The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-11-22
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES

MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES
The winter term of the Moorhead Nor
NAL school opened Monday.
A little child of A. Christianson's,
living near Marshall, was burned to
death by running into a fire some SEQ
ton men had started along the railroad
track.
The brakes failed to work on a stock
train at Duluth and two cars of sheep
were derailed and rolled down the bank
into the river. The sheep were all
drowned.
Joseph Kospau, an old settler near
Fergus Falls, committed suicide in a
novel manner. He put the but end of a
gun into fire and held the muzzle to
his head until it was discharged by heat.
The victims of the Jackson county
fire were Mrs. Molly O'Connor, Mrs.
Kate Porter, her sister, and Mrs. O'Con-
nors baby. Henry Ray, the young man
so badly burned, has since died. Miss
Julia O'ConnOr, who was teaching
school. saved her pupils by taking them
to piece of plowed ground till the fire
had passed.
The Duluth roller mills turn out IT'S
barrels of flour daily.
Senator Sabin says the manufacturing
of cars will be revived in Saltwater by
Jan. I. Eastern capitalists are interest
ing themselves in the matter.
Mrs. Gurley, of La Crescent, was so
badly frightened at the sight of blood on
her door steps that she died. The blood
was spilled in a political fracas.
A first mortgage of equipment for
$3.50, 900, from the Chicago, Burlington
and Northern railroad company to Fran
els Peabody, Jr., G. V. K. Thayer and
Nathaniel II. Stone, has been filed in the
office OF the register of deeds at Winona.
Secretary Hart, of the state board of
charities and corrections, has compiled
several interesting tables making COM
parsons of the nativity of inmates of
of state institutions. They show that
foreign born parents furnish less con-
victs proportionately than American
born parents. In Minnesota the per
centage of foreign born convicts is Sl.8:'
In the table on insane population, for
eign nations contribute more than their
share.
went into Ladow's restaurant, at Two
Harbors, caused disturbance, and was
ordered out by the colored cook. He
took up a knife and wanted to use II.
He was again ordered out, but refused.
when the cook fired one shot at him, it
taking effect in the knee. In a fight be-
tween E. A. Ladow, the restaurant
keeper, and teamster named Shannon,
Ladow's finger was badly bitten and
Shannon's uose was half bitten off.
On the Clearwater branch Of the
Manitoba the stations of Crow River and
Hassan have been abolished.
The Winona and Southwestern i'm
provement company has been incor-
porated, with $500, 900 capital stock.
The fastest trip from Buffalo to Du-
ruth has been made by the propeller
Mills, which arrived in port Saturday.
Inc zoo miles was traversed in three
days and seventeen hours, with a full
cargo.
The first mortgage of the Duluth. Red
Wing and Southern to the Central Trust
company OF New York, in trust. has
been filed. 1t covers all the lines and
property of the road, now owned or
hereafter acquired. and provides for the
issuance of bonds in the sum of 500. 900
a mile.
Secretary Hart, of the state board If
charities aud corrections. has prepare(f a
table Of the cost of keeping inmates of
state institutions for the year ENDING,
July. 1888. At st. Peters hospital for
the insane, 1865 We're fed during the
year at an average cost of $45.27: in the
Rochester hospital, 95S inmates cost
$44.G3 each: in the reform school 26S in
mates cost S3S.2!: in the state prison
cost Si3..3 for 463 convicts. The
soldiers home shows an average of 40
inmates, at cost of $780,. The total
average for 1878 in all institutions was
3,l'l persons at cost of $4aS4.
The last stone cl WinonaNs new court
house has be+n laid.
"A new Saw mill. with a capacity of
lM.Ooe feet daily, is to be erected at Lit
tie Falls.
Thieves secured about S4OO from the
suffers safe at Fort Smelling. The safe
door was blown off.
The residence of p. P. Barron, near
Wadena, was destroyed by fire Saturday
during the absence of the occupants.
Tracklaymg has commenced on the
Dulsuh, Red Wing and Southern. 1t is
expected trains will run between Zum-
brota and Red Wing by Dec. Is.
John Kerstner and wife, of Plato. be.
ing undesirable aeighbors, were ordered
to leave the place, and ON refusing were
treated 70 g coat OF molasses and feath.
efs, They have gone toward the West.
A man supposed to be John Pratr. of
the Grandin farm, in Dakota, was found
lying in the mud at Duluth. He was
taken to the sidewalk, but expired in a
short time. Indications are that it is a
case of murder.
The November term of court is ia SEES
sion at Redwood Falls. Two murder
cases will be disposed of-John CORES.
for the murder of John Rossnkranz, and
William Rose, charged with killing
Moses L. Lufkin.
George w. Post, the notorious con-
fidencs man, who was alleged to have
swindled Jonathan Grimes, of Mime
apois, out of $1,000, was discharged on
preliminary examination. An alibi was
proved to the satisfaction of the court.