The Princeton union., 1905-03-16
State News.

a1ueI dill 1lluoSS Ol GWO mOnGnS.
Mile Laos county paid creamery
patrons S2l, ,O40.20 last year. Isanti
county $46, 6,9O7.99 and Sherburne
county S5,259.17.
George Reidle, Civil war veteran,
first postmaster and mayor of Carlton,
is dead of pneumonia after an illness
Of several months.
The Glass block at Mankato, owned
by j. B. & D. Richards burned to the
ground, entailing total loss of
sl5O,O00. It was one of the largest
and newest buildings in the city.
George E. Lee, manager of the Cass
Lake Times, has resigned and left for
his former home in Illinois, and is
succeeded by H. L. Dudley, formerly
with the Thief River Falls Press.
Vrooman Bros. of Anoka are to
start a cement brick factory and are
working on the dry house. A sand
cement brick machine, having ca
pacity of from 10, 900 to $4,000 brick a
day, has been ordered.
Sevan Sevatson, the only son of
former State Senator Sevatson of
Window, killed himself with shot
gun, whether it was intentional or ac-
cident is another question which will
probably never be answered.
DR.. H. E. Wunder and his assistant,
DR.. James Fowler of Soudan, Minn.,
the mining location at Tower, were in
dicted at Duluth under a charge of
having exposed a smallpox patient
who had applied to the former for care.
The contract has been let for a new
Universalist church at Owatonna. The
church will be the most unique in the
State, being a reproduction of the
Santa Barbara mission at Constanti-
nople. It's cost, complete, will be
$4,000.
Mayor e. j. Webber of Fergus Falls
died last week after long illness
from heart disease. He was president
of the Fergus Falls National bank and
of the Fergus Packing company and
heavily interested in other business
enterprises.
G. F. Macdonald, editor of the ST..
Cloud Times, and we'll known Grand
Army veteran was unanimously
elected to be Department Commander
Of the Minnesota G.. A. r. at a ses-
sion of the Thirty-ninth annual en-
campment held last week in the old
capitol building at St. Paul.
Fred Lehnert of LIE Sueur was ar
rested for cruelty to animals. He
was in town with team of high
spirited horses and one of them in par
ticular gave him much trouble
Lehnert, it is alleged, took out his
knife and slit both corners of the
horses mouth to "make him feel the
bit.''
John R. Gile, one of the earliest
settlers of Winona county, died last
week at his home in Winona, aged
seventy-six years. Mr.. Gile was born
in Steuben county, New York in 1929,
and came to Winona county with his
parents in 1853. He was prominent
in the early history of that county and
for time was the proprietor of the
old WinOna Democrat.
Two Harbors has the distinction of
having the lowest death record of 1904
in Minnesota according to the annual
table of deaths in the State issued by
DR.. II. M. Bracken, secretary of the
State board of health. During the
year there were only eight deaths in
the city which has a population of
1928. MOntevideo comes next with a
total of eleven deaths and popula-
tion of 2,146.
On March %, township 81, north of
range II west, will be thrown open to
homestead and timber and stone entry
at the Duluth land office. Applica-
tions will be based upon settlement
and other valid claims initiated prior
to June 30, 1902, when unappropriated
lands in this township were temporal
rily withdrawn for forestry purposes.
The township lies southeast of Ely in
northern Lake county.
Mrs. Chas. Trampe, a widow about
forty years of age, living near Swan
vile, was killed by being thrown from
a wagon. The woman was at the
local mill with grist of feed to be
ground, and was just loading her feed
on to the wagon when the team gave a
sudden start, throwing her to the
ground. She struck upon her head,
fell beneath the wheels, and was so
badly injured that she died within
three hours.
The Coloneps Waterloo.