The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-04-06
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

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nesota.
Edward L. Pratt, Company L, Thir-
teenth Minnesota, died Of smallpox at
Manila.
Judge Kelly of st. Paul holds the
horse thief bounty law to be unconsti-
tutional.
Colonel Ames of the Thirteenth Min
nesota, cables that all the wounded are
doing well.
A rigid inspection of renovated butter
under the new law has been proclaimed
by the state dairy department. I.
The Fifteenth Minnesota regimen ::
has been mustered out and most of y 3
men have returned to their homes.
The Minnesota grand council of r. 8
Arcanum held its annual meetini
Minneapolis the latter part of the e
Arrangements are being made ie
First Baptist church of St. Paul ne
celebration of its Fiftieth annit,-- ry.
Railroads in Southern Minnesota have
agreed to a new schedule reducing rates.
on wheat and fax "a to 2 cents per hun
dred pounds.
The young women Of the West Supe-
rior normal defeated those Of Macales-
ter college at basketball. The game was
played at St. Paul.
The war department has allowed the
claim of the Twelfth Minnesota regi-
ment for expenses incurred while in
camp at New Ulm.
Requisition has been made on the
Wisconsin authorities for the arrest Of
Joseph R. Clements, concerned in the
wreck of the Fillmore county bank.
Chairman Fred Gerlach of the L. A.
w. racing board announces that A. D.
Smith, st. Paul, has been appointed
Handicapped for the Minnesota d,sfrict.
Teachers in the Mooshea SC ools Wi i
hold an exhibition ia, Y {
which Time the work an oleiei8E 4
the scholars will be We've by f.ianls
and parents.
The acting secretary of the interior
has affirmed the decision of the land
commissioner, denying the right of the
State of Minnesota to certain swamp
lands in the St. Cloud district.
Representatives of the Chippewa In.
dian tribes held a council at Leech
Lake. They oppose the sale of their
pine lands and solemnly promise not to
be guilty of another outbreak.
Michael Treacy, of Brown, Treacy
& Co., st. Paul, was assaulted and
robbed of about $500 while going from
the first to the third floor of the build
ing to pay the employees
Creditors Of the Scandal bank of Min
neapolis are to have two dividends of
per cent each declared. One is to come
from collections from stockholders and
the other from collections made by the
receiver.
A. J. Jeremy of Nininger has filed
suit at Whitehall, Wis, in behalf of his
stepson, R. w. Bush, against J. A.
Marsh and his mother, Mrs. Kate Marsh.
for $10,O55 damages for personal inju-
ries received by having been repeatedly
horsewhipped.
Albert Vance of Winona, who was
mustered out of service with Company
G of the Fifteenth regiment, is but Is
years Of age, and is the youngest war
veteran in the United States. He en-.
listed on July and has served his full
time, SO that he is in every sense Of the
word q veteran.
According to the st. Paul weather
bureau reports the March just passed
was the coolest and snowisst March Of
which there is any record. The average
temperature for tho month was Is de-
greess, against general average Of 81.
The precipitation (melted snow was
2.s7 inches, against ap average Of 1.4S
inches.
The ceded timber land question, as
far as the Minnesota reservations arc
concerned, has been settled. Secretary
Hitchcock has authorized the statement
that tho sale had been postponed. The
secretary's order includes the stoppags
of all estimating, logging and every
matter connected with the coded timber
land question.
Captain Mercer, therecsntly appointed
United States Indian agent at Leech
lake, and Red lake sub-agencies, has
notified Major j. 81. Sutherland, the
agent in charge, that he is ready to re-
ceive tho property and viii formally
take charge of the said agencies. Major
Sutherland will remain In charge of the
White Earth agency.
The Superior Shipbuilding company
has been incorporated under the laws Of
West Virginia, with cap al stock Of
81, zoe, 600. The ship yard viii be built
at Duluth. It is stated that Andrew
McDougal, the inventor Of the stesl
"whaleback" barges, is back of the COM
pany and that it will fight the ship
building combination recently compile
ted on the great lakes.
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