The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-05-23
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES

Company A, Third regiment, NJ. N.
g., has been reorganized at Waseca.
Two little boys at Rapidan killed six
young wolves and secured $45 bounty.
Albert Taylor, a young st. Paul bicy-
clist has started to New York on his BIZ
cycle.
The Peoples Theatre of Minneapolis
will furnish opera glasses for its patrons
hereafter.
Scarlet fever is raging at Owatonna.
Seven new cases were reported one day
last week.
Jordan, Belle Plain and Shakopee are
having hot fight for the county seat Of
Scott county.
Maj. w. G. Young, judge Of probate
at Waseca, fell dead on the street Of
heart disease.
"Esthetic thieves steal rare and costly
exotics from flower gardens" at Still
water, says The Gazette.
The Northern Pacific will put on short
line trains between st. Paul and Mime
9polis within sixty days.
The fishing season in Minnesota opens
June l, instead of May Is as heretofore.
So decreed the last legislature.
A sneak thief stole 800 from Hum
boldt's saloon at st. Cloud during the
momentary absence of the proprietor.
The work of blowing under grasshop-
pers is progressing rapidly at Fergus
Falls. About 4 900 acres has been turned
over
The Minnesota Eastern road will put
on a passenger train between st. Paul
and withdrawing six in all between
those two cities.
Willie Lachman, Marshall, found q
cartridge. He tried his little knife on it
and the doctor sawed off the remains Of
his thumb and two fingers.
An election will be held at Bird Island
county seat of Renville county from
Beaver Falls to Bird Island.
The Southern Minnesota G. A. R. en-
campment is to be held at Austin June
4, 5 and 4. Great preparations are be-
ing made by the committees.
Collector of Customs Edwards has ap-
pointed Arthur Lyman, of Spring Val
ley, deputy collector. Mr.. Lyman was
formerly in the collectors Office at st.
Vincent.
Six large log RATS were lowed into
Duluth one day last week by the Inman
tugs, total of nearly 7,0U0, 900 feet, and
the largest lake receipt in the history of
Duluth.
Work still goes on at the Saltwater
gas well which is now over 3,4O0 feet
down. A new stratum has been struck.
1t is difficult to drill but has considera-
BILE lime in it.
The run on the Anoka bank has
ceased, and those who drew out their
money are returning it. The bank is
said to have made $1,000 to $4,000 in
forfeited interest.
The report that Gov. Merriam has re-
ceived requests from Missouri for par
dons for the Younger brothers is emphat-
ically denied. On the contrary several
protests have come.
City Comptroller Tenbroeck presented
a statement to the city council, showing
that Duluth had assets which amounted
to 1900 over and above all indebted
ness, bonded and other.
The Rev. Schweinfurth, leader of the
BeekmaniteS, who was once driven out
of st. Charles and has just been COM
PEELED to leave Rockford, Ills, will at
tempt to return to st. Charles.
The sherilf's deputies are making a
clean sweep through the Vermillion
range, raking in prostitutes, toughs,
gamblers and dive keepers. There are
none at Tower, but Ely is infested with
them.
The projectors of the Minneapolis
Herdic line report good success in secur-
ing subscriptions to the stock and an
nounce that the establishment of Herdic
lines in this city is assured in the near
future.
The insurance commissioner report
relating to life insurance companies
doing business on the assessment plan
says there are fifty nine companies doing
business in the state, fourteen local and
forty-fve outside.
The county commissioners at Mankato
opened bids on $35, 900 court house bonds
and rejected them. The bonds were
then sold at auction, and were taken by
Splitter & Co., bankers, of Toledo and
Boston, they giving premium of 81
555.
An engine running between Sandstone
and Sandstone Junction, was totally
wrecked by tree falling across the en-
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fifteen miles an hour. Engineer Doris
escaped uninjured, while the fireman
Elmer Miller, has his head and legs
badly bruised.
In 1858 Vetal Guerin, one of the pio-
neers of the Northwest, presented RAM
sey county with the site where the new
court house now stands. When Guerin
died it was necessary to borrow money
L. H. hoe
application for the position of janitor in
owned by his father.
A strike OF A. NJ. Cox's broom factory
at Duluth was settled in rather a singu-
lar manner. The proprietor increased
the wages of all his married employees,
and gave the single men notice that they
would not be wanted after the END of
the month unless they were married by
that time, in which event they would be
retained at an increased salary.
The executive department has dis
patched circulars to the secretaries of
governors of other states asking them to
furnish the signatures of the gov
ernor, secretary of state, and an
impression of the great seal of their re-
spective states. The idea is to prevent
lut VI 1Iduu al VuO loouohSO
of requisition papers and the transaction
of other interstate business.
Congressman Hall has established two
boards of pension examiners in his dis
trict, one at Montevideo and the other at
Shakopee. The board at Montevideo
consists of DR.. G. E. Kagers, Montivideo;
DR.. F. L. Puffer, Bird Island, and DR..
B. S. Larne, Appleton. The Shakopee
board consists of DR.. II. 0. Smith, Shak-
opee: DR.. s. P. Chadwick, Lakeville,
and the third member to be appointed.
Saltwater is one of the first cities to
appoint its meat Inspector and establish
fees. For cattle, from one to four in
spected at one time, IS cents each, over
that number, Is cents each: hogs, one to
four. Is cents each, over that number,
II 1-2 cents; sheep, one to four, 10 IL
cents; over that number, 10 cents each;
lambs, one to four, 10 cents each, over
that number, 8 cents each; calves, 10
cents each. RI f. -. - -
At Crookston Wednesday night an un-
offending citizen named Jake Zeinholt
was taken from his room at the. Cleve-
land house, was bound, gagged and un-
mercifully beaten. Then he was taken