The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-01-21
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS,

|, Winena's electric street car system b \
, completed.
One fourth of the population of Red !
Wing has the influenza. i
The Minneapolis and st. Louis deuot |
at Mankato was destroyed by FIRE last |
"se aastSs5 ~ HfG .etiad
Captain Fred W. Durham. one Of
Fergus Falls most prominent citizens, !
a corporation has been formed for ex. /
tenslve operations on the Messabi range !
In Northern Minnesota. =. -
Archbishop John Ireland, of st. Paul,
le1t Tor Rome last week. He win be alb .
sent about four months. .e.z !
John Cahill, q farmer living near
LuVerne, was frozen to death while re.
turning home from town.
Herman Pohlman, of Centre City, has.
been sentenced to five years in state
prison for the murder of Fred Tang last
The jury in the Herrick damage suif
against the city OF Moorhead Brought in
verdict for the plaintiff of $500. The
suit was for $15, 900. +,
John Stuart, an old settler of Pine.
stone county, died Saturday at Eureka
Springs, Ark, where he had gone for
the benefit of his health.
The thirty-ninth annual conyocation
or the Grand Lodge Of Minnesota, A. F.
and A. NJ, was held in st. Paul last week.
-Four hundred delegates Were present.
The Minnesota state supreme court
has affirmed the decision of the lower
court granting w. w. Bishop $4,000
TOR being injured on the St. Paul cable
line in 1888. Z, ..... 3d.. -. = :"
William i Mcclellan, a prominent
Hartland. Freeborn county. was in.
stantly killed by the bursting of a cast.
ing in a wood saving machine.
Sarah Munson, daughter of Peter
Munson, living on farm near Luverne,
was taken with a fit while hauling water
from well with rope, and fell head
foremost into the well and was drowned.
The Rapidan -four and linseed oil
mills, five miles from Crystal Lake.
have been destroyed by fire. The loss
is estimated at $40, 600; insured for 500
OO0. Fifteen employees are out of work.
President Northrop, of the state uni
versity, has been invited to deliver the
annual address before the graduating
class in the Yale law school. The pres.
ident will undoubtedly accept the high
honor .
Paxton @. Campbell, son Of Rev. f..
V. Campbell, pastor of the PRESBYTERIAN
church at st. Cloud, has been arrested
in Chicago for forging his fathers name
to two checks. He was placed under
5000 bonds to appear for trial.
General J. s. Brisbin, of Red Wing.
died at Hotel Lafayette, PHILADELPHIA.
Thursday. He served In the War of the
Rebellion, and for the past twenty wears
had been stationed in the West and
Northwest. About two years ago he
took up his residence at Red Wing.
upon leave of absence from the service.
One of the most remarkable men in
Blue Earth county, in the person Of
William La Clair, died Thursday Of spo-
piexy: Several years ago he was q
wealthy and influential citizen, but one
be his ruin. His wife and those he sun
f.So~ - w " No &4tysestc tkACA- ucccE Jcu
him. He was a graduate of Yale. For
two years he has been an inmate of the
poor farm. ..-...... ...,.
The annual meeting OF State Agricul-
tural society was held in the senate cham
Der at the capitol in st. Paul Tuesday
last. The election Of officers resulted as
follows: President, Jules 81. Burwell,
OF st. Paul; first vice president, s. M.
Owen, of Minneapolis second vice pres
ident, Edward Weaver, of Mankato;
members of board of managers, Colonel
W. M. Liggett, of Benson, and j. H.
Letson, of Alexandria.
Ten thousand pounds, over eighty
miles, of binding Irvine day will be the
product of the plant at the Saltwater
prison when the machinery Just pur-
chased shall be in operation. This
Irvine will be made Of hemp, of short
fibre, and will be sold at o cents q
pound, giving about cent pound for
the RUNNING expenses of the institution.
The twine turned ont by the prison
plant last year gave general satisfaction
and will create demand for it this
war