The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-04-19
State News.

DOunQ special Jraln mile west OF
Atwater. He was taken to the
Willmar hospital, where he died.
Chief of Police Donohue of Man.
kato has notified the proprietors of
slot machines that the giving of cash
prizes would no longer be tolerated.
An agitation has been started to do
away with the machines altogether.
A jar containing S6,815 was found
on the farm of Fred Kuehn in the
town of Sigel, near New Ulm. It had
been buried by Kuehn prior to his
death several weeks ago. He was a
bachelor and had led the life of a re-
cluse.
The Windsor hotel, at one time the
leading hotel in St. Paul, has closed
it's doors and gone out of existence.
Recently the property was sold to a
syndicate and it is said the old build
ing will be torn down and modern
hotel erected on the site.
One of the big safes in the ware
house and storeroom of the Thompson
Seed company at Albert Lea was
blown open and wrecked. About $500
was taken. It seemed to be the work
of professionals, as a clean job was
done. Austin had a similar exper-
fence short time ago.
The lid is on in Mora. Slot ma
chimes have been removed from the
saloons and an order of the council
put into execution closing the boozer-
les on Sundays and at II O'Clock
sharp on week nights. The playing
of poker, shaking of dice and other
forms of gambling have been sup
pressed.
The Duluth, Rainy Lake & Winni-
peg and the Great Northern roads are
racing through the northern part of
the state in an effort to reach the
Canadian border first. The Rainy
Lake road has the start, and is build
ing rapidly north of Ashawa, but it
is reported that Hills road will lay
a mile of track a day to overtake it.
The surveys of the roads show them
to be parallel, about thirty miles
apart.
While attempting to drive across
Mud Lake, team belonging to J. A..
McAvoy, Bemidji liveryman, broke
through the ice. McAvoy was pre-
cipitated into the water, but managed
to cling to the ice. He had consider
able difficulty in pulling himself out
as the ice was so rotten that it broke
beneath his weight. Finally, how
ever, he succeeded in reaching the
shore, but the horses, a valuable pair,
were drowned.
Alexander George, a patient at the
state insane hospital at Rochester, es-
capped for a time. He hired livery
rig and drove to a local cafe, where
he ordered and partook Of an elabor-
ate luncheon. When asked to pay he
was without money, but left his over
coat as security. Again entering his
buggy he started north on country
road. His absence from the asylum
had been discovered, however, and he
was overtaken and brought back to
the institution.
Zones of Rock, - who ran on the
democratic ticket for congress two
years ago, has been converted and
gone into the ministry, being stationed
at Willard, MINI. Last fall he went
to Hutchinson and began to practice
law. J. F. Pickard, brother of the
M. E. pastor at Mankato held series
of revival meetings and had over one
hundred converts, among them being
Zones of Rock.'' Jones expressed
desire to preach and was sent to
Willard by the presiding elder.
Away back in the seventies DR.. j.
F. Mcclure and DR.. G.. I. Smart
were partners in their profession at
Blue Earth. In time the former
moved away to St. Cloud, while a
few years since the latter, on account
of i'll health, moved to Ontario, Cal.
On the same day both doctors died,
and the remains of both were taken
back to that city and inferred in the
Blue Earth cemetery. The former
leaves a wife and one daughter, the
wife of Henry E. Dearborn of St.
Paul, while the latter leaves a wife
and three children at Ontario, Cal.
Tilted by her lover in Italy, Mary
Rigeina, pretty Italian girl, Is years
old, shot herself through the neck al
Chisholm with a double-barreled shot.
gun, dying almost Immediately. When
found the girl was dead, her body
immersed in a pool of blood. Near
her body lay an open razor, maya.
zine rifle and the shotgun. There
were bullet holes in the floor of the