The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-11-18
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

cannot be legally sold to citizen In
dian.
The state grange visited the school of
agriculture Saturday, spending the day
there.
A divorce has been granted to Secre-
tary of State Albert Berg from Anna
E. Berg.
A volunteer fire department has been
organized at West Concord with 45
members.
Minnesota woman suffragists held
their state convention in Minneapolis
Monday and Tuesday.
It is said that the Chippewa Indians
will cut 100000 feet of dead and
down timber this winter.
| Tillie Anderson, who was kept alive
az days by artificial respiration at the
St. Paul city hospital, is dead.
Lieutenant Mccoy, United States
army, makes very fattering report on
| the Minnesota national guard.
The organization of a Union Veter-
ans Union in Anoka has been per-
fected, with % charter members.
Rev. E. P. Ingerson of the Park Con.
gregational church, St. Paul, has re-
signed his passionate and will accept a
| call at Brooklyn.
The fourth annual convention of the
Minnesota State Butter and Cheese
makers association will be held at Wa
, SEGA Nov. Is and 10.
John F. Norrish, member of the board
! of prison managers and ex-member of
the legislature, died very suddenly at
his home in Hastings.
Several ex-county commissioners at
Duluth have been indicted Oh charge
of having audited and allowed false
bills against the county.
A general creditors bill for a re-
ceiver has been filed at Dayton, Tenn,
against the Security Savings and Loan
Association of Minneapolis.
The state board of health will investi-
gate the allegation that lumpy-jawed
cattle have been slaughtered for food at
New Brighton stock yards.
Steps are being taken to appeal to the
United States supreme court from the
decision of the United States circuit
court in the Mullen log scaling contro-
versy.
The First National bank of Appleton
has decided to go into voluntary liquid
| alton. 1t is perfectly solvent and will
probably be reorganized with smaller
capital.
Two professional cracksmen were in.
terrupted while robbing the jackson
postoffice Shots were exchanged and
the robbers-one wounded-were cap.
tured after a long chase.
Dan Bleu, an inmate of the Minneap.
i oils workhouSe, confessed that he muir
dered his young companion, John Pros
ser, at Herman. Prosser had 500 in
money which Bleu took.
! DR.. J. W. Smith of St. Peter has re-
ceived letter from E. St. Julien Cox,
now at Los Angeles, Cal, stating that
he was seriously affected with cancer
Of the throat and did not expect to live
over month.
William W. Billson, prominent
Duluth attorney, has assigned. The
assignment is due to suits against the
Motor Line Improvement company of
Duluth, which caused Willard Of Man.
kato to assign. No statement has been
fled.
Oar S. Hall, chairman of the Chippe-
wa Indian commission, has gone to
White Oak Point to complete the land
allotments to the Indians who have de-
cidad to reside there permanently in
stead Of removing to the White Oak
Point reservation.
Some creditors objecting to the ap-
pointment of trustees, the WinOna
Manufacturing company has assigned
to J. W. Booth and S. L. Prentiss. It's
nominal assets are $125, 900, but they
will probably shrink considerably. The
liabilities are $4,000.
A bed of fine granite has been dis
covered near Foreston, in Mile Laos
county, and a company will develop it.
1t is proposed TO cut the stone III either
Milaca or Foreston The granite is
said to be Of an excellent qualify, equal
to the ST. Cload article
Judge G. E. Qvale will hold special
terms Of district court for the purpose
of admitting aliens to citizenship. AT
New London, Nov. %; at Atwater,
Nov %, and at Willmar, Nov. "a.
These terms will be held in order to
avoid the rush at the general term Of
/ court.
In the presence of 1! 700 fashionable
guests assembled at the First Presby.
terrain church, Duluth, Miss Marian
Magoffin, granddaughter of Kentucky S
famous war governor, became the bride
Of Samuel johnson Shackelford, also a
member of one of the BIss Grass states
oldest families, and one = ne foremost
young men in its politics.
Several farmers of Swift county who
obtained seed grain money from the
state last spring have used all of their
money in paying other and, in theiY
estimation more important debts.
Now Sheriff McShane thinks it will be
necessary to arrest them under the law
that says that the penalty in case OF
this kind shall be imprisonment in this