The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-10-25
State News.

On the Carlson farm, near Averill,
a girl four years old fell from a Sec
ond story window and escaped with
out any injury whatever.
Frank Kelly, Frank Rush and Ed
Jennison, boxcar burglars, were SEN
fenced to one year in states prison
by Judge Williston at Red Wing.
William Lee, aged "a years, former
mayor and postmaster of St. Paul,
died at St. Joseph's hospital on Sun
day. He had been in i'll health for
some time.
North Branch is in state of ex-
citement over the depredations OF a
band of burglars and highwaymen
who are making their headquarters
somewhere in the swamps Whereabouts.
They are supposed to be from Mime
apolis.
The two Fergus Falls boys who
were arrested by the Grant county
authorities for hunting ducks on Sun
day, paid fines of $40 apiece. They
were urged by quite number to fight
the case, but did not feel that it was
worth while.
Hog cholera has again made an ap-
pearance in Watonwan county, and
the plague is literally reaping down
the hogs. It first made it's appearance
near Madelia two or three days ago,
and even this short space of time has
brought loss of about $4,000 to the
farmers of that community.
Engineering parties are now in the
field to estimate the cost of double
tracking the Great Northern line from
Brookston, Mimi, to Swan River,
MINI. This move on the part of the
Great Northern is a direct result of
the recent lease of the Hill ore lands
in Minnesota to the United States
Steel corporation.
The dead body of Ferdinand Met
zer, a faith cure believer, who barri-
caded his house at Chatfeld against
a deputy sheriff's bringing physi-
clan to attend to his sick children,
and who shot at the officer, was found
in corn field, near his home, where
he had committed suicide by blowing
off the top of his head with a shotgun.
An epidemic or forgery seems to
have broken out among the juveniles
of Duluth. Within the last six weeks
there have been ten cases Investigated
in the juvenile court in which as many
forged checks were successfully passed
by children. Singular as it may
seem, eight of the ten bogus checks
were cashed by banking institutions,
while the other two were cashed by in
dividuals.
Peter Thul and his brother, Joseph,
were very seriously burned in a gaso-
line explosion which took place Sun
day afternoon on Schnelle's gasoline
launch just as it was passing under
the Cedar avenue bridge. over the
Mississippi river in St, Paul. The
two Thul brothers are at St. Joseph's
hospital, suffering with terrible burns
about the face and hands, while
Schnelle is at his home in the same
condition.
A young man with pitiful story
regarding sickness and bad luck called
on all the pastors of the various
churches in St. Cloud. He told tale
of how he wanted to get to Minneap-
oils and showed money enough to take
him there lacking but fifty cents of the
amount necessary. The young man
was we'll dressed and we'll educated
and all of the clergymen gladly helped
him. It was found later that he was
an imposter.
J. b. Pinkerton, treasurer of the
town of Schroeder, in Cook county,
is alleged to have discrepancy of
$4,000, and explains that he was rob-
bed Of that amount a few days ago
while transferring the money from a
Duluth bank to the Cook County bank
at Grand Marais. He carried the
money in a satchel, and says that
while going from the boat at Grand
Marais to the hotel after dark a man
rushed up and seized the satchel and
vanished.
Peter Moran had the third and
fourth fingers of his left hand torn off
by the accidental discharge of shot,
gun. He was hunting near Bovey.
When lighting a cigaret his left foot,
which he had raised in striking
match, in some way caused the dis
charge. Both hammers of the gun
were cooked and he was leaning upon
it with his left hand over the muzzle.
His hand was otherwise badly LAGER
ated. The surgeon had to use the skin
from the amputated fingers to cover
parts of the hand.