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

Boys can no longer buy cigarettes in
Minneapolis.
The Ramsey county court house cost
over 81 100000.
S. A. Langham, of Preston, has been
appointed deputy warden of the state
prison.
About half the town of Beaver Creek
was burned last week. There was but
little insurance.
The great -four mill deal in Minneapo-
lis has been clinched by a payment
81 100000 down.
Michael Schiefer, wanted at Pandorf,
Bavaria, for double murder, has been
arrested in Minneapolis.
Beef cattle have been selling at $3.50
per hundred, live weight, in Blue Earth
county, for shipment to Iowa.
G. R. McKenny, well known to Mime
sofa newspaper men, has been appointed
enrolling clerk of the house of repre-
sentatives.
The supreme court decides that one
who executes bond may be liable upon
it, though his name does not appear in
the body of it.
Eight prisoners in the Duluth jail made
al attempt to escape by saving the bars
at window. They were surprised in
their work by the sheriff.
At wolf hunt near Long Prairie, in
which nearly 100 hunters joined, not
wolf was slaughtered, but one poor little
''cOtton tail" came to his death.
Pillsbury Science Hall at the state uni
xyarcifu of Minnoonn1ic Io,,oooI
10000 by fire. twas to this institution
that Ex-Governor Pillsbury recently gave
$150,000.
John T. Blaisdell, of Minneapolis, the
victim Of the COLON forgeries, asks the
court to rid him of his attorneys, Davis
& Farnam, who present bill for over
$1,000, which Mr. Blaisdeu considers ex-
hOrbitant.
DR.. E. e. Edwards. rector of Christ
church, Red Wing, will remove to Men,
omonee, Wis, to take charge of mill
tary academy which has been established
under the auspices of the Episcopal
church.
j. II. Holland. travelling salesman for
Minneapolis liquor house, who fills Or
ders for small packages, was arrested at
Marshall for retailing without license.
He had taken about thirty orders, and
was fined $50 for the ofense.
The trial at Saltwater of the bondsmen
of David Cover, for cutting pine on STATE
lands, fell through because the state was
unable to show that the logs had been
cut on its lands, as no evidence appeared
on the books of the surveyor general to
that effect. Judge Mcclure, in dismiss
ing the case, took occasion to give the
surveyor generals Office roast in regard
to loose methods.
Ed 1Iiilner, son Of Mrs. Millner, of the
Windsor house, Willmar, and Myrtle
Bates, were married. The groom OBJ
tanned d license upon false statement
1t transIircs that he is but 10 years of
age, and that his parents knew nothing
of the matter. That is not all. Mr.
Shaw, OF the Manitoba, informed the
Justice that he for three years past has
been the husband of the young bride,
and demanded satisfaction in the shape
Of warrant. 1t is claimed that Mr..
Shaw was married to the woman under
an assumed name, and that she sought
and obtained legal advice satisfactory to
herself before she married young Millner.
In Chicago paper of Nov. 20, Mr.. E.
j. Foster, of Winona, noticed an item
stating that a medal had been awarded
to Mr.. Francisco for being the youngest
volunteer soldier enlisted during the
civil war from the State of Wisconsin.
As Mr.. Foster has heretofore laid claim
to that honor himself he wrote letter
of inquiry to Governor Hoard, and from
the reply finds that he is still the young
est volunteer on record by eight days.
lie was born in Waterloo, Jefferson
county, Wis, Aug. IA, lS49. and enlisted
May II, 1864. in the Fortieth Wisconsin
volunteer infantry. Mr.. Francisco was
born in Lake Mills, same county and
state, Nov. 26, 1919. and enlisted in the
Forty-seventh Wisconsin volunteer in
fantry Aug. 81, 1854, but while he is the
younger man Gu account Of earlier en-
listment, Mr.. Foster is the Youngest vol
unteGr on record Governor HO2rd
states that the legislature has awarded
lao medal for this honor, that Mr. Fran
cisco had merely applied for one,