The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-02-17
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

Winona schools are badly crowded.
Winthrop has been made presiden-
tial postofice.
The postoffice at Buffalo will be made
presidential April /.
I. N Rosby, judge of probate of Bel
trami county, is dead
Willmar is expected to enjoy a great
building boom this spring.
A postoffice has been established at
Ossippee, Crow Wing county.
The board of prison managers gran ted
four paroles at its last meeting.
Judge Collins is willing to accept the
Republican nomination for governor.
Chief of Police Glennon of Saltwater
hasiresigned and will go to Klondike.
]. o. Barrett, secretary of the Mime
sofa State Forestry association, is dead.
A seizure of 800 partridges has been
made at Tower by the state game war
dens.
Miss Virginia Thurman of St. Paul
won the bantam cup at the poultry
show. ...
Secretary Harris figures show a re-
duction of $50, $50 in the cost Of state
institutions.
The Minnesota commandery of the
Loyal Legion appropriately observed
Lincoln's birthday.
The attorney general has sustained
the insurance commissioner position
on hail insurance companies.
Work on the new dining room of the
st. Cloud reformatory will commence
as soon as the weather permits.
Rev. J. Fremling has been reelected
president of the Minnesota conference
of Swedish Lutheran churches.
General Alexander Jones, the first
adjutant general of Minnesota, died at
Shanghai, China, few days ago.
DR.. B. F. Collins of St. Peter, we'll
know physician and member of the
state lunacy commission, is dead.
The committee in charge of the state
saengerfest, to be held in Winona, have
decided on June 1912 as the dates.
At Cannon Falls a timber wolf bit
number of persons before 1t Vas killed.
The animal is believed to have Lceu
mad.
Treasurer Horst's annual report
shows that the disbursements of the
City of St. Paul last year were IS, 709,-
1884.
Indian Agent Sutherland has made
his annual payment to the Indians at
Leech Lake agency, amounting to
SIS, 900. s.- ..r .. p.
The creamery companies of Meeker
ton and elected Hon. Even Evenson
president.
Minneapolis has been having an cpl
demic of measles. Over Thousand
cases have been reported, but with only
two fatalities. - e. - '"~.' . 49,
1t is stated that Richard Burton of
Hartford, Conn, has been offered the
chair Of English literature in the Uni
versity of Minnesota.
DIR. Robert A. Wheaton, one of st.
Paul's foremost physicians, died sud-
denly Sunday from the bursting of an
abscess in his ear. He was "a years of
age.
The annual convention of the United
Commercial Travellers of Minnesota
and the Dakotas will be held in Wi.
mona Friday and Saturday, May ~
and 28.
Health Commissioner Avery of Min
neapolis is after an Anoka county
dairyman who sold cows that had been
quarantined for tuberculosis to Min
neapolis butcher. ..f
The Women's Board of Foreign Mis-
sions for Minnesota connected with the
Congregational church will hold it's an
nual convention i'll Winona the middle
of March. It will be three-day ses-
sion with probably 100 delegates pres
emit. s -..-...Es
Professor g. H. Congdon, supervisor
of music in the st. Paul schools, has
been appointed to take charge of the
conference of teachers of music in the
public schools, to be held in connection
with the educational convention in
Omaha June 20, % and 30.
Secretary H. 81. Hart of the state board
of corrections and charities has finally
decided to resign his position and &C
cept the offer and become superintend-
emit of the Children's Home and Aid
Society Of Chicago. His resignation
was rendered some time ago, but was
withdrawn at the request of the board.
The state Y. M. G.. A. convention
elected officers as follows: Presidents.
ex- Governor of North Dakota John W..
Miller; first vice president, Professor
Thomas Shaw Of the State Agricul-
tural college; second vice president, Q.
S. Ward, St. Paul; third vice president,
T.. H. Owens, Two Harbors; secretary,
G. E. Dixon of Manchester college. The
convention proved a very interesting
one.