The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-10-18
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES

neopa have struck vein of salt water.
The PERSONAL property valuation of
Red Wing is placed at $3.50, 500, an in
crease OF SIT 600 over last year.
Henry Schecher, on triul at Alexan-
dria for killing Christian Blatz, was
found guilty of murder in the second de-
gree.
The residences of Thomas Waite, E.
w. Giddons and Charles Sherman were
burned by prairie fires near Fergus Falls
Thursday. -....... ...
A subterranean railway under Wacou-
ia, in East Red Wing, to be used for fur.
nishing stone for six new lime kilns, has
been completed.
A. Barnard. a bridge builder from
Minneapolis, was seriously injured by
falling from trestle on the Wilmar and
Sioux railroad at Holland.
A Norwegian lady 81 years of age
went into a pasture near Fergus Falls to
attend to some sheep, and was butted so
badly by vicious ram that she has since
died.
An Episcopal convocatien will be held
in Lake City Oct. II, 10 and 10. 1t will
be addressed by the bishop and assistant
bishop of the diocese and several clergy
men from a distance.
John Lee and Martin Moe were con-
victed of murder in the first degree at
Alexandria and sentenced to hang ninety
days hence. The prisoners killed Chatles
Chalen at Brandon last June.
Children set fire to the stable of S.
Butturf at Marshall. The building,
grain and 5000 pounds of binding Irvine
Dr.
seriously burned in rescuing the live
stock.
A large stock barn on the farm of S.
E. Davis, near Campbell, was burned to
the ground. -Four horses and two head
of cattle persisted and large amount of
hay and grain were consumed. Loss,
$4,000: well insured.
The ST. Paul and Duluth road will
build a mammoth union depot in Du-
luth.
All telegraph, telephone and electric
light wires must be put uhder ground in
Minneapolis inside of one year.
E. P. Lowater, a pioneer resident, who
had resided at Red Wing since 1858, died
Sunday morning, aged 20 years.
Night crews will be put on the Duluth
and Red Wing road grading in order to
hasten the work forward to completion
as soon as possible.
A. Barnard fell through, a bridge on
the new Wilmar & Sioux Falls road at
PipeStOne and broke his knee cap and
bruised his body badly. He was taken
to his home in minneapolis.
Because of an alleged libelous attack
on c. E. Shannon in The Duluth Trib-
une, that gentleman, who is the PrOhi-
bitlOn candidate for attorney general of
AllnnCSOta. vigorously punched r. G..
Mitchell. editor of The Tribune.
Northern Pacific switchmen at Brain
erd demanded better wages. The COM
pany refused. Trains were made I'D
Saturday with difficulty. A compro-
mise has been brought about, and part
of the dissatisfied men have left the
company's employ.
The fibre-ware works at Mankato have
resumed operations with increased bust
ness
Political meetings are being held
among the miners on the Vermilli6n iron
range nearly every night.
A horse thief named Lynch. who stole
q horse from j. Smith. of Sank Center,
has beed captured and lodged in jail.
Fairmont boasts of big potatoes-five
weighing eight pounds and two ounces. A
Sherburn man claims to have raised one
that weighed three pounds and five
ounces.
A young Scandinavian named IdcDOn-
aid had the muscles of his right arm
lacerated by the accidental discharge of
his gun while getting Cut of a boat at
Spring Lake.
The work Of exploring the iron belt of
the Vermlllion range, as ordered by the
Legislature four years ago, is about fin
lShed and the third volume Of the report
will appear soon.
The Northern Pacific has opened the
ball of competition with the C. P. r. for
Manitoba wheat taffic by rate of 81
cents per hundred pounds from Winnipeg
to Duluth The c. P. r. promptly met
the cut to Port Arthur.
A worlds conference of the Seventh
Day Adventists is being held at Mime
apolis, and will probably continue four
weeks. It is expected that about 800
delegates will be present while the num-
bers of believers in the faith in the North
"eSL WHO VIII 40 " Tie conference Will
probably swell the attendance to 1000.
The Minneapolis garbage crematory
the first in the West, is ready for
use.
Davis & Rankin, Chicago, want to
establish canning factory at st. Cloud
of %, 600 cans daily capacity.
Northfield is enjoying quite a little
n hnnn1 y-hn Of ri Ill
the houses for rent filed with tenants.
The supreme court holds that rail-
road company is responsible for the acts
OF its employees in ejecting persons from
trains.
Last Saturday night the Manitoba dis
charged 100 men from st. Paul shops
in pursuance of its policy of reducing
expenses.
Judge Wilkin, of the district court,
st. Paul, decides that improvements
ordered by the board of public works
must be paid for.
There is a wheat blockade in Mime
apolis, and it is causing no end of
trouble. 1t is caused by the vast quan-
titles of low grade wheat that is coming
to the city.
delicate job of blasting is being done
in the Parsons building, at Duluth where
a considerable amount of solid trap rock
is being blasted from the basement with
out disturbing the floors above.
Miss Jennie Burns has accepted the
Republican nomination as superinten-
dent of schools of Winona county. The
superintendent of both Houston and
Fillmore counties are ladies.
Shipments of iron ore from Two Har-
bors by lake for the season to last We'd
nesday were 1927 ,439 gross tons, against
800, AGA for the same period of 1887 and
264, 900 for the season to date in 1885.
Since Wednesday nearly $4,000 tons
more have been shipped by lake, making
total lake shipments of 342 600 tons. Be-
sides this a large quantity has been sent.
forward by rail.
Starting window lass Factories.
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