The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-07-21
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

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Omaha exposition.
The iumor that Archbishop Ireland
is about to be made cardinal is re.
vived
After a six months trial the pure
food law is said to give marked salts
faction.
Fully 800 Minnesotans will attend
the Baptist Young Peoples conventio
at Buffalo.
Private Bjork was ordered out of
Camp Ramsey because he refused to
sign the roll.
According to the estimates of the
new city directory st. Paul has pop.
ulation of 100. 000
Minnesota editors are enjoying a trip
to the Pacific coast as guests of the Ca.
madam Pacific railway.
Fire Warden Andrews says that In
dams are setting forest fires SO that
they may cut the "dead" timber.
The comptroller of currency has de-
clared another per cent dividend in
favor of the Union National bank of
Minneapolis.
All railroad lines will make rate of
one fare for the round trip into St.
Paul for the laying of the corner stone
of the new capitol. July ~.
At it's meeting Monday the state
board of pardons considered "a appli.
cations. Three pardons were granted,
two sentences committed and eighteen
refused.
Father Patrick Sheehan of Mime.
apolis died at the Leland hotel in Chi
cago of heart failure. Deceased was
on lecture tour. and had been re-
Gently through Iowa and Missouri.
President Irwin Shepherd of the Wi
mona normal school, may resign to ac.
cept the secretaryship of the National
Educational association, which has been
made permanent Office at salary of
$4,000.
William Timm and Joseph Weber of
Pipestone have been arrested charged
with arson. The offense with which
they are charged is an attempt to burn
the residence of q. L. Chesley of that
village.
The governor. state auditor and state
treasurer have invited sealed proposals
for supplying %, 1876 tons Of coal to the
various state institutions for the year
ending July 81, 1899. The bids will be
received Aug. l.
The Commercial Union of New Ulm
has decided to apply at once to the
state railroad commission for relief on
overcharges of 25 cents on coal from
Duluth to this point. They have twice
previously warned the railroad COM
DANES, to which they have paid prac'
tically no attention.
In the criminal court at Chicago
Judge Baker fined Alonzo J. WhitemaD
OF Duluth, charged with obtaining
money by false pretenses, $4,000, and
sentenced him to the house of correc-
ton for one year. If the fine is not
paid he will be compelled to work it
out at the rate of $l.50 day.
Hereafter all students who enter the
state university will be required to take
an entrance examination, or to present
certificates stating that they have
passed the state high school board ex.
animation, in all subjects required.
This step is taken in order to do away
with the friction caused by the nu-
merous methods Of getting into the
university.
Examinations for state teachers GER
tificates will be held at the university
beginning Aug. %, when the summer
school closes there. The subjects are
history, school law, history Of educa.
ton. school economy, geometry, book
keeping, psychology, Engl ish literature,
plane geometry, zoology, chemistry,
botany, astronomy, geology, moral
philosophy, rhetoric, logic and politi-
cal economy, and the examination will
last five days.
Two young Chinese girls will be an
unusual addition to the ranks of the
students at the university next fall.
Bishop Joyce, the successor of Bishop
Fowler in Minneapolis has recently
completed tour around the world in.
speeding the missions Of the Methodist
Episcopal church. Mrs. Joyce, who
was with him on his tour, has with her
husband, become intensely interested
in missionary work in foreign lands.
They believe that the best way to
Christianize the peoples of these lands
is through their own people, who have
become Christians. To this end they
have arranged with the missionaries at
Kiukiang, China, to take two Chinese
young women into. their home and cd
ucate them. After completing their
general education one of the young
women will attend medical college
and the other will receive training id
kindergarten teaching. The young
women will be in Minneapolis three
years or more, and during that time
will live with Bishop Joyce.
To Improve Indian Schools,