The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-01-05
State News.

The storm at Sherburn last week
was the worst known in twenty years.
Armeen J. Boon died of aconite
poisoning at Albert Lea. His wife is
suspected.
Duluth public school opened on
Monday regardless of New Years
celebration.
K. T. Quale, a merchant of Pelican
Rapids, was found dead in bed from
heart failure.
Gunder Gunderson, farmer at Bat
tie Lake dropped dead while walking
with a neighbor.
Edward Lanctot, of Crookston, aged
seventy-four, is dead of old age. He
was the oldest resident in the valley.
The body of Anna Olson was found
IN snow drift a mile east of Monte
video after Tuesdays storm of last
week.
The Commercial hotel at Long
Prairie was completely destroyed by
fire on Wednesday of last week. Loss
$1,000; insurance, So, 200.
reserve by the various lumber COM
panies, which are removing ninety five
per cent of the pine on the reserve,
under the provisions of the Morris
law.
The body of an unidentified man
was found on the Northern Pacific
track at Freeman station. Both legs
q and one arm were cut off and the face
was crushed.
At a special meeting of the inde-
pendent school district of Appleton it
was voted almost unanimously to is
sue bonds for s13, 900 for the erection
of a brick school house.
The Pioneer hotel, one of the Oldest
structures in Pine City, was destroyed
by fire last week; $4,000 insurance
was carried on the building and the
contents were insured for 81, 800.
The village of Mckinley was visited
by fire that burned the saloon of
Herman Milbrook, value $4,000, the
clothing store of Lippman Bros,
value S., 800, and a candy store.
Eugene S. Bruce, lumberman and
inspector for the bureau of forestry
Washington was at Cass Lake last
week looking over the work being
6nno %ho
Jacob Wise, last Thursday night at
the Merchants hotel in Bemidji stab
bed John Suckert four times in the
breast. The men are farmers and
were said to be intoxicated. Suckert
will recover.
Judge Grindeland has decided the
Moreau and Hanson contest case for
the office of county treasurer of Red
Lake county in favor of Hanson
(Dem). The recount gives Hanson
twenty majority.
Louis Erickson, aged twenty, was
accidentally shot and killed by his
younger brother while out hunting
rabbits near Rock Creek. The
younger boy was walking behind
Louis and carried an old shotgun at
half-cock.
After trial lasting ten days the
jury at Albert Lea agreed upon a YER
dict of $8,478 for the plaintiff in the
case'of W. 81. Neibuhr against w. F.
Gage. A stay of forty days was taken
by the defendant and a new trial will
be asked for.
Anton Horsak, pricipal witness for
the Koch defense and the man who
saw the murderer mount the stairs
leading to DR.. L. A. Gebhard's Office
few minutes before the dentist was
murdered, has been poisoned by sau-
sages, but not fatally. The poison
ing is another mystery to the mystic
rious murder.
A verdict of murder in the first
degree was returned against Joseph
Guilmette of Crookston, after the jury
had been out two hours. Guilmette
was convicted of killing Joseph Mon
geon, Oct. II last, on the track near
Mentor, and dragging the body into
the woods. The two were companions.
The defense attempted to establish an
alibi. It was the most celebrated
murder trial ever held in Northern
Minnesota and lasted eight days.
At special meeting of the State
board of pardons at the new State
capitol last week, Nathaniel W. King,
former city detective of Minneapolis.
was given a full pardon. King i'm
mediately left for Cleveland, Ohio,
where position in the secret service
of the Erie railroad awaits him. It
is understood that the place was Sc
cured for the old detective through
the good Offices of F. W. Underwood,