The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-08-20
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS

Minnesota has 2s1, $50 pupils in her
public schools.
A bed Of porcelain clay has been found
1t Albert Lea.
Detroit has voted in favor of issuinaI
bonds for water works.
Hail did considerable damage in the
vicinity of Lake Benton, last week.
Sheldon 8 Co., of Cloquet, are max
ing arrangements to open a bank at
Grand Rapids.
Rev. T. B. Wells, rector of st. Marks
church, Minneapolis, died on his way
home from Japan.
William Ochs, aged 10 years, was
drowned in the Minnesota river at
Chaska Wednesday.
Hugh Ct. Harrison, well known MINI
neapolis banker and capitalist, died In
that city Wednesday last. /
The First Minnesota Light Artillery
will hold its 1891 reunion in the senate,
chamber, at st. Paul, Thursday, Sept, TO-
Burglars cracked the safe in the Bird
| Island postoffice last week, but were
frightened away without securing any
thing.
The troubles of the Duluth Street
Railway company have been settled by
| the withdrawal of Samuel Hill and A.
| s. Chase.
Stephen Lesser, st. Paul carpenter,
fell from scaff old to the ground, q
distance of thirty feet, and was in
stantly killed.
The resignation of DR.. James, assist
| ant superintendent of the St. Peter hos.
pital for the insane, has been accepted
| by the board of trustees.
The old Minnesota Iron Car company
has been rsorganized at Duluth with a
capital stock of about $1,100,000. It
| will employ about 500 men.
| A. Solomon, special agent, is at Clio
quet investigating the alleged irregu-
larity in conducting the affairs of the
Fond du Lac Indian reservation.
Frank Vesly, of New Prague, COM
mitted suicide Thursday by jumping
into cistern. He was 4S years of age
and well-to-do. Whisky was the cause.
The Wadena and Park Rapids rail.
| way, a branch of the Great Northern,
from Eagle Bend, Todd county, to Park
! Rapids, Hubbard county, is open for
| traffic.
I. RI. Beebe has been elected secretary
of the board of Soldiers Home man
I ayers to succeed 0. M. Sawyer. Captain
Castle was reelected president and
i Major Henderson vice president.
In digging a cistern in the southern
part of Albert Lea, the workman dis
4 covered bed of clay which is pro-
nounced by experts to be very valuable.
1t is said 1t will produce excellent porce-
lain.
/ A widow with three children, who has
been doing washing for living, at
tempted to drs sn herself and youngest
| child, aged asiaut 2 years, in the mill
pond at WinBzn. She was gotten out
before life ws@ extinct.
i The summsE institute at Plainview,
for the trainiSs of teachers, which has
been in sessi6ss just four weeks, closed
Saturday. TIA enrolment was eighty
nine. The sszte superintendent was
present and rassde an address.
i Matthew Marvin, of Winona, who
was appointed to select q site for q
| monument to the memory of the First
Minnesota on the Gettysburg battlefield,
chose a position on the ground where
the famous charge was made.
Mrs. Alvina Dommer. Of Winona,
widow OF August Dommer, who was
shot and killed June by Police Officer
Vincent Kirkowski, has presented de.
mand on the city for $4,000, damages
sustained by the death of her husband.
/ A 17-year-old son of d. Cole, of Ha.
wick, met with fatal accident. He
was returning home after a days hunt
with his friend, Fred Clough, on cart.
His gun was accidentally discharged
and the contents entered his heart, kill
ing him instantly.
Julius Strand, prisoner confined In
the Winona Jail for stealing watch,
was taken from the Jail and married to
Miss Emma Gulickson, the young lady
to whom he gave the stolen timepiece.
After the ceremony the groom was re.
turned to the cell.
The Sank Rapids city council has
passed the ordinance granting the st.
/ Cloud Street Railway company fran.
ehise for the use of all the streets in the
city for term of fifty years providing
they build the road connecting the two
cities within three years.
Three St. Paul heayyweights have
started to walk to Madison, Wis, in
the attempt to reduce their flesh. They
are Bernard Lemon, Charles Mathers
and II. ID. Driese. The heaviest tips the
beam at Bio pounds, and the ightest
bears the scale down for 260 pounds.
Tue long delayed drive Of logs belong
ing to G. A.. Smith and Hayward b Co.,
of Minneapolis, containing $1,000, 900
i feet, are now being sluiced through
PokegRma dam at Grand Rapids at the
r&of half q million per day. This
DIVE has been hung upin Bear river for
two years.
The report of the Minnesota state
treasurer is out. The actual state
debt after deducting investments in
sinking fund and cash in redemption
FUND, is 81, 1876, 1876. The investments
in the state trust funds are as follows:
Permanent school fund, $9,27S, S43.2 80;
permanent university fund, $9b9, 1888. 46;
interest improvement land fund (sink-
inrl 50. 1o7 1857. SO.