The Princeton union., 1906-07-19
State News.

posed murder of his friend, Martin
Brandley, has driven Frank Sullivan
of Bemidji, a lumberjack we'll known
in the northern woods, to insanity.
While witnessing a ball game at
Jackson Miss Anna Lynn was hit in
the head by foul ball. She was
knocked senseless, lay in comatose
condition for "a hours and then died.
The court and county attorney of
Polk county are determined to put the
lid upon gambling and have an
nounced that a special grand jury
would be called if gamblers persisted
in defying the law.
In a terrific thunder storm at Mora
the steeple of the Methodist church
was struck by lightning. setting fire
to the structure. Prompt work by the
fire department extinguished the blaze
before any material damage had been
done.
Unless the pardon board interferes,
Henry PrOlOw, who shot and killed
G. F. Zenke, a saloonkeeper at Good
hue last September, will be hanged.
The supreme court, in an opinion
fled, refused to grant his appeal for
a new trial.
The wild boar which escaped from
Ringling Bros circus while it was in
Red Wing is being seen everywhere
within a radius of 20 miles and is re-
ported from different places long dis
tances apart at the same time. Many
have been cunning for the beast, but
without success.
Officials Of railroads entering Du-
luth are more than pleased with the
amount of tourist business they have
had already this summer. It was
predicted all along that the tourist
movement into the northwest and
through Duluth would be quite large
this year, but the season has opened
up even better than was expected.
Rev. Otto Sievers of Mazeppa, while
in Young America on a short vaca-
tion with the family of Rev. Kaiser,
whose daughter was the intended bride
of Mr.. Sievers, was drowned in
Hyde's lake, about three miles east of
that village. The young man, with
his intended father-in-law, was in
bathing and, being beyond his depth
and unable to swim, was supposed to
have been taken with cramps and
drowned in about eight feet of water.
Mrs. Anna Mohr, whose suit
against DR.. Cornelius Williams, be-
cause of an operation on her left ear
when it should have been the right,
has figured in no less than three trials
in the Ramsey county district court.
In an appeal by defendant the supreme
court in decision filed reverses the
findings of the trial court in directing
verdict for the physician and Or
ders the jury's return of $500 to
stand, or the defendant to stand for a
new trial.
Elmer Ham, aged II years, is dead
at Wadena as the result of an accident
which occurred between Verndale and
that place. He arrived at the depot
just in time to catch the hind coach of
the local passenger train, and the ex-
ertion of holding on produced a faint
ing spell which caused him to fall off.
fracturing his skull. He was picked
up on the track by the sheriff and
taken to Wadena, where he died in
about four hours without regaining
consciousness.
The Financier, the leading financial
paper of the country, published in
New York, notes that the First Ma
tional bank of Duluth ranks first in
the state of Minnesota in it's list of
roll of honor banks. To secure a
place in this list Of banks bank must
show surplus and undivided profits
equal to or in excess of it's capital
stock. Out of 5,757 banks operating
under national charters there are only
$40 entitled to this distinction and
position in the roll of honor.
Ole Rosenhdahl of Jordan says he
has all but closed a deal whereby
the Omaha road is to buy his farm at
price many times the ordinary value
OF farm lands thereabouts. The rea-
son of this lies in series of sulphur
springs that exude mineral water at
several points in a marshy tract of
land on the place. Years ago this
tract was looked upon as no better
than an undesirable mud hole and
the further fact that rather unpleas-
ant odor accompanied the water, as it
came from the ground, made matters
still worse.
An hour and half before the
south-bound passenger train pulled
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