The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-09-28
State News.

Roy Richards, Is, a carpenter at
the Montevideo roller mill, fell 20 feet
from a scaffold and struck on a stone
in the river, killing him instantly.
Mrs. Nels Jensen, wife of a promi-
nent farmer living near Swanville,
was killed by runaway horse which
knocked her under him and crushed
her head and chest.
No more dental students can be ac-
cOmm0dated at the university of Min
nesota. The registration this year is
so large that those who wish to now
enter will have to be refused admis-
sion.
Carrie Olson of Teckla, Clearwater
county, although born without legs,
is running a forty acre farm. Her
neighbors do the sowing and reaping
and she repays them by sewing for
them.
Barney Munson, a saloonman, was
convicted of selling liquor to minors
and fined $50 and costs amounting to
$50 at Fergus Falls. N. Nelson
pleaded guilty to the same offense and
was fined S25 and costs.
Fl. W. Marshall, the Osseo school
teacher charged with passing a worth
less check, has been discharged from
custody. Nicholas Eckes, the CON-
planning witness, did not appear
against the young man.
The St. Louis Park line, owned and
operated by T. B. Walker, has been
taken over by the Twin City Rapid
Transit Co. and will be operated in
competition with the Milwaukee and
St. Louis steam roads to Hopkins and
St. Louis Park.
The strike of quarrymen has been
called off at ST. Cloud and new
scale of wages agreed upon. It pro-
vides for 50 a day of eight hours.
The men went out on a demand of
1926, but compromised for 50. The
strike affected 800 men, who have re-
turned to work.
Geo. II. Jackson, p years of age,
Of .Wabsha, was killed while attempt
ing to loop the "loop of death'' at
Zumbrota. The bicycle. upon which
he attempted to leap the gap, failed
to reach the other side and he was
dashed to the earth distance of IS
feet. Two hours after he died.
-Jeffries J. Donohue of Minneapolis
and Harry Ripson: whose parents re-
side at Cuba, Mo-, were almost in
stantly killed near the junction of the
Northwestern Telephone company's
and the Apple River power lines, near
Long Lake, Sunday morning, $4,000
volts passing through their bodies.
Judge Spooner has denied the mo-
ton of the people of Shevlin to dis
solve the temporary injunction re-
straining the board of county COM
missioners OF Clearwater county from
acting upon petition to call an
election for the purpose of removing
the county seat of Clearwater county
from Bagley to Shevlin.
Henry Ettman was instantly killed
at Chisholm while switching cars in
the Great Northern yards. The body
was taken to Barrett's undertaking
rooms at Hibbing and an effort is be-
ing made to locate relatives. He was
employed as brakeman by the rail-
road company and at the time of the
accident was spotting a car. p.
Suit has been commenced in the
Ramsey county district court against
John Fitzgerald of the St. Paul work.
house for $4,000 damages because he
ordered one of the prisoners to be
shaved. During the shave the work
house barber robbed the prisoner of
a mustache of several years. stand
ing for which the loser asks SIC. 900
in damages.
DR.. H. M. Bracken of the State
board OF health has recommended ex-
tensive improvements in the water
supply of several of the towns in the
Iron Range district, principally at
Chisholm, Hibbing and Virginia.
All these towns have recently been
visited by epidemics of typhoid fever
and investigation has shown the cause
to be impure drinking water.
James Wesley and Paul Fournier
have been indicted by the grand Jury
at Bemidji on the charge of having
murdered N. O. Dahl and his 17-year-
old daughter, Aagot, in Beltrami
county, last April. Northern Mime
sofas annals of crime contain the
record of no more revolving crime
than the murder of Dahl and his
daughter, who lived near During.
The body of August Strobeck. an
OLD resident Of Hnnl-ine mo a.,.1tL.