The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-08-13
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS
slayton is erecting a city hall and

slayton is erecting city hall and
jail.
.Pipestone county has 10000 acres Of
wild land.
The summer running meeting at
Hamline has closed.
Duluth has voted in favor of issuing
$500, 900 bonds to erect water works
plant.
It cost an even ST., 900 to run the late
Christian Endeavor convention at Min
neapolis.
Rain and hail did considerable dam
age to crops in the vicinity Of Crookston
Thursday. 81
The West Duluth striking laborers
have returned to work at the old figures,
Sits day.
The mail service on electric cars be-
tween st. Paul and Minneapolis has been
inaugurated.
/, The work of removing the state re-
form school from st. Paul to Red Wing
Is in progress.
!. Two men were drowned near SO.
Cloud, one perishing in an attempt to
save the other. Gf
The Duluth and Winnipeg extension
of its main line will be built to Deer
River this season.
William j. Pringle, of Elmwood, Ills,
has been elected superintendent Of
schools at Mortified.
liver Olson, section foreman, living at
Renville, was sunstruck Saturday and
died within one hour.
The fourteen creameries Of Freeborn
county are estimated to pay out not less
than $500, 600 per year. Is j
: Phillip Diedrick, of Wakefield, while
was caught in the sickle and killed.
: The Great Northern will be built into
Red Lake Falls this fall and shipping
facilities will accordingly be excellent.
David Buskirk, a citizen of Hubbard,
/ was instantly killed at Wadena while
attempting to board the train at that
point. @
The stonecutters in all the quarries at
Sank Rapids are on strike. They de-
mand better sheds to work in or extra
pay for outside labor.
The people of Sebeka, petition for
the establishment of postoffice nine
miles north of Wadena on the Wadena
and Park Rapids railroad.
John Witt and son, living near Worth
ington, were run over by reaper last
week, receiving injuries from which
they have since died.
Bishop Cotter, of Winona. was unani-
mously reelected president of the Cath
olio Total Abstinence Union of Amer
lea at their recent convention.
Vessel tonnage for July at Duluth
was 500, S92 tons, 10 900 in excess of the
same month last year; and the heaviest
month here so far this season.
Adelbert Goheen, of Fergus Falls,
convicted of the murder of Rosa Bray,
says his brother Anderson committed
the crime Anderson has been arrested.
James Bale, .Tr., of Duluth, was
drowned Thursday in Fall lake, four
miles east of Ely. He was student in
the medical department of the state
university.
The Thompson-Houston Electric COM
pany, of st. Paul, has taken an option
on the st. Cloud street railway until
Oct. /. 1t is expected that the sale will
be completed soon.
Charles Crust, of Brainerd, was
drowned in Mile Laos lake Thursday
while bathing. Mr.. Crust was married
the previous Saturday and was spending
his honeymoon, at the lake.
Moritz L. Weisser, an architect, was
shot and killed by Christopher Koran
Saturday. Koran claims Weisser was
unduly intimate with his wife. He
gave himself up to the police.
Mrs. Charles Poshert, living few
miles west of Marshall, accidentally
scalded two of her children with boiling
water. One, a girl of 8, died soon after,
but the other child will recover.
Adolph Wagner, who is said to live in
st. Paul, was bound over to the grand
jury in the sum of 81, 600 ON the charge
of stealing horse owned by John E.
Kelly. farmer residing near Farming
ton.
A shoVel-nosed sturgeon was caught
in Lake Pepin last week whose head
weighed 16 pounds, and the estimated
weight of the fish is So pounds. The
head will be preserved as the largest
ever seen here.