The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-06-15
State News.
Pine county has six newspapers

Seven were graduated from the Mon
ticello high school last week.
A good roads convention will meet
at Lindstrom, Chisago county on
June "a.
International Falls will build COM
bined village hall and jail at cost
of 81, 500.
The neighboring towns of Cam
bridge and Milaca will celebrate on
the Fourth of July.
There will be an excursion over the
Milwaukee road June p, from Mime
apolis to Peoria, Ill.
Some insect thought to be the wire
worm, is damaging wheat in the north
western part of the State.
Senator Moses E. Clapp is at his
cottage at Pokegama lake, where he
expects to remain about two weeks.
The Swift County Review has passed
from the management of Hogue &
Crooks to that of II. J. Crooks alone.
r. L. Summer, an aged and re-
spected citizen of Monticello, died
suddenly of heart disease last Thurs
day.
Fifty thousand wall-eyed pike from
the State fish hatchery we're deposited
in Prairie lake near Hastings last
week.
The State board of control has made
a petition to have the State insane
asylum at Anoka incorporated in the
city limits.
The Minnesota State Pharmaceutical
association will meet in Duluth on
July Is to 20, an elaborate program
is being prepared.
There is an epidemic of rabies in
the northern part of the State, the
most violent cases being in the gh-
borhood of Crookston.
Oscar Ask of Fossum, accidentally
lost an eye while shooting crows on
June s. His gun was muzzle-loader
and upon being discharged the breech-
pin flew out.
G. P. Wainman, general manager
of the Northwestern Telephone COM
pany, has been appointed vice presi-
dent. His headquarters will remain
in Minneapolis.
E. T. Bennett, an attorney of Foss-
ton, is a strong candidate for the po-
sition of Indian agent of White Earth
reservation, a position now held by
Simon Michelet.
Amos Shepherd, superintendent of
the immense mining Industries of Cor
rigan, Mckinney & Co., on the Me-
saba range, died suddenly at White
water, Wis. June 9th.
The Foley Independent says that
the building of the telephone line
from Foley to Ramey will give that
place communication with Royalton
and many other points.
Albert Lea wants the Duluth, St.
Cloud, Glencoe and Mankato rail-
road, but on a vote last week the
proposition to bond the city for $40, =
900 for the road was voted down.
At a meeting of the Minnesota Music
Teachers association held in Winona
last week, Gustavus Johnson of Min
neapolis, was elected president. The
1906 meeting will be held in Minne-
apolis.
Secretary E. W. Randall of the
State fair association, is endeavoring
to work up an interest throughout
the State in county exhibits at the
next fair, and is meeting with much
encouragement.
A committee of village officers and
business men of South Saltwater is
busy in an effort to secure the hand
ling of mails by electric cars in place
Of the Milwaukee railway in the inter-
est of better service.
t. J. Cation, president of the Cation
business college in Minneapolis,
lighted match last week to look for
a gas leak, and he found it. AS a re-
suit he was badly burned by the ex-
ploding gas and is confined to his bed.
There is a county seat war on be-
tween Red Lake Falls and Thief River
Falls, but the former has the court
house and the commissioners have de-
cided that the petition for it's removal
is not in legal form. The matter is
in the air for some time.
William J. Bryan has given $500
from the Bennett fund which he holds
in trust for educational purposes to
St. Olaf college at Northfeld. The
interest is to be expended for the use
of needy students who are to repay
the fund after graduation.
Sheriff Ward went to Minneapolis
last FRIDAY IN roo1 tho 1oo4b ,,o MN ~