The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-06-23
State News.

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The Socialists of Otter Tail county
will nominate county ticket.
Judge Giddings will deliver the ora
ton at Elk River on the Fourth.
Litchfeld will entertain the State
Firemen' association next year.
Joseph Ruppe, private citizen and
merchant of Rush City died last week.
The Wright County Old Settlers as
sociation held it's annual meeting at
Buffalo last week.
Street carnival people had posses
sion of Pipestone last week. Large
crowds were in attendance.
The tenth annual convention of the
Litchfield district Epworth League was
held in Renville over Sunday.
Fred Stewart, a railway mail clerk
of St. Paul died at ST. Luke's hospi-
tai, Fergus Falls, Of acute Bright's
disease.
The Territorial Historical society of
Blue Earth county held it's annual pic
mic in Mankato last week with a large
attendance.
Commencing on July 5 the State
teachers summer training school for
Scott and LIE Sueur counties will be
held in LIE Sueur Center.
Chris Thompson, the farmers ele-
vator man at Owatonna, has with
drawn his plea Of guilty to the charge
OF grand larceny. His son is still in
jail.
At a special election the village of
Atwater voted in favor of bonding for
SIS: 600 for a system of waterworks. and
also for SIS, 900 for a gas lighting sys-
tenn.
The fourteenth annual convention
Of the Albert Lea district Christian
Endeavor convened at Spring Valley
last week. Several addresses were
made.
Lightning struck the barn of An
drew Swanson north of Slayton, caus-
ing the burning of the barn and two
horses. The loss is partly covered by
insurance.
Winona Railway and Light COM
pany, after negotiations extending
over several months, has secured a
renewal of it's franchise for a period
Of twenty-five years.
The Cook county commissioners
offer a reward of 500 for the recovery
of the body Of John Jinicos, who sud-
denly disappeared from a logging
camp at Csriboo point last October.
At the special election at Bagley for
the purpose OF voting on the question
of bonding the county for S35. 900 to
build a court house for Clearwater
county the proposition was defeated.
Bert Halliviclik, section hand on
the Northern Pacific railroad, was
drowned at Hinckley this week while
bathing with numerous others in a
deep hole in the Grindstone river near
the sawmill.
Andrew Lund, an employe of the
saw mill at Crookston, was almost in
stantly killed. A board which caught
in the machinery flew back, striking
him in the chest and crushing in the
abdominal cavity.
William Chapman, son of l.. S.
Chapman, agent of the Chicago Great
Western at Waltham, was riding a
horse without a bride, when the horse
ran and the boy slid off. He broke
several bones in an ankle and foot
Father August Loose died at the
home of his son, Frank Loose, near
Luverne, at the age of nienty-three
He was born in Reetz, Prussia. He
left two children, twenty-five grand
children and twenty great grandchil-
dren.
Fire destroyed the old court house
block and the John Wait Office building
and damaged Peterson Bro furni-
ture store building and stock at Long
Prairie. Loss about So, 500; insurance
two-thirds.. The origin of the fire is
unknown.
A big forest fire just west Of Hib-
bling burned over quite stretch Of
territory and destroyed about fifty
cords of wood. It started north of
the Mahoning mine and swept rapidly
westward toward the Power & Simp-
son lumber and wood camp.
Martin Kelly, foreman of the large
Whitney farms four miles from St.
Cloud. is lying at Deaths door as the
result of scythe falling from tree
and striking him in the neck. A cash
requiring ten stitches was cut and the
walls Of the carotid artery penetrated.
Jacob Bier of St. Johns university
at Collegeville fell from a machine
shed pipbtoan foot ~