The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-08-02
State News.


Sueur have laid most of the grain fat
and did enormous damage.
Robert Raulston, young man liv-
ing six miles south of Austin, was
struck by lightning and instantly
killed. He was shocking barley.
Safe crackers demolished the safe
in the posto6ice at St. Paul Park and
escaped with $3.50 in money and
stamps. The building was badly
damaged.
It is reported that gold dust in large
quantity has been discovered on a
farm 26 miles northwest of Faribault.
The particles of gold, it is said are
mixed with the sand covering an area
of 100 acres.
Oscar Requam, the Belgrade boy
who was arrested week ago and
charged at St. Cloud with murder in
the second degree for killing play
mate, Alfred Brustrad, was dis
charged at the preliminary hearing
held before Judge Alden.
Myrtle Vickhers, the 9-year old
daughter of George Vickers of De-
troit, was drowned in Brandy lake.
An older sister had narrow escape.
They we're at play in an old boat
which began to drift, and the little
girls jumped into the water.
The mistakes OF Alonzo Kimberlin,
a bellboy at the Terminal hotel at
Union station, St. Louis, in giving a
suitcase containing S150,000 in cash
and negotiable securities to the wrong
man, caused William Bender, jr., of
Mankato eighteen hours of anxiety
which ended when the suitcase was
returned intact.
Rudolph Mehrkens, the 15-year-old
son of J. Mehrkens, farmer of Hay
Creek, attempted to ride from the field
on workhorse near Red Wing, and
became entangled in the harness. The
horse ran away and dragged the boy
fifteen or twenty rods over rough
road. The boy was dead before the
horse reached the barn.
The division of St. Lotus county
will not be attempted this year. In
stead the county divisiOnists will ex-
ert themselves for the amendment Of
the county division law by the next
legislature SO that the proposition to
divide can be submitted to the electors
without submitting the designation of
a temporary county seat.
The grand jury at Roseau returned
an Indictment against Alexander Nc
Kenzie, charging him with the murder
at Wansaka, last December of William
Stuart. Mckenzie is firm in his state
ments of innocence and says that when
he is put on the stand he will disclose
the name and present address of the
murderer, who is now in hiding IN
Dakota.
After having a pitchfork handle
driven up into his body distance of
fully two feet, Tom Arrowsmith.
young farmer of Troy township, near
Pipestone seems to have good
chance to recover. The fork handle
passed in front of the abdominal cav
ity, and. continuing upward, passed
outside the lower ribs, but fractured
two of the upper ribs and tore into the
right lung.
Three boys we're taken into justice
court at Fergus Falls on the charge Of
having attempted to lynch one of their
companions. The boys, who range
in age from II to IA, are charged with
having dragged their prospective vic
tim into a piece of woods with halter
around his neck, and, but for the
fact that they were seen by woman
who happened along, his career would
have probably been cut short.
George w. Cooley, engineer of the
state highway commission, who has
been building an experiment road of
the native gumbo just outside Of
Crookston, has completed his task
and says he believes gumbo will make
as good a road as any soil if properly
handled. He believes, however, that
the secret of having good roads which
have been built with gumbo is con-
slant and Intelligent maintenance.
Nicholas Walter, furniture dealer
of Morgan, and Alfred Balm, a
farmer in Three Lakes township, we're
killed by bolt of lightning at the
Agency hill, eight miles east of Red
wood Falls. They we're seen driving
to the Minnesota river on fishing
tour early in the morning and I'M
doubtedly were returning home when
the bolt struck them, killing them in
stantly. One of the horses was also
killed.
Arndt Reton, a Norwegian, As years
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