The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-07-17
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.

will employ 100 men.
Minneapolis has eighteen parks, with
an area Of 500 acres.
Minnesota had sixty-one failures dur
ing the last half Of the year.
Burglars went drought the postoffice
at Kellogg, carrying off $500 booty.
w. w. Gamble, of Stewart, was nom
mated for congress by the Farmers Al
lance at Glencoe.
The Blue Earth County Agricultural
society will hold its twenty-ninth annual
fair at Garden City from Sept. II to 10.
The summer hotel at Lake Elmo was
burned Friday. Nothing was saved.
Several wealthy st. Paul and Eastern
people lost much clothing and jewelry.
New postofices have been established
in Minnesota the past week as follows:
At Batavia, Todd county, Charles A.
Jones; at Rock, Redwood county, Rob
ert Schauberger.
The pontoon bridge Of the Milwaukee
and st. Paul bridge at Wabasha is to be
replaced by new one at point further
down than that now occupied. Surveys
are now being made.
The two sons of Ed Donaldson, tray
cling salesman from Noyes Bros. & Cut
Ter, were drowned at Owatonna while
| swimming in Straight river. The boys
We're 10 and IA years of age.
Peterson, the we'll known California
professional sculler, writes that he will
be.in Duluth about July 20. He is, he
says, trying to arrange q match with
Gaudaur, Hanlan and Teemer.
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moved their principl Office from Roches-
ter to Minneapolis. This firm operates
about 100 elevators and warehouses
along the Chicago and Northwestern
railroad.
The conference report on the bill
granting the right of way across the
Mile Laos Indian reservation to the Lit
tie Falls. Mile Laos and Lake Superior
Railroad company was adopted in the
house Friday.
At Breckenridge a son of John Sim
mer, of Wahpeton, was held up by five
tramps near the Great Northern railroad
bridge and robbed of his watch and
money. Three of the tramps were after
wards captured.
The officers of the Minnesota State
Farmers alliance have requested the
various labor organizations to elect del
egates to meet the State alliance on
July III for the purpose of nominating
full state ticket for the elections in the
fall.
A class of eighteen young ladies of st.
Benedict's academy, st. Joseph, Mimi,
took the veil Saturday. Eighteen took
their first vows and an equal number
the eternal vows of the order. The
academy will be removed to st. Cloud
before the next school year.
The assessment of real and personal
property for the City of Duluth, as
shown by the report of the city assessor.
just completed, is a total valuation of
real property, sea, 490,177. The valua-
ton of real property at assessment in
1893 was $1S, 900, showing an in
crease in two years of S4,206,297. Total
value of personal property. 81, 4S0, 900.
The state auditor has received reports
from the state reformatory and state
prison. In the former the current ex-
pense for the mont amounted to So, $780,
n, while in the state prison the expense
for the month of June was $5,41S.92. Of
this sum $500 was for state account,
&.9G9.49 for current expense and
S2,O59.43 for permanent Improvements.
A gang of eight or ten tramps at
Hinckley. Mimi. about a. m, broke
into the Windsor House and took all the
bOarders' clothes they could find and
searched them. They next made an
attempt on the Brennan Lumber COM
pany's store. They next broke into DR..
Collins drug store and stole about $50
worth of jewelry, but We're discovered
and four captured before they could get
away.
Judges Stearns and Ensign have de-
Gded an important land case. The gov
ernor patented to the Duluth and Win
nipeg and also to the st. Cloud road
certain so-called swamp lands. The
judges, after giving lengthy review of
the facts, decide that title is vested in
the Duluth and Iron Range, which came
into the suit as an interviewer. About
5000, 600 acres were involved. The case
will go to the higher courts.
State Labor Commissioner Lamb has
been collecting statistics of school at
tendance. and is much troubled to dis
cover, according to the statistics at hand,
that Minnesota is at the bottom of the
list, as regards school attendance. Mr..
Lamb gathered his information from the
term reports made by the teachers of tho
state. These reports were found to be
in a very bad condition. The figures
are highly unsatisfactory, and well nigh
worthless.
A switch engine was run into by a
special passenger train at Hastings. The
trainmen saved themselves by jumping.
Afterward the switch engine run wild
down the track, dashing into some
freight cars standing by the elevator.
R. w. Freeman, book keeper at the ele-
vator, and laborer, who We're in one
of the cars, were injured, but not ia
tally. The switch engine and the
freight cars were badly wrecked. Loss,
SO 900.
Judge Se.sle, of st. Cloud, has made
decision which sheriffs generally will
not enjoy. The county placed in the
hands of the sheriff certain delinquent
personal property taxes to collect, and
afterwards he put in bill against the
county for services, claiming that he had
made diligent search and could find no
detainable property. The commission
ers refused to allow the bill, and on ap-
peal tc the district court Judge Searles
sustains the commissioners. saying that
there is no provision for compensation
in such cases. and holds that when q
man accepts Office he cannot refuse to
perform duties for which no compensa-
ton is provided. but which he is re-
quired to perform.
A Washington telegram says that
Henry Keller, of Sank Center, has just
had two patents signed for his binding
Irvine machine, one for the method Of
making Irvine and the other for the ma
chine that makes the Irvine; that is the
pact that forms the twist. These are
the important patents that he has been
trying to secure and which he has been
working on for two or three weeks. He
expects two more patents. One for the
machine complete, including the feeders
and the spools for winding the Irvine
and another for the manufactured
Irvine. The enthusiasm of the man from
Sank Center is at high pitch over
his success. He" says ne will revolu-
tionize Irvine manufacture for binding
grain,
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