The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-09-25
MINNESOTA MATTERS.

Sibley county is engaged in county
seat war.
Capitalists are organizing a linen fac
tory for Minneapolis.
No more crop bulletins will be issued
for Minnesota this fall.
Duluth's population is 81, 725, an in
crease Of S0,0S0 in ten years.
The Grand hotel at Fergus Falls, with
all its furniture, sold for $4,000.
The st. Croix Valley Old Settlers as
ISOLATION met Saturday at Saltwater.
It is estimated that 10000 people at
tended the Freedom county fair Satur-
day.
The senate has passed the bill for a
wagon bridge over the Mississippi at
Hastings. .
The Fergus Falls public building bill
has passed the senate, but is hung up in
the house.
The census gives Duluth 32,725 peo-
pie. Ten years ago Duluth had 2,645
population.
Negotiations are pending for the pur-
chase of the St. Paul and Duluth by the
Northern Pacific.
A vein of iron ore of low grade has
been discovered in the Bay View Heights
addition to Duluth.
Three deaths from diphtheria have
occurred in a family named Anderson,
near Window, in week.
Mayor Durant, of Saltwater, has been
nominated for the legislature by the
Democrats of his district.
Rev. M. A. Gold, of Albert Lea, has
bought The Lake Mills Star and will as
sumo the management Oct. Is.
Mrs. Duskel, of New Ulm, committed
suicide by taking rough on rats. She
had quarreled with her husband.
II. q. Finkle, judge of probate OF
Clay county, and a prominent merchant
of Moorhead, died of erysipelas Friday.
The University of Minnesota has re-
gained possession of the Iowa meteor over
which there has been so much litigation.
The Hastings linen mills have been
sold to Sioux Falls, S. D., syndicate,
and the transfer of the plant was made
Friday.
The thirty-fft annual meeting OF
the General Congregational association
last week.
Pillsbury academy at Owatonna has
opened with $50 students. James w.
Ford, D. D., of New York, has been en-.
gagged as president.
Malcolm McInnis and E. G. Mist were
struck by switch engine at Duluth.
The former was killed and the latter is
not expected to live.
AT the state convention of the
Women's Christian Temperance union
at Minneapolis last week all the old
officers were reelected.
The thirty-fifth annual meeting of the
General Congregational Association of
Minnesota was held in Mortified, last
week, with about 800 members present.
The annual convention of the Associa-
ton of Edison Illuminating Companies
was held in Minneapolis last week. Mr..
Edison sent word that he was unable to
attend.
Edward Langevin, who resided in st.
Paul for upwards of forty years, died
Tuesday of last week. Mr.. Langevin
was one of st. Pauls largest property
owners in the early days.
A boiler explosion occurred on the
farm of Henry Dieterling, near Hender-
son, Mimi. The engineer was fatally
scalded and several of the threshing
crew were seriously injured.
A movement is on foot in LIE Sueur
county to secure the pardon of Thomas
O'COnnor, who is serving life sentence
at Saltwater for killing Larry Vaughan
eleven years ago. Both were drunk
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G. w. Knapp's general merchandise
store at Clinton Falls was broken into
by burglars. The safe was opened and
everything taken. About $50 in cur
rency, 800 in checks and So, 200 in notes
were secured.
The grand jury at Little Falls has
brought in twenty-seven indictments
thus far against the parties interested in
the robbery of the North Dakota eleva-
tor there last spring by the use of forged
wheat checks.
The st. Paul, Minneapolis and Mani
toba Railway company has filed with
the secretary of state a Pacific extern
sion mortgage to the Central Trust COM
pany. of New York, to the amount of
5000, 900 pounds sterling.
Lie output VI Iue Nlluu0dpOllS Hills
last week was 172, 900 barrels, averaging
1876 barrels daily, against 16O.995 bar
rels the previous week, and al, 800 bar
rels for the corresponding time in 1889,
and 1885, ITO barrels in 1888. There were
nineteen mills in operation.
The Alliance candidate for state aud
itor, Mr.. P. H. Rahilly, of Lake City,
has written letter to the state central
committee of the Farmers alliance with
drawing his name from the ticket. He
gives as his reason for doing so that
there is too much internal dissension
in the organization for success.
Surveyors will begin work at Red
Lake Falls on the Duluth, Red Lake
Falls and Northern this week. They
will run to Warren, in the Red River
valley, thence to st. Thomas, N. D.
From Red Lake Falls the road will run
southeast, touching the south shore Of
Leech lake and making as nearly an air
line as possible to Wright, on the North
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