The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-11-07
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.

The Manitoba depot at Benson burned:
defective chimney.
Duluth had in store at the close of o.
tober ], 1854. $3.50 bushels Of wheat.
Ex-senator Sabin promises to induce a.
railroad car mandatory to locate at
| saltwater.
Minneapolis wheat receipts for October
aggregated $3.50, 900 bushels. the largest
receipts during any month in the city's
history.
Governor Merriam has issued a reouisi-
ton on the governor of Kansas for will
| lam Hymes, wanted at Crookston for
forgery and embezzlement.
The Minneapolis Herdic scheme has
been abandoned, and the half dozen her
dies which have been in use several
months have been withdrawn.
The Mankato council voted a bonus of
$3,OOO for rebuilding the plant of the
Creamery Package Manufacturing com
pany, recently destroyed by fire.
Work has begun on lowering the out
let of Lake Elysian near GAINESVILLE. Thou
sands OF acres of land heretofore worth
less, will be by this means made avail
able.
The proposition to issue bonds to the
amount OF $500, 900 for park purposes
was voted upon at Duluth last week.
There was a very light vote, but almost
unanimous in favor of the bonds.
Nellie Pearson, the girl who so myste-
riously disappeared from Cannon Falls
over week ago, has been dragged up
from the Little Cannon mill pond. She
had evidently jumped from the high
iron bridge over the Little Cannon.
A new postofioe has been established
at Erskine, Polk county, Henry +. Gil
bertson, postmaster. The postof1ice at
Streeter, Hubbard county, has been
changed from Blaine to Garden CITY and
from Rockey to Folkedahl.
The supreme court of the United States
has advanced and set for a hearing be-
fore the full bench the case of the State
of Minnesota VS.. Henry e. Barber. This
is the case which came up in ST. Paul
under the meat inspection law.
Mrs. Julia B. Nelson, of Red Wing.
has been appointed by the Minnesota
Womaan's Suffrage association a repre-
sentative to the national convention at
Washington in February next. She haS
also been selected to speak in behalf Of
the cause in Dakota in next years cam
paign.
At Collegeville, John and Henry
Streitz were loading gun and the ball
was too large for the bore. John held
the gun, while Henry pounded the ball
with a hammer. The gun exploded.
John lost several fingers and Henry the
left side of his face. Neither are believed
to be seriously injured.
The Duluth and Winnipeg has begun
night work and will push construction
to the Mississippi at the rate of one and
a half miles day. The stockholders
from Philadelphia will be taken along
the line by President Fisher next week,
and VIII be shown the iron deposits and
valuable pine lands on the roads terri
tory.
The Catholic church at Wadena was
broken into Friday night and the silver
chalices and other valuable ornaments
stolen. The property was found later on
In a saloon where the thief had pawned
it for drinks. A tramp named Pat Muir
ply, who had been hanging around the
town for the past few days, was arrested
on the charge. He was identified by the
saloonlst as the man who had pawned
the articles.
The committee appointed by Governor
Merriam to investigate the needs of the
Marshall county farmers has reported.
The report shows that considerable suf-
ferlng must follow unless aid is rendered.
The situation was not, however, as bad
as reported. The governor at once took
steps to forward provisions, drawing
upon the state contingent fund for the
same, in compliance with the relief COM
mlttee's recommendations.
The board of prison managers have
appointed Mrs. Walker as matron, in
the place of Mrs. Cayou, removed. A
contract was entered into with the Min
nesota Threshing company, by which
the latter is to pay 45 cents day for the
labor Of all the available convicts in the
prison. The contract commences as soon
as the papers are signed and continues
two years. There are between 175 and
200 convicts to be employed, and the
company is not obliged to use more than
200 of them.
Considerable excitement has prevailed
at Howard Lake since the burial of the
body of August Smith, who was found
dead in Fritz Mays saloon at Winsted.
The doctors who examined the body at
the coroner's inquest said death had re-
suited from excessive drinking. The
body was disinterred and Docotrs Chiffon
and Castle found the skull badly frac-
tured in three different places, besides
other mutilations. The Scheig boys, of
Minneapolis, who were with deceased
just before his death, will be called as
witnesses before the grand jury.
The following new postoffces will be
established in Minnesota Lavona, Sher-
burne county, Sarah Spencer postmaster;
Wyante, Isanti county, Andrew Wrest-
ling postmaster; in the north part of
Houston county, A. McDermid post
master; near Foldal, Marshall county,
Alva Davis postmaster; Bridgewater,
Rice county, J. F. Berg postmaster;
Martinville, Hampton county, Peter
Mark postmaster; Soper, Becker county,
Charles Soper postmaster; Lenox, Crow
Wing county, Emma Woods postmaster;
Randall, Morrison county, William
Brooks postmaster.