The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-12-23
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

The postofice at Sherburne has been
raised to the third class.
The prison investigation commission
has finished taking testimony.
A commercial club las been formed
by the business men of Caledonia.
The state drainage commission in.
sists that contractors redeem their time
checks. sEe
The lumber cut Of Minneapolis mills
for 1897 was 90 per cent more than the
cut for 1895. - 81 4
Rev. DR.. Charles o. SaIter, a prom.
inent Congregational clergyman at
Duluth is dead.
It is announced that the Norwegian
Lutheran seminary will certainly re-
move to Hamline. y.,, ~
Forty EIGHT patients have been re-
leased from insane hospitals under the
Peterson alien law. s#s Ha
It is stated that John Lind has de-
alined 10 be candidate for the fusion
forces for governor.
M. ]. Dryer Of st. Paul won the
wrestling match with Reinhold Schott
of Watertown, Wis. fsr
The state board of pardons has COM
muted the sentence of Joseph Arbs, the
Claremount druggist. Esag.
w. F. Bickel has been acquitted on
one charge of grand larceny from the
Minnesota Savings bank.
Major Charles A. Van Duzee Of st.
Paul has been elected colonel of the
| Third regiment, N. G. S. M.
The Society OF Colonial Wars of Min
nesota celebrated at ST. Paul the ami
versary of the Great Swamp fight.
Congressman Stevens has introduced
| bill to increase the cost of the St.
Paul public building to 81, $50, 900.
JIM Schneider was frozen to, death
at st. Paul while temporarily deranged.
He wandered out in the night without
clothing. s# &.
Fire at Litchfield burned out Sweet &
Palms, bakers; Perry, confectionery,
| and Topping, barber. Loss 81, 500; in
surance, $4,000.
Serious disagreement has arisen be-
tween the state high court of the indie
pendent Order ofsForesters and mem
bers of the Duluth or Northern district.
William f. Bickel, former vice presi-
dent of the Minnesota Savings bank,
| has been acquitted on one of the in
dictments found against him by the
grand jury. <s 90 us6a ~
Ex-Register of Deeds Peter j.. Borg
| strom of Dulth has paid the fine of $500
settled upon him by the state board of
| pardons, and he has been formally re-
leased from the custsdy of the law
The state railroad and warehouse
commission has ordered the Minneap.
oils and St. Louis railroad, to establish
station at Emmons. onthe state line
between Albert Lea and Fort Dodge. 2
The schoolbuild1ng at Henderson was
totally destroyed by fire at 10 a. m.
| from the furnace. The children got
| out safely. The loss is 5000, insured
! for 81, 500.
The Duluth, Mesaba and Northern
railroad has let contract to the Pull.
| man car company for 400 ore cars The
cars are to be of $4,000 pounds capacity,
which is considerably larger than those
now in use.
Congressman Morris has filed the Pc
tition of number of settlers in Itasca
xxylo hou caft1n1 Lava, Il
ready allotted to Indians, requesting
that their claims be approved by the
department.
Theodore Fl. Beaulieu has been grant
ed permission by the commissioner Of
the general land Office to construct a
portable sawmill near the Lake of the
Woods on the coded lands of the Red
Lake reservation.
Samuel Baltimore, the colored pris
oner who escaped from the yard near
the prison at Saltwater, was recaptured
by four farmers, near White Bear and
returned to prison. He said he had
only gone for stroll.
A district convention of the Eastern
Star, composed of the chapters located
at Heron Lake, Worthington, Adrian,
Luverne, Pipestone, Slayton, Fulda and
Jasper, was held at the hall of St. Leger
Chapter, at Heron Lake.
Judge Searle has signed the decree of
of foreclosure in the suit brought by the
ST. Paul Title Insurance company as
trustee against the stockholders of the
St. Cloud Street Car company. The
trustee will bid it in for bondholders.
@. Jones, who is working as engineer
of the North Star shoe factory at
Anoka. has received word of legacy
of $I2, 900 in United States bonds left
him by an uncle in Iowa. Jones knew
nothing Of his death o.. that he had
money.
One hundred and twenty-seven min.
ers. some of them accompanied by their
families. have left Duluth for Mexico.
The men were picked up among the
Minnesota range towns and special cars
from the Texas and Pacific road were
sent to take the emigrants to their
new home.
Two strangers from Crookston rented
house at Hendrum and shipped in