The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-10-15
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS

| An electric line will connect Moor
head and Fargo.
st. Paul has a musical prodigy, q
4-year-old boy pianist.
The Milwaukee road will build a new
freight depot at Tracy.
| A black bear weighing 200 pounds
was killed ', lille swimming in the har-
| Dor at Duluth last week.
The Lutheran school at Albert Lea
was dedicated last Tuesday. It was
built at cost of $4,000.
The Northern Granite company has
started its Sank Rapids company in full
blast, employing 300 men.
The total receipts of the Minneapolis
exposition were $B8, 900 and the expenses
$50, 900 to ST., 900, leaving q profit Of
from $4,000 to $4,000. @
The Olympic theatre at st. Paul was
destroyed by fire Friday morning. The
total loss on building and contents Is
$4,000; partially insured.
Samuel Barr has sued the Minnesota
Thresher Manufacturing company TO
recover $4,000 for having infrdaged
upon his patent for traction engines.
Ida Baker, young lady Of Lavsrpe,
committed suicide Tuesday night. She
was in delicate condition and rather
than bear the disgrace took poison. She
refused to tell the name Of her betrayer.
I. v. d. Heard, well known attorney
of st. Paul, has made an assignment.
His liabilities are placed at $100, 900.
The cause of the failure Is attributed to
speculation in real estate.
Thursday Joseph Dinhel, SON of M.
Dinhel, of Long Prairie, found nugget
Of copper on his fathers farm four miles
east of that village. The nugget weighs
twelve pounds and is nearly pure cop
per. 81
Frank Rice, son Of j. o. Rice, prom
inent farmer near Hutchinson, was
taken to st. Peter raving maniac. He
is only II years old, and his insanity
was caused by the excessive use of to-
bacco.
Thursday last State Auditor Bierman
drew the warrant for the semi-annual
school apportionment, amounting to
over $790,000. The various counties
will receive their shares about the Goth
of the month.
Gus Schelke, young German living
in Pennington, was killed while sinking
bog boulder in plowed field. He
was down in the pit he had dug for the
stone when it fell in on him, crushing
him to death. ----~-.-
The body of Gotleib Vandrey,a farmer
living about ten miles from Montevideo,
was found short distance from town,
lying on the road. Appearances indi-
cate that the body had been dragged
some distance by runaway horse.
Alfred P. Cline, star route contractor
between Winnebago City and North
Star, in Martin county, suddenly depart
ed last week. Rumor has it that there
are several promissory notes negotiated
by him whose signatures are not gen.
uine. v
At the November term of court at
Mankato the United States district at.
torney will bring suit against the st.
Paul and Sioux City road to recover
about 10000 acres Of land, which, it is
claimed should revert to the govern
ment. z 4
A tannery, to cover three acres of
grOunu, is TO Do eSCaDuSneQ IN west OG.
Paul. The company is composed of A.
B. Stickney and other wealthy capital
lists, and the capital stock will be $780,
900, The institution will be one Of the
largest Of it's kind in the country.
Last week the Minneapolis mills broke
the record for the amount of -four turned
out. With two mills idle the output
was 1874, 100 barrels, or 1880 barrels
daily. The largest quantity ever before
made was 1877, 900, that having been
ground for the week ending Oct. Is, 1888.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed in the secretary Of states office by
the Whitney Automatic Feeder COM
pany of Minneapolis. The capital stock
is 81 200, 900. The business will consist
in the manufacture and sale of milling
machinery and the operating Of -four
mills.
The Saltwater loggers report that
the cut of the coming winter will be
fully equal to if not larger than that of
last season. Crews of men are being
sent up every day, the Musser- Sapptry
concerns having sent up fully 500 men
merely to open the roads and get the
campsin readiness for the winters opera