The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-05-08
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Duluth grows. Look at this: Deaths
during April, 10; births, 81. ..e..,
The state normal school at Mankato
closes May % and the Moorhead school
on the Both.
st. Paul bricklayers have demanded
40 cents an hour. Some contractors
have paid only a5. ,.
The Moorhead Driving Park associa-
ton will have their regular pring races
June 16, II and 10.
The Farmers Alliance in the Fifth
district will hold their annual meeting
at Fergus Falls June 10 and ID.
One day last week c. A. Pillsbury &
Co., Of Minneapolis, signed echecks foz
81 600, 600 in payment for Wheat.
A Denver insurance company. called
the Equitable Accident of Colorado, has
been given permission to do business III
Minnesota.
The senate has passed the house bill,
granting the Little Falls and Lake Su-
pelior railway right of way through the
Mile Laos Indian reservation.
The next annual exhibition of the
Minnesota Poultry association will be
held in Minneapolis Feb. 2, 1891. wa
Gates, of st. Paul, has been elected pres
ident of the association.
Three thousand men win be set at
work within few days grading tie
streets and laying tracks for the new
electric car line between St. Paul and
Minneapolis. Cars will be running by
July 1.
The Red Wing Argus assures its read
ers that the city park is not to ne
planted with cabbages this year, simply
because seven Germans have been
elected to the council, while only two
NOrwegians got there.
The Grand Lodge Of Minnesota, An
eient Order Of United Workmen, held
its annual meeting in St. Paul this week,
commencing Tuesday. About 200 dele
gates were present, representing lodges
in almost every county in the state.
Conrad c.. Miller, a route agent on the
Northern Pacific between Duluth and
Staples, has been returned to Ramsey
county from Chicago on a charge of hay.
ing stolen from the mails, Miller went
to Chicago and was nabbed there.
4 small steamer belonging to the gov
eminent carried a party Of gentlemen
from St. Paul up the Mississippi to St.
Anthony falls Friday. This is the first
time in eighteen years that the trip has
been made by steamer-large or small.
The interstate oratorical contest places
the states participating in this order:
Kansas, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa,
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Colorado, The
next cantest will be held the first Tues.
day in May, 1891, at Drake university,
Des Moines.
In Glencoe, May IS, a special election
will be held to decide whether or not the
city shall be bonded to raise funds fol-
! an artesian we'll. 1t is believed this sort
of well would afford splendid facilities
for fighting fires something that Glen
coe needs very much.
The citizens Of New Ulm are very
anxious to have the annual state en-
campment of the Minnesota national
guard at that place. and have sent te
Adjt. Gen. Mullen communication Of
fering $4,000 as an inducement to come
there. No decision has as yet been
reached ia the matter.
Girard's island, in the Mississippi at
Lake City has been purchased by J. G..
Woolley For $500 and 81, 900 will be
optllO ny ClUlZtIlS III improving the
grounds preparatory to the immediate
establishment of a non-sectarial reli.
gious school, with summer meetings
only, - '
A week ago Theodore Weinhaus dis
appeared from st. Cloud. He was super
intendent of the city water works and a
competent man. His wife and three
children were left behind in embarass-
ing circumstances. Forged checks for
small amounts and debts here and there
make his shortages amount to about
$4,000, HI IS believed to be in Canada.
After an unusually heavy blast a
hanging wall on the third level of No.
shaft at Tower, was discovered to
be in an unsafe condition, and liable
to cave in. The miners were ordered
out and all tools, etc, were Immediately
brought up. One miner was caught by
the cave-in and his body mashed to a
jelly. The fall of rock has made the
permanent closing of that level neces-
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