The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-01-16
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES,

grading, waterworks and sewers during
1Ss9.
Brainerd schools have reopened, the
epidemic of contagious diseases having
subsidized.
Signal Officer Lyons at St. Paul, re-
ports 1889 the dryest year since the es-
Enlistment of the service.
Scarlet fever is raging in Lake City.
If it continues the schools will probably
not open at the appointed time.
The receipts of wheat at Minneapolis
for 1889 were Its. $40 bushels. Ship
ments of flour, 6,098.411; shipments Of
lumber, 179, 1900.
Editor Maben, of The National Free
Lance, Minneapolis, was convicted last
week of criminally ibeling Police Super
intendent Bracket and fined 500.
The total bank deposits in Minneapo-
960, S43 in 1883. The loans and discounts
for 1889 are S25, 81, 562, and for 1873, $22,-
S22,007.
Six German families of Nathan,
Mower county, numbering between
twenty-five and thirty, are down with
trichine. One person is already dead.
Mrs. Shiek and others are not expected
to live.
Lake Pepin is now effectually closed
for the first time this winter, the new ice
being about five inches thick. The ex-
cellent conditions for ice-boating are be-
ing improved by numerous lovers of the
sport.
There are now ninety-four prisoners in
the reformatory, and as there are accom-
modations for but 1873. the limit will soon
be reached, as the institution appears to
be quite popular with judges having
prisoners to dispose of.
John Reed, who lives in Kandota, was
arrested and bound over to the grand
jury in $500 bonds for biting off Harry
Woodruff's left ear. The brutal assault
was entirely without provocation, and
was committed while intoxicated.
A deed has been filed at Wabasha COW
ering the Boston Touring mill at Lake
City. L. F. Menage, of Minneapolis, is
the grantor and o. NJ. Crumpler grantee.
Consideration, 100000. The new pro-
prietor will soon reopen the mill for
business.
News comes from st. Louis that
Hal Reid was married at Kansas
City to Miss Westbrook, a well known
society girl of st. Louis. Reid will be
remembered as the Minneapolis man
who was sent to the penitentiary for
assaulting young lady and afterwards
pardoned by the governor.
Word has been received st. Paul
from Washington that the appeal from
Judge Nelson's decision that the inspec-
tion-On-the-hoof law is unconstitutional,
will be argued before the supreme court
Jan. 9. Gen. Gordon E. Cole and other
attorneys interested have left for the
capital.
During the calendar year. 1889, 49,
213 cars of grain were Inspected in Min
nesota. Of these II 1881 cars of the grain
have been cars of wheat of the various
grades, while the remaining $500 cars
were of the coarser grains. The crop
year begins and ends Sept 1. The
months of October ard November were
the heaviest of the year.
While Richard PETERSON, aged H. and
his younger brother and another little boy
We're sliding down street in West Red
Wing, crossing the Milwaukee tracks,
the hobs struck the last wheel of the last
Car of an accommodation train, throw
ing the boys against the same. The
oldest boy was instantly killed, his
brother was dangerously hurt, and the
third boy was seriously injured.
A scandal in high life has come to the
surface through the medium of a suit
begun in the district court. DIR. John A.
Moore, Christian Scientist physician. o.
Minneapolis, makes complaint against
Senator d. NJ. Clough, the we'll known
lumberman and politician, charging him
with the seduction Of his wife, and claim.
ing $4,000 damages. Senator Clough
says it is blackmail.
There is vacancy in the Minnesota
delegation at the Annapolis naval acad-
envy, and some youth from the Fourth
congressional district will be chosen to
take the place. Three commissioners will
shortly be selected to conduct a Compel
tive examination at Minneapolis.
Hon. S. P. Snider has the matter in
charge and has already written to
William Petit to recommend the proper
persons for membership on the commits
sion.
At Gethsemane Episcopal church in
Minneapolis Wednesday, Rev. Arson
Rogers Graves, for the past six years rec
tor of that church, was consecrated as
bishop of the missionary jurisdiction of
the Platte. The conservation was per.
formed by Bishop Tuttle, of Minnesota,
assisted by Bishops Hare, of Dakota and
Knickerbocker, of Indiana. The conse-
Grafton was the first ceremony, with
possibly one exception, of this kind that
has ever occurred in Minnesota.
General Manager McDougal, of the
American Steel Barge company, Duluth,
has closed a contract with Andrew Car
neg for 5000 tons of steel plates. which
is Il e largest contract for steel plates
ever known in the United States. The
price is 100000. His steel will be used
in the construction Of the ten barges the
company intend to build. 1t has been
definitely decided not to move the plant
from the head of the lake. The final To-
cation will be Duluth, West Duluth or
Superior.
The Minnesota Iron company will
Euild five new steamers this year on the
same patent as Jim Hills Northern line
steamers, with the exception that they
will be one foot shorter and the beam
two feet greater. The dimensions of
the new boats will be, length over all,
81 feet, width 40 feet. depth "a 1-2 feet.
= They will Ehave fine lines and great
carrying capacity. Each will have eight
cargo matches and six water compart-
ments and cost 100000.
The annual meeting of the Minnesota
National Guards wilt he held at the cap
itol b8iiding. st. Paul. on the 2lst and
22d of January. This association lie
composed of the commissioned officers
of the guards, the governor and staff.
Papers will be read by Col. Mason and
Maj. Niles. of the regular army, and by
several officers of the guards. The Ma
tional Guards Association of the United
States will meet in Washington Feb. 5.
Each state is entitled to five delegates.
The Minnesota delegates will be elected
at the meeting on the 22d.
The Dowager Empress May Die.
BERLIN, Jan. 6. The condition of the
Dcwager Empress Augusta, who is suf-
fering from influenza, has grown more
serious.
The suit Of Mrs. Yapp against the st.
Paul Globe for $4,000 for having pub
ished an Associated Press dispatch con-
nectipg her name with the trial of Mrs.
MAVERICK in Liverpool, ended in the