The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-12-08
State News.

SCnOOl DOnOS.
Mr.. Buhr of Stewart had one of his
legs crushed while baling hay.
Thirty-two horses and tramp were
cremated at Aamoth's livery stable at
Twin Valley last week.
Albert Fisher, sixty-two, employed
at Violet's tie camp near Highland,
fell dead beside a tree he had been
saving.
Mrs. Frank Billings of Fergus
Falls, was shot and Instantly killed
by her husband in resort in Omaha
last week.
Charles Charlson. residing in Burn
side, about three miles from Red
Wing, died as the result of being
gorged by an angry bull.
Harold Colwell, the fve-year-old
son of r. T. Colwell, manager of the
creamery at Waseca, was drowned in
Loon lake last Friday evening.
A. J. Davidson of Mannanah, had
a total loss by fire Of his general
store, household goods and barn.
Loss about S., 500 with 81, 900 insur-
ance.
Ringleaders of the strike at CHS
holm were run out of town by the
authorities, aided by a number of the
miners who were forced into the srtike
by threats and intimidations.
Indictments have been returned
against a number of saloOn-keepers
III in Ada on the charge of selling liquor
to minors. There have been many
complaints on this ground in Norman
county, and it is the intention of the
authorities to put an end to the trade
if it exists.
Diphtheria has broken out at the
state school for the deaf at Faribault
The school was closed Monday and
the work begun, by order of the state
board of health, of taking cultures
for laboratory tests from the throats
OF the 2SS students, the faculty and
institution employees.
The Rosseau-Badger county seat
fight will come to a head within a
short time. A petition for a special
election has been placed before the
county commissioners of Rosseau
county, and the case will be taken up
were it was dropped two years ago
when an injunction was issued.
A fire at Hanska on Saturday night
destroyed property worth $4,000 and
upon which there was insurance of
less than one-third. A gasolene lamp
exploded in the j. W. Thompson
building and in an hours time that
structure and the Neese building, only
partly occupied, were in ruins.
T. R. Symes, a prominent and
wealthy citizen, committed suicide at
Blooming Prairie by hanging himself
in his barn. He was a stock buyer
and had been in business for years.
He was ffty-fve years old, and is sur
vived by a widow. Two brothers of
the dead man died by their own hands
some years ago.
William Collins of Elk River gave
a dinner at which seven old settlers
sat down, their combined ages total
ing 595 years. Their names and ages
are: W. F. Stimson, 50: J. @. A.
Nickerson, 10: K. L. Brown. 81: N.
Crockett, 70; John Felch, IS; Frank
Felch, 6S: William Collins, 60: w.
H. Houlton, 81. The average age
was 743s years.
Night Operator Fuller of the North
ern Pacific was held up by man
about 9 O'Clock Monday night at Lit
tie Falls. Although the operator and
his companion. small boy, were
facing the muZzle of a revolver, they
managed to get to the door and give
the alarm, but the burglar escaped
before they returned with help. He
took with him about S.
Deputy Sheriff Moritz of St. Cloud
had an exciting time with Christine
Salzl, an insane woman who has been
living on farm near Farming when
he went to bring her to town to be ex-
amined by the probate court. She
attacked the deputy and had not a
man passing the place come to his as
sistance it is doubtful if he would
have been able to bring her to the
city.
For writing two letters to promi-
nent local banker, demanding that
$4,000 be left in a designated spot
and threatening to Stay the banker
unless the demands were complied
with, Harry Gilbert, aged twenty, is
now confined in Jail at Fairmont,
MINI. A. L. Ward was the recipient
of the sensational communications
and Wednesday of last week was the