The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-09-19
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.

Glenwood is to have new tSickyard.
Duluth's wheat receipts last Meek were
So, 900 bushels.
Brainerd is to have third bank with
a capital of $4,000.
Red Wing schools are SO crowded that
more room Is necessary.
Stone has been found near Cannon
Falls which assays 81 to the ton.
The Union Elevator company at Still
water is in the hands of a receiver.
The annual session of the state w. G..
T. U. was held in Duluth last week.
Secretary Rusk attended the Minnesot.
state fair Wednesday and Thursday last.
On an average nine tramps day have
been arrested at Madison during the past
| week.
The second trial of Clara Blatz, for the
murder of John Dougherty, has been be-
gun at st. Paul.
At Dodge Center Henry Churchward's
barn was burned and two of his Children
persisted in the flames.
! The prison doctor says Bob Younger
is not as bad off as the newspapers make
IT'LL. he "dy live hOnCn.
DR.. j. L. Camp, of Brainerd, imperil-
ing his own life, saved two ladies from
drowning at Long Lake, and is very i'll.
Wadena, the Indian charged with kill
ing a man at Mile Lac reservation a
short time ago, has been found not
guilty.
The Second, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh
nd Tanf al,
reunions in st. Paul last week. All
were we'll attended.
Tuesday was "wedding day" at The
Minneapolis exposition. Three couples
were joined in the holy bonds after the
latest approved plans.
Mrs. Topliff, of Edgerton, put small
| rope around o. Gould's neck and almost
choked him to death. She claimed that
he had grossly insulted her.
At Blue Earth City the bloody flux
has become an epidemic, twelve children
having died within nine days. Several
adults are very low with the disease.
Advices from the Freeborn gas well,
where work is now in progress, are to
the effect that a strong flow of gas has
been struck which when lighted burned
to height Of six feet.
The Wilder farm school and business
college has opened under the auspices of
| the Episcopal church, with about 100
students. Bishop Whipple was present
and delivered the opening address.
About 100 Yankton Sioux Indians are
| now camped at the historic pipestone
quarries near Pipestone. They are here
for the purpose of obtaining an annual
supply of the stone that is worshipped
by the tribe. They will remain about
ten days.
Twenty stacks of wheat containing
some 1900 bushels, owned by B. Blemke,
farmer near Sleepy Eye, were set on
fire and completely destroyed. Although
a man was seen to fire the last stack, he
escaped and. lis as yet unknown. The loss
is over 81 900.
P. Clark, at st. Cloud, has presented
to the secretary of the Central Minnesota
Fair association a check for $1,000.
Owing to the first fair not being a finan-
cial success, the association has been
laboring under financial difficulties, but
this removes them.
Land sales are to be held next month
in Pine, Chisago, Kanabec and Isanti
counties. Only limited quantity of
land, principally that covered with hard.
wood timber, will be offered this time,
as auditor Braden contemplates more
extensive sale early in May.
At Winona three boys were PLAYING
with toy cannon, made from car
fridge she'll. They loaded it with DOW
der and small stone. The charge hit
Larry Milkofski, boy of 10, in the
neck, severing his jugular vein. He
bled to death in two minutes.
The st. Croix Dam company intends
this week to begin the constructionsf
the big dam at the head of Daubrey's
rapids, above st. Croix falls. This work
is one of the most important ever con-
structed on the St. Croix river, and will
do away with the costly jams that have
taken place for years.
Last week Wednesday the machinery
of the new 1000 barrel s'Imperial' flour
mill at Duluth, started grinding its first
wheat. A few car loads were nut
through the mill to clear out the ma
chinery. Grinding began in earnest
Monday. 1t employs, with a cooper
shop, about seventy-five men.
The will of the late Senator Goodrich
has been admitted to probate in Blue
Earth county. The estate will inven-
tory 10000. To his aged mother is be-
queathed 81 900, and the balarce is di.
yid"d Detween two sisters living in
Maine. His library is donated to the
Blue Earth City Masonic lodge.
A little over thirty years ago Louis
Nertun, then living at st. Paul, pur-
chased LOO acres of land in what were
the wastes of Minneapolis. His widow
has just arrived from Germany and laws
claim to the land. which is now in the
heart of the city and worth millions,
he land had been sold for taxes years
| ago.
The plans of the Duluth street railway
for building an inclined railway up the
hill are perfected. 1t will be built en-
tirely Of iron and steel, will pass over
some Of the streets at height great
enough to allow teams to pass under
meath and will carry street cars and
wagons up the hill. The cost of this in
cline will be about 100000.
A Washington special says Dame Ru.
Nor IN the capital city has it that ex-
Senator Sabin is to marry Miss Ida Muir
ply, of st. Paul. Mrs. Sabiu's friends
are very emphatic in denunciation of
the contemplated marriage, some even
going SO far as to say that the charges
against his former wife were trumped
up in order to get her out of the way,
The Northern steamship line, whose
six steel ships ply for the Manitoba road
between Duluth and Buffalo, will build
this winter large steel tug for the use
of the line. The tug will be yerv mower.