The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-12-26
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.

The thermometer registered IL below
zero at Brainerd last week.
A company has been organized at
Cannon Falls to build telephone line to
Randolph.
DIR. Ames, of Minneapolis, who has
been reported as having been again very
ill, is getting better.
Brainerd public schools are having an
extended vacation on account OF diseases
which are prevalent among children.
Alexandria authorities are enforcing
the law against selling cigarettes to min
ors and closing up gambling houses.
Chris Belts, German laborer of Owa-
tonna, to-day shot and killed his wife
and then himself. Domestic troubles.
Attorney General Clapp has denied the
application for quo warranto proceedings
against the Great Northern Railway COM
pany.
A post mortem examination of q COW
held at the state veterinary school in
Minneapolis revealed clear case Of con-
sumption.
A. Barto, of st. Cloud, has been ap-
pointed register of the land Office at that
place. William Westerman was ap-
pointed receiver of the same Office.
The body of Guy Gardner, who has
been missing from Rose Greek since
Aug Is, was found about two miles from
town. 1t is thought that he suicided.
Thieves have been tampering with the
mail boxes in st. Paul. They have a
Key. A policeman caught two of them
in the act, but fell down and failed to
catch them.
Some genuine cases of small pox in
the village of Sleepy Eye are causing
great excitement, having closed the pub
lie schools and all public assemblies, and
threatening to close all places of bust
ness.
w. C. Pence, who gave the famous
steamboat excursion from Winona, on
the Mississippi last Christmas, is out
with placards announcing a second ex-
cursion this Christmas with the steamer
Robert Harris and two bSrges.
A practical lumberman is authority
for the statement that the Canadian gov
eminent has lost $4,000, 900 in timber
dues alone since 1882, through fires set
by the Indians. He claims that $780,
000, 900 would not cover the amount of
timber that has been destroyed by fire
between Lake Dauphin and Lake Win
nipeg.
At Breckenridge, the motion for a
new trial in the case of Andrew
Void was denied by the court. But
the court, considering the facts as war
ranting it, certified to exceptional Cir
cumstances, and reduced his sentence to
imprisonment for life. Harry Baldwin,
indicted for outrage, was sentenced to
imprisonment for twenty years.
The winter cholera has captured Fer
gus Falls. Over 300 citizens have had
run of the disease, or at least touch of
it, and two or three cases have been SER
ious. The city water supply from the
Red river, has been analysed and found
free from impurity, and the physicians
say the origin of the disease was I'M
doubtedly the unusually mild weather
which has prevailed all this month.
Petitions for the appointment of Mark
Hargreaves, publisher of the Hokah Sun,
and David House, a prominent druggist,
for the postmastership were recently for
warded to Washington. Congressman
Dunnell has sent word that disinter-
ested committee must be obtained and
vote taken of the Republican patrons of
the Office for choice of postmaster. The
proposition is not looked upon with ia
vor by the candidates or their friends,
and they refuse to obey the order.
The state public examiner has COM
pleted an abstract of reports made to
him as superintendent of banks, show
ing the condition of the state banks of
Minnesota at the close of business No"
10. 1898. The total resources are $685.
xs,lIl on N .ol =.
81 .654. 263.5 81 over the abstract of re-
The increase is mostly from increases in
S250,000: increase of deposits. SG74,-
S27.31; increase of profits, 1921, 41531.
The number of banks have increased
by one.
The total enrolment in the graded
schools of the state for the year ending
July 81, 1889, was 81, 1927, and the aver
age attendance has been 1857 These
figures are given from the annual report
of State Superintendent Kiehlc. This
report also shows many interesting facts.
There are 1l9 independent and special
school districts in the state, under con-
troll of 10 special superintendent and 100
high school. principals. who also oticiate
in the capacity of superintendent. The
salaries paid the special superintendent
aggregate $3O,4O5, and those paid the
principals who act as superintendent as
well as teachers in the high schools
amounted to 800, 902.50. Among the
teachers the ladies largely predominated.
There was total of ST., $40 females
and 2l7 males. The principal cities Of
Minnesota that have an enrolment of
1000 or more pupils are: st. Paul,
1868; Minneapolis, 1884; Duluth,
2s0S: Winona. 2,744; Saltwater, 1872;
Red Wing, 1.402; Brainerd, ,220; Fergus
Falls, 1,044; Rochester, 1,023. The av-
erage attendance in these schools for the
fiscal year were: St. Paul, 1924; Mime
apolis, 14,367; Duluth, 1929; Winona,
2.O36; Saltwater, 1882; Red Wing,
1,042.
Big Offer by the English.
RICHMOND, Ind, Dec. 23.-Recently a
sensation was created by the report that
Gaar, Scott & Co.. the largest manufac-