The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-05-14
MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, MAY IA, 1891.
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS

MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS
A franchise has been granted for an
electric railroad from Saltwater to ST
Paul.
The Minneapolis ADur mill censolida
ton has been compaeted and the papers
signed.
The next contest of tho interstate col
legiate association will be held at Min.
neapolis.
T. E. Byrnes, of Minneapolis, has beer
appointed national organizer of Repub
ican clubs.
The election held in Lyon county te
vote on building a court house gave
about $50 majority in favor of building
G.E Maxwell, of Hamline university
was second place IN the interstate col
legiate oratorical contest at Des Moines
Company Fl, Third regiment, was
mustered into the national guard al
Luverne Saturday. About forty-fvs
men qualified.
Editor Lamphere, of The Moorhead
News, has been commissioned by Gov
ernor Merriam as one of the worlds
fair commissioners for Minnesota.
The Moorhead driving park was sold
at auction last week by the receiver, r.
g. Kurtz. Lamb Bros. took it at S25
and assumed the debt of about 81, 900.
At Luverne the question of issuing
bands for water works was voted on.
The opposition was very slight. The
amount of bonds authorized is $50, 1000,
The postoffice at Norseland, Mimi.
was broken into and robbed. The loss
to the postmaster is about $780, Nc
clue to the robbers has been discovered.
It is expected that Carleton's new OBJ
servatory, at Mortified, Mimi, will be
dedicated on commencement day. DIR.
Hastings, of Yale, will deliver the ad-
dress.
It has been definitely decided to hold
horse races at st. Cloud June II, - and
ID, during which time the northwestern
district grand army encampment will be
held there.
Bill Erwin has been engaged by the
Alllance'm to represent them in the
elevator investigation. 1t is said that
volunteer subscriptions from among the
farmers will be raised to pay Erwins
fees.
Work began Monday at Little Falls
on the $50, 900 hospital and school build
ing OF the franciscan sisters, who make
that city their headquarters. An addi-
tlonal $25, 200 building will be erected
next year.
The work of Improvement at the Min
nesota soldiers home will be continued
this season by the erection of a new cot
tage to cost $25. 900, kitchen building
to cost $50, 900 and building for library
and offices.
State Auditor 6ierman, of Minnesota,
reports having sold 1850 acres of land
in Morrison county, $500 in Stearns, zoe
in Benton and 500 in Anoka. He will
sell land in Swift, Stevens, Polk, Meeker
and Kandiyohi counties.
The old Constans building near the
union depot, in st. Paul, and used fol
many years as dock warehouse fol-
steamboat companies, and later as q
depot for the Milwaukee road, burned
Friday morning. 1t was built in 1858.
Great dissatisfaction is expressed by
the people at Morton over the action Of
the governor in committing the sentence
of Clifton Holden to life Imprisonment,
A party of men hanged Governor Mer.
RAM in effigy to rope suspended across
Second avenue.
The entire plant of the Schrath G.
Ahrens Mill company, at Winona, was
burned Wednesday night. The mill,
warehouse and three blocks of lumber
were destroyed, the loss approximatine
100000 with 81, 600 to $50. 700 insur-
ance.
The 800 Prohibitionists in Otter Tail
county have decided to reorganize by
themselves and give the Alliance the
go-by. A call has been issued for con-
vention to meet at Fergus Falls the Goth
inst. They are indignant at their treat
ment from the Alliance,
The dates az which the summer races
of the Albert Lea branch of the South
ern Minnesota trotting circuit will be
July 3 and 4, they having been changed
because of the withdrawing of Mankato
from the circuit. Faribault, Austin
and owatonna were applicants for the
dates.
At Anoka, Mimi, the handsome resi-
dence of Weston Hammens, a lawyer of
Duluth, caught fire, supposed by defect
i've fiue, and was entirely burned. Only
a small portion of the contents were
saved. The house was the best in the
city. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
Two fatal accidents happened at An.
Okla Saturday. I'D J. Mclaughlin was
caught in belt at the saw mill of Reed
& Sherwood. His neck and severa! ribs
were broken, Bridget Richards, while
going through her yard, was attacked
by supposed gentle cow and so badly
hooked that she Is not expected to live.
At the initial meeting of the game
commission in st. Paul the following
officers were elected: r. o. Sweeney
president; w, s, Timberlake, vice pres
ident; A. E. Ferris, secretary; w. T.
Andrus, treasurer. In drawing lots fel
terms of office, DIR. Sweeney drew the
short term, two years, Messrs, Andrus
and Bird four years each and Msssrs
Timberlake and Ferris sig years. FranL
l.. Stetson, ex-fire chief of Minneapolis
was elected game warden of the state.
The grand lodge A. o, .. w. In
session at Red Wing last week elected
tho following officers: Grand maste,
workman, George M. Laing, Win.
dom; grand foreman, q. South.
worth, Shakopeel grand overseer, J.
D, Porter, Minneapolis; grand re-
corder, Olaf Olson, Willmar; grand re.
ceiver, j. j. McCardy, ST. Paul. The
grand recorders report gives the mem.
bership on April as 2, 723, an increase
of 1,7S6 during the year. Twenty-one
new lodges were instituted. The dis,
bursements for the year were $112,,
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A St. Paul Official Dead.