The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-02-16
State News.

Moorehead invested S243, 049 in new
buildings last year.
Thief River Falls will invest $780,
600 in new buildings this year.
Mrs. j. Gaspard, aged eighty nine,
a pioneer resident of Sank Center is
dead.
Daniel Paul, an old war veteran
was buried at Spring Valley last week
by Burdick post.
John B. Labree, pioneer of
Crookston and the founder of Thief
River Falls, is dead.
Farmers in the vicinity of Montrose
contemplate erecting a large depart
ment store in the spring.
The Battle Lake mills were broken
into and several hundred pounds of
flour and feed taken away.
The schools at Bertha have re-
opened after a six weeks enforced va
cation because of smallpox.
Mrs. Riley. an aged woman living
two miles from Foley, died of heart
failure while riding to church week
ago last Sunday.
A centenarian, Mrs. Hoag of Tracy,
has the smallpox, but as she will be
101 years old next month she proposes
to live down the plague.
Jesse Eastman, aged twenty-six of
Brainerd was accidentally shot while
hunting rabbits at Long Lake and
died in about nine hours.
John Hubert who settled in Elk
River in 1865, died at his home in
that place last week. He is survived
by three sons and two daughters.
Nathan Brown, the Oldest settler in
Winona county and father of Mayor
L. L. Brown of Winona, died at his
home in Dakota after a brief illness.
The Great Northern depot at How
ard Lake, Wright county: was totally
destroyed by fire last week and a mail
sack containing a small amount of
mail was destroyed.
The new Ransford hotel at Brainerd
is almost completed, and was leased
by r. r. Wise to Thomas Beare of
Minneapolis. Beare will invest fifteen
thousand dollars in furniture and fix
lures.
Miss Comerford, an aged spinster
of Alexandria, was robbed of 81, 900
cash, which she kept in a tin box in
her trunk. The robbery occurred
when the house was temporarily de-
serted.
Mrs. John Fitzloff, for over fifty
two years a prominent resident of
Blue Earth county: died last week at
her home in St. Clair of pneumonia,
after an illness of, only two days.
duration.
Governor johnson has formally an
nounced that Miss Rose Marie
Schaller, a sophomore at the Mime
sofa university, and daughter of Sen
ator Schaller of Hastings, is to
christen the new battleship Minnesota
at Newport News April 9Th.
State Superintendent Olsen has no.
tilted Supt. Kunze that Red Wing was
one of the five high schools in the
State which could send a representa-
tive to Washington to attend the in
auguration of President Roosevelt.
The school selected Harry c.. Cook,
aged eighteen years.
Attorney W. H. Lee of Thief River
Falls has begun suit in the district
court for an Injunction restraining the
county officials from making the pres
ent tax levy or from collecting it. He
contends that in several instances the
levy is larger than the law allows,
and asks the court to restrain the paw
ment, even if the levy has been made.
S. Frogner, eighty years of age, the
first settler in Herman. is dead. In
former years he kept a store, was
postmaster and prominent in various
lines of business; also in politics. He
was member of the first county board
of Grant county, and had the distinc-
ton of locating the county seat at Ell
bow Lake. In recent years he lost his
property, health and faculties, and
lived in retirement. He was born in
Sweden.
William Wise, who was shot and in
jured for life in the Wise murder mys-
terry about five years ago, is very i'll
with Bright's disease at the Anoka
county poor farm. His paralysis has
gradually been decreasing, and had it
not been for this last affection he
might have recovered. 1t is thought
by some that he knows the persons
who shot and killed his wife and son
and wounded himself and little Joe
Wise on that eventful Sunday evening