The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-05-23
The Mirror is new paper at Lyle.


Snow fell at Sank Rapids Thursday.
Albert Lea is agitating street sprink.
ling.
Lake City boasts pig with six legs
and double body.
John Rengel shot full-grown lynx at
st. Cloud last week.
Measles are epidemic at Zumbrota.
They are mild in form.
The corner stone of the new Moravian
church was laid at Chaska Sunday.
There were 1O,S47 marriages, 5SS di-
vorces and 20,626 naturalizations in 1888.
Vicks, the Rochester seed firm are
looking up property near Saltwater for
a seed farm.
Mrs. Ellen Larson, sixty-six years OF
age, secured divorce from her husband
at Moorhead.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Chambers, of
Glencoe, celebrated their golden we'd
ding last week.
A superior quality of hematite iron
ore has been discovered at Hogs Back,
near Plainview.
Waseca had an incendiary fire last
Wednesday, and serious damage was
narrowly averted.
The Minnesota Farmers alliance have
organized Hail, Cyclone and Tornado
Insurance company.
w. F. Street, editor of the Superior
Inter Ocean, has been made deputy col
lector of that port of entry.
Two deaths from diphtheria are re-
ported from one family at Red Wing.
The house has been quartined.
Professor o. Whiteman, after seven
schools at Red Wing, has resigned.
The postoffice department has sent an
inspector to st. Cloud to investigate the
claims that city has for free postal de-
livery.
Citizens of Traverse county will vote
on May % on the question of removing
the county seat from Browns Valley to
Wheaton.
Philip Chmelick, of London, whose
wife and daughters were foully MUIR
dered last winter. has gone insane from
his trouble.
Boston bond holders are figuring on
the Brainerd dam property, with view
of purchasing it. The property is val
ued at 100000.
The St. Paul street car drivers voted
Thursday evening to return to work at
the reduced prices. The cars are now
running as usual.
st. Paul water works bonds were sold
last week to the amount of 100000 at
nearly 10 per cent. premium. They
were 1-2 per cents.
The owners and lovers of fine horses
have organized the Spring Valley Trot-
ting association and a fine half-mile
track has been completed.
The st. Paul jobbers have decided to
give their employees half holiday each
week, and will close their places of bust
ness at p. m. on Saturday from May l
to Aug. 81.
In the case of the state against the ST.
Paul Union Depot company to recover
SIC. 45O.59 taxes on gross earnings, Judge
Villas decides for the plaintiff, and the
company must pay the taxes.
C. NJ. Reese, of Kandiyohi county has
been appointed to succeed Z. II. Mer-
chant as state weighmaster at. Minneapo-
lis. Edwin McManus, of CrooksLon, will
succeed II. A. Norton at Duluth.
1t is said that syndicate Of capital
lists, headed by Thomas Lowry, are buy
ing property on the Duluth hill top, and
that the scheme is to put cable line up
the hill starting at the union depot.
About 1000 laborers employed by the
st. Paul Street Railway on construction
work, went on a strike for an advance
in pay from $1.25 to $3.50 per day. They
won their point in twenty-four hours.
The wheat acreage Of 1887 was $685.
9S7, while in 1888 it was only G,020, GJ3,
with an average yield in 1887 Of 1910
bushels per acre. The total Weld of
wheat in 1887 was 5000, 15y h',,..t;:.
In the centennial procession az Little
Falls the Sons of Veterans ca, ,icd q lag
head chief Of the Mile Laos Icdians, by
President jefferson over eighty years
ago.
Two boys sleeping in the u!,nef story
of T. j. Hathaway's residence ,.t rock
ston were badly burned Thursday, one
of them probably fatally. Mis-. ilatha-
way was also considerably bul Led. Che
house was entirely destroyed.
Erick e. Salseth. postmaster at Nash,
Stevens county, was arrested Ehnrsiay
and taken to St. Paul, CHARGE with liaV-
ing made practice Of using lamps as
legal tender at neighborinS towns and
reporting them to the department IS can
ceiea by him. He is said to have rOck-
eted $1,000 or So, 600 in this manor.
It is stated that at Grassy Point and
Fond du Lac fully 200 barrels OF eggs Of
wall-eyed pike are now lyinS, about IN
that vicinity, where they Lave csan
thrown by the meters who have been
fishing illegally up the river. There are
10000 pike eggs in quart, and this wlil