The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-10-05
State News.

entirely consumed by fire on Friday
morning. Loss $4,000; insurance,
/ $500.
The First National bank. building
of Foley is under construction, the
contract being awarded to Mr.. Wall
of St. Cloud.
William Grant, president of the vii
| lage of Chisholm, who was indicted
for subordination of perjury, was ac-
quilted by the jury after Is minutes
deliberation.
John Mimic, II years, son of James
Mimic of Echo, was instantly killed
by the accidental discharge of shot
gun which was in buggy when the
boy climbed in.
Fred Foote of Beaudette, the con-
fessed murderer of Matt Cannon,
mayor of Spooner, last spring, has
been sentenced to fifteen years i'm
prisonment at hard labor and taken
to Saltwater penitentiary.
Gotfried Bjorkquist, agent for the
Wilcox Lumber company at Hawley,
was arrested at Moorhead by Sheriff
John M. Bayer on five warrants pre-
ferred by the company charging en-
bezzlement in the sum of So, 1853. 10.
NJ. O. Hall, founder of the State
bank of Duluth, which failed in 1896,
has returned to that city to pay his
personal debts. Since leaving Duluth
Mr.. Hall has accumulated fortune
in North Dakota, where he founded
the town of Mohall.
The general store of P. A. Hartman
of Pierz was, broken into and the rob-
gers secured SIP in cash and about
50, 900 in notes. The latter, while not
of any account to the thieves, are
worth much to Mr.. Hartman, who has
no exact record of them.
A project is on foot to divide Nor
man county, forming a new county of
the sixteen townships included in the
White Earth reservation. Popular
sentiment there seems to be in favor
of the division and petition asking
for separation will be circulated soon.
Mahnomen, the new town on the 500,
would be the county seat.
It is reported that the Great North
ern road will build shops and round
houses in Minneapolis to cost 81, OOO,-
600. The shops will be on the thirty
acre Chadbourn tract, near Cedar
lake and the roundhouse adjoining.
Much difficulty is being found in
filling part of the land acquired to
extend the yards west Of Lyndale
avenue.
William Grant, president of the
village of Chisholm, has come out
triumphant in the third case against
him. He. has been acquitted of the
charge of having exhibited an indie
cent show at Chisholm in August at
the street carnival. It is rumored
that the other indictments will be
dropped. Mr.. Grant has been acquit-
ted on three counts.
Two freight trains on the Great
Northern road collided head on near
Darwin station, FIVE miles east of
Litchfield. Two men, whose names
are not known, were hurt, one having
his leg broken and receiving other
injuries. The other was only slightly
hurt. Both engines were nearly
ruined and severval boxcars were
smashed into kindling wood.
John Nelson, a farm hand, eloped
with the sixteen-year-old daughter of
a prominent farmer living seven miles
northeast of Ortonville. Nelson came
to Ortonville and secured a livery
team in the night and took the girl
from second-story window of her
home and drove north about twenty
miles and tied the team in the yard
| of a farmer named Sol. Peters.
The commissioners of Rice county
have filed their complaint against the
bondsmen of the First National bank
in the Office of the clerk of court. The
complaint says that upon Sept. II,
1903, the county funds were deposited
in the bank, in consideration of which
the bank bonded itself to repay on
demand. The bondsmen for $4,000
were T. B. Celment, F. A. Theopold,
A. W.McKinistry, b. C. Theopold and
G. W. Batchelder. On May "a divi-
dend of 20 per cent, amounting to
1881, was paid the county and the
commissioners now demand Judgment
for ST., 527 with interest.
Sprinkling red pepper and cloves
behind them in their flight, two re-
formatory inmates baffled the pursuit
of bloodhounds and made their escape.
They had secured piece of steel from
which they fashioned saw and cut