The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-01-14
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS
Faribault has free mail delivery.

Faribault has free mail delivery.
Republicans of Sank Rapids have or
ganized club.
Jesse Welch, ex-chief of police of
Mankato and an old settler, is dead.
The State Federation of Labor will
convene in st. Paul ON Sunday, jan 81.
Basil w. Armstrong, deputy clerk of
the Ramsey county district court, is
dead.
The Pillsbury academy at Owatonna
has an attendance of about 275, the
largest in its history.
The wheat investigating committee
has postponed its inquiry into the con-
duct of the elevators until March s.
Melchor Herman died Saturday at St.
George, aged 9S. He was q drummer
boy in Napoleon's army in the battle of
Waterloo.
Redwood Falls has voted in favor of
issuing bonds to the amount of S25, coo
to be used in putting in system of
water works. -
The Model Shoe store, one of the finest
in Duluth, has failed. TIE assets ara
about SAC, 1000, while the liabilities are
not over $500.
The late Lieutenant Governor Thorn
as II. Armstrong; will has been filed
for probate. The estate is estimated to
be worth 100000.
The postmaster at West Concord has
been removed owing to an irregularity
IN his accounts amounting to over $500.
The money has been refunded.
George Murth, lineman employed
by the Minneapolis Street Railway COM
pany. fell from the top of telegraph
pole and was instantly killed.
Ernest Fruchting, a young man living
Homestead township, Otter Tail
county, was buried in we'll in which
he was at work removing the curbing.
His body has not been recovered.
John NJ. Derby, an attorney, was
found dead in his bed in Duluth. The
coroner's jury returned verdict that
death was caused by an overdose of q
certain patent medicine he was taking
for cold.
Mrs. Ellen T. Window, of Winona,
who is the Administrative of the estate
OF her dead husband, has made an ap-
plication for the final settlement of the
estate and the division of the property
among the heirs. There is about Sl7O..
900 i'll the estate.
In a row at the Bethel settlement,
near Janesvine, Frank Weber was
shot and killed by German named
William Kubnee. Webber boarded
with Kubnee, and the latter claims he
was attacked without proyoeation and
shot Weber in self defense.
4 sad case of restitution and domes-
tic sorrow was recently brought to
light at Redwood Falls. A woman
named Morrison was found dead in a
house in the outskirts of the town.
Her husband had deserted her, and ow-
ing to lack OF proper food she became an
easy victim to diphtheria.
The county commissioners of Winona
county unanimously passed q resolution
providing for the raising of that coun-
TVS share of the worlds fair fund
$2,O27. The town boards of the town
ships have been asked to collect the
money and send it to the county COM
missioners
On land owned by Wright & Davis
north of La Prairie there has been
struck by Longyear, the expert miner.
a vein OF iron ore, of the very finest
quality, five feet thick, Mr., Longyear
"a highly elated, as the problem Of ore
and plenty Of it in the vicinity of La
Prairie is practically settled, and there
will be no difficulty in following this
vein to the pocket.
Gates A. johnson, for eight wears
building inspector of st. Paul, was re-
Gently asked TO hand in his resignation.
This he refused to do. A successor was
appointed, but johnson still refused 10
give up the office. Mayor Smith then
ordered Chief of Police Clark to eject
johnson and Thursday the chief took
the ex-inspector in his arms and carried
him out. -. ,@..-...
The state bureau of public instruction
is preparing q circular, in conformity
with the discussion held in the late
meeting of the educational association,
with reference to a uniform system of
examinations of teachers, The circulars
will be sent to all county superiatend-
ents Of the state, with view to secur-
Ing their cooperation in establishing
such system.
The Duluth and Iron Range road
has started an engineer corps from
Mesaba Statl9n, forty miles north
OF Duluth, to run branch line
al9ng the new Mesaba iron range,
which has lately proved to be one of the
richest iron deposits in the world. This
will make two roads along the range, as
the Duluth, Mesaba and Northern is
new building into the mines.
Mrs. Mary johnson, wife of black
smith of Paynesyille, has been COM
n1itted to the insane asylum by the pro-
bate court. She has been firm believ-
er in Christian science and had treated
several of her children with the usual
methods of the t:science" until medical
aid had proven futile and they had died.
The matter preyed so much upon her
mind that she became insane.
Secretary Harris report, presented at
the quarterly meeting of the state board
Of corrections and charities, showed an
increase OF 81 per cent. in the number
Of inmates of the insane hospitals of the
state during the past year. This is an
increase of I.Sp per cent. over the average
for, the past four years. The secretary
urged the necessity of the next legisla-
ture providing for fourth hospital.
1t is estimated that by the time the
Red Lake Indian reservation comes into
market twill contain the enormous
amount of 10,QQQ, 600, 900 feet of choice
pine lumber. OF this amount one
eighteenth, or, in round numbers,
csc, ZOO, 900 feet will become the property
of the state school fund. AT aa, ex-
tremely low estimate this will add
eventually $I,OO0,000 to the state school
fund.
New Court House Burned.
MARSHALL, Mimi, Jan. IL. Lyon