The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-01-12

clothing having caught fire in some
unknown manner.
In sidewalk injury case by Mr..
Bake against the village of Fertile,
a verdict was rendered for S5Ol.1 10
against the village in the district
court at Crookston.
A. r. Kingley, one of the early pio-
neers of the State, died after short
illness at Glencoe, aged elghty-one.
He formerly lived in Dakota county
where he took a hometead.
Howard Middleton, fourteen-year-
old son of Jhon Middleton, farmer
near Marshall, accidentally shot and
killed himself while hunting rabbits
in company with two other boys.
Winkler Bros hardware store in
the village of Dent, eight miles from
Perham, has burned down. The
origin of the fire is unknown. The
loss is $4,000 with So. 900 insurance.
Fire completely destroyed the wagon
works and blacksmith shop of Just
Paulson at Wells and the store build
ing occupied by John A. Klawish, be-
longing to the Seibert estate. Esti-
mated loss $4,000.
Articles of association have been
signed by a number of the wealthy
farmers in the vicinity of Rollingstone
and the merchants and business men
of that village for the First State
Bank of Rollingstone.
Nels Halvorson, for twenty years
hermit on Coney Island at Glenwood.
was found dead in his shack He was
about seventy and had no relatives in
this country. He had bank account
of several hundred dollars.
M. Frankoviz, hardware merchant
at Fergus Falls, met with a painful
accident last Thursday night. He
went into stall to feed his COW and
the animal became excited and at
tackled him, knocking him down and
tramping upon him.
Present prospects are that every
grain elevator at the head of the lakes
will be filled by the opening of navi-
cation. Less than 10000, 900 bushels
more of grain will do it. The houses
now have 100000 bushels in store.
which is double the amount a year
ago.
P. M. Getter's saloon at Wilton was
held up last week, five men being in
the place at the time. The robbers Sc
cured SIS and escaped. Mr.. Getter
had $500 in a pocketbook which he
dropped on the floor and saved. The
robbers was traced through the deep
snow to Bemidji.
Bemidji had the worst fire in it's his
tory Tuesday morning. Fire origin
ated in the second story of the North
ern Pacific saloon and much property
was destroyed before the fire was
stopped. The loss is estimated at
$4,000, with insurance about one
fourth of the amount.
William Kent, Jr., farmer of Kent
postoffice, Wilkin county, fled a pc
tition in bankruptcy in the United
States court at Fergus Falls last
week, placing his assets at Sill, 225. rs,
of which $4,000 is exempt, and his
liabilities at S12, 3S7.5S. His heaviest
debts are for threshing machines and
valuable horses.
Miss Carrie Bernemann. eldest
daughter of Mrs. Mary Bernemann,
died suddenly at the home of Andrew
Lurth of Kasota. Miss Bernemann
was prominent socially and had driven
out to the Lurth home with friends to
attend card party. AS she entered
the house she was stricken with heart
disease and died in few moments.
Mr.. Peters of West Albany lost
fine team of horses, which took the
Milwaukee track instead of the road.
Mr.. Peters, being asleep did not notice
it and on crossing bridge the horses
got down between the ties. Finding
he could not release them, Peters
started for help, but on returning
found both horses dead, they having
worked their way over the side of the
bridge.
Erick johnson living at Grasston,
Kanabec county, on the Great North
ern road, boarded the midnight pas
senger one day last week for Duluth
and he did not wait to secure berth
in the sleeper or for that matter in the
smoker, but he crawled on top of one
of the coaches and in his big fur coat
went to sleep. One of the train men
saw him board the train and not be-