The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-10-03
NEWS NOTES.
New Ulm will have a basket factory.

New Ulm will have a basket factory.
The Minneapolis exposition has closed.
A 3OO-pound black bear was killed near
Royalton last week.
Minneapolis lumbermen have begun
sending men to the woods.
Duluth's new directory shows an in
crease of $1,000 population in a year.
Over $4,000 scholars are registered in
the Minneapolis schools thus far this
year.
A company headed by Governor w.
Il. Merriam has invested $500, 900 in
Superior.
Mrs. Burnett, the aged grandmother
OF General NJ. E. Clapp, died
at RenvIlle last week.
A sample trunk containing toilet soap
was stolen from the depot at Dodge Cen
ter and rified of it's contents.
Spring Valley is to have a large -four
ing mill, erected by Washington parties.
The citizens donate the site.
Mr.. j. E. Dowlin, businssa associate az
the Duke of Sutherland, would lie to
buy up all of St. Paul's Indebtedness at
3 1-2 per cent.
Hard coal rates to Duluth have taken
another drop, 30 cents now being the
tariff from Buffalo, against SO cents Buff
falo to Chicago.
The suit to annul $50, 900 worth of
bonds of the Kindrud Water Power COM
pany, at Brainerd, has been decided
against Kindrud.
A mortgage for 81, 900, 900 on the prop
erty of the Minneapolis street railway and
n for $780, 600 on the motor line have
been filed for record.
Nine car loads of Kansas City dressed
beef have arrived in st. Paul since Judge
Nelson's decision that the Minnesota law
was unconstitutional.
DR.. A. A. Ames, Of Minneapolis, has
returned from his European trip much
improved in health. He was given a
rousing reception on his return.
Surveyors are said to be at work near
Gun and Birch lakes, supposedly for a
connecting line between the Duluth and
Winnipeg and the Port Arthur roads.
F. J. Schneider, one of Clay ~county's
most prominent farmers, was shot twice
in the back by his nephew and instantly
killed. There was some difficulty over
property.
An unknown man was the victim of a
pack of wolves near Little Willow River.
Only part of his clothing and his bones
remain. There were evidences of a des-
perate struggle.
The state board of health has
granted Secretary Hewitt a four months
vacation, commencing about the mid
die of October, for a trip to England
and the continent.
G. A. Pillsbury has returned to Mime
apolis from New York, and denies most
emphatically that the Pillsbury flour
mills have been or will be sold to any
English syndicate.
Clara Blatz, who shot John Doherty at
st. Paul, has been sentenced to twenty
years in state prison in accordance with
the recommendation of the Jury. An
appeal will be taken.
A man in st. Paul claims to have in
vented a compound that will dissolve
stone. Another mixture makes it as
hard as flint and nearly transparent after
being burned like brick.
Much excitement has been caused
among the Chippewa Indians, who have
land on the Cloquet reservation, by a
statement made by the reservation au-
thorities that their title to the land, given
under the Cleveland administration, is
not good.
Julius Kessler took two homing or car
rier pigeons belongingto Mr.. J. Prevair, of
st. Paul, to Duluth, and at 7:15 Thurs
day morning released them. They flew
into their cote at Mr.. Prevair's residence
on st. Peter street at 10:49. The distance,
154 miles, was made in 3 hours and -
minutes. The record for 100 miles is j
hours and IS minutes.
The Boston Gazette contains an article
relative to the Manitoba Railroad COM
pany's finances, and regards the situation
as alarming to a certain extent. The an
nual interest is over SO, O00, 900, and divi-
dends 81, ECO. 600, while the gross earn
ings last year were only a little over S.
000, 600. The Gazette thinks it doubtful
if the road can pay these figures net.
Carl Hesse, of Hollywood township, is
to be tried on the charge of murder at
Chaska, Sept. 80, the Indictment being in
the first degree. Toward the close of
last July, Hesse's wife died under very
suspicious circumstances. A coroner's
inquest was held, when Hesse declared
that his wife, in attempting to take a gun
from its resting place, accidentally shot
herself; that she then staggered around
the yard and finally struck the back of
her head against a saw-dog standing,
For lack of other evidence a verdict of
accidental death was returned. But the
| subsequent discovery of a blood ard
hair-stained hammer led to further in
q%uiries, resulting in his Indictment nv
the grand jury,
The committee appointed by Governor
Merriam to investigate the Rochester in
sane asylum has made its report. The
report IS very mild in character and CEN
sures DR.. Bowers the superintendent, in
nothing except the Taylor Combs matter.
The committee, among other things,
':tind the superintendent and phycians as
a rule have endeavored to faithfully per-
form their respective duties with the ex-
ception that the superintendent has not
given the attendants the thorough in
struction in reference to their duties that
should have been given; that the attend
ants have been grossly negligent in re-
porting to the superintendent or physi-
clans cases of %ill-treatment, arising
mainly from an unspoken agreement
among the attendants that none of them
should make reports of any wrongful
acts of their fellow attendants. The
committee also think that the salaries al
lowed attendants is insufficient to pro-
cure the services of competent persons.
The committee recommends an increase
in the number of assistant physicians
and that one of those on the woman side
of the asylum be a woman; an increase
in the non-medical supervising force,
whose duty it shall be to constantly pa
troll the various wards, reporting any
breach of rules that may occur; the es-
Enlistment of a hospital school of in
struction and the putting in practice of
a system Of merit and demerit, by which
attendants shall be promoted. The num-
Der of patients in the hospital is thought
to be too great for one institution. After
the report had been read DR.. Bowers, the