The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-09-08
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

iho state board of equalization is in
ssssion at the capital
Nearly 400 cars of range cattle passed
through St. Paul Tuesday.
NJ. j. Bowling has decided not to be
candidate for state senator from his
district. :
Milo White of Chatfe.d has been
nominated for congress by First dis
trict Democrats.
Twenty.four counties in Minnesota
have no Jails and as many more have
no need of them.
The Princeton brick manufacturers
expect their output to reach the S,000,-
900 mark this season.
Adjutant's reports show that over
300 men of the Fifteenth regiment are
sick or absent on leave.
East Grand Forks will discard it's
special charter and incorporate under
the general laws of the state.
A mill of $50 barrels daily capacity
will be built at Saltwater, in place of
the Staples mill recently burned,
The transport St. Paul has arrived at
Manila. Among the troops on board
We're 300 recruits for the Thirteenth
Minnesota
The st. Paul health departments
bacteriologist reports that the typhoid
epidemic at Camp Ramsey came from
the delivery hose of the distributing
tank.
A telegram from the war department
to Governor Clough announces that
the T welfth and Fourteenth Minnesota
regiments will be mustered out imme-
diately.
Lieutenant Louis Mueller of Com
pany A, Twelfth regiment, who was
brought from Chickamauga to New
Ulm Monday last, with typhoid fever,
is dead. He was buried with military
honors.
The receipts of the internal revenue
Office at st. Paul for August were
1888, 900; $40, 900 of this amount was
for proprietary and documentary
stamps, including imprinted stamps.
The beer tax receipts were 500. 900, and
of this amount $4,000 was the war
tax increase upon beer.
In JANUARY, 1897, the City of Mime.
| apolis had 1,134 applicants for public
aid, 1t took nearly eight months of
this year to bring the total up to the
number reached in one month in 1899.
OF the 147 cases that were helped
through the entire year of 1897, Al
have dropped off since Jan. 1.
The sawmill of Youmans Bros. &
Hodgins at Winona has closed down
for the season, owing to the difficulty
experienced in getting logs, on account
of the low water in the river The cut
for the season is estimated at about 49,
900, 900 feet, some 100000 feet less
than last year. All the other sawmills
here will run we'll on into the fall.
Secretary Luoien T. Troutman of the
St. Cloud Mutual Building and Loan
association has admitted, the embezzIe-
ment IF large amount of the funds Of
the association. He acknowledges hav-
ing appropriated sum approXlmating
$4,000, but disputes the correctness of
charges involving about $4,000, which
the expert has carried into his account.
Governor Clough has concluded ar
engagements with the Omaha road for
the conveyance Of the sick Minnesota
soldiers from Chickamauga and other
points to this state. The governor de-
! cided that he would not make the trip,
but that the soldiers will be placed in
charge of his private secretary, Colonel
Hartley The latter has started for
/ Chickamauga.
Fire which started in E. p Watson 5
| barn, two miles east of MorHs, de.
stroyed the barn, granary, 80 tons of
hay, 1000 bushels of grain and IL head
of horses. Mr.. Watson is one of the
board of managers of the state fair and
was at the state fair grounds. There
being no men about the place, Mrs.
| Watson was seriously burned trying TO
| free the horses and stock.
The D. S. B. Johnston Land Mort.
! gage company of st. Paul has pur.
| chased from the Northern Pacific Rail-
/ way company 49, 900 acres, making it
| the largest transaction of the kind that
| has ever taken place in the Northwest.
The lands lie in Otter Tail, Becker,
Clay and Norman counties in Mime
sofa, and in the eastern part of North
Dakota, being almost wholly within
! the Red river and James river valleys
Henry Askegaard, the Il.year-oi
son of David Askegaard, was smoth-
! cred in wheat bin in his fathers ele-
vator, at Comstock. Henry and Edwin
| Halland, son OF Mr.. Askegaard's part
! ner, climbed up the ladder on the out
! side of the elevator and crawled
! through q window to play in one OF
! the wheat bins. While they were
/ there the spout opened to load out q
/ car and the boys were carried down
! with the wheat Young Halland man.
aged to escape and tried TO rescue his