The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-04-21
NEWS In MINNESOTA

Duluth defeated st. Paul In the nlgn
school debate.
A military company has been organ.
lied at Mankato.
The St. Paul Union depot is to be
considerably enlarged. .-
The executive committee of the state
Republican league held meeting Tues
day.
M. T. Wilander, postmaster at Carl.
ton, died of pneumonia after three days
illness.
The Popu1ist state convention,
scheduled for June Is, will be held in
Minneapolis. ~.
Health Commissioner Avery Of Min.
neapolis was found dead in bed at For.
man, N. D. ~
Fire destroyed the Empire elevator
at Sacred Heart, with several thousand
bushels of grain.
All companies of the Minnesota ma
tional guard have been ordered recruit
ed to full strength.
August Quesne, an old resident of
New Ulm, was killed by train. He
evidently intended suicide.
The residence of T. S. Brown of
Lakeside, Duluth, was entered and
goods to the value of $500 or 5000 were
taken.
Southern Minnesota dentists held a
three days session at Mankato. DR.. ID.
B. James of Sleepy Eye was elected
president.
The st. Paul Title and Trust COM
pany has brought suit against d. M.
Sabin een Minnesota and Wisconsin
railway bonds.
The pope has appointed the Rev.
Alexander Christie, rector Of st.
Stephens church, Minneapolis, to the
bishopric of Vancouver.
The Ramsey county commissioners
have decided to offer rewards aggregat-
ing 81 500 for the unraveling of the
Lam bert lake mystery.
The public land committee of the
house has favorably reported Judge
| Morris resolution opening the Mile
Laos reservation to settlement.
A telegram from San Francisco states
that Norton R. Bagley, chief clerk in
the passenger department of the North.
ern Pacific at st. Paul, had committed
suicide in that city. Mr.. Bagley had
been in i'll health for many years.
At a special meeting of the ssockhold-
ers of the St. Paul and Duluth railroad
in st. Paul it was determined to con-
solidate the main line and branch COM
, panies into one, and the recommends
tons of the directors to negotiate a
loan of s., 900, 900 to take up old obliga-
tions and make Improvements was ap-
proved.
Up to Saturday night orders had been
received at the state prison for 135 Car
loads of binding Irvine, which is about
40, 900 pounds in excess of the amount
manufactured thus far this season. The
amount already made is not far from
| 3. 900, 600 pounds, and will be brought
up to 5,O00,OOO pounds before the sea.
son is over.
Secretary Tallmadge of the St. Paul
chamber of commerce has received a
letter from T. H. Beaulieu of White
Earth, Mimi, appealing in behalf of
| the Indian farmers on the reservation
for money to buy seed wheat. An
area of about 5000 acres was destroyed
by hail last summer, he says, and the
Indians have no means of getting seed
unless they are helped. They need
8, 900 bushels of seed grain.
The supreme court, by Judge Canty,
has handed down decision which sus-
tanned the.constitutionality of the "Yse.
law, passediby the legislature of 1895,
through the efforts Of j. P. jacobson,
at the time a member Of the lower
house. The law requires that railroads
crossing construct curved switch, or
what is popularity known as ''Y," to
facilitate the transfer of traffic for the
benefit of interstate business.
Executive Agent Fullerton of the
state game and fish commission is com.
pleting arrangements to capture the
spawn of the run of pike in Pike river.
st. Louis county. Agents of the COM
mission are watching for the first ap-
pearance of the pike, and as soon as
they begin to show in the river an it's
tributaries in any considerable uum.
hers Agent Fullerton will be notified
by telegraph and men will be sent to
the river to capture the spawn. It will
be taken to and Matched artifcially at
the state fish hatchery.