The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-11-15
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES
The winter term of the Moorhead Nor
NAL school opened Monday.

The winter term of the Moorhead Nor
NAL school opened Monday.
A little child of A. ChristiansoniA
living near Marshall, was burned I'd
death by running into a fire some secr
ton men had started along the railroad
track.
The brakes failed to work on 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
novel manner. He put the but end of q
gun into fire and held the muzzle to
his head until it was discharged by heat
The victims of. the jackson county
fire We're Mrs. Molly O'Connor, Mrs.
Kate Porter, her sister, and Mrs OsCm-
| nor's baby. Henry Ray, the young man
SO badly burned, has since died. Miss
Julia OConnor, 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 175
barrels of -four daily.
Senator Sabin says the manufacturing
| Of cars will be revived in Saltwater BY
Jan. 1. 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 political fracas.
! A first mortgage of equipment for
$3.50, 900, from the Chicago, Burlington
and Northern railroad company to Fran
els Peabody, Jr., C. V. r. Thayer and
Nathaniel Fl. 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 81. 8.
In the table on insane population, for
eign nations contribute more than their
share.
| A teamster named Moordoch Adams
Went into Ladow's restaurant, at Two
Harbors, caused disturbance, and was
ordered out by the colored cook. He
took up knife and wanted to use it.
| He was again ordered out, but refused.
when the cook fired one shot at him, ii
taking effect in the knee. In fight be-
tween E. A. Ladow, the restaurant
| keeper, and teamster named Shannon,
| Ladow's finger was badly bitten and
Shannons 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 5000, 900 capital stock.
The fastest trip from Buffalo to DIN.
luth has been made by the propeller
| Mills, which arrived in port Saturday.
| The 200 miles was trayersed 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. It 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 SEC, 600
| mile.
Secretary Hart, of the state board of
charities and corrections, has prepared q
| table of the cost of keeping inmates of
state institutions for the year ending
July, 1888. At st. Peters hospital foI
| the insane, 1865 were fed during the
year at an average cost of $45.27: in ths
Rochester hospital, s5s inmas- -
4:65 each; in the rafc--- -;ss &C cost
mates cost ~see .olm school 266 in
cost voo.27; in the state prison
-. S43.73 for 46S convicts. The
soldiers home shows an average of 40
inmates, at cost of $780,. The total
average for 1878 in all institutions was
3,171 persons at cost of $43.S4.
The last stone on Winona's new court
house has been laid. ....-- ~:
| A new saw mill, with a capacity of
100, OOe feet daily, is to be erected at Lit
| tie Falls.
Thieves secured about $4OO 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.
Tracklaying has commenced on the
| Duluth, Red Wing and Southern It Is
expected trains will run between Zum.
brota and Red Wing by Dec. Is.
John Kerstner and wife, of Plato, be-
ing undesirable Deighbors, were ordered
to leave the place, and ON refusing were
treated to a coat of molasses and feath-
ers. They have gone toward the West.
A man supposed to be John Pratt, 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 q
case of murder.
The November term of court is in ses-
sion at Redwood Falls. Two murder
cases will be disposed of-John CORES,
for the murder Of John Rosenkranz, and
William Rose, charged with killing
Moses L. Lufkin.
George w. Post, the notorious con.
fidence man, who was alleged to have
swindled Jonathan Grimes, of Mime.
apolis, out Of $1,000, was discharged on
preliminary examination. An alibi was
proved to the satisfaction of the court,
A PERILOUs JOURNEY.