The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-05-30
The Mirror is new paper at Lyle.

The Mirror is new paper at Lyle.
Snow fell at Sank Rapids Thursday.
Albert Lea is agitating street sprink.
ling.
Lake City boasts q 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 10,S47 marriages, 5ss di-
vorces and 20, 626 naturalizations in 1888.
Vicks, the Rochester seed firm are
looking up property near Saltwater for
o seed farm.
Mrs. Ellen Larson, sixty-six years Of
age, secured q 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.
Wassca 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
teen years service as superintendent Of
schools at Red Wing, has resigned.
The postofice 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 20 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 10 per cents.
The owners and lovers of fine horses
have organized the Spring Valley Trot-
ting association and a f. o,,E-Ill,ta
track has been completed.
The St. Paul jobbers hava 6-2<1,,,s 20
give their employees half h0',ue,, zach
week, and will close their places Of busl-
ness at p. M. on Saturday from ~ !
to Aug. 81.
In the case of the state against the st.
Paul Union Depot company TO recover
$1O.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 E. NJ. Mer-
chant as state weighmaster at Minneapo-
lis. Edwin McManus, OF Crookston, 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 strike for an advance
in pay from $1.25 to $1.50 per day. They
won their point in twenty-four hours.
The wheat acreage of 1887 was $685.
987, while i'll 1888 it was only 1929 ,052,
with an average yield in 1887 OF 1910
wheat in 1887 was SO, 070, 159 bushels.
In the centennial procession at Little
Falls the Sons of Veterans carried flag
that was presented to Wa-wa-a-co,n-ick,
head chief of the Mile Laos Indians, by
President Jefferson over eighty years
ago.
Two boys sleeping in the upper story
of T. j. Hathaway's residence at Crook
ston were badly burned Thursday, one
of them probably fatally. Mrs. Hatha-
way was also considerably burned. The
house was entirely destroyed.
Erick E. Salseth, postmaster at Nash,
Stevens county, was arrested Thursday
and taken to St. Paul, charged with hav-
ing made a practice of using stamps as
legal tender at neighboring towns and
reporting them to the department. as can
celed by him. He is said to have pock-
eted $4,000 or Sc, 900 in this manner.
1t is stated that at Grassy Point and
Fond 6u Lac fullv 200 barrels of erps IF
wall-eyed pike are now lying about in
that vicinity, where they have been
thrown by the METERS who have been
fishing illegally up the river. There are
10000 pike eggs in quart, and this will
show that over 300.000.000 eggs have
been DESTROYED.