The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-09-07
State News.

ud1l LII Uuo V1ClulGy VI Oledf Lake is
estimated at $4,000.
Albert CASTOR, a workman on the
Challers farm, Mankato, was in
stantly killed by lightning late We'd
nesday evening.
The population of Anoka has been
increased by at least seventy, that
number of lunatics having recently
been transferred from St. Peter to
that place.
Among the cities which have de-
creased in population since the census
of 1900 are Chaska, which lost nine:
Hastings, eight; Waseca, eleven; St.
James, eleven; Mortified, seven.
The total output of the Minneapolis
Touring mills for the past year is es-
timated at 18TH, $50 barrels. This
is the lowest since the year 1886,
when l2,577,l2o barrels were ground.
Chief Kaychewaywadung, otherwise
known as Cassoway, one of the old
line chiefs of the Mississippi band Of
Chippewa Indians, died near Hons.
ford, MIMI, at the advanced age'ol
eighty years.
Daniel Carroll was caught in the
act of robbing drunken man in the
rear of Mueller's saloon at Ada. He
was taken to Crookston, where he
pleaded guilty and was sentenced to
four months in the penitentiary
Farmers who sowed macaroni wheat
in the neighborhood of Rushford are
much elated over the result-an aver
age of thirty bushels to the acre is
the story told by the threshing ma
chine.
Since the tree-bounty law went in
force in Minnesota in 1853 the State
has paid out under it's provisions
S421, 1874. Al. Late this fall about $780,
900 more will be paid out. The maxi
mum payment per acre of trees set is
$3.50.
The plant of the Sank Centre Her.
aid, with exception of the power press
and building we're destroyed by fire
last Thursday. Loss on plant 81, 500,
on building $1,000. Covered by in
surance.
The Great Northern will build a
$50, 900 station at Fargo this season.
The present building is a disreputa-
BILE shack. The erection of new
building has been delayed pending the
discussion of union station.
The Owatonna Journal, daily and
weekly, and the printing plant in con-
nection Herewith, will be sold at pub
lie auction Saturday, September 9th
by the receiver for the Journal Pub
fishing company, Harvey S. Dart.
Geo. W. Hawenstein, an old resident
and prominent jeweler of Red Wing,
fell from a rowboat in which he was
standing while viewing the races in
the Mississippi river and was
drowned before assistance could reach
him.
1t is reproted that Edward Clifton,
retired farmer of Sank Rapids, has
been buncoed out of $4,000 in a real
estate deal with strangers. Same old
confidence game was worked-tin box
containing old papers instead of
money.
John Devine, who is charged with
killing William Wallace on 500
train near Buffalo,, Mimi, was ar
raigned in St. Paul charged with MUIR
der in the first degree. He waived
examination and was held to the
grand jury without bail.
The accidental discharge of gun
in the hands of Stephen Pasterick
near Royalton may be the cause of
Ralph Skinner losing his left arm.
These two and another boy were hunt
ing prairie chickens near the village
when the accident occurred. .
James Gallagher, who was bound
over to the grand jury on the charge
Of burglary in the third degree, hav-
ing been caught, it is alleged, in the
room of a boarder at the Commercial
house, Mankato, has made six des-
perate attempts to commit suicide at
the county Jail. ~
The bank in the rear of the court
house at Grand Rapids is sliding into
the fiat bordering the Missis.
sippi river. The court house
was built at cost of about
$4,000 and is on a high bank
about 200 yards from the Mississippi
river, being on ground that was partly
filled. The high water this summer
backed over the fiat to the very foo
of the hill on which the court hous,