The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-11-17
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
The Fourteenth regiment will b.
mustered out this week.

M1nnSSOId ueledleO Uue NOIIuWeSIeILi
university team at football Saturday,
II to 6.
The Southall case is now on trial at
st. Paul. A jury was secured with lit
tie delay.
At Slmyton Sheriff Lowe was shot in
the neck by III insane man whom he
was trying to arrest.
Christmas boxes are to be sent to the
Fifteenth regiment. which will proba-
bly, be in Cuba at that time.
Three of the men arrested at Moor
head for train robbery have been identi-
fed by Minneapolis detectives.
Four residences at Fergus Falls We're
burglarized the night following the
Great Northern train robbery.
Walter Ostraln, the wheat buyer at
Evansville, was kno cked insensible and
robbed of something over 5000.
st. Paul has been the scene of an evic-
hon, an invalid, his wife and two chill
dren being set out on the street.
The Central Minnesota Telephone
company is within two miles Of Pine
City ON the south, erecting poles.
Governor Clough has increased the
reward for the arrest of George A. Bar
clay's murderers from 5000 to 81 ,000.
Twelve decisions. of which eight are
reversals, came from the supreme court
Monday in opinions by Justice Mitchell.
The cost to the state for sending
troops to the scene of the recent Indian
troubles will be in the neighborhood of
$4,000.
Women representatives of the W. G.
Il. U. convention at st. Paul filled most
of the st. Paul and Minneapolis pulpits
Sunday.
The American Hereford Cattle Breed
/. ers' association will probably hold its
annual sale and exhibition at the next
Minnesota state fair.
Robert Kenney. who killed man
named jerry Root at Bemidji last A pril,
has been taken to the state prison at
Saltwater to serve life sentence.
Burglars made an unsuccessful at
tempt to rob 3. B. Warfelds bank at
Battle Lake. They completely wrecked
the safe, but failed to get at the cash.
The secretary of the interior has ap-
proved for patent to the state CT Mime
sofa 20,G5S acres of land in the Duluth
land district on account Of the swamp
land grant.
T. o. Hall, formerly a well known
Duluth banker. was acquitted OF the
charge of grand larceny in the first de-
gree and released. The jury was out
for 16 hours.
Contributions for the Lafayette me-
mortal have been received at St. Paul
from 100 schools in Minnesota to the
amount of $685., with probably more to
hear from that sent direct to Washing
ton.
Fire destroyed the tow mill at Heron
Lake, owned by J. T. Smith. the largest
of the kind in the United States. The
Standard Oil Company's shed was also
destroyed. Smiths loss on tow mill is
$50, 900; no insurance.
. James Smith, deputy labor commits
sioner, was arrested by Game Warden
Fullerton, on charge of assault and
battery in the state senate chamber.
Smith is said to have had illegal possess
sion of venison and assaulted Fullerton
when he tried to get it.
The Sparta mine at Biwabik closed
down for the season and the Auburn
expects to complete shipments this
week. This will only leave the Fayal
and Genoa mines shipping. It is re-
ported the Roberts mine at Mckinley
will be worked this winter.
The attorney general has appointed
W. M. Meyer, examiner of the depart
ment OF justice, as the inspector OF that
department in the investigation Of pub
ished allegations regarding the conduct
of United States deputy ma1shais in the
Chippewa Indian troubles in Minnesota.
The geological survey has made public
a special report upon the cement in
dustry of the United States for 1897, in
which Minnesota makes fsttering
showing IN 1896 the production CT
rock cement in Minnesota aggregated
So,UJS DGIfGLS, WlUn u Value OI Soc,b2S.
In 1897. however, the production reached
III ,731 barrels, with value Of $50, 500.
A case arising from the failure of the
Fillmore County bank of Preston has
cone I'D in the United States court at
Winona ana will be tried next month.
II is that Of Isaac n Smith of Preston
US. J. &. Clements of La Crosse to col
: lect So, T35.T77. the amount he had de-
posted in the Preston bank when it
failed. IN his complaint Smith alleges
that Clenen11s took 100000 from the
bank and applied the same to the pur-
chase Of Minneapolis real estate. s:c::
A meeting of the board of regents OF
the state university will be held the
second week in December, at which
time, says President Northrup, the
question relating to the conditions OF
entrance for high school graduates de-
string to enter the university will be
taken up and satisfactorily settled.
Twin City high schools object to severer
entrance conditions for their pupils than
those made by Wisconsin, Cornell, Wei
lesley and other Eastern schools.
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