The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-08-23
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES

All of the old saloonkeopers of Pipe
stone have been arrested for selling
without Il license.
= VIC. White, who was shot by l.. Ii.
Parker at Bird Island July 81, has died
rom his injuries. ...,~....
Jerry Sullivan was drowned in Lake
Vermillion while attempting to get ON
tug from row boat.
The Park Region Agricultural society
will hold tn fr annual fair at Fergus
Falls September ., sj, 81 and 20.
The. commissioners of Crow Wing
county have purchased the fair grounds
and race track of the owners for tho
sum Of 5000. Brainerd paying one
half of the purchase price. ~
The limb of a tree, supposed to bs
cedar, was dug out of q bank of solid
clay forty feet beneath the surface
near Marshall, and the, specimen will be
sent to Prof. Winchell for examination
The safe in the office of II. t Bevans,
lawyer at Morris, was opened and
1873 taken. George Spooner, n cripple
Office, is suspected, as he suddenly left,
The depot at Rush City was entered
by burglars while the agent was at din
ner and s:}5 taken from the cash drawer,
and in the evening two employees of the
company named Jones and Averuey were
arrested and confessed to the theft
~ The Minnesota house at Sleepy Eve
was damaged by fire to the extent Of
81, QUO, on which there is an insurance Of
1000. Mr.. Berg, the proprietor, is at
tentling the state convention at ST. Paul.
Hans Uensolf, l4-year-old boy, was
shot and killed while picking berries
near Duluth. A half dozen shots were
| fired by some one unknown, supposedly
at q mark, one Of which struck the boy
in the groin.
Gilbert A Landman, Monticello man
aged 30 years, had an S-year-old girl ar
rested for throwing q stick and u stone
at him. The little girl was found guilty
by the judge before whom the trial &C.
CURED, and fined so cents. Two friends
of the child took IN appeal to the district
court.
Fred Tebbenjohanns, who mysteri-
ously disappeared from Red Wing over a
week ago, has been heard from.
At3-year-old child of Fl. w. Zeller, OF
Lake Benton, was soalded to death by
falling into tub of hot water
Jack Keefe, a well-known sporting
character, was arrested ut Little Falls
for promiscuous shooting in q saloon.
Rochester has accepted the system Of
| sewers recently proposed for the city,
and will issue SO, 900 worth of bonds to
| complete the work.
A sneak thief entered the residence of
j. G. Clark at Faribault and stole his
trousers from q chair, in the pockets of
which were 500 and two gold watches.
The opening of the Red Lake and
White Earth res ervations in Minnesota
is retarded by the claims of the state
auditor, who claims some of these lands
for the state for school purposes.
Hugh Matheson, an insane logger at
Nelson's camp on St. Louis Bay, at
| tempted suicide three times in one day,
hut was frustrated. He WIS locked in
the Jail for safety, and will be sent to
the asylum.
Mr.. Bailey, of the Barnum circus, was
arrested at Brainerd, where the circus
gave an entertainment, for exhibiting
without q licenre. He had previously
made application for license and paid o.
portion of the 500 demanded, and upon
the arrest paid the balance and was dis
charged.
Willie Warner was drowned in the
river at Mankato while bathing.
The frosts in the vicinity of Ada have
done injury to the wheat, the grain turn
ing black.
w. D. Hillyer, of Marshall, claims to
have voted for sixteen different presiden-
tial candidates.
A 7-year-old son of George Morchilden
was killed at Red Lake Falls by a log
rolling on him.
DR.. F. A. Robinson, of Elbow Lake.
who accidentally shot himself while
hunting Saturday, died from his injuries.
Marshal Holt, of Winona, was kicked
In the. face by horse, fracturing the
jawbone and knocking out several teeth
The Brainerd board of education has
failed to borrow $35,0O0 of the state
school fund for building purposes, and
the project will be abandoned for the
present.
Hon. T. Norton, of Winona while at
Chicago, emphatically denied that Frede-
rick Weyerhouser was working for the
formation of large Northwestern lum-
Der trust.
q. II. Fairbanks, Of Anoka, was acci-
dentally shot by companion while hunt
ing. Seventy FIVE bird shot lodged in his
face and arms. The wounds are painful
bnt not dangerous.
The city council of Brainerd voted
81. 00U to aid in the purchase of the fair
grounds, part of which was to be paid to
J. Il. Thompson, who was allowed sew
eral hundred dollars for assessing tho
county. The mayor vetoed the ordinance
and an injunction was issued to stop the
payment, but the checks had been dated
ahead and Thompson had them cashed
and is now on the Pacific coast.
A number of cattle in the vicinity of
Hader have died from eating too much
red clover.
Mrs Ida L. Geddes is q candidate for
the office Of county superintendent of
schools of Faribault. She is the present
incumbent.
During the storm Monday last Charles
Johnson, Of Wheaton, was killed by
lightning while at work near Donelly.
} g Caterpillars are eating the leaves off
of the white willow tree at Madelia In
many of the groves the trees are stripped
nearly bare.
The blueberry crop gathered by the In
dams in the vicinity of Brainerd is esti
mated at III, 900 bushels, for which they
realize about s.. 80 per bushel.
A team of bronchos belonging to Christ
Anderson in Polk county ran away and
fell into a ditch, where they kicked each
other to death in trying to get out.
10 A daughter Of Mr. and Mrs Schway-
gel, of Browns Valley hotel, came near
being drowned last Sunday by falling in
the cellar Of the house, which is about
half filed with water.
~ Two young men who gave their names
as Frank Mccarthy and Lawrence C.
Dodge hired livery team in Glencoe and
forgot to return. They were overtaken
by the sheriff and arrested as they were
about to cross into Dakota.
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