The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-05-31
State News.

Judson butter factory, located four
miles northeast of Lake Crystal,
is mass of debris.
Frank E. Anderson, night watch
man in the Foley-Bean sawmill at
Milaca, was severely scalded by the
bursting of a steam pipe in the mill
last week. He will recover.
The survey for the Great Northern's
new line into International Falls has
been completed. It took Engineer
Eddy and his crew just a month to
complete the line from Dewey Lake to
International Falls.
Gust Engblad, farmer living west
Of Milaca, was seriously injured by
bull. He was pursued in a pasture
by the animal, which, having no
horns, butted him around so severely
that it is feared he cannot live.
John Larson and Walter Carey,
woodsmen, tell a remarkable story of
a supposedly insane settler who lives
alone in a cabin seven miles from
Bull. According to the tale told by
the wOOdsmen the settler imagines
himself to be William Tell, and daily
shoots wooden apple off the head of
a stuffed figure.
Miss Alice Schaefer, Isl West Sew
enth street, st. Paul, was hurried to
the St. Paul city hospital evidently
suffering from some form of poison
ing. After treatment there, the girl
regained consciousness and explained
that she had taken wood alcohol
which had been suggested to her as a
cure for a headache. She will re-
cover.
T. Yatsui and S. Awaya, two Jap
anese gentlemen representing the Nip
pom Yusen Kaisha Steamship CON-
pany, with line of boats plying be-
tween American and Chinese and
Japanese waters, were in Duluth last
week making a study of methods en-
ployed at the head of the lakes in
loading and unloading freight boats
and otherwise handling freight.
The big fish which has caused so
much excitement at Ely lake, and
which has been a prolific source of
tall tales, has been caught. At least
William Peterson of Sparta believes
he has captured the monster: It
proved to be seventy-fve pound
muskalonge, and although it was not
seven feet long, as many who had seen
it declared it was, Peterson is satisfied
that there are few in Ely lake it's
equal.
Percy Latin of Shelby was SEN
fenced to fifty days in the county jail
for stunning his 15-year-old sister
with a biscuit. The charge was as
sault- A few days ago young Latin
threw a biscuit at his sister, striking
her in the temple. The girl fell. un-
conscious and did not revive for more
than forty-eight hours. The boy has
been in the state training school.
The present charge was made against
him by his uncle, whom he admits
having threatened.
A peculiar accident occurred at the
home of Michael Motzko, two miles
from Browerville. MIR. Motzko was
saving large logs that lay on skids,
one end of which was somewhat lower
than the other. His little four-year-
old daughter was sitting on the log
which he was saving and when it was
cut through it suddenly rolled and the
child lost her balance and was caught
between the rolling log and another
and her head crushed. She lived
three hours but did not recover con-
seriousness.
Lightning struck the large ice house
owned by Jacobs & Nelson of Walnut.
setting it on fire and destroying the
building. While milking COWS
Charles Olson and his wife were Sc
verely injured by a bolt which struck
their barn, killing two horses and
three COWS. Mr.. Olson is in a critical
condition. The barn was fired, but
quick action by farm hands saved it.
A farmer, whose name is unknown,
living northeast of Walnut about ten
miles, was struck by lightning and
killed: also his horse. The rain has
washed corn and all late-planted seed
out of the ground.
A drowning accident occurred at
Prairie lake, near Lakeville, whereby
James Regain, the 21-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Began of that
place, lost his life. Young Regain and
a companion of the same age we're
fishing in fat-bottomed boat when a
sudden squall loomed over the bluff
shore of the lake. In the haste of
winding up his line Regain fell over