The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-09-18
MINNESOTA lIATTERS.

Four new cL arches were dedicated in
st. Paul Sunday.
John Lathrop, secretary of the Farm
ers Alliance, has resigned.
The Minnesota team won the inter-
state rifle contest at Camp Douglas, Wis.
Martin BOSNIAN, the Ely murderer,
was taken to Duluth and lodged in jail.
A St. Paul man, in good health, has
bought his coffin and paid his funeral
expenses.
The total enrolment of the Duluth
public schools is 1913, a gain over last
year of S16.
The Duluth, Northwestern and Winni-
peg will be known Us the Duluth, Red
Falls and Northern railway.
The Lake Superior Catholic at Du-
luth has been purchased by DR.. Thomas
C'Hagin and Jacob Laux.
The census Office has announced the
result of the recount of Minneapolis at
164, 73S, and st. Paul at 133, 301.
The Democrats of the Second congress
sional district have nominated O. M.
Hall, of Red Wing, for congress.
Lightning struck the st. Cloud gas
works, ignitin3 the gas. No particular
damage was done to the building.
The comptroller of the currency has
appointed Charles Fl. Brush, of Camp
bell IAN examiner of national banks.
The Saltwater prison managers have
gone East to purchase machinery for the
binding Irvine factory to be built at the
prison.
The FiftietA legislative district Demo-
cratic convention-Clay, Becker and
Wilkin counties-wiu be held at Moore
head, Sept. 26.
Denny ke!liher, the Boston middle
weight, is III Minneapolis. He will meet
the BLACK Pearl" about Sept. 90, at the
Twin City club.
W. N. Campbell, late United States
marshal for minnesota, has been ap-
pointed chairman of the Democratic
state central committee.
The Hurd Refrigerator company has
just been incorporated at Duluth, with
a capital stock Of 500, 900, for the pur-
pose of nlanufa curing Alaska refrigera.
tors at Duluth.
About 10 o'clock Wednesday evening
lightning struck and burned seven large
barns at the E,Jll farm, owned by the
Minnesota Agricultural company; loss
estimated at $12,OJ0; insurance not
known.
The first one Of the refrigerator cars
Of the celebrated Arnold make, was
brought to Duluth Friday. Negotiations
are i'll progress with the Iron Car Equip
ment company to manufacture them al
their works at West Duluth.
The total population of the First Min
nesota district is 347, ia; increase, g.,
1913. The population Of some Of the
cities and towns in that district is az
follows: Winona, 1S,208, increase
5000; Mankato, S,805; increase, 1886
Rochester, 1891; increase, 21S.
The Minnesota Historical society re-
ceived few days ago, from a gentle
man in Philadelphia, a copperplate en-
craving entitled Saint Anthony Falls
Minnesota. The engraving is about
9x12 inches and shows by its general ap.
pearance that it was made probably
sixty or seventy years ago.
While the race between Miss Villa
Poole, OF Dakota, and Miss Jennie Rush
OF Kentucky, was in progress at the
state fair grounds at Hamline Wednes
day the horse which Miss Rush rode
hottad the track, and threw her against
the fence, rendering her unconscious fol
time. This happened in the sixth
mile.
The Farmers Review, of Chicago
says: ThreShing returns make the WELD
of spring wheat in twenty-five Mime.
sofa counties twelve bushels per acre
In Iowa eleven bushels per acre in TWEEN.
ty-one counties. In Nebraska twelve
bushels per acre in seventeen counties,
and in the Dakotas ten bushels Der acre
in twenty-five counties.
The Duluth land office has received q
communication from the secretary of
the interior, containing findings based
On the report of government agent
and two surveyors who examined the
supposed swamp lands of the Duluth
district. Of 1915 acres of land in
township CD, north ranges SO. 10 and Il
west, {, 497 acres were found to be dry
land. The secretary revokes the ap-
proval Of the list and throws the land
open to settlement.
The Minnesota Grand Lodge knights
of Pythias held their annual meeting at
Mankato last week. The report of Grand
Keeper of Record and Seals G. IL. Orr
showed that during the year ended June
80, eightssn new lodges had been in
ssituted in the state and the member.
ship increased by 966. The total num-
Der of lodges was 70, with total mem
bership of 3,S77. Financially the grand
lodge is in good shape.
Convict Douglass, from Minneapo1is
who has twice Escaped from IT,. stats
prison, gave the authorizes another
anxious time We'll t-lesday. Soon after
aeeh he disappeared, and after search.
,.g some time all the convicts Were
locked in their cells and the shops all
shut down so thorough search could
be made. He was found under one Of
the floors, and in place where it was
hardly possible for any man to be Sc
creted.
A novel suit for insurance has been in.
stituted in the St. Paul courts. Some
years Andrew j. Hall and George W
Hall, of Red Wing, insured their lives
for 81, 600 each, and agreed that the one
who died first should leave the benefit
of the insurance to the other. Andrew
J. Hall died, but left the benefit of the
policy held in the Northwestern Endow.
ment and Legacy association Of Red
Wing to local Masonic lodge. George
w. Hall has commenced suit in the dis
trict court to prevent the company pay
ing the money to anyone but himself.
N. A. Cadwallader, of Faribault, has
gone to Ohio to look after his interest in
a rare find that has been made in the old
homestead of his father, now dead, at
Fostoria, Ohio. The story is that
when Mr.. Cadwallader was a boy he
was looking around in the garnet and
came across box which he tried to
move but could not. Upon asking his
mother about it she told him to keep it
quiet, The box was never again heard
from, until recently it was found in a
hole excavated in the stone foundation.
The box contains gold eagles, doubel
eagles and silver five-franc pieces to the
amount of about $50, 600.