The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-06-14
State News.


Three memberships in the Duluth
board of trade we're sold Friday and
brought So, 900 each, the highest mark
in the history of the board.
Herman Jenke was sentenced by
Judge Buckham at Faribault to nine
years in the Minnesota state peniten-
tiary at Saltwater on two counts.
The tornado that passed east of
North Branch last week killed Mr..
Engdahl, ST., and destroyed many
houses. Andrew Olson was also
killed by lightning.
The monster steel ore carrier Cries.
cent City, which went aground on the
north shore of Lake Superior, 10
miles northeast of Duluth on Nov. 20
last, has been released and towed into
harbor.
The State Medical association will
hold it's annual convention at Ma
sonic hall, Minneapolis, June 20 and
q. An elaborate program of papers
and addresses has been prepared and
there will be social features as WE'LL
G.. N. Huseby was killed at New
Richland by falling from the steeple
of the German Lutheran church. He
was at work as a carpenter, and, los
ing his balance, fell sixty feet, frac-
turing his skull. He leaves a wife
and six children and was about so
years of age.
The members of the White Earth In
dian reservation will celebrate the 18Th
anniversary of the settlement of the
Ojibways on the reservation today,
June IA, and have sent forth a gen.
eral invitation to. "kindred and fellow
neighbors" to partake of the feast and
smoke the pipe of peace.
Sanford Swanson, % years old,
an apprentice motorman for the street
car company, was instantly killed by
coming in contact with a live wire
that had been broken by the wind.
Sanford was riding in the vestibule
of street car with the motorman.
The wire was blazing and suffering,
and the motorman ordered Swanson
to remove it. Swanson boldly walked
up to the wire, and apparently ignor-
ant of the danger, picked it up in his
hands. He fell instantly.
Mrs. Joseph Imholte and her two
year-old baby we're drowned in the
Elk river, six miles from Clear Lake.
Mrs. Imholte was driving to Clear
Lake and had the baby in her arms.
She was in top buggy. The high
water had undermined the wooden ap-
proaches of the bridge and when the
horses walked upon the bridge and
felt it sink they became frightened
and plunged into the water. The
woman jumped out of the buggy with
the babe and was swept down stream.
If James J. Hills proposed Cana
dian transcontinental line enters Du-
luth it will not be via the Interna-
tional Falls branch, which is about
to be constructed, according to pres
ent plans of the railway magnate. It
will be by a survey run southeast
from Winnipeg by way of Greenbush,
MIMI, to Dewey Lake, MIMI, from
which point the Hill lines have their
own rails into Duluth. The extern
sion from Dewey Lake to Interna-
tiOnal Falls is to be built as feeder,
and is said to have no connection with
the Canadian plans.
Examinations of candidates for
positions under the civil service will
take place at the federal building, St.
Paul, next month as follows: For
railroad transportation agent, July
5; medical inferno (male) in the gov
eminent hospital for the insane at
Washington, civil engineer and SUPER
intendent of construction in the quar-
termaster's department at large, hos
pital inferno (male) in the Panama
canal service, and architectural
craftsman (male) in the Philippine
service, July Sc; stenographers and
typewriters, July %.
Anton Ofach, employed as a tram
mer at the Mohawk mine, Aurora,
stabbed a fellow workman named
John Zurich with a miners CANDLE
stick, inficting a serious wound that
is very dangerous and may prove ia
tai. Both are about Is years of age.
They were scutfling, as boys will.
Finally Ofach told Zurich to close a
door. The latter refused and Ofach
struck him with the candlestick. The
sharp point of the instrument entered
Zurich's neck, just under the angle of
the jaw, and was driven with such
force as to protrude from his mouth.