The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-03-16
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

Duluth has telephone war on hand
The snow fall at st. Paul, the storm
center, Saturday night. was Is inches.
i Macalestez students have voted not to
eater the intercollegiate oratorical con-
test.
st. Paul Cycle Path association OK.
poets TO build u miles Of new paths
this season. ...-
Recruiting stations for the regular
army have been established at Mime
spolis and st. Paul.
Washington officials have virtually
decided not to remove the 1eech Lake
Indian agency to Bena.
Experts of the French government
will visit st. Paul to examine West
srn railway locomotives.
William H. Grimshaw, of Minneapo-
lis, has been appointed marshal of the
United States for the district Of Min
nesota.
William II. Grimshaw of Minneapo-
lis has been named for United States
marshal and s. J. Picha of St. Paul for
chief deputy.
Chippewa and White Earth Indian
delegations have finished their pow
vows at Washington and have started
for Minnesota.
Minnesota will soon be partially re-
imbursed for expenses in raising and
equipping troops. Twenty-Five thous-
and dollars is the expected first allow
ance.
Representative McCleary has recon-
mended the establishment of postof-
fee in Blue Earth county to be called
Perch, with Mrs. Esther Thurston post
mistress. ~
The board of commissioners of Wash
ington county has decided to build over
the county Jail at cost of $4,000. It
will be modern in every particular and
have fifteen cells.
Ths First State bank of Detroit, Of
whith JEFF II. Irish is president, e. q.
Holmes, vice president, and A. q.
Wedge, Jr., late of st. Paul, cashier,
has opened for business.
Colonel John T. West, we'll known in
the Northwest as the proprietor of the
West hotel, Minneapolis, died suddenly
in the Office of his hotel Monday even
ing. He was "a years of age.
James Gilmore, the second of trio
of highwaymen wanted at Fergus Falls,
Mimi, for train robbery, has been con-
victed of highway robbery at st. Joseph,
Mo-, and sentenced to eight years.
At Duluth, Thomas Suitor and Henry
White were convicted of larceny in the
first degree. They were firemen on the
tug Zenith and helped steal -four from
the wrecked Arthur Orr. They were
recommended to the mercy of the court.
i. G.. Powers has been appointed
statistician of the agricultural division
of the census bureau by Superintendent
w. R. Merriam. Mr.. Powers, who
lives in Minneapolis, is widely known
as commissioner of the state labor bu-
reau from 1891 to 1899.
Clark E. Elliott, lieutenant Fifteenth
Minnesota volunteers, "A. A.. @. M, Sec
ond army corps. and Reuben Smith,
second lieutenant Fourteenth Mime
sofa volunteer infantry have been
named to fill the two, glieutenancies al
lotted to Minnesota under the army re-
organization bill: -. ..s.s ;.'z ...-.>
The programme ;fora~tfiie' second an
nual meeting of the. Northern Mime
sofa Educational Association; to be held
in st. Cloud, March 20; 30 and 81. has
been issued by the programme commit
The meetings will be hehrm 'the nor
NAL school building, and the FIRST ses-
sion begins at 4:S0 p. m, the, 29th' inst.
Mrs. Fred Kier has been murdered by
her husband six miles fiorth. of Howard
Lake. The deceased was a daughter of
Thomas Boxell, who, with his second
wife, was murdered near that place a
year ago. Kier is subject to insanity
and has been in the asylum several
times. It is supposed he was crazy
when the crime was committed ..<
Want the Open. Door,.
LONDON, March 16.-At the annual