The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-04-05
State News.

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mated Arbor and Bird day.
Yeggmen blew the safe of the Kan
diyohi bank at Willmar, obtaining
81, $50 in cash.
S. A. Challman of Montevideo will
succeed A. w. Rankin as state graded
school inspector at the close of the
school year, Aug. l.
A Goodhue county creamery man
ager has paid fine of $15 for refusal
to furnish a report on his business to
the state authorities as required by
law.
Thomas A. Prendergast, depart
ment manager in charge of the Hamm
Brewing company's real estate, is
dead. He was formerly city clerk of
St. Paul.
John Loomis had his hand blown
off by dynamite at Faribault while at
tempting to break up the ice jam in
Straight river, near the Rock Island
trestle. The method adopted by
LOOMS in his endeavor to break the
jam was to stand on the bank and
throw out sticks of dynamite, which
exploded on the ice. A premature ex-
plosiOn caused the accident.
Mrs. Peter Glaum of Detroit has
filed a claim with the Detroit city
clerk for $4,000 as damages for per-
sonal injuries and suffering attributed
to fall caused by slipping on the icy
sidewalk near the court house. Mrs.
Glaum fell heavily on the walk and
sprained her wrist. The claim was
made preliminary to commencing suit
in the district court for $4,000.
The case of Ethel, the six-year-old
daughter of Benjamin Johnson Of
Bowstring, is puzzling the physicians.
The child has just recovered from a
trance Of six days. duration. and, al
though at one time during the cata-
lepsy life was thought to be extinct,
the little girl now is apparently in
good health except for natural
weakness resulting from her long fast.
George r. Exley, collector and de-
liverer of mail, attached to the Brad
ley street postal station force, St.
Paul, is under arrest on the charge of
stealing money from letters in his
charge. In his pockets when arrested
were found two letters addressed to
parties in the east. Both letters evil
IDENTIFY contained money, though they
had not been opened. In one of them
the coins could be distinctly felt.
Unable to secure enough men to
operate it's cars, the Twin City Rapid
Transit company is offering perma-
nent positions to all Corners at sal
aries of from $50 to S75 a month. The
situation is entirely new in the annals
of the company, and one that seldom
confronts any large concern. But
there is a woeful lack of men and the
company finds it necessary to offer
inducements extraordinary in it's line
to man its cars.
A man believed to have been the
murderer of Patrick Holly, the
wealthy bachelor who was killed re-
Gently near Motley, is said to have
been in Brainerd shortly after the
murder and boldly attempted to sell
the team Of horses belonging to his
victim. He is described as a small.
dark-complexioned man, and is said
to have approached several horsemen
in an endeavor to dispose of black
mare and bay horse.
Charles Hanson, who was prison
er in the Hennepin county Jail to await
the action of the Anoka county grand
jury, has been released on a writ of
habeas corpus by order of Judge D..
F. Simpson. The former prisoner
was held on a charge of improperly
treating a young girl. The grand
jury has met and adjourned since his
incarceration without taking any &C.
ton in his case. On this ground a
writ of habeas corpus was secured,
and after argument he was released.
Charged with constructive contempt
Of court, Leonard Blanchard was
found guilty at Grand Rapids, and
sentenced by Judge McClenahan to
serve thirty days in the county jail.
Blanchard was one of the veniremen
drawn on the Gardner murder case.
He was examined as to his fitness to
serve, and was found qualified. Later
it developed that he had expressed
opinions in the case and had argued
about certain features of it. It was
also proved that he had attended the
first trial of the case.
A verdict of guilty was returned in
the Minneapolis municipal court
against E. E. Townsend, charged with
REMOVING p1andered horses from nuar