The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-01-01
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About $50 Winona people enjoyed q
steamboat excursion Christmas day.
A Goodhue County Soldiers Monu-
ment association is being organized at
Red Wing.
At Lanesboro Mrs. Ingebritt Anker-
son was fatally burned while filing
Kerosene lamp.
BonniwelPs roller mills, at Howard
Lake, caught fire Saturday and the ma
chinery was lost. Fully insured.
Governor Merriam, of Minnesota, has
issued his proclamation announcing that
the fve-sixths jury-law had passed.
The fourteenth annual session Of the
Educational Association of Minnesota,
is being held this week in the capitol.
st. Paul.
The jury in the case of Horton, ac-
cused of drowning his wife in the Mis-
sissippi at st. Paul, brought in verdict
of not guilty.
Louis Sommers, of Hastings, has been
sentenced to Imprisonment for life for
the murder Of Miss Mary A. Dietzen
last February.
Articles of Incorporation Of the Clark
Milling company, of Melrose, with
capital stock of $100, 100 have been filed
with the secretary of state.
At Hinckley, Mimi, the coroners
Booth was justified in shooting the
Kane boys. He was acquitted.
According to The Northwest Trade
there were 800, 900 acres Of fax in Min
nesota and tho two Dakotas this year,
while there were but 10000 acres in
Ireland.
Mrs. Lizzie Palies, wanted in st. Paul
for working confidence game, feigned
sickness while in charge Of an officer at
Winona and was taken to hotel. She
escaped.
A.W. Lindquist, Of Owatonna, Mimi,
skated 60 miles in hours and SO min
utes, breaking the worlds record made
by Ennis, of Chicago, 6 hours and 81
minutes.
Senator Davis will make an effort to
get the Minnesota apportionment in
creased to eight members instead of
seven, a. provided by the bill which
passed the house.
The Winona and Southwestern road
gave an excursion to Winona Wednes-
day to the business men of the different
towns along the line, which was com
pleted last week to Spring Valley.
AT st. Paul Christmas morning Silaa
Mickels attacked his wife and adopted
daughter, Emma Mcleod, with knife
and revolver. The daughter died in a
few moments, but the wife is still alive.
Mickels blew his own brains out.
Fire at Gull River destroyed between
5000, 900 and 5000. 0sfeet of dry lum-
Der, besides the Gull River Lumber
company's dry kiln and several build
ings in connection. Eight dwelling
houses. the company's store building
and the postoffice We're consumed.
The old plant owned by the Winona
Harvester company is about to be sold
to the Green Bay, Winona and st. Paul
Railway company, to be used for repair
shops. The main building is SOx1OO feet.
five stories high, besides other large
buildings worth in all 5000
The new smokestack at the Hill street
electric power house of the st. Paul
street railway, which is just completed.
is one of the tallest and largest in the
world. 1t is 200 feet high and has an
inside diameter at the base of fifteen
feet It took $4,000 brick and 81. 600
fire brick to build it. 1t weighs 19. 900
tons and cost $4,000.
The committee to revise the course Of
ctudy in the graded schools of the state
met in st. Paul Monday and Tuesday.
The committee appointed by Superin-
tendent Kiehle, consists Of Professor 81.
p. Judson, of the state university: w.
L. West, Faribault; Miss Mabel Law.
renee, st. Cloud; Miss Mary Hall. ST.
Paul; r. e. Denfeld, Duluth. and 4.
Bliss, of Henderson. The result of their
work has not yet been made public.
The monument to the brave men who
lost their lives in the New Ulm massa-
Gre by the Sioux Indians, has been fin.
ished at cost of s., 900. The monument
is Of white bronze on a stone base, Z
feet square by 2 feet high. The plinth
is feet high, 8 inches square by 3 feet
8 inches high. The spire and cap give q
total length to the monument of 725 feet.
The north and south plinths show in has
relief battle scenes, and the east and
west plinths, with four tablets on the
monument show . life-sized medallion
Of Judge Charles e. Fandrau, with
an inscription giving history of the In
dian massacres and the names of SOL
diers killed In battle.
A Minneapolis jeweiry firm Is short
two pairs Of diamond ear drops. The
traditional two web dressed gentlemen
stele them while looking at other dia-
monds.
The claim Of Joseph Whitferd, Of
Fergus Falls, Of $7S7. 90 for depredations
committed BY the Chippewa Indians in
1878, has been allowed by the secretary
Of the interior.
Governor Merriam appointed George
w. Ash as surveyor general of logs and
lumber in the Fifth lumber district Of
the state to fill tho vacancy occasionsd
by the resignation Of Alexander Fraser.
A meeting of Duluth capitalists has
been held to reorganize the Bell g
Eyster bank. 1t is understood that
$3.50, 600 is already pledged by Boston
men for the purpose Of making it ma
tional bank.
Representative Lind has secured from
the United States fish commissioner a
promise that early next year there win
be placed in the Minnesota river, be-
oUU, 600 wall-eyed pike.
]. P. Gribben, Of st. Paul, Lost six
thoroughbred horses at the Cloverdala
stock farm, between Saltwater and
Lake Elmo, Sunday last. They were
being watered when they began pranc-
ing on the ice and broke throuch All
being drowned.
Attorney General Clapp's biennial re-
port to the legislature says that for the
year ending July 81, 1889, the total
prosecutions were 976, convictions ATT,
acquittals 1873, nolle prossequis 1888, and
pending at date of report 122, Showing
marked decrease in crime as compared
with the two preceding years. Forty.
eight criminal cases were argued in the
supreme court during the two years
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