The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-07-20
State News.
The wild berry crop is a bumper.

ing plant.
Crawford, the boxcar murderer, will
be hung from a steel gallows at Elk
River on August Is.
The State food and dairy commits
siOn's agents have invaded the iron
range on hunt for oleomargarine.
Mayor Jones of Minneapolis has
instructed the police to deal with
mobs and rowdies in a summary man
ner.
Stephen Collins has been sentenced
at Bemidji to five years in the State
reformatory for forging a check for
$3.50.
Mrs. A. Schmid of Lester Prairie
fell into a cellar and dislocated a
shoulder blade besides breaking two
ribs.
Six persons we're burned to death in
fire which destroyed the Depot hotel
at Wabasha, Mimi, on Tuesday
morning.
John w. Olson of Brunswick town.
ship, Kanabec county, was drowned
last week while bathing in the Ground
house river.
The Assumption Catholic church
building at Morris, built in 1898 and
valued at $40, 1000 has been totally de-
stroyed-b by fire.
Herbert Bins, $40 West Water street.
St. Paul, was drowned while swim
ming in the Mississippi at Lillydale,
Friday afternoon.
Horse thieves have again appeared
in Luverne and in broad daylight
drove away fine mare and buggy be-
longing to John Peterson.
Spotted fever has made it's appear
ance in St. Paul, Miriam Porter, a
girl fifteen years of age, having sue
cumbed to the disease last week.
Fifteen hundred persons attired in
uniforms designed for the occasion
greeted Archbishop Francis Albion
Symon on his arrival in Duluth.
George Holbert, a lineman for the
street railway company, was instantly
killed by live wire at Lake street
and Nicollet avenue, Minneapolis.
The annual report of the Minneapo-
lis immigration Office shows that
twenty-three public charges were de-
ported during the year ending June 30.
Hail, wind and heavy rain de-
stroyed wheat, barley and big potato
fields on a strip five miles long and
two miles wide, four miles below
Sabin.
Much suffering prevails among
farmers along the upper Mississippi
in consequence of the flooding of their
lands by the Overlooking of govern
ment dams.
A. A. Buck, the Mapleton bank de-
faulter, has been located in the Isle
of Pines, where he is running an
American hotel under the name of D.
W. McGregor.
Miss Genevieve Madison, formerly
of Sandstone, but now of Seattle, won
the prize given by the Seattle Star to
the most popular teacher in the state
of Washington.
T. J. Janney, the we'll known Mime
apolis real estate man, was stricken
with paralysis, falling to the floor just
as he entered his summer home at
Zumbra Heights.
Geo. Hattron, an employe at Rydell
& Nelson's dairy farm, near Mime
apolis, was drowned while bathing in
the vicinity of the log jam in the
Mississippi river.
Henry Birdsel of Sleepy Eye, aged
twenty, was terribly mangled by being
stepped on by team of horses. Both
legs we're broken and the skull frac-
tured. He cannot live.
Frank NJ. Thornton one of the old
est pioneers of Swift county, died at
Willmar Saturday night. He was
born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1910, and
was civil war veteran.
Three persons died from the effects
of the heat in Minneapolis on Sun
day. The thermometer at Voegelis'
drug store registered from 80 degrees
. at a. m. to l07 at 4 p. m.
A dispatch from Mankato says that
a COW belonging to Geo. Hayes of
GAINESVILLE ate two sticks of dynamite,
that the dynamite exploded and the
COW went hence and forevermore.
After an existence of but one week
the "soft-drink" establishment of O..
j. Hawkins at Excelsior was closed
by State officers, the liquor destroyed
and the fixtures confscated and sold
at auction.
The little son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Gonrpo Noolr u7oc 6rouro6 in tho