The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-07-27

started up town from the train on a
wheel. The night police found the
empty grips in boxcar.
A public subscription is being taken
up for the flood sufferers along the
Mississippi river in the vicinity of
Aitkin. It is estimated that $50
families have lost their entire crops.
A two-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Gilbert N. Roen, near Comstock,
was playing on hayrack, fell be-
tween the boards and was caught by
the head and hanged till she was dead.
John Ohe of Sparta, aged twenty
six years, was killed at the Petit
mine at Eveleth on Monday by the
collapse of an ore bank upon which
he was at work with steam shovel
crew.
Bernard Bardle was drowned in the
Grow river, Hennepin county, late
Saturday. He was twenty seven years
old, and single. His boat went over
the dam and was caught in the whirl-
pool.
The Grasston Starch Manufacturing
company has incorporated at Grass
lake, Kanabec county, with a capital
ization of $4,000. John Reamquist
is president and John o. Serline Sec
rotary.
A mill is about to be erected in
Crookston with daily capacity of
$50 barrels for the handling of the
Durum or macaroni wheat which is
being raised in the Red River valley
this year.
w. NJ. Bangor and w. S. Nickson
have been arrested at Belle Plaine
for smuggling the driver of a hearse
and then stealing it. The horses and
vehicle belonged to Frank Harmon of
LIE Sueur Center.
Two men had their legs taken off at
Renova, near bayfield,. One was a
laborer on the railroad grades, the
other was beating his way north.
The latter died and the other was
taken to St. Paul.
The northern counties have made
by far the best showing in the census,
returns most of them having doubled
their population of five years ago.
The southern counties have remained
about stationary.
A stay of execution has been granted
by the supreme court in the case Of
VIM. Williams, the St. Paul murderer,
whose hanging was set for Aug. 8. A
motion for new trial will be pre-
sented at the October term.
The northbound passenger train on
the Great Northern railway ran into
herd Of eighty head of cattle be-
longing to E. S. Reishus at Cotton
wood which had got upon the right of
way and instantly killed twenty-one.
By the terms of the will of Jesse w.
Motto, whose estate has been formerly
closed in Missouri and Indiana, Mrs.
Mary MaxGeld of Mankato is be-
queathed 100000. Mrs. Maxfeld is
the widow of hte late Mayor Maxfeld.
Rudolph Neumann, fifteen, died
Saturday at Mankato of lockjaw.
His left foot was injured a week be-
fore in the Pay candy factory, by the
falling of heavy machine, an iron
bar of which forced it's way into the
flesh.
Tomahawk II, one of the largest
and swiftest sailboats on Lake Mime
tnoka, was run down and badly dam
aged by Tom Shevlin's big motor
boat, the Helenita, Saturday after
noon. Both boats are badly dam
aged. 81.
While crossing the bridge of the
Zumbrota branch of the Milwaukee
road at Faribault, Charles Tortier
and his daughter, Mrs. Bermiersch,
were thrown forty feet from a buggy,
causing probable fatal injuries to Mr..
Tortier.
At meeting held in Aitkin it was
|resolved to ask congress to dig a
ditch from Waldeck, above Aitkin, to
Pine Knoll, below Aitkin, a distance
of nine miles, to relieve the river of
much of it's surplus water in time of
freshets.
The body of an unknown man was
found in the Elk river, near the farm
of John Leitha in Palmer township,
Sherburne county, on Saturday. A
gold watch and SIS in money was
found in the clothing, but there was
no clue to his identity.
The United States steamship Fern,
which has been assigned to the Min
nesota naval militia, is now on it's
way to Duluth. When the boat reaches
Ogdensburg, N. Y, it will be named