The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-06-24

of Senator Henry Keller met with an
accident in the factory, which narrow
ly escaped being Immediately fatal,
and at best is very serious. He had
placed an iron bar about thirty inches
long and an inch and half in diane
ter, in the lathe with the purpose OF
turning it down. He did not secure
the ends properly and when he started
violence, the end striking him in the
forehead, crushing the skull for an
area of an inch or more in diameter.
| Medical attendance was summoned
speedily, and the fragments of bone
removed giving relief. After several
hours Inconsistencies, he seems
bright and vigorous and there is every
present indication that he will recover.
| While the caterpillars which infest
this latitude this year are consum-
mate nuisance it was not thought UNI
til the other day that they were an i'm
/
seems to be the case. In a''delay re-
port made out by "a Great Northern
train crew it was stated that the train
No. 15, the through freight for the
west-was delayed an hour and fol ty
| five minutes between ST. Paul and St.
Cloud by. the presence of the caterpil-
l 1oN o1> no inc MI
on the warm rails during the evening
and were crushed by the locomotives
wheels with the result that the track
| was rendered slippery and the sched-
ule time could not be made.-Journal
Press.
| Harvey Webb met with an accident
that fortunately resulted without dam
age, although every condition was
present for serious results. He was
riding his wheel at night through
Third-st., and at the corner of Maple
he run into pile of sand thrown out
of the excavation for the water pipes,
and was thrown headlong into the pit,
which was about eight feet deep, his
wheel following him. Fortunately the
bottom was of sand and he was not
hurt, and his wheel was uninjured.
!. 1t was a fortunate escape.
A. H. Lewis of Burtrum had his
Crescent wheel stolen this morning
The burglar gained entrance to the
house by breaking open a window and
taking the wheel out through the door.
The wheel was in a room next to his
sleeping room but SO quietly was the
work done that Mr. Lewis did not heal
him. The number of the wheel was
290O87 and was purchased last May
f from VIM. Scherffius. Lewis offers {
reward for it's return.
JudgeSearle will hold special tern
of the District Court at Belgrade
Stearns county, on Saturday, July 3rd
for the purpose of giving citizens il
l that part of the county an opportunit,
e to take out their second papers
Deputy Clerk of Court Herman
]; Mueller will accompany him. Judg,
Scarf will deliver the Grafton at tn,
Fourth af July celebration which viii
be held at Belgrade on the same day
The divorce suit of w. A. Gate.
against his wife, Flora p. Gates, was
heard in chambers by Judge Searle OF
Saturday. The alleged cause is deser
| ton. The court allows him the custo
dy of the two elder children and Mrs
Gates the other two, and until he takes
the older ones away he must pay Mrs.
Gates fifteen dollars a month for TAX
ing care Of them.
The HERALD was in error recently
in stating that VIM. Mcknight was not
indicted by the grand jury of Polk
county for horse theft. He was con-
: victed and sent to Saltwater for four
years and half. He was arrested
here by officer Murphy and turned over
to the sheriff of Polk county, and now
officer Murphy is wondering who gets
the state bounty for arresting horse
thieves.
| On next Friday Odd Fellows me-
mortal day will be observed by the
members here. At 10 A. M. they will
meet at their hall and march to the
cemeteries and decorate Odd Fellows
graves. In the evening memorial SER
vice will be held at the Auditorium
The entire programme will be in
charge of the Rebekah lodge.
i Handsome monuments have been set
up on the Parker lots in Greenwood
Cemetery during the past week, VIM.
Lewis and Mrs. John Rue have also
erected fine stones to mark the resting
places of their beloved dead. They
are all of the beautiful granite of ST.
| Cloud.
Harry Favell, who has just returned
from Southern Wisconsin, says the
extreme dry weather there has been
very severely felt by the farmers.
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