The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-10-26

from beets, it is said, will be estab-
lished in Chaska.
An unknown man, apparently a
laborer, was killed on the Milwaukee
tracks at Ortonville. His body was
so badly mangled that Identification
is impossible. ~ .:-:.-~-.....--
I The tenth annual convention Of the
Minnesota Educational association
will meet in Red Wing on Nov 16, II
and Is, and a large attendance of edu-
Gators is assured.
Nick Smith, convicted at Anoka of
manslaughter in the first ddegree was
examined as to his alleged insanity
and found sane. The court committed
him to the State reformatory.
Mrs. Benjamin Tarbox, mother of
&c. Tarbox, former judge of the dis
trict court, died suddenly of heart
failure at her sons residence in Mon
ticello. Deceased was 80 years of age.
| About fifty of the settlers in town
ship No. g., section Is, in northern
St. Louis county, have held their
first town meeting and organized. The
town will be called Angora. Sounds
goaty. ..- s.,... !.
A large black bear was killed by
Alfred Anderson of Borgholm town
ship last week. Bruin was proceed
ing to the woods with pig in it's
cluthes when Mr.. Anderson overlook
and dispatched the marauder.
Emil Anderson, a young man who
had just arrived from St. Louis,
hanged himself in the barn of his
uncle, B. A. Erickson, near Fergus
Falls. He had spent the summer in
St. Louis and as he had been i'll his
uncle sent him money to come home.
The potato crop at Frazee is almost
a failure, especially in low land. Po-
tatoes are selling at the stores for 40
cents a bushel and farmers are being
paid IS cents, the highest price paid
for years at this time Of the year. It
is expected that they will steadily ad-
vance to Is cents a bushel.
The Commercial club of Frazee has
decided to spend two or three hundred
dollars to help the farmers in improv-
ing the roads leading into town,
which have been injured by the con-
slant rains. A general move is to
be made to repair all roads having
! traffic into Frazee.
Paul E. Baumgartner of Winona,
Robert E. Danfell of Duluth and O.
o. Whited of Minneapolis have taken
the highest degree in Scottish Rite
Masonry at the session of the supreme
council in Washington, D. C. They
were given the thirty third degree by
James E. Richardson, the highest
Mason in the world.
The suit brought by William Grant
against W. E. Talboys, editor of the
Chisholm Herald, for libel, was heard
before Judge Nelson and resulted in
acquittal for the defendant The suit
hinged on an article which appeared
| in the Chisholm Herald charging
Grant with misrepresentation of school
funds when he was treasurer of the
board.
Rollarity Nedelke of st. Louis was
instantly killed Friday. He was walk
ing on the Great Northern track be-
tween st. Cloud and Clear Lake and
was run down by passenger train No.
6. His father was walking with him
and was a witness to the terrible &C
| cident. They had been working at
Blackjack and were making their way
home to st. Louis. ..' -.
Joe Stanek, % years of age, of
Swan River, eight miles west of Roy
alton, was instantly killed by the ac-
cidental discharge of a shotgun. He
was passing through door with the
muzzle of the gun toward him when
it was discharged by the hammer CON-
ing in contact with the door. The
charge took effect just below the left
eye, tearing away a portion of the
head and killing him instantly.
Walter Elvidge of Minnesota,
clerk in the standard division of the
department of commerce and labor at
Washington, who was arrested for
speeding an automobile and who, it is
said, caused President Roosevelt to
issue the circular to members of his
cabinet authorizing them to dismiss
anyone in their department. when, in
their opinion, they are unfit for SER
vice, has been dismissed from the de-
partment. ~:ss---
W. G. Arons, the bonesetter, SEN
fenced at Aitkin to six years in
prison, committed suicide by shoot
ing in the county jail at 9:45 Saturday
morning. Sheriff Haugen was down