The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-08-15
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.


600.
Governor Merriam has fixed Aug, 20
as the day for hanging Thomas Brown
at Moorhead. - .<
Constable Robel, of Mankato, tried to
arrest two ,tramps and was shot through
the body. He will recover
Work is to be begun at once on the
Duluth and Winnipeg. Track will be
laid as far as the Mississippi this fall.
Theodore Norelius, assistant state
bank examiner, was drowned i'm Chicago
lake while bathing. The body was re-
ccvered.A
The St. Cloud Normal school will be-
gin it's entrance examination Aug. 90,
| an 4 the regular work of the term will
gin the Goth.
j. Frank COLON, prominent young
Minneapolis attorney, has been arrested
charged with forging the name of j. F.
Blaisdell to SAT- 900 worth of notes.
DR.. Williamson, assistant superintend-
ent of the asylum at Middleton, N. Y,
has been elected superintendent of the
new insane asylum at Fergus Falls.
Thursday, Sept. >, competitive ex-
animation will be held at Litchfic'd for
ths appointment of cadet to lest
Point from the Third congrt ST al dis
trict.
The Austin high school mas been ad-
vanced to the first grade lis by the state
board. Three hundred and Dinety-six
state certificates have been received by
the school this year.
Red Wings city council considers the
Salvation army parades nuisance, and
have asked the mayor to sit down on
them. The army will contest the right
of the mayor so to sit.
Steve Brodie, the bridge jumper, has
just concluded an engagement with III.
NJ. Barnett of minneapolis to jump from
height of $50 feet into Lake Mime
tonka for the sum Of $500.
State Treasurer Boblkter says the reve-
nue. from the taxation of railroad re-
ceipts shows decrease of 100000 upon
! that of last year. The revenue of 1885
was $713,973.43, and this year it is $780,
coo.
N. P. Clsrie's stables at the fair
| grounds, st. Cloud, burned. The stables
contained q large nomher of imported
| Clydesdale horses, but they were all got.
ten out except Clydesdale mare. Loss
$4,000.
Col. J. II. Davidson. OF St. Paul, has
made an assignment for the benefit OF
his creditors. He was largely Interested
| in the Prosser street locomotive, and its
| failure to meet expectations is given as
the cause.
Henry Kusel. town treasurer Of
| Minnesota Lake. is missing, and so il
| 81 800 of $he corporation mones Ri
NOR says sister of his wife has also dis
| appeared. The whereabouts of the pail
are unknown.
Excavations have begun at Shakopee
| for large pork packing plant. The
building viii be built Of Shakopee brick
and will be ready fog operation Dec.
The plant will have a capacity of 2O(
| hogs per day.
The D. NJ. Stevens Manufacturing
company, of Kansas, will move its en-
tire plant to West Duluth. The coms.an,
manufactures haryesters, Irvine bin !ers
mowers and other farm machinery, in
Guiding wagons.
At Luverne two travelling men were
held up. and robbed by three meI
! WHO ONeitUOh IilSIH "ilIlc EOIilS 1IOu
the depot to the train. and at the point o
revolvers relieved them Of $50 in none,
and two gold watches.
The Methodist minister at CaHno.
Falls was tried and acquitted Oh charg
of prevarication, but will be overhaulet
again on an accusation CT SANDER. H
was given surprise party, purse con
tanning ample cash and a serenade b,
the village band.
A 9-year-o son of Joseph Deidrich
of Palmer, Sherburne county, was play
ing with q button after the fashion Of
buzz saw, when the string broke an,
the button entered one of his eyes, cut
ting it completely out. The physician
say he will probably lose the other ey
also.
A novel weed exterminator, invente,
by Supt. Keliie and Master Mechanic +
A. Fraser, of the 800 Line" is in U.s.
on the Minnesota division. Super
heated steam, dried in the fire box,
forced through perforated pipes unde
the locomotive, whitening all vegetable
owth within It's range.
Milton Wilson, serving life sentenc
III the Saltwater prison fer the crime Q
murder in the first degree. was par
doned by Governor Merrianl. He en-
tered the prison Dec. 81, 1916, and wa
then 49 years old. He has no home 0
relatives, and the ex-warden has kindl
offered him home with him at Roth
say. o.
Ernst Hoppe, a laborer ON the North
western road, took a heavy log chat
and locked it very tightly around hi
sons neck, lad some ~ years old. FL
then put the key in his pocket and wen
to work. After -four hours the neigh
bors discovered the boy and took tn
chain off. The boy was suffering yer
much and might have persisted in fe,
hours. The Indignation of the citizen
eliminated in their claiming him to
post with the same chain that he use
upon his boy.
George N. Seymour has left Stlllwate
for Venezuela in the interest of capita
lists of which ex-senator Sabin is pres
dent. Mr.. Seymour will report upo
the state of the country and its n
sources, and this report will have muc
to do with the acceptance of propos
tions made by the government to Civ
the syndicate the exclusive right to bull
and run railways, establish telephon
and telegraph lines, put in electri
plants and manufacture paper of S,
perior quality from plant indigenou
to the country.
At Moorhead an application has bee
made by Attorney G. E. Brown, of Mil
neapolis, to Judge Mills to appoint
guardian for one Walter S. Cox, mino
Cox is The alleged owner of the origin;
town site of GAINESVILLE, and his FRIEND
. will sub Mr.. Manville, of the St. Pau
Minneapolis & Manitoba road to regal
possession Of the lands. The case hs
caused considerable excitement from th
fact that the claim embraces nearly a
the land in New GAINESVILLE. The me
ton was granted and Judge Mills wi
appoint the guardian.