The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-10-18
State News.


Two Fergus Falls boys have been
arrested for hunting ducks on Sunday
in violation of the Sabbath law and
local sportsmen are up in arms.
Stephen Shurba, aged Is, who has
been on trial in Minneapolis on a
charge of numbering John Hamornick
in a saloon, July 4, was found guilty
of manslaughter in the first degree.
James Kennedy, employed at j.
Neil's lumber mills near Cass Lake,
was caught between the resaws and
one arm was cut off at the shoulder
and the other at the wrist. he was
also badly cut and bruised about the
face.
For three hours H. j. Wells of
Roseau was held up on slim sapling
a few yards away from his house by a
big black bear. The bear found the
tree too small for it to climb, and after
spending three hours gnawing at the
roots, was finally driven away by a
small dog which had been attracted
by Wells cries for help.
Simon Paulus, homesteader liv-
ing near Blackjack, was found in the
woods near his home with a bullet
hole in the back of his head. The
condition of the corpse showed that he
had been dead for several hours. It
is beyond question that Paulus was
mistaken for deer and shot. The
man who did the shooting is unknown.
Cold-blooded murder is the theory
now accepted by the police of Bemidji
to explain the mysterious death of
Thomas Berry, who was found ap-
parently drowned in shallow water in
lake in that city few days ago.
The sandbag is believed to have been
the weapon used and his murderers
are supposed to be his pals in the
notorious safe-blowing gang which
has been operating in northern Min
nesOta.
While workmen were engaged in re-
inforcing the walls of brick store
building that was being remodeled in
New Ulm the walls collapsed and
made a total wreck of the structure.
Only one of the workmen was injured
and he but slightly. The men were
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cavated under the walls of the build
ing on one side and the sand on
which the jackscrews rested gave way.
An entire new building will have to
be erected
The largest amount of damages
given by jury in the district court
OF St. Louis county in many years
was returned when the sealed verdict
in the personal injury case of Peter
Akin against the Lake Superior Con-
solidated Mines, the Oliver Iron Min
ing company and the Roberts-Kings-
ton Contracting company was opened
and the plaintiff was awarded $4,000
against the Oliver Iron Mining CON-
pany for injuries received in falling
into test pit sixty feet deep on the
Mesaba range.
The five desperate characters who
were captured at Deer River and Bena
for burglarizing the Duluth Brewing
company's building at Cass Lake
few weeks ago have broken jail and
made their escape Some intimate
pal must have passed wrench to
them. Two of them took off bar on
the door bolt, allowing the door to be
pushed open. The other three cut a
hole in the floor with a knife and dug
their way through the sand under the
Jail to the outside. All five had been
bound over to the grand jury and
were to be taken to Walker.
Travelling go miles an hour, shut in
alone in a burning car. scorched by
heat, choked and blinded by the
smoke and completely shut off from
all aid save by small cord attached
to an air brake communicating with
the engine, which it was almost i'm
possible to find in the smoke and
dirt, was the plight of Express Mes
senger Wilson when through passen-
ger No. was stopped out on the
prairie about a mile and a half south
OF Little Falls, and in an almost un-
conscious condition the messenger was
removed from the burning car and
the fire extinguished.
Vegetable Pottery.
The use of dried fruits of trees,
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