The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-03-19
State News.


over three days, beginning March %.
Thomas Thompson has been SEN
fenced at Red Wing to twelve years
in the state penitentiary for setting fire
to the dwelling house and outbuild-
ings of Robert Heaney, who lives near
Goodhue. Twelve years is stiff
sentence, but it is none too heavy for
an incendiary.
Democratic county conventions will
be held all over the state May 8, to
select delegates to the state delegate
convention, which meets May IA.
Primaries are to be held May 6. The
state convention will assemble in the
st. Paul auditorium at II a. m. May
IA. The delegates will number 935.
A verdict of not guilty was returned
in the Madison murder trial at Duluth
on Monday. Mrs. Selma Mattson,
charged with killing her husband,
Nikoli Madison, at Chisholm, Jan. IA
last, by sinking a double-bitted ak
into his skull, was acquitted by the
jury after deliberations lasting but
fifteen minutes.
Several attempts have been made to
wreck the passenger train on the Min
neapolis & St. Louis road that is due
at Albert Lea from the twin cities
about midnight. Ties were placed on
the track between New Richmond aud
Hartland in three places, but we're
thrown off by the locomotive without
injury. The authorities and the CON-
pany detectives are at work.
While in charge of the engine fur
nishing power for filling the water
tank of the Minnesota & International
railway at Backus, on Friday Arthur
Thompson received injuries which
may possibly prove fatal. In some
manner his clothing was caught in
the wheel and his body was carried
around the track made by the wheel
striking the floor and the ceiling with
terrific force.
Use of the mail for fraudulent pur-
poses is the technical charge on which
j. L. Lowering, a St. Paul publisher,
has been bound over to the federal
grand jury. Lowering inaugurated
dot-counting prize contests to increase
the circulation of his paper, and is
said to have neglected to give the
prizes, which we're to be a forty acre
farm, incubators, separators, bug
gies, organs, sewing machines, tea
sets, etc.
When the Great Northern road
brought in car No. 1854 on Friday
from Montana it landed in Minne-
apolis the heaviest car of oats on
record there, the weight being SO, $40
pounds. The car contained 1922
bushels of the heavyweight oats that
Montana raises. Nine cars of Mon
tana oats unloaded in Minneapolis
Saturday ran from 2,l02 to 1922
bushels each, weighing ten to fifteen
pounds more to the bushel than East
ern oats.
Peter Larson, while at work clearing
east of Rapid river, near Baudette,
was accidentally shot through the
abdomen by a homesteader named
Wingren, who formerly resided near
Blackjack. Wingren had tracked a
moose and, seeing an object in the
thick forest, fred two shots. One
missed, and the other struck Larson,
who died before medical aid could
reach him. Wingren gave himself up
to the authorities and when arraigned
pleaded guilty to manslaughter. He
was sentenced to the St. Cloud re-
formatory and later released on
parole.
Police Superintendent F. T. Corris-
ton and W. D. Morse, inspector of
immigration for Minneapolis, have
begun rigid investigation to learn
whether there are any persons in Min
neapolis of anarchistic tendencies,
that these persons may be deported at
once. This campaign is general
throughout the country and instruc-
tions have been sent out to all immi-
grafton inspectors by Oscar S. Stratus,
secretary of commerce and labor, ask
ing that the cities be cleaned of anar-
chists. Under this ruling all persons
who have been associated with anv
anarchistic societies and the criminal
aliens will have to leave. It is be-
lieved that there are many anarchists
in Minneapolis.
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