The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-07-14
MINNESOTA NEWS.

MINNEOUIA NEWO.
st. Raul is to have a Swedish match
factory.
Company c, NJ. N. e., is in camp at
White Bear lake.
A reception was given Mrs. John A.
Logan at the Minnesota Soldiers home
Thursday.
Seven saloon keepers in Moorhead
have shut up shop on account Of the in
creased liquor license.
John Day Smith, of Minneapolis. has
decideded that he doesn't want a con-
gressional nomination this fall, and has
made formal declaration to that effect.
The Great Northern railway has COM
menced operations on new iron bridge
across the Mississippi at st. Cloud.
They employ 100 men on the construc-
ton.
j. L. Forepaugh, a retired st. Paul
capitalists worth half million dollars,
blew his brains out in fit of melon
cholia. He had an idea he would be-
come bankrupt.
The oil companies will pay the inspec-
ton fees without further litigation, as a
result of the recent decision of the SUI
preme court. although, on technically
the decision was in their favor.
Ex-City Treasurer George Refs has
accepted the presidency of the reorgan-
lied Commercial bank, of st. Paul, and
will enter upon the discharge of his
duties, after making a brief trip to
Europe.
St. Paul Typographical Union No. 80
and Minneapolis Typographical Union
No. AZ have joined forces for the pur-
pose of enjoying the monster picnic of
the year. 1t will be held at Lindstrom,
Sunday, July 81.
G. B. Putnam, of San Francisco, who
is an enthusiast on ramie culture, is in
st. Paul for the purpose of interesting
capitalists in the establishment of a
large milling plant for the manufacture
of cloth from ramie fiber.
An electric car on the Grand avenue
line got beyond control of the motor man
and ran with frightful speed down the
Oakland avenue hill, colliding at the
bottom with another car. Nine persons
were hurt, one perhaps fatally.
A carload of Irvine, containing nearly
$4,000 pounds, shipped from the prison
binding Irvine factory Thursday. Sew
eral cars have been ordered and will be
shipped during the week. The esti-
mated output of the prison factory this
season is 1000, 900 pounds.
A meeting of the Minnesota worlds
fair commission was held at the state
capitol, the full board being present.
The bids of six contractors for the Min
nesota building In Chicago We're opened,
and after some discussion the contract
was awarded to Libbey & Libbey, of
Minneapolis, their contract price being
ga, 14O.
The board of managers of the state
reform school have notified the Lutheran
synod that any proposition that they
may see fit to make regarding the old
reform school property at Kitsondale
will be considered. The property is
wanted for college purposes, it being
proposed to remove the college from
Alton to st. Paul.
The new mining town of Biwabik,
about eighty miles from Duluth, burned
Friday afternoon causing loss of 500
600. The fire caught from pile of rub
bish being burned by the Carlton Iron
company. The Hamilton Ore company's
buildings, 500 feet away, caught from
this, and other buildings followed.
John Grants railroad grading camp and
outfit were also burned.
John w. Porter has been taken to the
state prison, at his own request. He
was convicted at the last term of the
United States court of robbing
the mails, and was sentenced
to be confined for one year in the Ram
sey county Jail; but becoming weary of
the enforced idleness in the JAIL he petit
toned Judge Nelson to change the
sentence to confinement in the peniten-
tiary, and the request was granted.
Twenty-four of the Tower and Soudan
strikers were bound over to await the
action of the grand jury ON the charge
of riotous action June IL. Thirteen
of them were also held on another
complaint charging riotous action
on Friday june II. Bail was fixed at
$3.50 for each defendant; all were COM
mitted. The court refused to consider
Attorney Wallace Warnes request to
censure the press for it's published re-
ports of the examination.
Word has been received at Duluth
that the steam yacht Picket, with
Bishop Whipple, of Faribault; Judge
Wilder and grandson, of Red Wing, and
Colonel G. H. Graves, of Duluth, went
aground ona dangerous reef on Isle
Royal on the Fourth and remained there
until the Booth steamer III. R. Dixon
was passing and noticed their signals of
distress. If the weather had been at all
stormy the whole party would have
persisted, as the accident occurred on
one of the most dangerous reefs in Lake
Superior.
A STATE CONVENTION.
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