The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-12-06
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.

The Episcopalians at st. Peter realized
$500 from two days fair.
Burglars drilled open the safe of the
Moorhead postoffice and carried off $500.
A family named Masten, in Duluth,
were poisoned by eating canned salmon,
All are out of danger.
Saltwater saw mills have cut in 1888
176.G12,413 feet of lumber, 46,4S6, $50
lath and G3,S54 $50 shingles.
| The Mandan city engineer is pumping
the new reservoir, capacity 1,000, 900 gall
Ions, full OF water, as safeguard.
John Joerger, Jr., sent from Red Wine
| to the state penitentiary last spring for
obtaining money under false pretenses,
has been pardoned.
The bank Of Lake Crystal has sus-
pended payment. The cause and amoInt
| is not stated, but the proprietor SAYS he
| will pay dollar for dollar
The annual encampment of the depart-
ment OF Minnesota, Grand Army of the
Republic, viii he held at Market hall,
st. Paul, Jan. %, and continue during
the 9th and 25th
The murderer Of Frank Eich. at Roy
alton, was arrested at Verndale, and
gave his name as Albert Bulow. He at
| tempted to borrow money at the banks
| On the stolen team, which led to his ar.
rest. lie has confessed.
The Mankato cement works have shut
down for the winter and the men have
been discharged, Full crews are vet be-
ing worked in the stone ouarries. and
the hotel and court house are being
placed in condition for winter.
| President Atwood has called a meeting
OF the executive committee of the State
Farmers Alliance, to be held in st. Paul
Dec. 8, at the Clarendon hotel. The OBJ
Ject of the meeting is supposed to be DO
| litical.
The board of directors of the Northern
Pacific Railroad company have APPOINTED
Charles 4. Clark. assistant TREASURER of
the company. with headquarters at St.
Paul. The Office of cashier was abol-
ished.
The Fergus Fails electric light and gas
companies have consolidated.
The Southern Minnesota Fair associs-
ton will hold its annual meeting in
Rochester, Dec. 4.
People at Marshall want the land Of
fees at Redwood Falls and Tracy coasok
idaied and removed to that place.
A young man named Tonson, son of a
farmer residing q few miles east of St
James, has been missing since Saturday
night.
The Omaha railway will enlarge its
1iour warehouse at Duluth by an extern
SION OF geo feet, making the total dimen-
sions 1,40OxS0.
Rev. l.. III, shunate, Methodist minis
ter at Faribanit, accidentally DISCHARGED
his gun into his hand and loses portion
OF each finger and q thumb.
burglars ct Orouoco blew open Bar
letts safe with dynamite, doint 4 dam.
age Of $500 to the Building. They se-
cured SO and gold watch.
So far this year ss5 prisoners have
been confined in the Duluth Jail. 81
whom Sig have been city, 15I county
and 10 United States prisoners.
Capt. George Hayes. supervising in
spector Of steam vessels for the Fifth dis.
triot. including the Mississippi and trib:
utarles above keokuk, Iowa, has sub
mitted his annual report. There have
been 80 steamers and "a RATS in the
trade at st. Paul. The amount of freight
handled is larger than for the past four
years: sS,f64 passengers have been
andeG.
The West Duluth Street Car company
has fled articles Of incorporation. Cap
ital 100000.
Archbishop Ireland confirmed a class
of 1870 at Lewiston.
Mr. ana Mrs. George G. Dickman celc-
hrated their diamond wedding at Wi
mona.
St. Fauls postal business for Novcm-
Der shows an increase of 81, 600 over that
Of last November.
Three masked mon entered the Farm
er's hotel at nIO0rE'ad and robbed the
landlord, Christian Holbeck, of sos in
cash.
Twenty miles Of grading beyond Clo-
'quet on the Duluth and Winnipeg road
are ready for The rails. About 5000 men
are at work.
A valuable deposit of slate and coal
has been discovered in Carleton county.
A company has been formed to develop
the mineral.
James Sullivan and Joseph Fautz were
drowned at Big Stone lake Thanksgiving
day by al ice boat Oh which they wera
riding plunging into an air hole.
The diphtheria epidemic at Ai.kin is
raging, and all exposed persons are put
under quarantine. 1t is impossible to Sc
cure nurses, and the local physicians are
unable to cope with the ravages of tho
disease.
It is said that parties hunting near
Lake 1tasca discovered a new source of
the Mississippi that leaves Lake Glazier
out in the cold. 1t is number of springs
that pour from the mountain about three
miles southeast of Itasca.