The Princeton union., 1911-11-09
State News.

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pockets on Bridge square. For
several weeks the boys had been pick
ing pockets in that locality but sue
cessfully evaded the police.
James b. .Hagan, an old settler of
Minneapolis, who was active to
within a few days of his death, died
on Saturday, aged 104 years. He was
born in Ballymore, Ireland.
Twenty-nine students of St. Johns
college, Collegeville, we're last week
expelled for disobeying the orders of
the faculty. The students we're in
structed to abstain from celebrating
Halloween but instead went to St.
Joseph's college and cut up all kinds
of pranks. It should teach them o
lesson.
James Dygart, charged with the
murder of Mrs. Walter Bolton and
Frank E. Rhodes, was last week in
dicted by grand jury at Anoka on
two counts of murder in the first de-
gree. The hearing was set for
November 20.
-Four Minneapolis men, J. G. Pei
ton, F. T. Dexter, A. D. Ross, and r.
F. Lewis were seriously injured in an
automobile accident at "Death's
Corner,' - three miles south of Anoka,
last Thursday morning. The machine
| skidded and went over an embank.
ment, striking a telephone pole. At
the point of the accident it is said that
the road grade is lowered at the
wrong side.
Miss Ada Miles of Lake City has
gone to Midway island in Polynesia
to marry Horace Wyeth, tender for
the cable base there. Only few
men can spend more than three years
upon the island. The rays of The
blazing sun hurled back fercely each
day by the unbroken reaches of white
sand are powerful enough to bring
blindness to most men in less than
that time.
The annual four weeks session of
the dairy school of the Minnesota
college OF agriculture, designed as a
short course to furnish persons
actually engaged in the manufacture
OF butter and cheese an opportunity
to become more skilled in their work.
will open Monday, November 13. T.
L. Hacker, professor of dairy
husbandry, will be instructor.
Verne Voss, aged 10, was wrestling
with companion on farm near
Pipestone on Monday and was acci-
dentally thrown under the wheels of
a threshing machine just as it started
to move to new location. The
wheels Of the four-ton machine passed
over his body near the waist. He
was picked up for dead but an exami-
nation showed he had not been seri-
ously injured and he soon joined his
companions in play.
Every railroad leading into the
twin cities has announced that special
excursion rates will be put into effect
on December IL on account of the
Northwestern Land Products show
which is to be held in St. Paul from
December II to %. A fare and one
third for the round trip will be the
rate and excursion tickets will be sold
at points within two hundred and fiftv
miles of the twin cities. Tickets will
be good to either St. Paul or Minne-
apolis and will be good for return to
and including December "a.
A delegation of Leech Lake Chippe-
wa Indians, headed by an attorney,
have gone to Washington to ask that
the act of June IA, 1889, relative to re-
lief for the Chippewas, be carried out.
Over So, 100000 interest from funds re-
ceived by the government from the
sale Of land and timber on the Indian
reservations, is being held back, thew
say.
Winona has a school-going dog
called Teddy. A year ago he used to
60 regularly to the Winona high
school with his master. His master
was graduated last June, but since
school opened this fall Teddy has
been regular attendant alone, not
missing day, and always being on
time, going home for dinner at the
same time as the students at the noon
recess and returning in the afternoon.
He is a model school dog. The dogs
regularity and punctuality have
caused much comment.