The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-08-09
State News.

mural route mo. L mas DeeQ ordered
esta blished Sept. II at Ogilvie, Kama
bee county, serving $40 people and
l0S houses.
Minnie Nelson of Battle Lake was
struck by Northern Pacific passen-
ger engine at Moorhead, thrown dis
lance of over twenty feet and escaped
with but few bruises.
The family of Charles O'Connor Of
Brainerd had narrow escape from
death, having been poisoned, it is
supposed, by eating ham. Mrs.
O'Connor and four other members of
the family, partook of the ham.
The year 1906 promises to see a
heavy decrease in the number of pri-
vate banks in Minnesota and addi-
tions to the list of state banks. Fiji
teen of these private institutions are
now seeking admission as state banks.
Bengt Ingeman has brought suit
against Mrs. Carl johnson for as
sault. According to Mr.. Ingeman's
story Mrs. johnson suspected that he
had said something uncomplimentary
about her husband and, meeting him
on the streets one day, she pounded
his head and face most numerically.
Mrs. johnson pleaded not guilty.
Archie Campbell, 20 years old, who
has been employed in camp near
Blackjack for some time past, lies
dead at Haupt, small station seven
miles north of there. His death was
caused by a blow from a mallet, and
Edison Bereman, saloon keeper and
proprietor of a hotel at Haupt, is
charged with the crime. Bereman is
under arrest.
Through the Chicago drainage
canal and the Illinois river to St.
Louis, then up the Mississippi to Red
Wing, distance of 1880 miles, all
the way in an 1S-foot launch, is the
trip just completed by Ed Misener,
accompanied by his wife and son.
The trip was made in twenty three
days. Stopovers we're made and the
boat was not run at night. There was
not a mishap during the trip.
After an absence of over thirty
years, during which time not single
specimen of the species has been seen
wild in these parts, the wild pigeons
which once frequented the middle west
are returning to their old haunts.
Lumbermen report having seen large
colonies of them along the Cloquet
river in Minnesota and numbers have
also appeared in the woods of north
ern Michigan and Wisconsin and
along the shores of Lake Superior.
The two men who broke out of the
city jail at Albert Lea are in the Gus
tody of the sheriff of Cerro Gordo |
county, Iowa, at Mason City. AS
they were apprehended at Gilmore,
MIMI, Sheriff Subby went to assist in
the Identification and arrest. Another |
man was with Hogan and Allen, and
he was taken back there and will be
charged with being an accomplice. |
Hogan and Allen are members of a |
gang which has operated all over
northern Iowa and southern Mime
sofa.
Interchangeable railroad tickets,
favorable rates, joint ownership OF a |
new steamer line and double the facil- |
tiles of the 1906 season are some of
the Developments in Lake MinnetOnka |
transportation matters that are ex-
pected from combination of the
Great Northern and the St. Louis
roads, the two steam lines, to protect
themselves against incursiOn by the |
trolley company and to retain the
lake business which the two roads |
have been building up for the last
twenty years.
Armour & Co. of Chicago, through |
their agents, have paid down about
$4,000 as option money for the pur-
chase of a large tract of land near the
Minnesota Transfer company's yards
lying in the northwest part of St.
Paul, and partly in Minneapolis, for
the purpose of building the proposed
slaughtering and packing plant
Several land owners in that vicinity
have become aware of the company's
intentions and are holding out for
higher prices. This stands in the
way of concluding the entire deal.
The day Waterman at the interlock-
ing switch in Fergus Falls threw
Great Northern train from the track |
on Friday afternoon. The train, a
heavy freight, was coming in from the
south, and the Northern Pacific mixed
train came in at the same time. The
Northern Pacific train was a little
ahead, and was given right of way
over the CROSSING whi1a tho C,oo+ |