The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-04-07
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS
Pine Island has a new state bank.

Pine Island has new state bank.
The supreme calendar for April con-
tains 265 cases. -
The Milwaukee depot at Mapleton was
destroyed by fire last week.
st. Cloud is to have a new national
Dank with acapital of 100000.
The Catholics of Hastings are preuar-
ing 10 erect new brick church.
Sixteen miles of water pine ia to bs
laid IN Minneapolis this summer.
The estate of the late M. B. Harrison.
OF Duluth, inventoried 81, So. 900.
The Winthrop -four mill has been de-
stroyed by hire. Loss about $50, 600.
q. |. Larson has purchased the Lin
coin County journal, published at Tyler.
An electric street car line il to be
Cloud.
Tho st. Paul and Duluth vim .xtsnd
spring.
dovernor Merriam has purchased the
hlcnelieu hotel at Chicago, paying there
AeI $4VO,VUV.
Inc Northern Pacific Is contemplating
the erection Of q new Office building md
depot at st. Paul. =
The citizens Of Monticello haxe natl
toned the council to raipe The loon
license from $500 to 81, 600.
Senator Davis, of this state. ID men
toned as the successor Of the late Jus
tce Bradley on the supreme bench.
Professor Charles e. Jordan has been
elected superintendent of schools g
Minneapolis, vice d.. John E. Bradley,
resigned.
Patrick Murphy, ex-city clerk Of
Brainerd, plead guilty to misappropri.
ating city funds and was sentenced 10
one year in state prison.
John M. Mattson, well-to do farmer
residing near Ada, committed suicide
by cutting his throat with razor. IA
cause known for the aot.
Fl. o. Peterson, treasurer of Heane-
pin county, has been suspended by Gov
ernor Merriam a q result Of the inves-
tigation into the business methods of
his Office.
The new binding Irvine plant at the
Saltwater prison is in operation and has
a capacity of from 1000 to 8, 900 pounds
daily. There are about I5O, 900 l8unds
of Irvine and 100 tons of raw material
now on hand.
William Hulet has been arrested 1t
Shakopee by United States marshal
and taken to Fergus Falls to answer to
the charge of using the United States
mail for conveying obscene literature
several years ago.
Anthony Kelly, wholesale grocer,
Of Minneapolis, was arrested at by State
Food Commissioners Rich for violating
the food law. He had been selling bak-
ing powder that contained alum, though
he stated he had no idea of its presence
in the powder sold. He was fined $25.
While removing the debris on the site
OF the new government building at st.
Paul, formerly occupied by the Central
police station, a workman discovered a
roll of bills which contained at least q
thousand dollars. The money is in such
decayed condition as to be practically
worthless.
Mrs. Kate Davis, on trial last week at
st. Paul for the murder of Samuel
Blackstone, has been acquitted. Black.
stone went to the woman's house pre-.
sumably to see his employer, who
roomed there. The woman, however,
testified that he forced his way into hel
room and she shot him in defense of he,
honor.
Jonas Lavalle, an S-year-old boy re.
siding near Centerville station, met
death in a horrible manner. While
watching a steam saving machine the
balance wheel burst into several frag.
ments, one of which struck him in the
stomach, carrying him sixty feet, where
he was found wholly disem boweled,
The segment, after killing the boy, was
found on the other side of Egg lake,
over a mile and a half from where ii
started OH its mission of death.
In compliance with the resolution
adopted at tho last meeting of the Min.
nesota Editors and Publishers' associs-
ton, that q committee of five, one from
each congressional district, be appointed
to look after the Minnesota exhibit al
the worlds fair, the following commit.
tee has been appointed: Ed A. Paradis,
of Merriam Park, chairman, Fourth
district; Joseph Leicht, of Winona,
First district; e. G. Huntington, Win.
dom, Second district; General s. P.
Jennison. Red Wing, Third district
w. B. Mitchell, st. Cloud, Fifth dis.
trict.