The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-01-12

Castle Garden ST. 1868 immigrants.
| A white man and a colored woman
were frozen near Helena during the
storm.
Eunice Cottrell, aged 115, and a great
witch, Conn.
Delegate Clifford thinks the present
congress will do nothing toward admit
| ting Dakota into the Union.
The president has signed an order d.
recting the removal of the land Office
from Lake City to Montrose, Col.
Scarcity of coal is daily becoming more
| apparent at Philadelphia. Dealers pre-
| dict it will be selling at from % to $40
per ton in few days.
Traffic Manager Hawley denies that
| the Minnesota & Northwestern has an.
nounced or will announce 1000 mile tiok-
cts at SIS with $5 rebate.
Thursday, Jan. %, has been selected as
the date for the complimentary banquet
to be given in Boston to Senator Sherman
by the Home Market club.
Reports from Central Minnesota indi-
cate that the snow is 80 deep on the
ground as to make # almost impossible
for farmers to attend to their ordinary
winter work.
Loggers complain Of too much snow In
the pineries. On some of the streams
they are troubled with three feet Of snow,
which is about two feet more than they
think they need.
Gen. Bragg, Of Wisconsin, is in Wash
ington, and it is said his visit is for the
purpose of comforting with the president
and secretary of state relative to the
Mexican mission.
The thirteenth annual convention of
the Commercial Travellers association of
the state of Indiana, began at Evansville,
Ind. Between /, 900 and 500 members
are in attendance.
Speaker Carlisle will visit Atlanta Jan.
%, and deliver an address upon tariff re.
form.
The socialist have gained entire con-
troll OF Chicago District Assembly "a,
X. Of L.
The horticulturists Of Southern Mime
sofa met at Rochester on Saturday and
organized the Southern Minnesota Horti-
cultural society.
A freight train, consisting of eight cars
and an oil tank, went through bridge
ON the Illinois Central railroad near Par
kersburg, Ill, Saturday. t.
The report that the Canadian Pacific
had gained an entrance to New York via
the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg and
Ontario & Western, has been denied by
the officials of the latter roads.
The dedication of Texas new capitol
building at Austin will occur May IA to
10. President and Mrs. Cleveland and
many other distinguished people through
out the United States have been invited
to attend the celebration. !,
The British steamer vortigern has been
wrecked in the China seas with loss of
twenty-one lives. !
The new tariff on wheat issued by the
Duluth makes rate of cents per 1907
pounds per car load. !
A bill has been introduced in the Ohio ,
legislature fixing passenger rates at q
cents per mile on all railroads in the .
state. :
Senator Davis, OF Minnesota, has intro;
duced bill to restore Maj. Reno to the
regular army with the rank of major, at
such time as vacancy shall occur in the
line for which q civilian would have to.
be named. /:
The complaint of the scarcity of freight
cars has ceased During the two last
two weeks of December the st. Paul.
roads had some trouble In furnishing all
the necessary cars, but with the let DIP in.
business which always follows the close.
OF the year the trouble has disappeared.