The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-09-03
1897 September. 1891
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MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS

Faribault is to have free mail delivery
Oct. 1.
The Minneapolis exposition opened
Wednesday last.
There were 461 500 horses In Mime
sofa June 1, 1890. :.
John Magarin, of Melrose, is under ar
rest on charge of rape.
Mankato is to have an extensive nork
packing house to be built of brick.
Minnesota has s, 1853, sS3 acres of wheat,
466,612 of fax, 1,457, 166 Of oats, and
$50, 416 of corn.
P. P. Burgland, of Blooming Prairie.
had seven stacks of barley DESTROYED by
fire Saturday. Loss, $500.
Charles Gerhard aged 81 years. COM
mitted suicide at Mortified Thursday
by shooting himself through the temple.
At Monticello Sunday, the Monticello
Starch factory and residence Of e. B.
McCord We're destroyed by fire. Loss
about $4,000.
About one-third of the Canadian news
papers received at the Duluth postoffice
are seized and sent to the dead letter
office because of lottery advertisements.
The steamer City of st. Paul was com.
PEELED to lay to at Winona Tuesday on
account of the low water and arrange
for special train to transport the pas
sengers further north.
A smashup occurred on the Grants
burg branch of the st. Paul and Duluth
railroad, five miles from Grantsburg
Thursday morning. Five passengers
were seriously injured.
John Erickson, a section hand on the
Northern Pacific railroad, committed
suicide at Carlton. He threw himself
under the west bound passenger train
and was cut to pieces.
Mrs. Eina Mattson, mother of ex-Sec-
rotary of State Hans Mattson, died
Thursday at her home in Vasa, Good
hue county, aged SO years. She had
lived here since the pioneer days.
Lightning struck and set fire to the
barn of w. Schupp, farmer two miles
north of Young America, Sunday. The
barn and many grain stacks near by
were consumed by fire. Loss about
$1,000.
AT Sleepy Eye DIR. August Brodda and
his niece, Augusta Kunz, have been held
to the grand jury on the charge of
starving their illegitimate child. The
man is 60 years of age and the woman
80 years.
The tenth annual encampment of
Sons of Veterans was held in Minneap-
oils last week. st. Paul Camp No. /
won the prize drill. Helena was chosen
as the place for holding the next en-
campment.
The signal service office which was es.
tablished at Red Wing last fall has now,
by order of the chief of the weather
bureau, been made predicting station.
This is done for the service of river men
principally.
The body of George J.. Osborn, who
disappeared from Minneapolis about q
week ago, has been found in the river al
st. Paul, terribly decomposed and dis.
figured. He was short in his accounts
to the extent of SIS 200 or more.
At Cloquet Lewis La Prairie, an
Indian, while drunk made a muir
derous attack on J. s. Stack, until
! lately the Indian farmer of the Fond du
Lac reservation. He fired two shots at
Stack, but was disarmed before hitting
| his man.
John j. West, head dynamo tender at
the Brush electric light station at Min
neapolis was inrtantly killed Thursday
evening by an electric shock. There
was no one in the room at the time OF
the accident and it is not known Just
how it occurred.
According to Washington dispatch
the name of Hon. Thomas Wilson, OF
Winona, is prominently mentioned in
! department circles as the successor Of
General Bragg, the deceased member Of
the interstate commission, who was Z
| resident of Alabama.
The cerner stone of st. Gabriel's hos.
| pital, at Little Falls, was laid last
Sunday with imposing ceremonies,
The building is to cost CSC, 900. During
/ the services the S-year-old son of Joseph
Brooms fell twenty-five feet to the
ground and was picked up unconscious.
The Hersey & Bean mill at Stillwate,
shut down Saturday night, owing to the
scarcity of logs. There are plenty Of
logs in the dam and baom, but the
Hersey & Bean people have none in
sight for the remainder Of this season.
The mill employs $50 men, and has cut
| this year 81, 100000 feet Of lumber,
100000 lath and II, 000. 900 shingles.
Mrs. George A. Camp, Of Minneapo.
lis, the wife Of Major Camp, formerly
connected in an extensive lumber bust.
ness in Minneapolis with T. B. Walker,
committed suicide by jumping into
! Minnetonka lake in front Of their pleas.
ant summer cottage. It happened q
about 6 o'clock Friday morning, as fan
| a. can be ascertained, Mrs, Camp was
| a. sufferer froIa nervous pgostration,
which is supposed to be the cause Of The
! deed.