The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-10-12
State 81 ews.

i ing to the daily papers, raging in
Minneapolis.
A shortage of box cars has tied up
wheat at hundreds of points through
out the State.
The fftieth anniversary of the
founding Of Hutchinson was appro-
priately celebrated at that thriving
city last week.
Census bureau statistics show that
534, S72 persons have moved into the
State during the past five years and
that the State has 31,949 territorial
pioneers.
Erick Doe, farmer living in Be-
midi township, about four miles east
of the city, was fatally injured by the
sweep of a stump puller which he was
operating on his farm.
The arguments in the case of.C. D..
Crawford, the Elk River boxcar MUIR
derer, who is now incarcerated in
the Stearns county jail, will be heard
by the supreme court on October 16.
Close upon the heels of Bemidii's
incorporation as a city an order has
been issued by the county attorney
directing that all slot machines be
taken out and roulette, poker play
ing, etc., be discontinued.
The telephone war at Foley is ended
and the Northwestern company has
been granted franchise embodying
the privilege of the streets. The Ron
neby exchange will be operated from
and by the Foley exchange.
The revocation of the charter of the
Bankers Union of the World, an
Omaha insurance company doing bus
mess in Minnesota, has been ordered.
The company objected to the examina-
tion of it's books and hence this action.
Fred Rhody, a switchman for the
Chicago Great Western Railway COM
pany, was caught between cars in the
yards near Fairfield and Starkey
streets, St. Paul, and sustained in
juries from which he died at St. Jo-
seph's hospital.
Thirty-two Of the most prominent
surgeons in the United States have
just finished two-day conference at
Rochester. They are all members OF
the Society of Clinical Surgery and
many matters of professional import
ance were discussed.
! Fire destroyed the mill and yard OF
the Charles Betcher Lumber company
at Red Wing, causing loss aggregat-
ing approximately $4,000, and re.
sulting in the tying up of traffic on
the river division of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul road.
Arthur Meekly of Montrose. while
carelessly handling a rifle, shot him.
self in the foot. He was intoxicated.
Two bottles of whisky which he had
bought at a saloon we're found in his
pocket. The affair will be investi-
gated, as the boy is a minor.
K. G. Lee of Ada, former sheriff OF
Norman county, who broke his leg
while working in the Wild Rice Lum-
Der company's mill, died at the
Bethesda hospital at Crookston, where
he had been taken for treatment. He
leaves a wife and several children.
Cora Jackson, domestic employed
upon a ranch east of Winona. tried
to commit suicide by swallowing car
bolic acid. She will recover. She
welded when Is a man nearly SO. Two
children have died recently, and the
third is in the State school at Owa-
tonna
| O. H. Phillips, editor of the Record
at Dodge Center, died very suddenly
of apoplexy. He arose about his
usual time and after dressing, dropped
down upon his bed and expired. Mr..
Phillips was a pioneer settler and has
always taken an active part in public
affairs.
oscar Beldlnger, an emplOye OF
Feisler & McNeice, druggists at Sank
Center, absconded with money and
goods amounting to several hundred
dollars. The man was arrested in
Minneapolis at the Milwaukee station.
The stolen goods were found in his
suit case.
| The slipping of a new wagon tongue
from the neckyoke resulted in the
instant death of Peter Tollefson, a
farmer, and the probable fatal injury
of his wife, at La Crescent, MINI. In
the runaway which followed, Toilet
son was hurled to the ground and his
neck broken. ...
The prompt arrival of the freight
ing apparatus from Cloquet and Scan
lon saved the village of Carlton, on
the Northern Pacific road, from de-
StructiOn by fire. Ten BUILDINGS were