The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-10-25
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES

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A young Scandinavian named McDon.
aid had the muscles of his right arm
lacerated by the accidental discharge Of
his gun while getting out of boat at
Spring Lake.
The Minneapolis garbage crematory
the first in the West, is ready for
use. ... -'.s
Davis & Rankin, Chicago, want to
establish canning factory at st. Cloud
of %, 900 cans daily capacity.
Mortified is enjoying quite a little
fall boom with wheat at 81. 10, and all
the houses for rent filled with tenants.
The supreme court holds that a 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 GUAM
titles OF low grade wheat that is coming
to the city.
Miss Jennie Burns has accented the
Republican nomination as superinten.
dent CT schools of Winona county. The
superintendents of both Houston aaa.
Fillmore counties are ladies.
A delicate job of blasting is being done
in the Parsons building, at Duluth, where
considerable amount of solid trap rock
is being blasted from the basement with
out disturbing the floors above.
Shipments of iron ore from Two Har.
bors by lake for the season to last We'd.
nesday were 327, 439 gross tons, against
32O, 464 for the same period of 1857 and
264, 600 for the season to date in 1885.
Since Wednesday nearly $4,000 tons
more have been shipped by lake, making
total lake shipments of S42, 900 tons. Be-
sides this large quantity has been sent
forward by rail.
A jury at Bird Island found Baker not
guilty OF shooting w. o. White at Hec-
tor.
The Southern Minnesota Dental asso-
citation, in session at Albert Lea, has adj
journed.
The postoffice building and all its con-
tents and stock of groceries were de-
strooyed by fire at lakewood. All the
mall matter was consumed.
Work has been commenced on the
convent of the Ursuline sisters, to be
erected on the shore of Lake Pepin, near
Frontenac, on land donated by Gen.
Israel Garrard.
w. F. Fritz, of Germantown, was
pulled from his buggy, kicked, beaten
and robbed while on his way home from
Duluth, His assailants numbered three
or four and they took from his person
$4,000, which belonged to the Herman.
town school district, of which he was
treasurer.
Two Minneapolis citizens were con-
fidenced out of $4,000 by bunco men.
Gen. S. P. Jennison, of Red Wing, and
family have gone to Boston to spend the
winter.
The First National bank at Austin has
had it's corporate existence extended to
Oct.27, 1908.
John Stewart. colored, who ran away
with viii girl from st. Paul, has
Will Aooio I'll dOuuSGIOu.
A 1900 ton vessel is to be built this
winter to carry Lake Superior brown
stone into Duluth.
Chief of Police Hayes at Crookston
was shot and fatally wounded by
tramp who he had arrested the previous
day.
1t is estimated that the lumber cut in
Minneapolis this season will be 49,, V00,-
600 feet.
Considerable damage was done to the
Mississippi dam and the electric light
building by overflow at st. Cloud from
the side dam, in which several persons
came near drowning.
Four freight crews residing at st.
Cloud have been laid off on the Fergus
division of the Manitoba for lack Of
traffic.
Indians are making their annual tour
after stone to the Pipestone quarries.
Fourteen inches of snow fell at Tower
Saturday night, and twelve inches at
Ely.
Henry j. Christy, deserter from com.
pany F, Seventh infantry, U. S. A. was
rested in Saltwater.
The New York Aid Society will dis
tribute company of orphan boys in the
vicinity of Preston, Friday.
A company has been organized at
Little Falls with capital of 100000 to
erect another Touring mill of 800 barrels
capacity.
One firm in Chicago has sold $500
acres of land to 81 families within few
miles of Little Falls the past month, and
the acreage in Morrison county has been
increased probably SO 1-3 per cent.
The Duluth chief of police has notified
the Standard Oil Company and the
Northern Pacific road officials to remove
all oil on their docks out of the city
limits. There are about $4,000 barrels
on the docks.
A Republican barbecue is to be held at
Wadena, Oct. 81.
Work has begun on the new Milwau-
kee depot at Northfield.
Archbishop Ireland preached at Aus
tin Sunday and confirmed 12O persons.
P. K. Everson, of Mona, was robbed
of 50 900 in cash and wheat checks Sun
day. Two strangers from Lyle are sus-
pected of the theft.
Erlck Marion, arrested at Duluth for
the murder of Lyman Brake, whose
dead body was found in the lake last
week, was discharged, there being no
evidence against him.
The body of partially decomposed
man was found on the Germantown road
four miles from Duluth. A revolver
was found by his side and few dollars
in his pockets.
wi
Randall, the boy murderer of the man
Zelgler at Fort Ripley, was arrested near
that place while at work. He neither
denies or Acknowledges the crime. 4
cousin named Sumner has been arrested
as an accomplice. Summer made the
statement that Randalls called the old
man ashore and deliberately shot hith.
Anchovies are so plenty at Trebizond
that they are sold for q cents a hum
dred weight for food for paupers and
for feftilizing purposes and during
the FIRST part Of the season each year so
many are thrown away that the whole
city is pervaded with the smell Of their
rottenness. PROPOSES are also very
plentiful, about 40, 900 hundred weights
year being caught, according to the
British consul, which yield about half
that WEIGHT of oil-Navu York SIM