The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-10-28
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

water prison, suicided with sulphur
taken from matches.
o. P. Caylor, the celebrated baseball
writer of the New York Herald, died
at Winona of consumption.
The granite for the $4,000 soldiers
Home at Danville, Ills, will come from
the Rockville quarry near st. Cloud.
The inhabitants of the town of Indus
trial. 20 miles northwest of Duluth, are
asking aid. They lost their crops by
food.
The first number of the New Paynes-
vile Tribune is scheduled to appear
Nov. 2. Messrs Carlisle and Abbott
will publish it.
Governor Clough has accepted the
resignation of Judge Robert D. Russell
of Minneapolis, and appointed John F.
MCGEE as his successor.
John Lempke was shot by highway
man at Minneapolis and died several
hours later. Before dying he recog-
nized John Mashik as his assailant.
George Young, farmer residing
near Blue Earth City, shot his wife and
two little boys and then committed sui
eide. Business troubles were the cause.
Gus Johnson, aged 45 years, living
near Elysian, after, a protracted de-
banch, took carbolic acid and died. He
leaves wife and three small children.
The J. Neils Lumber company at
Sank Rapids closed down it's mill Sat
urday night for the season, having
sawed about $4,000, 900 feet of lumber,
also many thousands of lath and
shingles.
An aged couple were granted a
divorce at Winona. The applicant,
Curtis Carey, is 76 years of age, and his
wife, Marian Carey, is 70. He secured
the divorce from her on the ground of
desertion.
At Perham, William Ingleman, Is
years old, while hunting became inter
ested in fight between his dogs. One
dog was thrown against the gun on
which he was leaning, discharging it,
killing him.
The largest force ever at work in the
Great Northern car shops at st. Cloud
ON the payroll. The pay checks for last
month for considerably less number
amounted to $4,000.
The large barn on the farm Of A. K.
Hall near Little Falls was destroyed by
fire, together with large amount Of
stored grain, including 5000 bushels of
cats, 1000 bushels Of corn, 500 bushels
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The Minnesota Sandstone company is
securing enough work to keep up the
average of 1875 men that have been en-
ployed in the quarry the past six
months. Operations on the capitol
work will probably not begin before
January.
The state experiment station reports
sugar beets sent for analysis from Wi
mona county to contain 14.9 per cent
sugar, and to have purity of 846 per
cent. This is an excellent showing, the
sucrose average in Germany being
only IL per cent.
Dispatches from Phoenix, A. T., tell
of the continued improvement Of Judge
III. G. Truesdale of Minneapolis, whose
life was despaired Of one week ago. &c
is now believed that he will recover,
though he has still much to gain to be
beyond danger.
A German farmer near Dexter claims
that he was swindled by some light
ming rod peddlers into signing a note
for $3.50. When they came to put up
the rods the Germans wife drew gun
on them, obtained the note and chased
them from the place.
John P. Moord, farmer living five
miles northwest of Atwater, was bit in
the face by vicious horse. His upper
lip was frightfully lacerated, besides
other injuries. The same horse lifted
man from the ground by the hair of his
head few days before.
The following graduates of the Man.
diplomas endorsed as state certificates:
Five years-Amelia w. Iceberg, Hay
@. Daugherty, Tena Josephine Nelson,
Edith Kassing, Cecilia Meighen, Lena
Larson; for life-Carl F. Weinberger.
At the close of the lumber saving
season in 1895 there was $40, OOO, 900
feet of unsold lumber on the docks at
Duluth; last fall, at the same period,
there was 40, 100000 feet that had not
been sold. This tall, after an average
seasons cut, there will be less than
100000 feet on hand that has not
been disposed of. and the amount may
be even less.
The Indians of the Minnesota reser-
yations are reported to be talking of
sending delegation to Washington to
protest against the operation : Of the
dead and down timber law. Already it
has become to be understood that some
of the men that are preparing to har-
vest the dead and down timber on some
of the reservations have given it out
ahat it will not pay to stop at the class
Of timber prescribed by law.
RESPONSIVENESS have been sent to the
interior department by county officials
and settlers of the Mile Laos lake re-
gion protesting against the allotment of
the unoccupied lands on the reserva-
ton. Nine-tenths Of the valuable land,
# is stated, has been patented, one-half
of the remainder has been entered ard
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