The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-09-29
MINNESOTA NEWS.

MINNESOTA NEWS.
Henry Barrel, farmer living neal
Window, was killed by vicious bull
Monday.
A Minneapolis dentist pulled the
wrong tooth and the patient has begun
suit for 81 900.
The grist mill and the adjoining
warehouses at Alden were completely
destroyed by fire Friday.
The Merchants National Bank of st.
Cloud has been authorized to commence
business with a capital of 100000.
Thieves secured $3.50 from the money
drawer at the Great Northern depot at
Pipestone while the agent was at dinner.
By the bursting of fly wheel in Mer-
rill & Rings saw mill at West Duluth
Charles Simonean was killed and another
employee badly injured.
The safe of Anton Hoeschen, of Kent,
near Moorhead, was cracked and $1,000
in cash taken. Hoeschen is agent fol-
the Farmers elevator and storekseper.
Carl Anderson, Swedish peddler,
confined in st. Paul hospital with a
bullet hole in the knee, suicided last
week. He continually raved about
some crime he is thought to have COM
mitted.
The abduction of Little Mamie
Schwartz at st. Paul four months ago
has caused her mother to become in
sane. Although able detectives were
engaged on the case no trace of the
missing child has been found.
The workmen on the branch of the
Great Northern, which is being con-
structed between st. Hilaire and Thief
River Falls, have been taken from the
work and in all probability the track
will not be ready for traffic before
Nov. 1.
Stephen Liddone, an old English SOL
der, who has lived at Winona for the
past ten years. has received intelligence
that he is to receive $4,000 from the
British government for services in the
East Indies. He will get the money
from the British consul at Chicago.
While Nicholas Quinnlll and family,
residing on farm five miles south Of
Hokah were away from home visiting,
his house was entered by sneak thieves
and valuables to the amount of $500 car
ried away. The funds consisted of a $50
bill and five promissory notes aggregat-
ing $3.50.
John Herman. plasterer, was muir
dered at Litchtield Friday. Herman,
with two other men, had trouble in a
saloon, separated and came together
again in the outskirts of the town, when
Herman was shot dead. Herman Pehle,
a German farmer, has been arrested as
the murderer and held to the grand
jury.
John Buck, an aged farmer, was killed
at Lanesboro last week. He attempted
to cross the railroad track in front of an
incoming train, and at the last moment,
seeing he could not make it, suddenly
turned his frantic team and was thrown
forward on the whiffletrees, where he
was killed, being dragged several
blocks.
Prominent in the gatherings of the
Grand Army men in Washington dur
ing encampment week has been the
remnant of the gallant First Minnesota
The vets, many of whom came from
Minnesota and some who are residents
of other states flocked together on sew
eral occasions and heartily enjoyed
themselves.
Major A. B. Bracket died at his resi-
dence in st. Paul Thursday after an ILL
ness of about two weeks. There was prob
ably no man in the State of Minnesota
who was more generally or more favor
ably known than was Major Bracket.
For thirty-six years he has been prom
inent personagein the state. The greater
part of that time he has been in the
Office of United States marshal. As an
Indian fighter he has an excellent repu-
tation, and Brackets battalion was one
of the most noted in the civil war.
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ganese mine near Monticello was settled
Tuesday by the shipment of $4,000
pounds to st. Paul manufacturing
firm. The manganese ore has been
tested by different manufacturing COM
panies and pronounced valuable. Sew
eral orders have been received from vari-
Gus points and there is prospect of the
establishment of permanent manganese
industry. J. N. Stacy, the discoverer
and owner of the manganese beds, first
found the mineral over year ago.
For several weeks past the streets and
sidewalks of Little Falls have been Gov
cred with frogs, so that it is almost
impossible to keep from stepping on
them. A few days ago train on the
Little Falls and Dakota road was de-
layed nearly two hours on account of
them. The frogs were SO thick on the
track that hundreds were crushed and
the wheels slipped. Another peculia,
thing in regard to them is that they are
all hopping in northwesterly direction;
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