The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-12-13
State News.


William Meany, of Austin, brake
man on the Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul railway, was crushed be-
tween the engine and a car at the
Jackson yards and instantly killed.
A new Catholic parish has been
established which includes, Bovey,
Coleraine, Nashwauk and Holman.
Bishop MEG olrick has appointed Rev.
Father 81. P. Killeen as resident
pastor.
The citizens of East Beaudette town
site, known also as the Shevlin-
Mathiere townsite, stole march on
Beaudette and became incorporated
as part of the village of Spooner at
the regular meeting of the council of
the latter place. ..
Miss Christine Elgeross, a school
teacher in the town of Dovro, Kandi-
yohi county, aged 81, was drowned
Monday night while skating on Sol
ONION lake. She was in a skating
party, two of whom broke through
the ice. Miss Elgeross' companion,
young man, saved himself but could
not help her.
The Carver County Sugar COM
pany is making arrangements to build
new sugar beet factory in the town
of Watkins. The plant will be large
one. Heretofore the farmers have
found it necessary to ship their sugar
beets to Chaska, where they found a
ready market. The sugar beet crop
in the vicinity of Watkins far exceeds
the potato or wheat crop.
Press dispatch from Bagley: All
kinds of fish are brought into market,
and are being sold publicly. Fishing
nets have been used all last summer in
the little lake near this village, and no
protection of game and fish has ever
been attempted in this county that we
have ever heard of, and we know
nothing of such thing as game
warden here, only as we read of them.
An Episcopal clergyman, DR.. w.
Pang Thomas, who formerly officiated
at Luverne in this state, has been &C.
corded very shabby treatment at Den
yer, COL, by the dignitaries OF his
church. The poor man was afflicted
with paresis; he was incarcerated in
the insane ward OF the county hospital
at Denver, and there he was permitted
to remain until a ''pagan" lady came
to his rescue and had him placed in q
Roman Catholic hospital where every
care and attention is bestowed upon
him by the Sisters of Mercy.
Buried beneath several tons of cav
ing sand in the st. Peter gravel pits
Olaf Johnson escaped with his life.
His coat sleeve saved him from being
smothered to death. johnson walked
under an overhanging wall of sand
just as the bank gave way. The first
slide buried him to his armpits, and
the second covered him completely,
leaving his head four feet below the
surface. AS it swept over him, how
ever, his arm was thrown across his
mouth and nostrils, and the air in his
coat sleeve preserved his life.
Frank Kampa, village marshal at
Foley, had an exciting running fight
with two burglars. He discovered the
men attempting to break into Mall
Brothers. store. They fired at him
several times, one of the bullets hit
ting his star and glancing of and cut
ting his uniform. The policeman re-
turned fire and the men ran behind a
woodpile from which they fred several
times at him and then bolted for the
railroad yards. BY this time several
citizens had been aroused and Joined
in the chase, but the burglars made
their escape among the ears and piles
of railroad ties.
Mrs. Henry Brown died at her home
in Minneapolis last Friday. She was
an estimable lady and took an active
part in all movements for the improve
ment and identifying of Minneapolis
and the betterment of conditions
generally. She was also a prominent
club woman and was charter member
of the Nineteenth Century club. En-
1893 Mrs. Brown was one Of the women
commissioners from Minnesota tn the
Worlds Fair at Chicago. It was
largely through her efforts that an act
providing for the adoption, of a state
flag and a state flower was. enacted by
the legislature of 1898.
That excellent newspapers the MINI
neota Mascot, truly says "a farmer
is the most independent Of all men, be
he free from burdensome debt. while
the business man, no matter what his
financial condition, is dependent for
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