The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-11-26
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS

Madelia has just voted So, 900 to build
a new school house.
Mail win be delivered free in Fari-
bault after Jan. 1, 1892.
Schools at Sank Rapids and Pelican
Rapids are closed until diphtheria ep-
idemic subsidies.
Miss Costigan, aged 60, living in the
outskirts of Hinckley, died last week
from want and exposure.
The Mitchell Clure Lumber COM
pany expects to manufacture $4,000, 900
feet of lumber at Duluth next season.
j. A. Oblinger, postmaster at Airing
ton, and owner Of the bank there, Is
said to be short II. 900, lost in specula-
ton.
The State bank of Springfield, Brown
county, has filed articles of association
with the public examiner. Capital
stock, $50, 900. -
A new artesian well on the Brayton
ranch near Alpena sends out 240 gallons
Of water per minute through a pipe 81
inches in diameter. =
A st. Paul Chinaman named AL You
has been sentenced to pay fine of $500
and serve four months in Jail for run
ming an opium smoking joint.
The proposition to have the CITY of
Duluth buy the plant of the Water and
Gas company for $1,950, 900 was de-
feated. A light vote was cast.
Threshing Is no more than three
fourths done in Hubbard county, and It
looks as though some grain would have
to stand in the stack until spring.
The register of deeds, OF Brown
county, reports that since wheat COM
mepced to be marketed, nearly 1000
farm mortgages have been paid of.
1t cost 81, 1O6. Is to run the state pub
lie school at Owatonna during the
month of October. One new building
was erected and an old one improved.
George Horne, O motorneer on the
saltwater street railway, lost his right
hand by having 1t crushed in the gear
ing Of the car while sandpapering the
commutator.
In q row over game Of cards on q
Great Northern train, near Pipestone.
Jack Keefe, the pugilist, was severely,
possibly fatally, stabbed by stranger,
who escaped.
The state auditor has paid warrant
of 5000, bounty for the capture Of Fred
A. Grover, horse thief, captured and
convicted by w. A. Houston, sheriff Of
Dodge county.
The state dairy and food commissioner
has issued an order notifying grocers
and dealers that the product of the
"Alden" Vinegar company is spurious,
impure and unfit for lse.
The receipts Of the department OF
grain inspection for the month of Octo.
Der were $28, 375.26, the largest sum
ever received by the department. In any
one month since its formation.
The auditor, of Goodhue county. re-
ports that forty wolf bounties were paid
during the year ending Nov. 10
amounting to $780, During the prev
ious year $40 was paid for sixty wolves
Superintendent Williams. Of the Mil.
waukee road, stationed at Minneapolis
denies that there is such thing as :
car famine. He says his road has more
cars than last year and is handling
| grain faster.
An Indian shot buck deer near Pine
City and was about to cut It's throat
when the wounded animal struck hin
| in the eye with it's large antlers. stun
ming him. In its further struggles tc
escape the deer injured the hunter Sc
badly that death ensued.
James Whalen lumberman in thu
employ of James Sherry, of Grand
RaTide, W. fir nj cath hill lal
ing mis- wa. t an ], His God, Wa
found within q mi /, La Prairie anc
jug Of alcohol pesi. 10 It. He lief,
Grand Rapids in very intoxicated CON
dition.
George A. Atwood, secretary Of thu
Hersey q Bean Lumber company, has
purchased the entire manufactured pro
! duct of that mill. including 1900. 00(
feet of lumber, 1000, 900 shingles ani
$500, 600 of lath. The purchase price q
not made public, but must approximate
2A00 600