The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-03-30
State News.

Cohasset will build $4,000 town
hall.
Belle PLANE has voted bonds for a
high school.
Rosseau will have pressed stone
and brick plant.
Walker will have public library
and opera house.
The Brainerd Telephone Exchange
Co. has been organized.
Anol1a will give.a public reception
in its new high school April 18th.
Staples is making war on slot ma
chlnes and open saloons on Sunday.
Farmers near Rush City have sub
scribed Sl2, 900 for a starch factory.
Fire at St. Peter destroyed the
building and plant of the St. Peter
steam laundry.
The logging industry at Saltwater
is waning and that city is thinking of
starting several manufacturing enter
prises.
The Crookston Creamery associa-
ton has been oragnized and will have
q creamery in operation by the middle
of the summer.
Anton Paulson, employed as head
electrician of the Red Wing Gas and
Electric company, was killed by cur
rent of electricity.
The two-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Carl Arlstad of Oak Park, fell
into boiler of boiling water and
died in a few hours.
The Stearns County Agricultural
society has decided to hold a racing
meet at St. Cloud on July and 5.
The county fair will be held Sept. l3,
II and Is.
George Spear, who lives seven miles
north of Sank Centre, has lost seven
head of cattle from an ailment resem-
bling hemorrhogic septicema, and DR..
Ward, State veterinarian, has been
called by DR.. Reimick to investigate.
The county commissioners of Cot
tonwood county have voted $4,000
bonds to complete Cottonwood county
court house. The people voted to
erect a $4,000 structure, but by the
time it is completed will have cost
100000.
Mamie Jungling of St. Cloud, aged
seventeen, attempted to elope with
Fritz Homer, night clerk at the lead
ing hotel. The girls mother pulled
her from the train as it was leaving
the city. Later she broke away from
her mother and disappeared.
The barn owned by Peter Schiller of
Mayhem Lake, Benton county, was
totally destroyed by fire last week and
five horses and two mich COWS were
cremated, while quite q quantity of
grain and some hay was burned. The
total loss will be about 81, 500 and the
insurance is very small.
Leroy Woodruff of Faribault, aged
seventeen, was accidentally shot while
driving to the river after some canoes.
He was sitting with a companion in a
wagon with a gun between his knees
and resting on the bottom. The gun
slipped and was discharged, inflicting
wound at the base of the stomach
from which he died in few minutes.
John Koterba, aged twenty-three,
died at Sank Center of lockjaw. The
young man has lived there all his life
with his parents. Several days ago
he ran a rusty nail into his foot, and
not thinking the wound serious, he
did not have it attended to by a ply
stefan. When symptoms of lockjaw
appeared medical aid was summoned
but too late to save him.
In broad daylight, while the agent
Of the Milwaukee depot at Winona was
at home for his dinner the window of
the ticket Office was pried open and an
entrance was effected. enabling some
person, supposed to be a tramp, to
break into the till and secure $40. He
made his escape and is supposed to
have boarded the next train out of the
city, while the police were looking
elsewhere.
G. A. Riepl, a Dowieite at Preston
has sold his farm and personal prop
erty near there and will remove to
Zion with from $4,000 to $4,000 in
cash. He refused to sell his farm to
his brother because the latter would
not submit to a clause in the deed pro-
hibiting him from raising hogs. The
brother is now the owner however,
having secured the land through an
intermediary.
Bob King of Fargo, lumberman,
was severely beaten and was robbed
of about $40 at Park Rapids by foot
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