The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-05-30
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.

The Osakis Observer has discontinued
publication. ...
The Pipestone Electric Light company
! has organized.
The schools at Argyle have been closed
on account Of diphtheria.
Miss Kittie N. Davy is the pension
claim agent at Blue Earth City.
st. Cloud will soon have a saw mill
with q capacity Of 10000, 900 feet per
year.
At Saltwater q big and ugly-looking
tarantula was found in q bunch Of
bananas.
1t is stated that Duluth has been
selected by Archbishop Ireland as the
site of a new suffragan see.
The annual fair of the Blue Earth
Agricultural society will be held at Gar
den City, Sept. 1S, 10 and 20.
The state normal schools at St. Cloud
and at WinOna hold their commence
ment May 26 to ~ inclusive.
A Moscow man carried pig around
| in his wagon for two days, looking for
one OF the new meat inspectors.
Big Lake has solved the meat inspec-
| ton problem. All the voters have been
appointed meat inspectors, and no fee is
charged.
E. A. Deserve, of Brainerd, received a
White Cap letter, but it did not freighten
him. He will give $e5 to know who
wrote it. ~ H.
Austin has been selected for the gen.
eral offices of the newly organized State
Alliance Hail and Cyclone Mutual In
surance company.
WEIGH, Velair and Blsthorn, charged
with tarring and feathsring Senbold, at
Crookston, have been held to await the
action of the grand jury.
Mrs. G. F. Nygreen, of the town of
Star Lake, yawned "too loud" and dis
located her jaw. She had to drive miles
to get surgeon to repair damages.
The Minnesota railroad commissioners
have granted the application of the Du-
luth and Winnipeg road for an increase
of capital from $5,O00,0 900 to $s,750, 900.
George King and Fred Michels were
suffocated by choke damp at Cannon
Lake, while digging q well on Gordon
E. Coles farm. Michels leaves a family
in destitute circumstances.
At a spelial meeting of the st. Cloud
city council the matter Of granting So
600 bonus to parties wishing to build a
sawmill of &c, COO, 900 feet capacity per
season was favorably considered.
The National Linseed Oil company, of
Sioux City, will at once commence the
erection of a large inseed oil mill
on their valuable dock property at Du-
luth. They will also build an elevator.
A Saltwater girl unlocked fire alarm
box and placed her letter inside. The
department responded promptly to the
call. The chief, upon discovering the
cause, took the letter and mailed it prop
erly.
The new st. Paul court house was
damaged about 800 by an explosion of
gas in the cellar. A workman was
hunting for the leak with a candle and
found it. He will not be able to fix it
till he gets better.
The stone for the new roller mill at
Jackson in being delivered here from
Jasper quarries. 1t will start in with
100 barrels daily capacity, though the
| engine and building will be fitted for
twice that amount.
The board of trustees of the state in
situations has bought for the state what
| is known as the q. NJ. Gilmore farm, 1876
acres, near Faribault. The price paid
was $4,000. 1t is said it will be used
| for the feeble-ninded.
The st. Paul ministers are preparing
to inaugurate war on Sunday base ball.
| The success of the anti-Sunday base ball
| movement in Minneapolis seems to have
encouraged the st. Paul people to think
| they can be as respectable as their neigh
| bors.
The directors of the MINNEAPOLIS
| Peoples Coach line have given the order
for the first ten coaches to the Athens
Car and Coach company, of Athens, Pa.
They are to be delivered, the first two
within two weeks, the balance before
July l.
A couple of Conservation cars are
under construction for the Winona and
Southwestern railroad. They will have
covered tops with open sides and ample
seating capacity to accommodate 60 or
70 passengers each. They will be used
for excursions.
The executive committee of the Mime
sofa State Fair association is considering
bids for lighting the grounds. 1t has
been definitely decided to have evening
entertainments in the ring. One attract
i've and novel feature of these evening
entertainments will be a procession Of
all the animals exhibited of every class.
The Winona and Southwestern I'm
provement company held an executive
| meeting at Winona and considered
plans for going ahead with the Winona
and Southwestern railway, from the
terminal at Bear Creek station. They
| expect to resume construction opera
| tons within few weeks.
Frank Day, of Betner, tried to run a
bullet in an improvised mould of green
wood. and will lose the sight of one, and
| probably both eyes. The heat generated
steam from the sap, which exploded.
blowing the lead into his eyes. The
doctor removed 80 pieces of lead and
has hopes of saving one eye.
Considerable excitement has prevailed
at Hawley for the past few days over
the capture Of five young whelps by
Whaley and Hagen, They were claimed
by some to be wolves, by others silver
gray foxes. The question was finally
decided by Mr.. Murphy, agent for Cor
| don and Ferguson, fur dealers, of St.
Paul, who pronounced them genuine
litter OF silver gray foxes, whose pelts
| when prime are worth SIS each. The
boys will at once commence the erection
of fox park for the breeding of this
valuable species.
| Preparing For Deer Park.
| WASHINGTON, May 20.-Mrs. Harrison
is understood to be be packing up, pre-
par atory to her sojourn at Deer Park.
| lt is quite likely that the family Of the