The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-12-10
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE

F. w. Heckrich, prominent athlete
and bowler, died in Minneapolis.
A Business Mems association has
been organized at Grand Meadow.
Jessie Eckstrom was accidently kill
ed by falling from wagon at Stark.
The Horticultural society holds an
interesting meeting at Minneapolis.
Burglars secured more than $500
worth of furs from the Minneapolis
Fur company.
Amanda Barrett, an aged woman,
was sentenced to 60 days in Jail at
Minneapolis for stealing SIT.
An organized movement was start
ed to drive tramps and suspicious
characters out of Minneapolis.
Dan Patch, the champion PAGER,
has retired for the season and returns
to Minneapolis with six records to
his credit.
The Minnesota Power and Trolley
company has been organized by the
promoters of the Anoka and Shakopee
lines.
w. w. Wright, proprietor of hotel
at Swan River, was killed while try
ing to board morning passenger
train.
Miss Clara johnson, 25 years old,
dropped dead from heart failure
while giving an order for groceries at
.Schock's grocery, st. Paul.
The Minnesota Valley Medical So
ciety held it's annual meeting at the
Salspaugh hotel, Mankato. Fifty doc
tors were present.
Michael Schonack's barn at Perham
was burned; loss about $3.50. Scho-
mack was placed under arrest to await
trial On the charge of arson.
John Halvorson became insane in
Minneapolis through fear of being
robbed of $4,000 which he had recent
ly acquired.
John Ehrmentraut, saloon-keeper
at Excelsior, filed a petition for vol
untary bankruptcy with the federal
court through his attorneys
Ben w. Saidner, for time said to
be an impecunious music writer, in
Minneapolis, has fallen heir to a
large fortune but cannot be found by
the executors of his mothers estate.
st. Paul companies of the national
guard have Endorsed Maj. Treat Spear
of St. Paul for lieutenant of the First
regiment national guard, to succeed
the late J. H. Friederichs.
St. Paul's educational exhibit at the
St. Louis exposition will be complete,
in that it will represent the work of
every grade of the public schools and
every department of the high schools.
Unknown and unclaimed, the body
of a man believed to be A. Anderson
was found dead in a room in Minneap-
oils, under mysterious circumstances
which are puzzling the police.
The annual harvest of Lake Supe-
rior herring has begun at Two Har-
bors. Fishermen are having good
luck and large quantities of the fish
are stored along the shores.
The Building Block Manufacturing
company has erected a large plant
near Lake Calhoun, Minneapolis, for
the manufacture of hollow concrete
blocks for structural purposes.
Louis Larson, thirty-three years
old, was found dead at Avoca. He
had been living in North Dakota the
past two years and came home but
few days ago on a visit.
Colonel Edward Hunter, U. S. A.,
has retired from the army. Colonel
Hunter was stationed in st. Paul a
few years ago as judge advocate of
the department of Dakota.
Emil Koskela, a Finlander, got into
an alteration with five of his coun-
trymen, at Virginia, and was badly
injured. One of his arms was nearly
cut off by knives. His assailents
have been bound over.
The St. Paul and Minneapolis Com
mercial clubs have appointed a joint
committee which will recommend to
the railroad lines that rate of ST a
ton be applied to shipments of Hi
nois coal to St. Paul and Minneapolis.
The state capitol commission open
ed bids for furnishings for the new
state capitol, and as they were in de-
tail and varied greatly, they were re-
ferred to Architect Cass Gilbert for
tabulation and recommendation.
DR.. E. H. Whitcomb, of the St. Paul
assembly, has prepared an ordinance
placing consumption among contagi-
GUS diseases. The ordinance provides
that all physicians shall report cases
of tuberculosis to the health COM
missioner.
Business men and farmers have
closed a contract with the Industrial
Construction company of Chicago to
erect a canning factory in Kenyon.
The factory will cost $4,000 and will
be owned and operated by the citi-
zens.
DR.. Anthony F. Conroy, who was
chief surgeon of the Red Cross hospi-
tai corps sent to aid the Beers dur
ing the war with England, died at
the st. Paul city hospital of tubercu-
losis brought on by exposure in
South Africa.
Albin Gisleson, aged twenty-one,
died on a 500 passenger train near
Minneapolis. The young man was on
his way to Orchard, Iowa, where his
two sisters and aged mother are liv-
ing. He had settled on a piese of
land near Minot, N. D., and was to
take the family back to that place.