The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-04-26

Graceville will soon have Democratic
paper.
Lake City may not get that much
talked of fax mill.
Ice in the Duluth harbor is being
broken up by tugs.
Marshall will be bonded for 81, 900 for
the Willmar and Sioux Falls railroad.
The promised shops and other improve
ments by the Manitoba road at Crooks
ton are not materializing
The property of the Saltwater Union
Depot, Street Railway and Transfer COM
pany will be sold by the receiver.
1t is rumored that the Duluth and Iron
Range railroad will be pushed northwest
from Tower into the Red River valley.
The special election on the question of
voting bonus of $1,000 to the Winona
and Southwestern railway will be held
May 8, in st. Charles.
Albert Lea has voted 500, 900 in bonds
to the Duluth, Red Wing and Southern
railroad, and citizens will buy so, 900
worth of stock in the road.
Duluth's chamber of commerce has
under consideration scheme whereby
an establishment for making nail ma
chimes may be built in that city.
Thirteenth annual convention of the
Minnesota State Sabbath-school associa-
ton will be held at Northfeld this year,
commencing June ~ and ending June 81.
Delegates fare one half by railroads.
Peter johnson, manufacturer of tile
stoves at Dassel, has been offered O bonus
of $25, 900 and five acres to locate in st.
Paul. He asks of Dassel some f. vors to
remain, which parties seem disinclined to
grant. In consideration of favors asked
he will add twenty families to the town.
Duluth has in store now 4,41S,O75
bushels Of wheat.
Workmen are pushing operations ON
the new canning works at Faribault.
The Presbyterian society at Kasson
have decided to erect a new church this
season.
Some union carpenters at Winona have
stopped because non.union foremen are
engaged.
The twenty-eighth annual convention
of the United States Brewers association
will be held in st. Paul May %, 20
and 80.
Mary Caron, aged 80 years, committed
suicide at Marshall by hanging. She
had become respondent on account of ILL
health.
John Yoerger, Jr., goes from Red
Wing to the Saltwater penitentiary for
five years for obtaining money under
false pretenses.
Nicolas Benner, of Winchester, Nor
man county, shot his son dead as the
climax of some family troubles and is
now in Jail at Ada.
A Duluth paper charges a Chinese
laundry in that place is an opium joint
and that the police are aware of the fact
and for some unknown reason allow it to
flourish.
Frank Collins, of St. Cloud, lit cigar
and, finding it would not draw, cut it in
two and discovered q small cartridge in
the middle with the ball pointing toward
the small end.
The st. Paul Dispatch wanted to write
up the city of Mankato for $40, but the
board Of trade refused the offer.
Business men of Lake City are consid-
ering the advisability of giving the
Northwestern Fiber company bonus of
"a, 900 in consideration of their locating
their plant there.
The railway commission will hear the
complaint of the Mankato Business Mems
association against the Omaha and North
western road one week from next Thurs
day at the capitol.
Gardner & Baker, of saltwater, have
banked 400, 00O feet Of logs on Yellow
river. Other firms have put in a little
over Ia, 100000 feet on that stream,
mostly for the st. Croix Humber COM
pany.
The Presbyterian church at Lake City
has made application to the presbytery
for permission to worship with. the Con
gregational church, with privilege Of
forming union church after that time.
Permission was given.
The board of county commissioners and
the city council at Albert Lea are at log
gerheads. The poor law of the county
provides that all over 5000 paid out by
the city of Albert Lea for the support of
paupers may be refunded by the county
commissioners. The city now has bill
of about e, 500 which the county does
not see fit to pay, and q suit may be
looked for.