The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-09-05
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES,

Mcintosh will have a new seventy-flve
barrel mill.
Duluth is credited with s4,4s4, s4s per.
sonal property.
The second trial Of Clara Blatz for the
murder of Doherty is set for Sept. 9.
Selah Matthews, well known Min
neapolis lawyer is defendant in divorce
suit.
The Rice County Union Agricultural
fair will be held at Northfield Oct. 4
and 5.
Attorney General Clapp has decided
that the reform school property is not
The Madelia Touring mill was antirelv
ance, $1,000. ~'''
The annual meeting of the Minnesota
knights of Pythias viii be held i'm ST.
Paul Sept. 10 and IL.
The st. Paul board Of equalization
made reduction of nearly $500. 600 in
the assessors return.
Cornelius Mulverhill, q farmer living
six miles south Of LIE Roy, died from the
effects of a snake bite.
The seventeenth annual fair of the
Anoka County Agricultural society will
be held Sept. 8, 4 and 8.
The Fillmore County Agricultural
society will hold its thirteenth annual
fair at Preston on Sept. II, lS, ~ and 20.
st. Paul will have no street illumina-
ton during the state fair this week. save
those that few private individuals may
put up.
Secretary of War Proctor has awarded
the contract for the construction of dou.
Die barracks at Fort Smelling at cost of
SIS, 200.
The peculiar worm which did 90 much
damage to corn in Wanamineo last sea-
son has appeared this year again and is
once more devastating the fields.
J. Devlin, the stenographer for the
Rochester investigating committee, has
finished his copy of the testimony and
submitted the last batch to Secretary
Hart.
The motion for new trial for Clifton
Holden, the Redwood Falls murderer.
has been denied by Judge Weber. The
case will be appealed to the supreme
court.
Big Bird, the Indian arrested month
ago Tor killing q companion on the
White Earth reservation, has been re-
leased, the shooting having been proven
accidental.
The Minnesota Railroad and Ware
mouse commission announces that lit
will no longer furnish inspection for
private warehouses at st. Paul, Mime
apolis and Duluth.
Judge Cory, of st. Paul, has decided
that physicians who have not filed .heir
permits with the clerk of the district
court are not illegally practicing phvsi-
clans" and cannot collect their bills.
@. L. Watrous, young man who has
been looking around for some time in
st. Paul for steady job, has fallen heir
to large estate by the death of his
father, millionaire Australian miner,
The Window postofice contest has
been settled by caucus of the warning
factions. The meeting was presided
over by Congressman Lind. Joseph
McMurtrey was decided upon for the
place.
Wilkin county has the finest wheat
crop ever harvested. There has been
scarcely field in the county threshed
yielding less than twenty bushels and
many go as high as thirty five to forty
bushels per acre.
The Minnesota Railroad and Ware
house commission has fixed wheat
grades the same as last year. An addi-
tional grade of Northern white wheat
was established, and several inspectors,
weighmasters and registrars appointed.
1t has been ordered by the state high
school board that the following high
schools shall receive the appropriation
of $500 each: Appleton, Cannon Falls,
Duluth, Dodge Center, Dundas, Madelia,
Wabasha, Wadena, Winona, Garden
City and New Ulm.
The government has ordered a native
police force organized on the Vermillion
Indian reservation. It will consist of
three officers, at the head of whom will
be Charles Ancker. These Indian DO
licemen are paid $40 a month, with "a
tions and uniforms furnished,
Four Thousand men will be EMPLOYED
on the Duluth and Winnipeg railroad "A
soon as they can be hired, and the road
bed will be completed to the Mississippi
river within ninety days. New and
valuable discoveries of iron ore have
been made on and near the line of this
road, aud it is expected that others will
follow. as prospectors in large numbers
are securing the country.
The board of prison managers met at
Saltwater to open bids for half the avail
able convicts to be employed on the con.
tract system, but no bids had been re-
ceived. The thresher company, how.
ever, made a proposition looking to the
employment of such labor, and q gen.
eral conference between Manager Fo9le.
of the thresher company, and the prison
officials followed, the proposition being
finally left for action at the next meet
ing.
Rear Admiral Harmony, chairman Of
the lighthouse board, gives notice that
on or about Sept. q light of the fourth
order, giving red flash every six Sec
onds, will be exhibited from the struct-
ure recently erected on the inner end Of
the south pier at the entrance to the
harbor at Duluth. The light will illu-
mine the entire horizon. Its focal plane
will be sixty feet above the level Of the
top of the pier, and sixty-four feet above
the level of the lake, and the light may
be seen in clear weather thirteen statute