The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-08-23
State News.

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Monday, Sept. 3, has been set apart
as Labor day.
W. A. Alexander of Two Harbors.
a brakeman on the Duluth g. Iron
Range railroad, fell from engine No.
16 as the result of sunstroke and was
killed.
While at work in the harvest field
A. F. Bradt, a farmer of Swan River
township, near Little Falls, was struck
by lightning and instantly killed. The
horses attached to the binder, and
which were within a few feet of Bradt
were not injured by the bolt.
While spraying his henhouse with
gasoline in order to rid it of vermin
A. B. Daggett of Bemidji, being pos
sessed of desire to smoke, thought
lessly lit a match. There was in
startly an explosion which blew Dag
gett out of the coop and set fire to his
clothing. He is in a serious condi-
ton.
Mrs. Patrick Osborne, aged 45
years, living on a farm six miles
southeast of Madelia. was fatally
burned while pouring kerosene into a
stove from a kerosene can. A two
year-old baby daughter standing
nearby was also burned. AS result
of the injuries the mother and child
both died.
The Great Northern railroad with
the cooperation of the Burlington,
gives the milling industry of Mime
sofa, which for years has been the
victim of rank discrimination at the
hands of eastern railroads, a milling
in-transit rate to Chicago, which re-
duces the net transportation cost to
the miller 219 cents per hundred.
An accident in Hampton, near Hast
ings, resulted in the death of Herman
Hoffman. He was lying under a tree
at the residence of Henry Hoffman
and was shot by his nephew, Lloyd,
a boy of 10 years, who mistook him
for dog. A ball from a 22-rife en-
tered Hoffman's heart. Mr.. Hoffman
was single and aged about AZ years.
The labor situation has become so
acute in Duluth that the railroads are
meeting with difficulty in getting
enough men for work in the yards
and sections in and about that city.
The shortage of labor will be felt all
the more when the wheat rush be-
gins, and probably there will be
trouble in providing enough men for
the switching and regular yard crews.
A press dispatch from Akeley says
that A. L. Cole & Co. have closed a
deal with the Red River Lumber CON-
pany for a forty-acre tract of land
one and half miles south of Akeley,
and will at once begin the construc-
tion of a packing house. It is said
that the firm intends to buy up all the
available cattle in northern Mime
sofa. A tract of 1900 acres has also
been secured and upon this ''stockers
and feeders" will be allowed to spend
the summer months among the clover
and be brought into shape for killing
in the fall. The institution will be a
big one, and the intention is to utilize
all of the by products of cattle-killing.
Had it not been for the presence of
mind of Conductor William Clark
Miss Eleanor Gould of New York. a
second cousin of Miss Helen Gould.
would have been ground to pulp.
While she was sitting on the outside
platform of the sleeper attached to
the st. Paul train from Williston, the
Crookston sleeper was being coupled
on. Miss Gould was not expecting
the shock and the jar threw her off
the rear end of the car and another
car being switched was within a few
feet of her when Conductor Clark. who
was talking with friend on the car
from which she had fallen, leaped to
the ground and snatched her from
the rails barely in time to save her
life.