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

White Bear lake opened for bushes.
Gatu-d:y.
Hon. John Day Smith is announced a:
cindidgte for congress from the Min
neapolis district.
The Third district Republican con
gressional convention will be held al
Pennington Aug. 2.
The Minnesota Universalist conven-
ton decides in favor of the worlds fair
being open Sunday.
The amount of the Minnesota revenue
collections for June was about $500, 900,
and of the customs receipts about
S1S,500.
Burglars secured 81 900 worth of dia-
monds and jewelry at the manufacture
ing jewelry house of F. E. Calender,
st. Paul.
Clay county delegates to the Repub-
lican state convention have been in
structed to vote for Knute Nelson for
governor.
A bill to establish port OF immediate
delivery at Duluth has been reported by
Senator Washburn and placed on the
calendar.
The president has granted a pardon to
w. L. Covel, of Minnesota, convicted of
employing an unlicensed engineer on q
ferry boat.
A new banking house, styling itself
the Polk County bank, has opened for
business at Thief River Falls with a
capital of $4,000.
Gilbert johnson, Swede living at
Rothsay, committed suicide on Great
Northern train by slashing his abdomen
and wrists with q razor.
The Saltwater school board has settled
the parochial school question by decid-
ing not to lease church property for
public school purposes.
H. H. Hart, secretary of the state
board of corrections and charities, was
elected president of the national confer
ence at its session in Denver.
During August, at Goodsell observa-
b tory, Northfeld, corps of compilers
and observers will begin the work of re-
vision of the Great Star catalogue.
Eleven horses were burned to death in
the Great Northern railroad camps near
Red Lake Falls. The loss is over 50, 900.
Four Of the horses belonged to farmers.
A convention Of the Peoples party
will be held III Pennington on Tuesday,
July -, for the purpose of nominating
a candidate for congress in the Third
district.
In order to defeat the measure, which
had passed the house, Senator Washburn
moved to recommit the bill setting aside
a large tract Of land III Northern Mime
sofa for park
Ole knutson, Q Norwegian farmer,
while on his way home from Kensington
with a load CT lumber, was accidentally
killed by his wagon tipping over and the
lumber falling on him.
At a special meeting of the Moorhead
city council the liquor license was raised
from $500 to 81 900. The vote in coun-
Gil stood to 3, Mayor Tillotson casting
the deciding vote. At least twenty-five
licenses will be taken out at that figure.
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the civil service rules for classified serv-
ices il the postofiice will be held in the
st. Paul custom house Aug. 9. Appi-
cations must be presented not later than
July Is to P. NJ. Marving, secretary Of
the local board of examiners.
Joseph Lawrence, generally known as
Montana Joe," was shot and instantly
killed at Ely by Mike Wallace. There
was hot discussion over drinks, when
both men mutually agreed to go home,
get guns, return and settle the difficulty.
The shots were fred simultaneously.
The doctors say Wallace cannot live.
At Window the jury in the famous
usury case of J. T. Smith against the
Continental Life Insurance company
rendered verdict substantially for the
plaintiff for the entire amount. The
$4,000, with the exception of $4,000
transferred to an innocent purchaser, is
forfeited on account Of involving usury.
Mrs. Cornelia NJ. Thomas, of St. Paul,
is under arrest charged with having
stolen 81 900 from her sister, Mrs. Mary
d. Phillips, of Seattle, Wash. The cir
cumstances preceding the arrest are pc
culiar. Mrs. Phillips was in st. Paul
recently to testify in the divorce case of
her sister. She returned to Seattle, and
while en- route dreamed that Cornelia
Thomas had distracted 81 900 of 81, 400
which she had in the lining of her dress.
A search revealed the amount 81 900
short. Upon preliminary hearing Mrs.
Thomas was discharged for lack of evil
dence.
At Duluth Ed Red placed his right
arm in lions cage at Ringing
Bros circus to make the beast rise to
please spectators. He had been cutting
meat to feed the animals. Like a flash
the beast struck the arm with his paw
and then set his jaws upon it. Jabbing
its nose and mouth with the iron pick
could not force the lion to loosen his
jaws and the keeper had to be torn
away, literally stripping his arm of
flesh. The bones had been terribly
crushed. The man was removed to the
hospital and his arm amputated at the
shoulder.
Chief Justice Gilfillan, of the supreme
court, has handed down his decision on
the much talked of oil inspector case.
The judgment Of the lower court is re-
versed, bat the decision is a victory for
Fl. B. Wills, state oil inspector, never
theless, and The oil companies will prob
ably come forward and pay the fees for
inspection over which all this legal
wrangle has been created Willis won
his case in the lower court and the rul-
ings of that court are sustained in every
particular by the chief justice who re-
verses the Judgment on a technical
point merely. This is in the fact that
Willis is not the proper party to bring
suit under the circumstances.
How Mines Are Sailed.
The gullibility of persons who buy
mines has passed into a proverb. It is
said that such properties have actually