The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-08-31
State News.

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Minnesota's population is l,979,-
SO4. This is gain of 22S, 410 since
1900, an increase of 1877 per cent.
Rev. J. S. Sjoquist of Dassel, lost
his right ear, it having been bitten off
by one of a herd of bronchos being
sold there.
DR.. Koch will locate in Minneapo-
lis. He says he will devote his life
time to bringing the murderer of DR..
Gebhardt to Justice!
Minnesota veterans of the civil war
who will march to encampment at
Denver will wear buttonhole bouquets
of No. hard wheat.
There appears to be no truth in the
report that the government contem-
plated establishing a forestry reserve
upon the White Earth Indian reserva-
ton.
Minnesota. according to the State
census returns, has sixteen Mexican
war veterans in it's confines. The
youngest is seventy-four and the old
est eighty-nine years.
Martin Draxton, son of Peter Drax-
ton of Cosmos, near Litchfeld, was
struck by lightning and killed while
working on top of stack of grain.
One or two stacks were burned.
Mrs. Andrew Swanson of Crooks
ton, mother of Oscar Fredericks,
bookkeeper at the Scandal American
bank here, fell dead from apoplexy
while out in the yard picking chips.
Charles Kraus, an employe of the
West Publishing company, St. Paul,
fell $50 feet down the face of cliff at
the foot of Third and Market streets,
St. Paul, with only slight injuries as
a result.
Peter McHugh, proprietor of the
townsite of Gemmell, the first town
north of Northome on the extension
which the Minnesota & International
railway is building, has discovered a
valuable deposit of iron ore.
A good roads association has been
organized by the merchants of Fergus
Falls. The first thing accomplished
will be the grading of road in first
class shape as a sort of object lesson.
A very commendable movement.
Marshal White captured at Perham
two deserters from Fort Smelling
They are members of the Tenth bat
terry and were beating their way on
freight trains to the west and seemed
tired of the task. They were taken
back.
But few minutes after the close of
Rev. W. B. Riley's address at the
First Baptist church, Minneapolis, a
man who is believed to be W. r. Owen
of Sublette, ILL.,. got up in pew and
fired a bullet through his heart, dying
instantly.
Thirty-seven northeast Minneapolis
saloonkeepers were arraigned in po-
lice court Monday morning on the
charge of keeping their places of bus
mess open on Sunday. All pleaded
not guilty and their cases were set for
trial Sept. IA. No bail was asked of
them. .-
Hon. D. A. Adams of Hutchinson is
said to have been justice of the peace
longer than any other man in the
State. He has held the Office continu-
ously, with the exception of the time
spent in the civil war, since he was
twenty-one years of age. He is now
sixty-eight.
William Wallace, a laborer thirty
five years old, was stabbed by man
with whom he got into an alteration
on 500 train near Rockford Satur-
day forenoon and was hurried to the
Minneapolis city hospital where he
died as the results of his injuries at 4
O'Clock Sunday morning.
A middle aged, well-to-do farmer
named Anderson of the town of French
Lake, near COkatO, met with very
serious accident while stacking grain.
He was on the stack and slid down
onto a pitchfork standing up against
the stack with tines down the handle
of which entered his groin and went
into his stomach.
Arthur Nesbitt, aged ten, was
drowned Monday in the bay at Duluth
while bathing and, in an effort to
save him at great peril to herself,
Mrs. A. w. Jacobs nearly persisted
herself, The boy fell into hole and
his cries attracted Mrs. Jacobs, who
rushed into the water. She went over
her depth and though she caught the