The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-01-26
State News.

Aitkin will sell 1000 worth of
bonds to the State.
The village of Mckinley has an
other bad fire.
Rumors that the 500 road will build
into Duluth the coming year.
The Presbyterians will build new
church at Two Harbors this year.
Mrs. T. G.. Mealey, one of the old
est residents of Monticello, died last
week.
N. M. Reynolds, a pioneer of Mon
tevideo and we'll known in that part
Of the State, is dead.
Mrs. John Hubert, Horatio Blais-
dell and Mrs. McNeal of Elk River,
passed away last week.
Anoka county has four new free
rural routes. Two routes start from
St. Francis one from Constance and
one from Bethel.
DR.. N. S.. Tefft of Plainview, the
Oldest physician in Wabasha county,
died at his home in Plainview last
week, aged seventy-four.
Dell Cook, one of Hastings we'll
known citizens and former conduc-
tor of the Hastings & Dakota train,
died last week from heart trouble. He
leaves wife and family.
Alfred johnson, twelve years old,
of Montevideo, while coasting was run
over and seriously injured. His nose
was broken and his tongue almost cut
of.
The village of Greenbush in Roseau
county elected it's first officials last
week. It has Hamm Brewing Co.,
cold storage and seven applications
for saloon licenses.
A tribe of "Thompson Seton's" In
dams has been organized at Winona
by the boys of St. Paul's Episcopal
church and will at once begin prepar-
ations for an outing next summer.
William Schoenning's little daugh.
ter, child of eleven years of age at
Fergus Falls, took paris green and
died in great agony. The child s
mother died just a week ago.
Mrs. August Engstrand, of Mora,
who was taken to Minneapolis Friday
for treatment for a paralytic stroke,
died Monday. She was the wife of a
hardware mearchant and her remains
will be bruied at Mora.
The Minneapolis & St. Louis sta.
ton at Waterville was destroyed by
fire, which originated in the freight.
room, near where the switch lights are
kept. The station was full. of freight
and the loss is heavy.
Ole Melund, a Norwegian, employed
as carpenter at the Zenith mine, near
Ely, fell down the opening nearly
1000 feet. His body was picked ur
in pieces soon after. He was twenty
five and had no relatives in this coun.
try.
Duluth will celebrate the beginning
of work on the waterpower of the St.
Louis river next Saturday. The cele.
bration will take place at the site OF
the old wooden dam at Thompson.
and Superior will be invited to par.
ticipate.
A. O. Kranges met with a serious
accident at his farm, near Kranges
station. He was standing near a saw
ing machine when the saw broke.
striking his arm. 1t is thought the
accident will prove fatal. He is an
old pioneer.
Gottfricd Neumann of Albion town,
Wright county, while his family was
at church Sunday, committed suicide
by placing shotgun against his
breast and firing it Off. The cause is
said to be dependency over failure
of his crops.
It has been definitely decided by the
Standard Lumber company of Be-
midi, not to erect saw mill on the
reservation, as originally planned.
All logs will be shipped by rail to
Grand Rapids and floated down the
Mississippi to the company's mills at
Dubuque.
The two-year-old son of Gus Fisher,
a carpenter at Perham, is dead as the
result of a peculiar accident. He
had the pointed handle of a tooth
brush in his mouth and fell to the
floor. The point penetrated his
palate and blood poison resulted,
causing death.
The residence and store building of
A. j. Dawes of New York Mills was
destroyed by fire. The stock of gen.
eral merchandise was owned by F. A.