The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-09-08
MINNESOTA NEWS.

o. M. Hall has been renominated by
Third district Democrats.
Work has commenced on the electric
railway connecting st. Paul and Still
water.
Judge Kelly has decided that the
Commercial bank, of st. Paul, may re-
sumo business.
The custom collections at st. Paul for
August amounted to $4,000 and the
revenue to $224.OOO.
Republicans of the Seventh district
have nominated Henry Feig, of Kandi-
yohi county, for congress.
James w. Lawrence, of Minneapolis,
has been nominated by the Democrats
OF the Fifth district for congress.
Minneapolis has two girl burglars
aged 10 and l6. They were captured
coming out Of a residence, loaded down
with plumber.
A. Detle, a shoemaker of Jordan, COM
mitted suicide by hanging himself in his
shop. Domestic troubles are supposed
to be the cause.
Scarlet fever is so prevalent in West
Duluth that the opening of the Fair
mount, Irving and Longfellow schools
has been postponed.
Lightning struck the barn of Gustav
Hartkopf, near Ortonville, burning the
building and killing five horses and
thirty-five or forty head of sheep.
The survivors of the battle of Birch
Coolie, fought against the Indians in
1852, held reunion at the Merchants
hotel, st. Paul, to celebrate it's thirtieth
anniversary of that event.
A meeting of grain dealers of South
ern Minnesota and Northern Iowa was
held at Winona last week. The object
OF the meeting was to fix grades and
transact other business preparatory to
handling this years crop.
The new directory of Winona, Just
issued, contains 5000 names, an increase
OF 800 in two years. Using the null
tiple OF 1-2, customary in this kind of
calculation, the population of the city
is now 10000, as against 18, 543 two years
ago.
NJ. U. Bower, of Mankato, employed
on the farm of A. Clark, just west of
Redwood Falls, was struck by lightning
and instantly killed and two men stand
ing near him were knocked senseless and
terribly shocked. Two horses were also
killed.
The government has bought out I'LL
the contractors upon the river work in
the vicinity of Hastings and will under
take the job in person under the eight
hour law. 1t will cost, probably, about
double the amount paid under the old
system.
Advance sheets of Folks new Duluth
directory show "a ,072 names, an increase
OF 1882 for the year. It uses 3 rs as a
multiple, showing population of SO, 2O7.
an increase OF 5,55S over last year. This
includes West Duluth, Lakeside and
other suburbs.
The "face in the glass" in the Catho-
lie church in Canton, is still attracting
the credulous from far and near. Last
Sunday not less than thousand people
visited Canton to see what some claim
to be q picture of 'Mary with the Child
Jesus" in her arms.
President Hill, of the Great Northern,
has given his check to agents of a New
York life insurance company for $780,
$50 for policy of $l0O. 900 and an extra
annuity beginning ten years from date
Of $1,000. This is said to be the largest
single premium for life insurance ever
paid in the United States.
All the elevators belonging to the
Lake Superior Elevator COMPANY and
Union Improvement and Elevator COM
pany are now operated as private ware
houses. This action results primarily
from the annoyance and inconvenience
caused the elevator companies by the
action of the wheat investigating COM
mittee last winter.
A pardon has been granten to Lloyd
Porter, editor of The Prison Mirror. He
was sent up in November. 1884. for
murder, to serve life sentence While
intoxicated he endeavored TO shoot q
man with whom he had quarreled, and
hit and killed another man standing
near, who was looking on. He is 80
years old and printer.
William Henry Allen, an inmate of
the Minnesota Soldiers Home has re-
ceived notice that by the death of a
brother in California, he has fallen heir
to large slice of an estate valued at
from $1O,OOO,0O0 to 5000 600. A
nephew of the deceased gets the larger
slice of it, but as William Henrv's Dor
ton amounts to about Sc. OOO. 600. he
thinks that by rigid economy he may
manage to get along during the remain
der Of his natural life.
William Cunningham, of Crookston,
has crab apple tree in his garden that
is 20 feet high. Its branches spread over
80 feet of ground, and it has over 10
bushels of fruit upon it. From q limb
u inches long "a apples were picked.
For tree grown In Northern Minnesota