The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-07-05
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES

MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES
Governor McGill Is In Austin to make
apersonal investigation of the grasshop-
per scare.
A severe frost was observed in the Vi
cinity of Lake Benton Saturday morn
ing, and fears are felt for the small
fruits.
John O'Brien, an employe of the Mani
toba road was instantly killed Saturday
while working on the track between Elk
River and Itasca.
. The boom across Rainy liver broke
Saturday afternoon, and millions Of feet
Of lumber PASSED into the lake. The logs
will probably be O total loss.
Margaret Haron, of Linewood, small
town near Anoka, has been arrested for
attempting 20 shoot a neighbor named
john Lyons, the result of an old quarrel.
Henry Blum, of Henderson, met with
a serions accident Saturday afternoon.
He was on a load Of straw, and the team
ran away, throwing him to the ground.
The liquor licenses will expire in
Winona September |, and Of the twenty
four saloons but twenty will take out
new licenses. Under the 500 license
there were ninety saloons.
The Republican county convention to
elect delegates to the Fifteenth judicial
district convention met at Brainerd
Saturday, and instructed the delegates
for Judge Sleeper.
F. L. Bugbee has been arrested at
Anoka on a charge VI bigamy. A short
time since he married. girl named May
Chinch and soon afterward deserted her.
1t has been learned he ht d two wives,
one living in Iowa and the other in New
York.
A mail sack was stolen from the depot
at Detroit Friday night, and about 100
open letters were found in box car
near the depot Saturday. The sack was
afterward found in the mill yard, the
strap having been cut. A man named
Moody has been arrested on suspicion of
committing the theft.
The river still continues to rise at
Brainerd, necessitating the closing down
of Howe's lath mill.
Albert Blanz has been placed on trial
at St. Cloud for the murder of G. w. De-
bill last spring.
The coroner's jury rendered a verdict
! in the Dohls case at Shakopee, exoner-
| ating the railroad company.
The summer meeting of the Twin City
| Driving Park association will take place
| at the state fair grounds July to g.
| The Prohibitionists of Otter Tail
| county, at Fergus Falls, have nominated
ticket. u. j. Keefe was put up for
member of the legislature.
The first of the six new steel steamers
for the Manitoba road, the Northern
Light, has arrived at Duluth. The next
one will be ready about Aug. l.
| The cut of the Winona Lumber COM
pany mill one day last week was 365, 900
| feet of lumber, 155. 500 shingles and
$4,000 lath. This is the largest days
cut of any mill on the Mississippi river.
| J. Whitleman, of Clearwater, cut his
initials and the date Ca the back of tur-
tie in the year 1867, and turned it loose.
| A few days since a turtle crossed the
patk of j. w. Brotho, and on investiga-
ton it proved to lie the one with the mi
| tials on its back.
| Charles Miller, farmer living near
Kilkenny, was drowned at Sunfsh lake.
He and companion were In the boat
| about thirty feet from shore, when it sud-
| denly sunk. Miller, being unable to
swim, sunk, but his companion swan to
the shore.
Robert Cook, Of Austin, Is missing. He
recently removed from Lyle with his FAM
lily to enter into the draying business,
but was not able to meet payments when
pressed. and decamped. A dead body
has been found in the Cedar river in
Iowa, supposed to be that of Cook.
The assessed valuation of real estate in
Faribault is placed at 81, $40, 900.
About 400 railway employees from St.
Paul attended picnic at Lake Mime
toIka.
| The trustees of the Albert Lea college
have decided to erect another building to
cost $50, 600.
Measles and whooping cough are cpl
demic at Rochester, number of deaths
resulting from the complication.
An unknown man was picked up in an
insane condition at New Ulm. He was
dressed only in his Undertaking and
was barefooted.
A young man named Rock, of Norfolk
township, near Bird Island, put an old
gun barrel into the fire. 1t proved to be
loaded and went off, inficting q fatal
| wound.
Judge, Larmer, of Caledonia, sentenced
Michael Thrill, convicted of murder in the
first degree for killing his sisters illegit-
innate child, to imprisonment for life at
hard labor.
The Farmers Home hotel, occupied by
John Courtney, and an adjoining build
ing were burned at LIE Sueur. The fam
lily of Courtney was taken from the upper
story by ladders.
Under the new adjustment of post
masters salaries there has been an in
crease in a number of Offices in Mime
sofa and Dakota, the increase ranging
from 800 to $500. Duluth is raised to q
first class office and St. Paul and Mime
| apolis are each raised 500. Detroit and
Pipestone lose 500 each.
The Second regiment at Lakeview
qualified twenty-one sharpshooters and
ITO marksmen.
August Spencer was convicted Of grand
larceny at St. Cloud, and sentenced to
the penitentiary for two years.
The Pickwick Touring mill at Winona
had to shut down on occount of an OBJ
struction in the turbine wheel, and on
| investigation ten pound bass was found
in one of the chambers.
1t is claimed that arrangements have
been completed for the building of q
road from Winona to Omaha, which will
give the Lackawana a through line, via
the Green Bay road, from New York to
Omaha.
Burglars broke into the Milwaukee
depot at Dundas, broke open one or two
trunks, taking nothing, and attempted
to open the safe, but broke their drill.
An overcoat, rubber coat, and one or
two articles were taken from house
near by.
While digging cellar at Corrinna
Charles Pinkerton came across the re-
mains of seven persons in good state Of
preservation. They were buried in a
mound, and were from seven to eight
feet in height. They were probably
buried over 200 years ago, and were Of
an inferior class of men.