The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-08-24

Huronic, with visits at the larger in
termediate ports will also be a feature
of the outing.
Convinced that they had the wrong
man arrested, the officials secured the
discharge of Harry Taylor, the young
Wells telegraph operator who was
charged with passing a forged check.
Taylor came to Mankato to call on a
young woman who formerly resided in
Wells, when he was nabbed bv a
police officer.
Major Seymour Howell, paymaster
OF the department of Dakotas, sta
toned at St. Paul since 1904, has been
retired from active service with the
rank of lieutenant colonel and three
fourths pay. His retirement, dated
Aug. II, becomes effective at once un-
der the congressional veterans act
He will retire to his home at Adrian.
Mich.
South st. Paul has school board
which has no existence from a legal
standpoint. The legislative act under
which that body was created is held
by Attorney General E. T. Young to
be unconstitutional. The board is not
worrying but will continue to admin
lister the affairs of the public schools
until the supreme court abolishes the
board.
The windstorm which passed over
the northwest last Sunday evening
did thousands of dollars worth of
damage, st. Cloud and Sank Rapids
being particularly unfortunate. A
woman in St. Paul fearing a cyclone,
was literally scared to death. 1t
looked at the time as if the destructive
storm of Aug. 20, 1904, were about to
reassert itself.
The regents of the State university
are expected to order work begun on
the Alice A. Shevlin hall, the new
woman's building at the university,
in about week. All the women s
organizations will be given quarters
in the new building and it is very
probable that the girls gymnasium
will be transferred from the armory
to the new building.
The State game and fish commission
has interpreted the new game law to
read that public cold storage ware
houses cannot be made the custodians
OF slaughtered game. All any cold
storage house can care for, according
to the commissions Interpretation,
is forty-flve prairie chickens and fifty
ducks. This is the size of the game
bag allowed individual hunters.
Bernhard Segerstrom, whose par
ents reside at 5000 Lyndale avenue S.,
Minneapolis, died on Friday as the
result of stepping on a rusty nail
while playing in his yard. The little
fellow was just eight years old on the
day of his death. Lockjaw appeared
as a result of the wound within few
days after it was received and the
best medical assistance could do moth
ing to relieve him.
Harold Bergendahl, a student in
the electrical engineering department
of the university of Minnesota, whose
parents reside at Glendale, N. D.,
was drowned on Monday in Lake
Elmo, while bathing. He and a COM
panion rowed out into the lake with a
boat and jumped in. The boat drifted
away and Bergendahl sank in sew
enty-6ve feet of water. He was a
popular young fellow and boarded in
East Minneapolis.
A delegation of Redwood Falls citi-
zens, headed by Julius Schmall, met
with Attorney General Young Aug.
10. They want "slice'' of the money
which the State distributes among it's
agricultural societies. Redwood Falls
had fair association which disband-
ed last year. There was then coming
to it $500. The society has since been
reorganized, fair arranged, and the
money is wanted for premiums. An
opinion has been rendered that the
! money cannot be paid. 49,"