The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-12-17
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS

bago City and killed.
The ninth annual Waseca Chatuaqus
assembly will be held at Maplewood
Park July IS to %, 1892.
| Mrs. John Moody, of Springfield. was
instantly killed by a train while walk.
ing on a railroad bridge.
| Diphtheria has made its appearance
family have died from it.
Bertha Hanke, 13-year-old st. Paul
girl, was burned to death Wednesday
night by lamp exploding.
Mayor Hanson, of Moorhead, died last
week. He was 80 years of age and serv-
ing his third term as mayor.
Rev. s. w. Pond, a resident of Min
nesota since 1884, died at Shakopee Sat
urday. He was 81 years of age.
Kittel Halverson, Minnesota's ALI
on the Republican side of the house.
Robert Brooks, for upwards of forty
six years a resident of Minnesota, died
at Minneapolis Wednesday, aged SO.
Nels Peterson, Dane, was found
dead in his barn about two miles from
Kasson, Thursday. Foul play is sus-
| pected.
Eight Minneapolis saloon keepers
| have been fined 500 each for violating
the law regarding the selling of liquor
| on Sunday.
Duluth letter carriers will petition
congress to raise their salaries to the
same as received by the carriers in
larger cities.
Walter II. Sanborn, of St. Paul, has
been unanimously Endorsed for Judge of
the United States circuit court by the
st. Paul Bar association.
Hon. A. De Lacy Wood, editor of the
Grand Marais Pioneer, bas been ap-
pointed judge of probate for Cook
county by Governor Merriam.
Martin Williams, we'll known news
paper man of Minneapolis, died in that
city Thursday last. He had been a res
ident of the state for upwards of forty
years.
John Dim and Frank Rogers few
weeks ago stole 5000 worth of clothing
from a st. Cloud store. They were con
victed and will spend the next five years
at Saltwater.
One day last week Hans Erickson. of
Athens, went to North Branch with a
load of potatoes to sell. Next morning
his team brought him home lying down
II the wagon box dead.
Mr.. Nobel, the senior partner of Nobel
81 Wirsch, of Richmond, has left for
parts unknown, taking with him about
$500 Of the firms funds. The firm had
recently embarked there in the hotel
business.
AT Mankato Judge Severance sen
fenced Albert Annis to twenty-five wears
and six months in the penitentiary for
committing an outrage upon Mrs. Gill
more. Tins is the third conviction on q
similar otfense.
Christopher Koran, charged with the
murder of Moritz L. Weisser, at st.
Paul, Aug. 8, has been acquitted, the
jury evidently being of the opinion that
the proyocation was enough to drive the
man into a frenzy.
The people of st. Anthony Park. a St.
Paul suburb, held an Indignation meet
ing against change in street car service.
By the change they only got one street
car an hour. and are compelled to trans
fer i'll coming down town.
An old man named Deidrich Rust was
overcome by the recent storm and was
found dead five miles from Gaylord. He
was found lying in a pasture, and hogs
were about to devour the body. He
was only short distance from home.
The appeal for aid for the famine.
stricken in Russia by Governor Merriam
has already been needed by the people of
Blue Earth City The guarantees of
car load of wheat, to be forwarded to
the state committee at st. Paul Dec. 81,
is made.
Pohlmann was found guilty of man
slaughter in the first degree at Center
City. He killed a man named Tang, who
had taken indecent liberties with Pohl-
mapn's wife. Tang tried to kill Pohl-
mann, and the latter killed him in self
defense. A motion was made for new
trial.
The lumber cut in Pine county this
winter will exceed that of any previous
year by many million feet. The forest
fires last summer have obliged lumber
men to cut the timber in order to save it
from being worm eaten, Two hundred
lumber camps area in. operation in the
county at present.
An unusual feaI IRE for this season of
the year is reported from White Earth.
The few days of warm weather last
week was accompanied by numerous
mosquitoes. They are as lively and
frisky as in midsummer and are pos
sessed OF ravenous appetite and most
decided thirst for human gore.
Census Bulletin No. lat gives the pop
ulation of Minnesota in detail by coun-
ties, townships, cities, wards of cities,
and villages, according to official count
of returns. The population for the
state as returned in 1880 was $50, 773.
Under the present census population
of !, 301 1926 is returned, an increase of
521 ,053. Of the eighty counties only
Dodge, Fillmore, Goodhue, Houston,
Olmstead and Wabasha show decreases.
A somewhat careful estimate of the
number of deer killed in st. Louis and
Douglas counties during the now ended
game season places the total at nearly
1000. OF this little more than half
have peen killed in Douglas county
largely by Duluth sportsmen, while
from New Duluth, fifteen miles up the
river, to Wakelin's, twelve miles down
the north shore, the bulk of the st.
Louis county killing has been
done. Probably 5000 carcasses have
been shipped East and South from the
two counties.
st. Paul is to have a new life insur-
ance company, backed by heavy capital.
EVENTS OF A WEEK.
News of Current Interest Given Brief
Mention.
The gross value of the late Mr.. Par
nell's property is sworn at 500, $40 and
the net value at $31, 300.
A dispatch from Bombay says that
Mansfield, the parachutist, has been
killed by the bursting of his balloon.
The New England Homestead esti-
mates the hon crOn of 1891 at o13 202