The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-01-26
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

Dan Mcleod and Hall Adali. the Turk.
have signed an agreement TO wrestle in
St. Paul, Jan. 81.
Charles F. Framhein, clerk in the city
treasurer's Office, at st. Paul, shot him.
self, probably fatally.
Patrick Haggerty died at ST. Paul,
Saturday, aged SO years. He came to
Minnesota 80 years ago.
Three attempts were discovered in
three days to set on fire the central
high school building at St. Paul.
At a meeting of The board of mana
gers of the New York Botanic Garden,
Professor D. T. MacDougall of. the Uni
versity Of Minnesota, was elected to fill
the newly created post of director of the
laboratory.
A demand by the United States dis
trict attorney of Minnesota that the
three alleged Great Northern train rob-
bers arrested in Missouri be turned over
to the federal authorities to be tried for
mail robbery is refused.
Henry White, Thomas Suffer, j. H.
Casey and William Faulkner are under
arrest at Duluth, charged with stealing
copper worth 81, 900 from the cargo of
the steamer Orr, which was wrecked ON
Lake Superior last fall.
AT the request of Representative Taw-
ney, a postoffice has been established in
Freedom county, to be called Sigsbee,
with Henry Bell, postmaster. Mr.. Taw-
ney says that this is the first postoffice in
the country to be named after the COM
mander of the Inflated Maine.
At Hastings. Judge F. NJ. Crosby
granted an absolute divorce to Mrs. Jo-
sephine NJ. Duke from her husband,
John Duke, who is now with the Thir-
teenth Minnesota regiment at Manila.
She was awarded the custody of their
son, aged four and a half years.
The reports of the state board of
health show remarkable decrease of
the death rate. The rate in 1888 was
1875 to the 1000 of population. In 1895
the rate had declined to 9.S. At pres
ent the rate is about per 1000, or half
the average rate in the country at large.
The winter festival of the Swedish
National association, at the Auditorium,
Chicago, Thursday evening, Feb. 8. is
being looked forward to by Swedes in
various parts of the country. John
Lind, Minnesota, will be the guest of
honor and will deliver the principal
address. This will presumably be in
the Swedish language. Large choruses
will render songs.
The joint convention committee Oh
the Royal Neighbors has completed ar.
rangements for the convention of the
order in st. Paul in March. About
1900 delegates are expected. The ses-
sions will be held at the state capitol.
Governor Lind and others will greet the
delegates in behalf of the state, the city
and the Modern Woodmen.
Instructions directing the discharge of
the following members of the Fifteenth
Minnesota regiment have, been con-
frmed: Sergeant Benjamin R. Norwood,
Company G.; Sergeant j Stanley Wilson,
Company A; Sergeant Edward T. Thor
son, Company D. Private David K.
Mill
nesota, has been discharged.
After long trial at Saltwater, the
will Of the late Hon. Isaac Staples has
been set aside, the jury returning a YER
dict for the contestant, 3. S. Bronson.
The jury decided that Mr.. Staples was
not Of sound mind at the time the will
was drawn and also decided that he
was not capable of transacting ordinary
business. The verdict involves an es-
tate of an estimated value of 81, 300, 900.
The case will probably be appealed.
Sheriffs and clerks of district courts
house to talk over legislative matters
and business regulations of their offices.
The sheriffs will ask several changes in
the laws, and appointed a steering COM
mittee to keep them besore the legisla-
ture. The clerks of court talked over
number of minor amendments, but die
not find any crying reforms, agreeing
rather that all they asked was to be let
alone.
The following Minnesota postmasters
were appointed during the week: DAN
vile, Blue Earth county, Silas A. Buell.;
Harmony, Fillmore county, Samuel
Aaberg; Backus. Cass county, Edward
S. Clinch ;LeSuer Center, LeSuer county,
Jacob Gish; Grygla, Marshall county,
Arne o. Fladeland; Doren, Wilkin
county, John Warner. Three Minnesota
postoffices have been established during
the week, at the following points:
Thorpe, Kandiyohi county; Erickson
vile, Mile Laos county, and fuller, Cass
county. The postmasters for these Of