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

Mary Craneck died in MINNEAPOLIS
last week from the effects of drinking
ice water while overheated.
Austin seems to be prosperous
city, as the building improvements
this year already total 100000.
Michael Guelff, saloon keeper of
Eden Valley, committed suicide and
his body was found standing upright
in Eden lake. -...
The Sawyer hotel in Saltwater has
been closed on account of lack of
patronage due to the trolley line
from St. Paul.
The assessors returns of the per-
sonal property in Minneapolis show
a valuation of nearly thirty-three
million dollars.
The canning industry at Owatonna
is in a fourishing condition. A
larger amount of sweet corn will be
canned this year than there was last.
The first of this years crop of
wheat to be marketed at New Ulm
yielded eighteen bushels to the acre
and brought eighty three cents per
bushel.
Mrs. Lydia CARL, the first white
woman to locate in the St. Croix val
ley, died at Saltwater on Aug. IL,
aged eighty-seven years. She settled
near Saltwater in 1871.
Fergus Falls has a population of
something more than six thousand and
the merchants have decided to con-
tribute a large sum of money for the
improvement of the roads leading to
the city.
The Eveleth fire department team
made record of twenty three and
One-ffth seconds in a hub and hub
race of 200 yards at the northern
Minnesota firemen's tournament on
Aug. II.
The name Of Itasca station in Anoka
county, on the Great Northern road,
has been changed to Worth, in order
to prevent confusion with the Itasca a
few miles distant on the Northern
Pacific road.
Twenty millions of dollars will be
sent out at the rate of from $4,000 to
100000 per day by the Minneapolis
banks during the next few months in
response to the harvest time calls of
the country banks.
The body of Oscar Haney of Hinck-
ley, who mysteriously disappeared
from his home on Aug. 4, was found
on Aug. IA about a mile from his
home in a meadow. He was evidently
killed by lightning.
Mrs. COME Moles, an old resident
of Moorhead, has submitted to the
city council claim for $1,000 dam
ages, and asks for the removal from
office of Street Commissioner Baker,
alleging that he improperly trimmed
the trees around her residence.
The fire in the anatomical building
at the State university few weeks
ago was at first supposed to have
been caused by spontaneous combus-
ton, but later investigation has led
to the belief that it was of incendiary
origin. A hunt will be made for the
criminal.
Fred Zeise, who is an inmate of the
county jail in Winona to answer to
charge Of grand larceny, has been
notified that he and two brothers have
fallen heir to part of an estate in
Germany, which will amount to be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000, in Uncle
Sans money.
A body taken from the Mississippi
river near the St. Paul boom Friday,
Aug. II, was identified by Fort Shell
ing officials as that of Private John
Wyatt of the Thirteenth battery,
stationed at the fort. The remains
we're Inferred at the post cemetery
with military honors at 1:30. Both
batteries attended the funeral.
Last week while Miss Alkaline Bro
beck and a young lady friend were
returning to Long Prairie from
Browerville they were held up by four
men, who seized the horse and de-
manded their purses. Instead of
obeying, however, they gave the
horse a sharp cut with the whip and
succeeded in getting away from the
ruffians.
The matter of drainage is receiving
considerable attention at Moorhead
The Commercial club has perfected
arrangements for a drainage conven-
tion to be held on Aug. Is, when ways
and means for drainage peculiar to
Clay county will be thoroughly dis
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