The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-08-17
State News.

John Schmidel, aged fifty, a Hop.
kins farmer. committed suicide by
drinking carbolic acid.
The doughty sailors from Duluth
who were bringing the Fern up the
lakes are suffering from humps.
The plant of the St. Peter Tribune,
published by Fichthorn & Loehl,
received serious damage from fire.
A turpentine plant has been started
near Hinckley which is paying the
farmers So per cord for pine stumps
and knots.
Diphtheria is said to be prevalent
at Lawrence with Erwin Mattson al
ready dead and his sister suffer
ing from the disease.
Sheriff Williams of Blue Earth
county has returned from Havana,
Cuba, with Alfred A. Buck, the de.
faulting Mapleton bank cashier.
The postofice department has taken
up the question of making Otter Tail
county a rural free delivery county,
by establishing a complete county
service.
In Gull and Round lakes, Grow
Wing county thousands of wall-eyed
pike and whitefsh are said to be dy-
ing from a parasite which eats up
their gills.
The board Of regents of the State
university has elected Prof. William
Robertson uperintendent of the
Crookston Experimental farm at a
salary of So, 400 a year.
Frank Somes, a monomaniac OF
Ogilvie, has been committed to the
Fergus Falls hospital for the insane.
His hallucination seems to be that he
is tormented by spirits from Wash
ington, D. G.
Excelsior has new fire department.
The old bucket brigade has been done
away with and new methods adopted.
A gasoline fire engine has been Sc
cured, together with hose cart and
1000 feet Of hose. Uniforms will
also be procured.
Nellie Prayer, who was received at
the Saltwater prison on March 10,
1897, to serve life sentence for the
murder of her child by burning it in a
barn at Daggett's Brook, near Brain
erd, has died in the penitentiary. She
was forty-four years old.
AS Louis Garouette of Mahnomen,
was going to milk COWS he was at
tackled by a vicious bull, and was
goared and bruised in terrible man
ner. His shoulder and several ribs
were broken and he was otherwise in
jured internally. He will probably
die.
HILBERT w. Hill, M. B., for several
years director of the archaeological
laboratory of the Boston board of
health, has accepted an offer from the
State university and will become as
sistant to DR.. F. F. Westbrook and
have charge of the laboratory at the
university.
Eric Anderson, aged eighty-two, a
farmer near White Bear lake, died
from paris green poisoning. He was
found in an oat field near his home by
his wife and it is believed that by
mistake he ate some food prepared
with the poison for the purpose of
killing flies.
While cutting a field of oats with a
harvester Paul Herman, prosperous
Morrison county farmer living in
Swan River town, ran over his two
year-old child, Peter, cutting off both
of the boys legs. The child died of
exhaustion within fifteen minutes on
account of loss of blood.
Geo. A. Pitman, a prominent Young
farmer of Kilkenny. has been bound
over to the next term of the United
States court at Mankato in $500 for
trying to bride the rural free carrier
examining board for that district.
He offered them 1926 for an appoint
ment as a rural free carrier.
The Irvine manufactured at the
State prison SO far this year amounts
to l1,l7l, 500 pounds, or over three
million pounds more than last year.
The sales amount to Sl,O79. O36. 81.
OF the whole 8,6S9,9l0 pounds were
sold in club orders to farmers of the
State on time notes due Nov. l in the
sum of S843, 037.72. The cash sales
amount to 2,4S1, $50 pounds and the
cash received therefor to 1886, 999. IL.
Death of Mrs. sundquist.
The death of Mrs. John Sundquist,