The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-07-25
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.

Delaro is to have Democratic paper
There are eight cases of smallpox in
Otter Tail county.
Total receipts at Crookston land office
last year were $57, 222.
A bridge will soon be built across the
Mississippi river at Royalton.
The BURBERRY crop of Northern Min
nesota is declared to be com plete fail
ure.
Il. w. Dayton was arrested at Bird
Island on charge of having forged
pension papers.
The Albert Lea Ministers association
has decided to have all violaters OF the
Sunday law arrested.
Veterans at Blue Earth City voted not
to attend the Milwaukee encampment
without 1-cent-a-mile fare.
The Minneapolis police commission in
vestigatlng charges against Superintend-
emf Bracket have exonerated him.
Spring Valley young men have petit
toned the adjutant general for permits
sion 10 form a militia company.
Labor Commissioner Lamb is in the
Vermillion mining region investigating
the recent accidents to workmen.
All lumber business at Rice's Lake is
stopped because the lumber dealers say
the assessors have taxed them too high.
Mrs. H. A. Hobart, President of the
State w. G. T. u, has issued call for
a state convention at Duluth, Sept. 10,
II and IL.
G. S. Fulton, of Duluth, has received
official notification of his appointment
to the position of chief grain inspector
for Duluth.
The residents of Albert Lea are not
| pleased with their ''chlck en- hoop post
office" as they term it, an. sly they
will not patronize it.
The ST. Croix boom has closed at Still
water on account of low water. 1t is es-
timated there are yet 75,OOO,OO0 feet Of
logs in the st. Croix r ver.
An Arab who is studying, al Carl
eton College, to be missionary spoke at
Mankato Sunday evening. lie told
about the people of his country:
Three valuable horses belonging to A,
Brendemuhl were run over and killed
|
was a trotter with a record of 800.
Eight hundred tons of milled steel was
used In the ship "lO2" launched at Du-
luth last week. She is $50 feet long.
She will carry 100000 bushels OF grain.
The Heron Lake News says that St.
Paul and Minneapolis are ready 10 JOIN
hands on just two things-horsecacln
and "hogging" ali the federal appoint
mentS.
An inmate CT the poor house at Madi-
son has declined to receive d s-iiy Vi
clothes offered him by tie county on tho
ground that he was hot in the Aaoi. OF
accepting charity.
Large numbers of settlers are passing
through Red Lake Falls daily ell roUle
| for tie led Lake reservation. If ennl-
grafton continues the land will all be
squatted upon by September.
Snakes grow large in some parts of
minnesota. 4 report has It chat a Hea,l
eIahe twenty. Snt feet Ions, was found
III I,encv.i lake, Lear tie town OF GencV;e,
AID That Z larger one has been seen ne;.r
| there.
Editor Eurns Of Tie st. Paul Herald
is AFTER Thompson, OF the Dispatch.
Burns claims IhumI}sUn IS not Il uatUlHi-
i lZeG CliIZen. CT has been ,CtInp % H.
laty puUllc, IUr which Burns seeks !:
| warrant.
The prosecution in the cases OF the
Saltwater aldermen and eX-aluernIen
charged with mali eaSalice in Office was
| knocked out by the court Oh the ground
that the charges were vague aud III
! definite.
hmil Birkle, Of Kenyon, has COM
menced suit in the district coU"1 against
the members of the village CUuICH fur
$1,000 for causing to be posted in the
different saloons notices forniudIng the
sale to him Of Intoxicating liquors.
The Roman Catholic sisterhood of the
White Earth reservation has ordered a
tombstone tCr the uaughter Of Chief
Hole-ln theDay. The some is to bear
the inscription, Rose, Daughter OF Chief
hole-in- tnc-Day, Died June ), 1853, Aged
"a years
The personal property valuation il
GOodhue county trls year is 81, II, $40,
about one-I, uarler of which amount rep
resents the I.ed Wing valuation. There
are over II 900 houses i'll the county,
and about $4,000 COWS, 10000 hogs and
5000 sheep.
On the 10th of June Nils Strand, en-
ployed on the county surveyors staff at
Mud Lake, was bitten by Il cat while
asleep at night in a tent. He is now in
the hospital at Minneapolis, with every
manifestation of hydrophohia, and his
recovery is doubtful.
The government fleet is now at work
at the head of the Wiscons;,. channel,
about three miles above Req Wing, re-
pairing the damage done by the spring
high water to the dam. Operations will
soon commence at the head of Lake
Pepin, where some $4,000 will be ex-
pended this season.
The colored Odd Fellows of the state
are Iuaking extensive arrangements for
their first of August celebration at Spring
Park, Lake Minnetonka. They will
have the grandest parade ever had by
the cOlored people in this state. Governor
Merriam has consented to review them
from the steps Of the capitol.
The Duluth g. \. r. post has ap-
pointed committee to look about tor
the best plan to build a home for the
post. IT the post goes it alone it will
probably expend $4,000 in q neat brick
structure, but if tie city will help a
handsome memorial hall and a!mory for
Company k, costing $a5. 900, Will proba-
bly, be built.
According to the Minneapolis city d.
rectory, the city is losing population.
The name of Austin Secore this year
occurs on the 977th of the pages devoted
to names. Last year it was on the
l,015th page. This shows that there are
up to this point thirty-eigh1 page oil
names less this year than last, and the
decrease of names, taking sixty to the
page, would thus be about 1880. At the
same ratio the decrease when the work