The Princeton union., 1908-10-01
State News.

While the tOur-year-Old daughter o.
Mr.. and Mrs. Reil of the Waconia
Patriot was playing with a turnir
lantern her dress caught fire and she
was so badly burned that she died.
Northwestern COMMUNICATIONS
gathered in the St. Paul Auditorium
5000 strong on Sunday to celebrate
the 250th anniversary of the first
settlement of Germans on American
soil.
The 4-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Gotlieb Oberland of Akeley was
poisoned by eating berries and died
in three hours. This is the second
death recently from eating berries
growing in the woods in that vicinity.
After having wound up the bust.
ness of the most successful convention
ever held in the history of the order,
the members of the Ancient Order o1
Hibernians, who had been holding
their convention in Duluth, left for
their homes on Friday.
Wolves are said to be more numer-
Gus than ever in the northern part OF
the state. The young daughter OF
Peter Kobe, homesteader in the Little
Fork country, was devoured by
wolves while going from her home to
a neighbours. Her younger brother
escaped.
Patrick Tierney, a Duluth teamster,
while unloading paper into the city
incinerator, fell into the fiery furnace
and was burned to death in a few
minutes. The accident was caused by
the breaking of hook with which
Tierney was pulling the bundles of old
paper from the wagon into the fire.
The new barn just completed this
fall on the j. P Erickson farm, near
Mora, was struck by lightning on
Thursday night and burned to the
ground. Sixty tons of hay and all
the farm machinery was also de-
stroyed. There was no insurance,
and the loss is placed at from 81, 800
to $4,000.
The convention of the affiliated
societies of the German Catholic
church of the state, the Staats Ver-
band and the Catholic Aid societies,
met in annual convention at St. Cloud
Monday, following masses, which we're
said in all churches in the city.
Nearly every part of the state is
represented. Sunday was marked
by a monster parade, over 5000 men
being in line.
President George II. Bridgeman of
Hamline university, informed the
members of the Swedish Methodist
conference at their session last Friday
that the university will open a depart
ment of Swedish language and litera-
ture, the principal object of which will
be to give instruction to Swedish
students who expect to prepare them
selves as clergymen among the
Swedish Methodists.
Mary Pittman's fight for release
from the state training school at Red
Wing will result in the liberation of
l03 girls who are at present inmates
of the Red Wing school. George W.
Peterson, assistant attorney general,
has notified the state board of control
that Mary Pittman could not legally
be detained longer at Red Wing, and
a general order for the release of all
girls who have reached the age of 18
will probably result.
Daniel Moriarty, who died in Min
neapolis last week, was known to be
more than l03 years old, and some Of
his relatives place his age at 107. He
was not only the Oldest person in Min
neapOlis, but was more active and
more youthful in appearance than
many men of half his age, and re-
markable in many other ways. For
many years, and until within six
months of the time of his death, it was
his custom to walk ten miles or more
every day. He was an incessant
smoker and the tobacco which he used
in his pipe was stronger than most
men could smoke without inconven-
ience. He never was sick a day in
his life, and even his death was not
attended by any symptoms of disease.
To better market their product and
to work for their mutual advantage,
six creameries have organized the
Minnesota Cooperative Diaries asso-
citation, under the law passed by the
last legislature allowing creameries to
amalgamate, this being the first Or
,ganization of the kind in the state.
The companies and individuals form
ing the association are: Plainview
Cooperative Creamery association,
Sauk Center Cooperative association,
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