The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-07-13
State News.

The public baths on Harriet island.
st. Paul, have been closed in con-
sequence of the high water.
The Northern Pacific bank at Brain
erd has again resumed business after
a suspension of many weeks.
The State census gives Milaca a
population of 1910. In 1900 the total
was 1904, showing an increase of lo6.-
A heavy hail storm in Roberts
county, about six miles west of
Browns Valley, destroyed about
1000 acres Of growing crops.
A raid on Winona by representa-
tives of the pure food department. has
resulted in the imposition of fines
amounting to total of S145.
A horse fell through a coal hole at
1908 Stevens avenue, Minneapolis,
and it required the combined efforts
of ten men and fire truck No. to ex-
tricate it.
Despite the frequent heavy rains the
past month or two the crops about
Albert Lea are looking promising and
with good weather there will be a
heavy yield.
The safe of Charles Hanson at Carl
ton was blown open on the night of
July 5 and about 5000 in money and
valuable papers extracted. No clue
to the robbers.
The opening to entry of the White
Earth and Chippewa reservation
lands, comprising about $1,000 acres,
will take place on Aug. Is. The gov
eminent price is s1.25 per acre.
In the case of J. T. Roman, an aid
erman of Winona who sought to as
sign his salary in advance, Judge
Snow of the district court has ruled
that such action would be illegal.
The slayers of Peter Kracovitch at
Evelyth, Frank Lenich and Frank
Lonjer, have been found guilty of
manslaughter and sentenced to serve
ten years each in the penitentiary.
Antoinette Seidensticker, the
Wheaton girl who was acquitted of
numbering her sweetheart, has mailed
to each member of the jury one of her
photographs with a letter of thanks.
The sum of s1,052, 628.S9 has been
deposited in the United States treas
ury to the credit of the Chippewa In
dams as result of the logging oper-
ations in Minnesota during the past
winter.
In consequence of rain on the
Fourth the celebration at Milaca was
postponed to the Sth. when fine
weather prevailed and the ceremonies,
sports, etc., we're successfully con-
Quoted.
Mrs. Vim. Babcock, an old resident
OF Anoka, died at that place last
week, aged seventy-eight years. She
had lived in Anoka about twenty
years and leaves a husband, three
sons and two daughters.
AS result of an argument as to
the relative merits of Accent and
50-cent shirt: Dave Skunk, an Indian.
was hit over the head by John Ash
ava, brother red, at Sandstone
lake and his life crushed out.
The population of the State peni-
tertiary is now almost 700 and is
gradually increasing. The corridors
are being utilized for sleeping places
and in the female ward some of the
cells are inhabited by two inmates.
The report of the first months work
OF the State free employment bureau
shows that 34S men and eighty-two
women and girls have been supplied
with work and that the total expense
OF operation amounted to but s17O3s.
Nels J. Benson of East St. Cloud
attempted suicide last week by cut
ting his throat. 1t is said that he
will recover. His wife also ATTEMPTED
to drown herself in the Mississippi
river but was restrained by bystand-
erS.
Sixty thousand school children
suffering from defective eyesight and
10000 afflicted with defective hearing
in the Minnesota public schools is
the record for the school year just
closed as reported by the State board
of health.
Dave Mccarthy, twenty-six years,
was drowned at Brainerd Sunday in
the Mississippi while in bathing with
a number of boys. He swan out into
the current and tried to catch onto
some logs, but the current was too
swift and carried him by.
Owing to the breaking out of scar
let fever in the family of the man in
charge of the bachelor officers mess
at Fort Smelling Col. Sweet, upon the
recommendation of the most snruoon