The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-08-21
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.

81. PaulS recount begins next Mon
day.
The Minneapolis exposition opens
Wednesday.
Minneapolis mills ground out 1925
barrels of -four last week.
Lake City people claim to see mys-
FERROUS light off Central Point, where the
Sea Wing went down.
The Third district Democratic con-
gressional convention will be held at
Shakopee Sept. II.
The annual convention of the Mime
sofa w. c. T. U. will be held in Mime
apolis Sept. to 10.
The German Lutheran Synod of Min
nesota, Wisconsin and Missouri was in
session at st. Paul last week.
The board of managers of the state
reform school has called for bids for the
completion of the cottages for the school
at Red Wing.
The "105," another of the American
Steel Barge company'S whalebacks, was
successfully launched at Duluth Satur-
day. She will carry 5000 TONS
The colonist sleeper on the westbound
Great Northern train was burned at
Ada. The passengers lost everything
and barely escaped with their lives.
The Omaha road has paid into the
state treasury $50, 1896. 90, being its tax on
| the gross earnings of the road in Mime
sofa for the six months ending June 80,
1890.
1t is understood that Miss Villa Poole.
of Minot, N. D., and Miss Jennie K.
Rush, of Kentucky, will ride ten mile
race at the Minnesota State fair next
week.
Maj. T. NJ. Newson babe farewell to
St. Paul Thursday evening, and left for
New York, en- route for Malaga, Spain,
to assume his duties as American consul
at that important port.
Wednesday boy 10 years old, herd
ing cattle on the prairie four miles west
of jackson, was attacked by wolf and
badly bitten. His dog hearing his cries
went to his assistance and succeeded in
driving the wolf off.
Gen. Dumont, of Wisconsin. chief in
spector Of steam vessels, has been in St.
Paul for day or two. He says that the
local inspectors have arrived at decis-
ion in the Sea Wing case, but that he
cannot make their decision public until
it has been received.
At the annual meeting of the Eastern
Minnesota railway the following officers
were elected: President, W.. P. Clough;
vice president, NJ. D. Grover: secretary
and treasurer, Edward Sawyer. The
| directors are: MeSsrs. Clough, Grover,
Sawyer and j. j. Hill, all prominently
identified with the Great Northern.
Tho cS <Lo Boz -
| quarter ending July II has been sum-
married. by Public Examiner Kenyon,
and shows that the total resources of
Minnesota banks at the end of the quar-
ter were 5,511 1883. This shows an
increase over the previous quarter. end
ing April Is. of $2,35l ,43O.67. The num-
Der of banks has increased from II to rs.
Cattle thieves put in an appearance at
the farm of Charles L. Gibbs, two miles
and a half below Anoka, one night last
week, and butchered an OK in his pas
ture near the house. They next visited
the pasture of Z. F. Hanson, of Coon
Creek, and killed another animal. but
were frightened off before the Job was
finished. Suspicion rests Oh certain
Anoka gang.
Darius Macy was adjudged insane at
st. Paul the other day. His examina-
ton developed the fact that he was a
political crank. He believes that he is a
nominee for president of the United
States, and said that President Harri-
son had offered him $4,000 to with
draw from the contest he imagines is in
progress. He thought he would accept
the offer and not longer be a candidate
for election.
Labor Commissioner Lamb has adj
dressed letter to State Superintendent
Kiehle, suggesting that the school teach
ers throughout the state compile the
total number of scholars enrolled from
the beginning of the scholastic year.
without reference to the length of time
they have attended school, The object
scholar attending school, though he or
she may attend but for portion of the
year.
The board of directors of the Mime
sofa soldiers home at Minnehaha have
decided to ask for an appropriation of
$15O,O00 for new buildings during the
next two years, and $4,000 for their
support. The present expense of run
ming the home is about $4,000 per an
mum. 1t is proposed to erect what the
oooAN Se&Ai' a SottdSC, WulCu WILL COSU
something like $4,000 This cottage. it
is intended, will accommodate about
seventy-hve men. 1t is also intended to
build an administration" building, in
which the commandant and other officers
of the home, with their families, shall
be accommodated. The idea is that this
latter building will cost about So, 900.
An expedition will set out Sept.
from Duluth to investigate the alleged
depredations of the Canadian lumber
men along the northern boundary of
the state. The expedition will consist
of four special agents and sixteen men.
An official of the land office SAYS: The
forests of white and Norway pine there
arc reckoned among the finest in the
world. The depredations for the last
year alone are estimated at $50, OOO. 900
feet. The profits, of course, are enor-
NOUS, and the people of this country
are the sufferers in two ways. In the
first place the timber is stolen from
them, and in the second place the sawed
lumber is brought back into the Dako-
taS and other Northwestern States and
brought into competition with the prod
ucts of American mills honestly OBJ
tanned.