The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-09-06

ton D. Grinols to be postmaster at
St. Cloud, MINI.
Pinned under an overturned wreck
ing car, Engineer Joseph Gallagher
was scalded to death by escaping
steam at the Seller dump, Hibbing.
A laboring man by the name of
johnson was robbed by three men in
Crookston. They knocked him down
and stole his watch and $40 in money.
Of the six rural free delivery mail
carriers out of St. Cloud three are of
the feminine gender. Statistics give
the total number of women rural mail
carriers in the United States as fifty.
DR.. Koch, the New Ulm dentist who
was three times tried for the murder
of DR.. Gebbard, is violently insane
and an inmate of the hospital at St.
Peter, says the Grant County Herald.
Employment Offices at Duluth are
offering big wages to men to go to
Wisconsin to work on the new Omaha
contraction. About seventy miles of
track will be laid, and the work is to
be rushed to completion as rapidly
as possible.
An automobile containing William
K. Hamm of St. Paul and three ladies
struck the rig of John Turnbull at
Hastings and Turnbull and his wife
were hurled into ditch, luckily es-
Gaping serious injury. The buggy
was demolished.
August is the last of the big months
for iron ore shipments from Lake
Superior. With the advent of Sep
TENDER the business falls off materi-
ally, and the biggest shippers always
expect diminution of at least 20 per
cent from the average of the two or
three preceding months.
Through the accidental discharge
of shotgun held in his own hand
Fred Wheelock, the 14-year-old son
of A. 7. Wheelock of Bemidji, was
Instantly killed. The contents of
both barrels of double-barreled
shotgun entered the side of his head,
tearing loose an ear and taking away
a portion of the skull.
The wages of nearly every class of
workmen in the Northern Pacific
shops at Brainerd have been raised.
The aggregate increase will amount
to over $4,000 a month. This was &C.
complished by the committees of the
various trades partly because of
wages paid in the Dakotas for farm
labor, which threatened to drain the
shops of the common laborers and
some of the merchanics.
-Four prominent farmers of the town
OF Armor, near Fergus Falls, we're
fined SO each for selling milk that
did not come up to the required test
to cheese factory. The law provides
that milk cannot be sold unless it
contains at least 3.5 per cent of but
ter fat, and the farmers were selling
milk that tested as low as 2.5 per
cent, the presumption being that they
had either skinned it or added water.
The army worm threatens Becker
county and especially the vicinity of
Audubon. It is little brown worm,
about half an inch long, and has been
destroying the crops near Audubon.
A sample of the worm was sent to the
state entomologist, Prof. Washburn,
for examination, and in his absence,
Prof. A. G. Ruggles has replied to
the communication. He says the
worm is without doubt the dreaded
army worm.
J. E. Carlson, who lives in Amador
town, near Almelund, lost a 5-year-
. old girl in peculiar manner The
child was given a bag Of candy by
her grandmother, who had just re-
turned from town, and while jumping
around the floor, happy over the gift,
a large piece of the sweets slid down
her windpipe, completely shutting off
the wind. Despite every effort to dis
lodge the obstruction, the child was
suffocated, dying in three minutes.
S. George Stevens of Duluth has
been granted letters patent upon
device for saving life at sea. It con-
sists of ring lifebuoy rugged on
double tackle, rove through blocks
on the fore and aftermasts, travelling
the length of the ship at height
sufficient to clear the highest seas that
might board her. The ring is fitted
with "breeches' attachment similar
to the breeches buoy used by the life
savers, and by aid of this men can be
transferred from one end of the ship
to the other in perfect safety under
the most unfavorable conditions.
Patent Scarecrow
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