The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-01-02
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTRS

An epidemic Of diphtheris has bRoksn
out at Moorhead.
Litohfield will vote on the question az
bonds for waterworks Nov. Is.
Great excitement exists at Sprinpfaeid
ever the discovery Of vein CT hard coal
two miles west of town.
Louis T. Stensgaard, who was accussd
Of wholesale real estate forgery at a.
Paul, was acquitted by the jury.
Architect A. 81. Haas, Of st. Paul. has
designed an ice structure $50 feet hioh
on the, Eiffel tower style, for the oar.
nival.
Burglars have been working Saltwater
houses of late, and many prominent
people have lost valuable Jewels and
money. '--.
1t is said the English syndicate will
continue the profit-sharing system with
the employees of the Pillsbury mills at
Minneapolis.
Frank Wood is under arrest at Hector
on charge of horsestealing. No less
than fifteen horses have disappeared
from that neighborhood this fall.
Marshal Ballington Booth, high mogul
OF the Salvation Army, has been lookfng
after his forces In St. Paul and Mines
apolis during the past week. They do
need watching, and closely.
The state dairy fair and convention
will be held at Mankato on the 10th. 11th
and 18th of December. Some Tberai
premiums airs offered for the best speci-
mems OF butter and cheese. The railroads
will give reduced rates.
For the month of October State o;
Inspector Nicols turned into the state
treasury S., 500. SO besides bis salary. The
barrels of oil inspected in Ramsey
county numbered 3,213, In Hennepin.
1850 and In st. Louis 1850. ,.
A Winona farmers wife died recently.
He washed and dressed the body to save
expense, put it in rough box aud drove
to town for coffin. On the way back
then continuing his funeral.
The Washburn-C Crosby Milling COM
pany OF Minneapolis announces that by
September, 1890, the time when IT'S lease
will expire on the Washburn mills In
that city, it will have a 81, 0OO, 900 plant
in operation IN Duluth, with a daily ca
pacity of 5000 barrels.
The government operations at the
head Of Lake Pepin, which have been In
progress through the summer, will be
closed up next month. It was intended
to expend the whole of the appropria-
ton of $3.50, 900 set aside for work there
this season but it is found that the low
stage of water prevents.
The Minneapolis school authorities are
endeavoring to suppress the habit of
cigarette smoking among the school
scholars. 1t was found by investigation
that in some of the schools all Of the
boys and many of the girls are addicted
to the habit, and whenever a new boy
comes he is made to learn the habit.
A new United States customs station
has been established on the south shore
of Lake of the Woods, near the mouth of
Rainy Lake river, with Deputy Collector
Of Customs Hamline R. Prosser in
charge. Its object is to stop the whole
sale plundering of Uncle Sans forests
on the northern boundary of Minnesota.
Three out of flock of twenty-four
white swans were killed by parties on
the steamer Pepin, on Lake Pepin, in
two discharges of a fowling piece. One
OF the swans measured six and half
feet from tip to tip and weighed twenty
pounds. 1t was secured by Dr. Estes.
who will have it mounted.
A Montana man has bought $4,000
acres of the st. Paul and Duluth land,
between Mile Laos and Duluth, on
which he will start large sheep ranch.
He claims that Northern Minnesota is
far ahead Of Montana for sheep raising
in several particulars. He will buy more
land if the experiment is successful. He
paid 81 per acre for the land.
In the case Of Sheriff Brandenburp
against the county commissioners OF
Otter Tail county. in which q verdict
was recently rendered by Judges Baxter
and Searle, giving to the sheriff mileage
for one prisoner arrested On the west
coast, he having claimed double mileage
for ore trip on the ground that he ar
rested two men, the commissioners have
decided to appeal the case to the su-
preE1e court of tie state.
Muller Post No. l, G.. A. R., Saltwater,
has become possessed of o relic of the
late war, being no less than list of the
guard mount at Libby prison in 1884. 1t
had been obtained by the late Comrade
A. A. Cspron, when he was an inmate,
and he kept it sacredly. His brother, w.
NJ. Capron, the executor of the property,
presented this roll to the post.
This story comes from Faribault: A
man who lives north of here near one of
the lakes is said to have killed 1874 wild
ducks one morning last week. On look
ing out of the window early in the morn
ing he saw ducks extricate their legs
from the ice that had formed around
them while resting in the water the pre-
vious night The man took corn cut
ter, went down to the lake and clipped
off their heads.
Deputy Dairy Commissioner Bertram,
of st. Paul, has returned from trip on
the Manitoba railway as far as Benson.
He states that the country merchants ex-
press great anxiety concerning the en-
forcement Of the food laws, and are re.
fusing to handle adulterated goods, espe-
cially baking powders and vinegars. In
many instances, since the report Of
the chemical analysis of these goods by
the commissioner, country dealers have
labeled the cans at their own expense,
indicating whether or not the powders
contain aluai.
Maud HOwe's Romance.
Maud Howe received the goodly sum
Of 900 from The Ladies' Home Jour
nal for her new novel. About thirteen
years ago, when Porter's picture of her
was exhibited in the Centennial, she was