The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-03-23
State News.

The village of Nevis had a $4,000
fire last week.
The Faribault shoe factory will in
crease it's output to 200 pairs of shoes
per day.
The St. Cloud normal school will
graduate a class of about 135, the
largest in its history.
A high school building to cost
S36, 900, and Lutheran church cost
ing 10000, will be built at Rushford.
At a village caucus in Mora last
week one of the participants received
wound in the head from a slung-
shot. .....
Joseph Nojack of Eveleth, was Sc
verely injured in a railroad wreck on
an Erie train near Hammond. Ind,
this week. .
Alexander Johnson, one of Still
waters best-known citizens, pioneer
logger and merchant, died suddenly
at O'Clock Monday afternoon.
Hon. Allen J. Greer, formerly OF
Lake City, died at Monrovia, Cal,
March 14th of Bright's disease. Mr..
Greer was prominent in local and
State politics many years.
St. Cloud is to have canning fac
tory. Plans and specifications for the
factory are being made and it is ex-
pected that the work will be COM
menced at once. The plant will en-
ploy between seventy-ive and 100 men
and girls.
Citizens and farmers of New Ulm
and neighboring towns have organ
lied the New Ulm Rural Telephone
Co. to establish telephones in fourteen
towns adjoining that city in the coun-
ties Of Brown. Nicollet and Blue
Earth.
The Acknowledgement Hunters
club served ''bear dinner" last Sat-
urday evening. w. J. Kuntz caught
the bear-a young cub-while deer
hunting last fall in the Itasca woods,
since which he had fed it on corn IN
til it tipped the beam at $50 pounds
and was declared fit to kill. Twenty
covers were laid, four members being
present from Norwood, a like number
from town and dozen guests.
An alarming epidemic of smallpox
has broken out at Argyle, and has
spread so rapidly in the past two
weeks that DR.. H. NJ. Bracken of the
State board of health and DR.. P. M.
Hall, health commissioner of Mime
apolis, have been appealed to for
help. 1t is said that a local physician
did not understand the uses of the
vaccination needle and lymph tube and
many who we're vaccinated believed
themselves immune and contracted the
disease.
Pipestone high school will have a
fast baseball team this coming season.
Judge Williston of Red Wing, has
decided that where a telephone com
pany places a pole in front of a mans
property it is trespasser unless con,
sent is obtained, Notwithstanding the
law gives telephone companies right
of way in the highways. The com.
pany can compel the property owner
to acquiesce. but unless he consents
it must be done by condemnation pro-
ceedings.
G. O'Malley of Hinckley, has been
arrested charged with ballot box
stuffing at the election at that place
last week. One of the voters marked
a ballot and proceeded to vote it. Il
is alleged that Judge O'Malley put the
marked ballot in his coat pocket and
was in the act of placing the substi-
tuted ballot in the box when he was
stopped by the men who were placed
to watch him. The marked ballot, it
is alleged was recovered from him,
and he is said to have admitted the
act, stating that it was done for a
joke. His arrest followed. Later he
was given hearing and bound over
to the grand jury.