The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-08-10

fifth time his barn has burned. Mrs.
Llttau was burned on the arms in
pulling her husband from the barn.
Four horses were cremated.
After giving James Finneoan
twenty-five cents with which to buy a
meal Detective Hansen Of Minneapolis
arrested the man on the charge of
vagrancy because he spent the money
for liquor. Judge Waite gave the
prisoner ten days.
The "Holy Rollers of Benton Har-
Dor, Mich, have invaded the Red
river valley. At Stephen missionar-
les recently organized a colony of
Rollers, and religious meetings, at
tended by the most unuusal cere-
monies, are in progress.
The sensational Owatonna paris
green poisoning case will have
another airing next week. when the
hearing in the case of Miss Vida
johnson, charged with the attempt at
poisoning the family of John L. John
son will be called in court.
W. L. Hughes, eighteen years old,
a clerk in the drug store of A. B.
Crowell, 1912 Hennepin avenue, Min
neapolis, was almost Instantly killed
by the explosion of a steel cylindrical
tank filed with carbonic acid gas
used for charging the soda fountain.
Work on the grade for the first fifty
two miles of the Duluth, Mankato,
Glencoe & St. Cloud railroad has been
awarded to Tobey & Co., railroad
contractors, who have given a surety
BOND to the railroad company for the
building of the road complete this
year. \
The body of James Murray, a stone,
cutter, resident for many years in St.
Cloud, was found in the Mississippi
river near the State normal school.
1t is thought Murray jumped from the
railroad bridge. He was ffty-three
years old and had no relatives in,
America. /
The State drainage league elected
the following officers: President, A.
G. Bernard, Cass Lake; secretary, 81.
G. Hayes, Bemidji; first vice presi-
dent, G. H. Warner: treasurer, Cap
tain II. B. Eva of Duluth. Wadena
was named as the place of the next
convention.
The will of the late Benjamin Cook,
the banker and former State official
who recently committed suicide at
Owatonna, leaves $4,000 to his grand
daughter, $4,000 to his daughter,
$4,000 to sister, and the residue to
the widow. Mr.. Cooks estate is
worth about Sl5O.OOO.
Thomas Mayhem, one of the best
known characters in northern Mime
sofa, died at Grand Marais, Cook
county, On Aug. 4. With his brother
he settled at Oneota in 1857, where the
two established small grist mill and
made the first -four manufactured at
the head of the lakes.
F. J. Weiss, buttermaker at the
Freedmen creamery, near Little Falls,
was badly injured at that place Mon
day morning by having his hand and
arm caught in some machinery, the
arm and hand being torn open and
the bones broken. Five cords were
cut in the back of the hand.
Residents of Highland near Winona,
are beginning to fear that John Lie
bel, who occupies farm near that
place, may have made away with him
self. he left home a couple of weeks
ago, just at a time when his crops
were ready to harvest, and nothing
has been seen of him since.
Ralph Barber, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
W. M. Barber, narrowly escaped
drowning in Lake Latimer, near Long
Prairie. He fastened a life preserver
about him and jumped in. The life
preserver proved worthless, and he
had already gone down twice when
companion pulled him out.
Jacob Weber, held at the Beltrami
county jail to await the action of the
grand jury next month on charge of
incest committed upon his fifteen-year-
old daughter at Nymore, attempted to
commit suicide Saturday morning by
cutting his throat with a razor which
he claims had been Struggled to him
by his wife.
/ The week ending August S was an
unusually active one with the State
free employment bureau at Duluth.
In all ISL people had been supplied
with work in the six days, 1872 of
these being men and twenty-nine
women. Not a single man applied
for work in vain for there were lust