The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-06-18
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS
Faribault is to have a v;ro fanca

ferred to Duluth July 4, it is said.
Worthington's waterworks will cost
$4,000, The contract has been let.
The state supreme court has decided
that the lien law of 1889 is constitu-
tional.
Blue Earth's militia company has
been mustered out. It fell below the
standard.
The wenty-fourth annual reunion of
the First Minnesota will be held at
Winona June %.
| At Pipestone Walter Smiley was shot
in the thigh by Marshal Walkup, out of
mistake for burglar.
The work of deepening the channel of
the Mississippi between st. Paul and
Minneapolis has been begun.
The State Firemen's association met
| in annual session at Jordan last week.
Three hundred delegates were present.
Otter Tail county citizens complain
loudly of illegal SEEMING in the lakes of
that county. They want deputy game
| warden.
The Shakopee Mill company has made
an assignment. Assets, $4,000; liabil-
tiles, $37, 900. Insufficient working
capital is the principal cause.
At the annual meetings of the Duluth
and Iron Range Railroad company and
the Minnesota Iron company, Il. R.
Bishop was elected president.
Engineer De La Barre, of the st. An
thony Falls Water Power company, has
already begun work on the preliminary
surveys for the new dam at Minneapolis.
The Winona, Mimi, city council has
decided to advertise for bids for build
ing new high bridge between Winona
and the Wisconsin side of the Missis-
sippi.
The bodies of Charley Coles and
Edward Berg, at Bird Island, whose
fate was uncertain, have been found
in the lake. They were drowned while
fishing.
Col. Willis, who was oil inspector un-
der Governor McGill, has been ap-
pointed oil inspector to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Sam
Nichols.
Grand Rapids, Mimi, has voted on
Incorporating as a village by nearly q
unanimous vote. The election was con-
Quoted under the Australian law, and it
worked finely.
The Beauford woods, five miles north
OF Mapleton, have the appearance of
winter, the army of caterpillars having
taken the leaves off of every kind of tree
except the Nbutternut. In some places
they are over an inch thick on the
trees.
In the case of Jack Koch and Bob
Wood, charged with the murder of
John Bauer, at Eden Valley, last Feb
ruary, the jury brought in verdict
of manslaughter in the second degree.
A motion for new trial was at once
made.
The corner stone of the new high
school building at Duluth was laid
Monday. Ignatius Donnelly delivered
an address and other appropriate cere-
monies followed. The building will
cost $500, 900.
At Beaver Falls, Mimi, the barns
and stables connected with the Syndi-
cate house were burned with three val
liable horses, COWS, cutters, harness,
etc. No insurance. The fire was of
incendiary origin.
The Winona city council has sus-
pended Fire Marshal j. w. Ryan and
preferred charges of intoxication and
misrepresentation of funds amounting to
over $500, given him by the firemen for
the purchase of uniforms.
Max Giniski, aged S, and L. Katz,
aged A, were run over and killed by a
motor train on the West side, st. Paul.
They were playing ON the street cross
ing the track. The bodies were terribly
mangled. 81
The directors of the Little Falls,
Mimi, roller mill company, whose flour
mill was destroyed by fire last week,
have decided to rebuild as soon as pos
sible. The new plant will have a
capacity of 75o barrels and only the
most improved machinery will be used.
The thirty fourth annual convention
of the Minnesota grand lodge, ]. o. G.
T., was held at Masonic Temple, Mime
apolis, last week. The secretary's re-
port shows a membership of 7,O25, an
increMe of 200 during the year. About
100 delegates were in attendance.
A Christian convention will be held
on Rest island, near Lake City, under
the auspices of John G. Woolley, July
10 to % inclusive Mr.. Woolley an
nounces that the convention viii be sas
democratic as alcohol, as bipartisan as
poverty, and as unsectarian as sin.
Able speakers have been engaged.
The q. A. R. encampment, which
has been in session the past week
at st. Cloud, closed Saturday. The
place selected for holding the next
encampment is Melrose. The encamp-
ment elected v. FL. Harris, of Frank
Daggett post, Litchield, district COM
mander, with A. G. Jacques, of Sank
Center senior vice and Manning Can
field, of Long Prairie, junior vice.
A man whose identity up to this time
is not established, made ferocious
assault with knife upon two women
who were entering their living rooms,
up stairs, at 249 Third avenue south,
Minneapolis. Neither woman was
dangerously wounded, although their
escape is somewhat wonderful. Their
Cameron.
A man living at Roodhouse, Ills,
has deed to st. Paul and Minneapolis.
City Attorney Russell, of Minneapolis,
has received letter from him. His
deed was given by an Indian chief
in 1867 to tract of land beginning at
st. Anthony falls, and running south to
the Chippewa river, thence east 100
miles, thence north 100 miles, and
thence west to the place of beginning.
This deed covers all Of ST. Paul, part Of
Minneapolis and the country immedi- \
ately south and east for 100 miles.
Whether the deed is worth anything or
N ~ fha <sifv affnrpou of arI1rca doog :, -
the man. It seems that the matter has
been referred to government officials at
Washington.