The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-05-18
State News.

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Grant lodge No. 1l3 I. o. Q. F. was
instituted in St. Paul on the 18th.
Rains have been general all over
the State and crops have been given
a good start.
Indians who have not taken allot-
ments of land will not be counted in
the State census.
The Lutheran Synod will meet in
Minneapolis from June 81 to % for the
regular triennial.
Minnesota wooden manufacturers
have bought ten thousand Montana
fleeces at twenty-one cents per pound.
The creamery at Milaca has changed
hands and will be fitted up with new,
machinery for operation this season.
An Indictment was brought last
week by the grand jury at Aitkin
against D. L. Sugrue for timber tres
pass.
While working in the Eveleth mine
Frank Becoz, an Austrian was buried
under cavern of ore and smothered
to death.
A. c.. Walterstorff was instantly
killed in St. Paul on the 18th by tax
ing hold of wet rope attached to an
arc light.
The first rural route out of Brain
erd will be started June LIST. Service
on route No. 2 will commence at the
same time.
While resisting arrest at Owatonna
for highway robbery, Iran Tomajis
was shot and killed by Sheriff Cham
bers on the 18th.
Capt. Lawrence Brennan of Supe-
rior, has been appointed superintend-
ent of construction with the Panama
canal commission.
The Great Northern trains between
Minneapolis and Winnipeg will soon
run at the rate of sixty miles an hour,
including stoppages.
The court case at Elk River in the
matter of the removal of the county
seat from Elk River to Becker was
continued last week to the next term
of court.
The rains last Thursday caused a
big landslide on the N. P. road two
miles east of Fergus Falls. Passen-
gers on trains from the east walked
into town.
Fred Foote of Bemidji, has confessed
to the killing of Matt Cannon at
Beaudette on April 8, and was held
to the grand jury for the September
term of court.
Last Monday at Anoka, there was
semi-centenial celebration in honor
of S. G. Robbins and Mrs. William
McKinster, who came to Minnesota
fifty years ago. 4s -..--
Four women have been appointed
as census enumerators in Minnesota.
The first one to receive her appoint
ment was Mrs. Ida Bliss, who will
work in Albert Lea.
Nick Smith has been bound over to
the October term of district court in
Anoka county, charged with the mur-
der of Fred Matthews in Meyers &
Heines' saloon on the 9th of last
April.
Ihe 'bicycle woman' was arrested
in Minneapolis last Saturday. The
woman has posed on the streets for
several years in bicycle costumes of
various designs and hues, but has
never been arrested before.
Minneapolis will have a census
enumeration who is over seventy wears
old. He has acted in this capacity in
every census which has been taken in
Minnesota. His name has not been
divulged by the census directors.
George W. Peavy, a Minneapolis mil
llonaire, was fined one dollar last
week for running his auto without
displaying it's number. He had lust
purchased the machine and was on
his way to get a license when he was
arrested.
Ludwig Swanson, a farmer living
near Bronson, Mimi, was shot dead
May II by c. G. Reeves in quarrel.
The alleged murderer was caught and
placed under arrest after an exciting
chase, in which many townspeople
took part.
Edward Gottschalk, who confessed
to the murder of James Hartman in
st. Paul, has received the death SEN
tence. In sentencing him the Judge
said the fact that Gottschalk had con-
fessed the crime had no bearing on
the punishment.
DR.. P. M. Hall of the Minneapolis
health department., and DR.. Henry NJ.
Bracken, secretary of the State board
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