The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-05-17
State News.

cargo of iron ore from Duluth to Lake
Erie and bringing a large part of it
back again, being unable to get it I'M
loaded.
A large amount of damage was done
to buildings, trees and windmills, and a
number of COWS, calves and pigs were
killed during the recent cyclone wave
which struck the towns of Douglas,
Hampton and Randolph.
The steam shovels at all the mines
in Ely have resumed work after being
idle ten days. All the Duluth & Iron
range railroad employees, who we're
laid off on account of the longshore-
mems srtike, have also resumed work
Lightning struck and instantly
killed Raymond Beard, a prominent
young farmer of Pipestone, while
driving on a drill. MIR. Beard was
driving four horses abreast, and,
starting at the right, the lightning
killed the first horse: stripped the col
lar from the second, leaving it I'M
harmed: killed the third and tore the
bride from the fourth without damag-
ing it.
Four-year-old George Kuster OF
WykOff took one of the most amazing
rides in railroad history. For eight
miles, travelling at forty miles an hour
and over one of the toughest bits of
road bed in Minnesota the child was
carried absolutely unhurt, clinging to
a crOss-rOd between two box cars and
under the coupling, his feet resting on
the brake beam. When rescued the
boy was laughing.
Smallpox has been quarantined by
the state board of health at Arthur,
rural postofice in Otter Tail county.
The disease broke out in the family
Of the postmaster, but no action was
taken by the local authorities, and
mail was given out as usual. The
Office has been ordered closed and
several cases which have developed
have been placed under strict quaran-
tine. By the new code all expenses in
connection with the case must be borne
by the township.
Hazel Johnson, 10, and Lille
Holmes, 20, we're arrested in St. Paul
charged with vagrancy. Both girls
are pretty and we'll dressed, and the
detectives say they have recently ar
rived in the city and are lettering
around wine rooms and saloons at
night. One of the girls is from Sand
stone and the other from Thief River
Falls. They pleaded guilty to the
charge and were remanded to Jail.
The probation officer will correspond
with relatives of the young women.
Elizabeth, the three-year-old daugh-
ter Of Professor John Hartagan of
St. Paul will lose the sight of an eye
as the result of an attack on her by
a vicious rooster near their home.
The fowl was approaching the house
and the child ran to the sidewalk and
tried to brighten it away. The rooster
attacked the child, flying in her face
and tearing her face with it's spurs.
The claws penetrated the child's eyes.
When her parents came to her rescue,
the child was bleeding from several
decorations. She will lose the sight
Of one eye.
The citizens of Tower are in a SER
ious predicament. They may have to
60 collarless and shirtless for few
days because Hon Hong Quang, a
Chinese laundryman of that place,
committed suicide few days ago be-
fore making a delivery of the washing
for the week. The tickets that he is
sued his customers on receipt of their
bundles of soiled raiment are marked
up with Chinese characters and the
holders will be unable to make draw
until somebody familiar with the
terms used by the slant-eyed washman
is employed to sort out the bundles.
The famous case of Jimmy" Irs-
field, the noted Minnesota football
player, against F. P. Collier, pub
Usher of Golfers Weekly, for pecun-
larry damages based on alleged libel
Gus publications written by STORMY"
Jordan as one of his ''muckrake'
football stories, has been settled
The settlement is complete victory
for Irsfeld. By the terms of the set
Element Collier agrees to pay all court
costs and attorneys fees and to pub
lish in Golfers Weekly a retraction
signed by Jordan, the author of the
article on which the action was based.
The action will be dismissed as soon
as the publication is made.
Judge Vandevater of the United
States circuit court of appeals has
handed down ruling in St. Paul