The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-09-14
State News.

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Minneapolis has been selected as
the city in which the G.. "a. r. ma
tional encampment will be held next
year.
A bill will be introduced at the next
session of congress ceding to the State
10000 acres of vacant federal land for
a forest reserve.
Some person or persons entered the
cemetery at Dodge Center and tipped
over twenty three gravestones and
monuments, many being badly dam
aged.
A man who would suit President
Roosevelt lives at Preston. He is M.
O'Connor and just now is rejoicing
over the birth Of his seventy seventh
grand child, born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Triggs of Spring Valley.
The annual report of the commits
sioner 'of pensions shows that there
were upon the roles 16,O75 residents of
Minnesota on June 30, 1905, who, dur
ing the fiscal year closing on that
date, drew out of the treasury 50, 232,-
27S. "
Charles Zemke, who has conducted
a saloon in Godhue village, is dead,
James Lally is wounded, and Henry
Prolow is in the county jail in Red
Wing charged with murder. This in
brief is the story of shooting in
Zemke's saloon.
Philip Maroni was killed at the
Stephens mine in Eveleth by an ex-
plosion of dynamite. It is said that
he plugged up the end of a gaspipe
with dynamite and attempted to open
it with the aid of chisel. His badly
mangled body was taken to Virginia.
Lewis Ellickson, fireman on the
Milwaukee road was killed at Winnie
bago. The switch derailer threw the
engine in the ditch on the sidetrack
while. the fireman was cleaning the
headlight. He was caught between
the oilhouse and the engine and his
head crushed.
John Holmvig was ground to pieces
in a frightful threshing machine acct
dent in the town of Refs, Polk county.
He was working around the self-feeder
when his foot slipped and he fell head
long into it. The rapidly revolving
machine mangled his body horribly
and left no semblance to human be-
ing. .-.a..... ~. ... -.. ..
All of the operators and dispatchers
upon the Great Northern road who
remained at their posts during the re-
cent strike are to receive double pay
for their work in August. In other
words, their checks, which will be sent
out on the 18th of this month, will call
for just twice the amount which they
. ordinarily would. .-~<
In view of the fact that the last leg
islature refused his request for per-
mission to grant mineral leases on
lake beds, S. G. Iverson. State audi
tor, has refused an application by
Richard F. Grant for forty five leases.
The applications covered lake beds of
Big Rapids, Little Rapids, Teno and
other lakes without names. =
The fourteen-year-old son of An
drew Rearden, living six miles west of
Benson, fell before a mower he was
driving. The tendons of the right leg
were severed and the large bone in
the left had an inch of it gouged out.
He will probably lose his left leg. He
drove a mile alone to his home and
from there his mother walked one and
half miles for help to bring him to
Benson for surgical aid.
Emil Rasmussen, boiler inspector
for Redwood and Brown counties un-
der the last Van SAINT administration,
mysteriously disappeared about a
month ago. Rasmussen had been a
resident of Revere since it's birth some
six years ago. Financial embarrass-
ment is said to be responsible for his
. disappearance and it is generally be-
lieved that he quietly left Revere to
begin life anew in some other locality.
Redwood county is the home of a
remarkable family. It was in 1878
that Mr.. and Mrs. John Clark moved
from Canada and with their already
promising family took up their home
on a farm in Redwood Falls town
ship. Eighteen children have been
born to them, and every one is living.
The number did not grow by twos
and threes, as is frequently the case
with large families, but each one
came into the world unaccompanied
/ by a brother or sister. The Oldest is
now forty and the youngest thirteen.
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