The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-11-08

total of 564 persons, according to the
report furnished by P. E. Haley, who
is in charge of the institution. This
number does not include persons given
employment the remaining three days
of the month.
Aaron Van Oasterhaut, so years of
age, living near Merriam Junction,
about six miles west of Shakopee, was
burned to death in his bed. Mr.. Van
Oasterhaut was a paralytic and had
been confined to his bed for several
years. A spark from pipe which
the old gentleman was smoking set fire
to the bed clothing.
At North Star, Brown county, a
well-to-do young farmer, Ed Hintz,
was killed by a wagon passing over
him. While on a load of grain, going
to Springfield, MIMI, his wife handed
him a basket of eggs, he reaching
over for it, His team took fright and
ran. He lost his balance and fell to
the ground, the hind wheel passing
over his body, killing him instantly.
F. Il. Gray, Waterman for the
George T. Thompson & Son Buggy
company, 100 Western avenue, Mime
apolis, was bound and gagged by
burglars and the safe blown
open. The door was shattered by the
Explosion, but the robbers found no
money. They scattered books and
papers over the floor and left. Trif-
ing events of this nature occur in
Minneapolis every night in the week.
During the fiscal year from June 80,
1905, to June 30, 1906, the gross earn
ings of the railroads in Minnesota,
according to the annual reports of the
roads, which have just been received
by the state railroad and warehouse
commission, have increased $l3,419,-
802.32. The greatest increase in earn
ings during that period was that of
the Duluth, Missabe & Northern road,
which has, according to the figures,
increased it's earnings 1904, 671.53.
During the noon recess in the trial
of Henry Hanson, charged with as
saulting Charles Scott, Judge Vivian
Prince of the municipal court, Eleveth,
picked up the shot gun with which
Hanson is alleged to have pursued
Scott and placing it to his shoulder
discharged the contents through the
back window. Three out of four panes
we're shattered while the greater por-
ton of the load took effect in the
window sash. The judge had been
advised that the gun was not loaded.
Peter Boudkind, an old resident of
Polk county, has had a peculiar ex-
pecience in becoming a citizen of the
United States, having been forced to
take out naturalization papers twice.
He came to this country from Norway
and became a naturalized citizen in
1857. Later on he moved to Canada
and lived there for eight years. He
returned to this country four years
ago and found that he had to start
over again to become citizen. He
has just made application for his first
papers in this country for the second
time. ..- ..
A most unusual accident occurred
at Rochester. A woman named Mrs.
Burt Rabine was left in charge of
some Stacking lime. Her husband
had started the process and gone to
work, telling her to throw some water
on the lime as soon as it began to
work or boil. When she observed
this she threw on the water. Instantly
there was loud explosion and the
lime was thrown in every direction,
hitting the woman in the face and
scattering rods away. She lost the
sight of one eye and that of the other
is despaired of. Her face was lacera-
ted and burned, lime being driven
through the skin ard Tito the flesh. !
Fondness for diamond rings and
|jewelry, which he5, presented to his
young wife,, led to the arrest of Rus
sell Dailey,aa prominent young man
and member of the stove manufacture
ing firm of L. az. Daley &cSon, Still
water. Aboutsa year ago many dia-
mond rings mysteriously disappeared
from houses there. Different persons
were suspected, but nothing definite
appeared until Chief of Police Barnes
learned that Mrs. Russell Daley had
an unusual number of diamonds. Sus-
picion then fell upon her husband.
A trap was set for him at the home of
DR.. E. P. Ryan, where the chief of
police left diamond ring on the