waterman employed at the
beet sugar factory, was found dead
early Saturday morning by messen-
ger boy who had been sent out to see
why he had not pulled the box at y
O'Clock. The man was about fifty
years of age and is survived by a
wife and three children.
One Of the Oldest settlers of the
State: Edmund D. Wilcox, was buried
GU ou11l iSC 4cSJ - ullOdy AC was UOIu
in New York state April Is, 1888, and
came to Minnesota in 1854. He served
as the first register of deeds in Chi
sage county, enlisted in the army in
1862, and was one of the pioneer
school teachers.
Peter Maghoritz, an Austrian miner,
thirtysix. years OF age, was blown to
fragments with giant powder at the
Clark iron mine on the Mesaba range.
Two Harbors. He and a companion
were working in an underground drift
and Maghoritz was making ready to
fire a hole when there came terrible
explosion and fragments of the mans
body we're scattered along the ground
a. distance Of one hundred feet