The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-09-21
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1889, 400 bushels Of grain arrived
in the Minneapolis markets on Mon
day morning.
Sam Peterson, section man in the
Northern Pacific coach yard, st. Paul,
was cut to pieces and fragments of his
body scattered for $50 yards under
the Mississippi street bridge at Whit
all street.
Frederick William Bergmeier, man
aging editor of the Volkszeitung St.
Paul, and prominent in commercial
circles, died on Monday morning at
his home, GA Fountain street, after a
lingering illness.
While Engineer NJ. A. Trampert was
working in the stone saw mill at Man
kato in some unknown manner his
clothes caught in the machinery and
he was pulled into a fywheel and
killed. His neck was broken and a.
leg crushed.
A storm of cyclonic nature struck
Tyler on Friday. The grand stand
and one barn at the fair grounds we're
leveled to the ground. Joseph Glib
son, from Stewartville, Mo-, was
picked up east of town in mangled
condition, supposed to have been
blown off a freight train.
According to the returns from the
county boards of equalization now in
the hands of the State board the as
sessed valuation of personal prop
erty in the State has increased nearly
So, 900, 600 during the year. The val
uation in 1904 was S149, 684, lSl, while
the returns for 1905 show S158, 3O7, 416.
A freight train on the Milwaukee
road at Newport, Mimi, ran into an
open switch, about O'Clock Tuesday
morning. The engineer, E. j. Bris-
toll, 2o45 Fifteenth avenue south, Min
neapolis, was killed. The engine and
ten cars left the track and the engine
was badly demolished as we'll as many
of the cars.
A west-bound freight train and an
unoccupied lake passenger train col
lided at Excelsior at one O'Clock
Monday morning. Two coaches of
the passenger train and the engine
and tender of the freight were demol-
ished. Engineer Coleman and Fire
man Nilsson of the freight engine
jumped in time to save their lives.
Anna Grant, aged Is, of Chisholm
drank glass of carbolic acid before
her husbands face Sept. Is and died
fifteen minutes later in spite of all
efforts to save her life. The suicide
is supposed to have been due to her
dependency over a quarrel between
herself and her husband, Jerry Grant,
a bartender in ''The Ofice' saloon.
From a fire originating from an
overheated stack, which set fire to the
roof: the large city crematory in Min
neapolis, erected and fitted out at
total cost of $1,000, was totally de-
stroyed last night. The plant, which
was dry as finder, burned fercely for
hours and, despite the valiant efforts
of the department., no part of it could
be saved.
W. j. Byers, formerly proprietor of
the Broadway hotel in Crookston and
a fugitive from justice charged with
taking $3.50 intrusted to him by guest
at his hotel, was brought back. on
Monday evening by Sheriff Gonyea
from Bozeman, Mont, where he was
found through a letter to his wife.
When arraigned before Judge McLain
Byers waived examination and was
remanded to jail to await the action
of the grand jury.
Mr.. Cokefair of the Great Northern
Power company says that in the next
two years Duluth would be nearer
Minneapolis by nearly two hours, and
that the cost of transportation would
be much less than now between the
cities. This, he says, will be either
by an interurban route, connecting
the street railway systems of the
cities, or by the electrifcation of one
of the steam roads made possible by
the water power Of the St. Louis river.
A railroad freight engine of so huge
and powerful a type that a string of
wheat cars which it is able to pull
will not keep together, but will part,
seems an impossibility, but is the
style of engine which is being adopted
by the Great Northern railroad in the
grain belt to handle the crop this fall
With total weight of. tender and en-
CINE of $4,000 pounds, the new style
moguls will have pulling capacity
greater than any engine in the coun-
try at the present time.
| By recent ruling of the anthor-