The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-11-16
State News.

Great Northern at Mora, laid down
on the tracks, fell asleep and was
struck by freight. He was instantly
killed.
Henry Wagner was crossing creek
bed near Mankato when the axle of
separator broke and the machine fell
over upon him crushing his breast in.
He may recover.
The little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
James Brink, who reside on the south
ern outskirts of Fergus Falls, was
probably fatally burned last evening
while endeavoring to light fire with
kerosene. E."
James w. Marsden, So, a resident
of St. Paul 81 years, and one of the
pioneers who crossed the plains to
Montana in Capt. James L. Fisk's
party in 1862, died Thursday at his
home at Bald Eagle Lake.
Fred B. Phillips, young St. Paul
attorney, was fined $3.50 for contempt
of court by Judge Webber in the dis
trict court at Redwood Falls. An
alternative was six months in Jail.
Either is the limit in such a case.
Phillips Immediately took an appeal
to the supreme court.
The commission named to inquire
into the charges of official misconduct
preferred against Sheriff G. G. Erick-
son of Roseau county, who was
charged by his father with being an
habitual drunkard and with misappro-
priating the county funds in his care,
have substantiated the charges in
their report.
Peter Auguste Ecklund, who surren-
dered himself to the officers of Scot
land Yard Oct. %. charging himself
with the embezzlement of $4,000 while
secretary and treasurer of the Clay
County Land company of Moorhead,
Mimi, has been released by request
of the American embassy. He is not
wanted by the Minnesota authorities.
The Christmas tree industry is about
to begin in northern Minnesota.
Camps are now being put in at sew
eral points along the railroads. Dur
ing the next thirty or forty days many
carloads of trees for Santa Claus to
trim and load with toys will be cut
and shipped to Chicago and St. Louis,
the principal marts of the west, where
they are distributed to smaller towns
and cities.
The body of Halvord Nyman, the
old man whom Nels Grenberg admits
having poisoned at Fergus Falls, has
been exhumed by the coroner, and the
stomach has been sent to the state
chemist for analysis. While Grenberg
has made a confession, Nyman was
an old man and was in i'll health, and
the state feels that it will be just as
we'll to have evidence that the poison
caused his death.
Mrs. Harriet E. Nelson, who sued
John A. Davis at Red Wing for $4,000
as damages because he wrote poem
which she charged was meant for her
was awarded verdict of 81. While
the jury did not believe Mrs. Nelson
has suffered on account of the verses,
it was of the opinion that the man
who wrote them should certainly pay
the cost of the trial. A stay of pro-
ceedings of sixty days was granted.
The case may not end there.
What may prove to be heinous
crime was revealed when the dead
body of a homesteader named Sex
ton was found in his cabin, six miles
west of Nebish, by the town constable,
Fred Weber. A bullet hole was found
in the body and all indications are
that Sexton was murdered. Coroner
Marcum was notified of the finding of
the body, and left for Nebish to in
| vestigate the affair. Sexton was
about IS years Of age and leaves a
family.
Alfred A. Buck, defaulting cashier
of the Mapleton State bank, pleaded
guilty in the district court at Mankato
to an Indictment charging grand lar
ceny in the first degree. Judge Gray
sentenced him to Saltwater prison for
six years and four months. His de-
falcations amounted to about twenty
thousand dollars. After being fugi-
tive for two years, he was arrested at
the Island of Pines in August. He is
the only son of the late Justice Daniel
Buck of the supreme court.
Perry F. and Mary Carter have be-
gun two suits, each for $4,000 dam
ages, against John E. Bergland, con-
stable of the village of Minnetonka
Beach: the Aetna Indemnity CON-
pany and Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Fuller. The plaintiffs allege that
they were illegally arrested and i'm