The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-12-17
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE,

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The fHousekeeper building in Min
neapolis was damaged to the extent
of $4,000. - So -
Watson Williams, 10 years old, was
arrested in Minneapolis an a charge
OF stealing purse.
The jury in the case of the state VS..
w. H. Hatton returned verdict Of
not guilty at Saltwater.
Only seventeen cases of smallpox
were reported to the state board of
health for the week ending Dec. 7.
In the four hospitals and asylums
in Minnesota 1865 patients are for
eign born and S15 are native born.
Samuel G. Andrist, president of the
St. Paul Retail Grocers' association,
died at Bethesda hospital of appendi-
citis.
The Bull Inventment Company of
Duluth, capital $4,000, filed articles
of incorporation with the secretary of
state. - "
A meeting of employees of the Min
nesota Transfer Railway Company
was held for. the purpose of taking
action on the proposition to establish
a railway Y. M. c. A.
Walter Vanderwerker, hackdriver
residing with his mother in St: Paul,
was taken to the city hospital suffer-
| ing from the effects of an overdose of
laudanum. 1t is thought that he will
recover.
A courtship of eight days, less than
month of married life, and a cell
in the Central police station, is the
fortune of Mrs. Phillis Blood, who
was arrested on the charge of vag-
rancy in Minneapolis, at the request
of her husband. .o,
State Auditor Iverson, assisted by
State Treasurer Block, conducted a
sale of timber lands at Duluth and
sold about two-thirds of what they
offered, or $4,000 worth.
The supreme court has decided that
there is no moral obligation on the
part of the state to pay the Minnesota
Sugar Company $19, 1886, the amount
claimed to have been earned in 1900
under the sugar bounty act of 1899.
The stockholders of the St. An
thony Furniture Company at St. An
thony Park have decided to wind up
the affairs of the company, and J. w.
Halstead has been placed in charge
to finish making up the material on
hand and to wind up the business.
Articles of incorporation were filed
by the Fire Insurance Protective As
ISOLATION of America, with headquar-
tiers in Minneapolis; capital, 100000.
The Stewartville creamery was
burned. Loss on building, $1,000;
machinery, $4,000. Total insurance,
$1,000.
A tramp by the name of Henry
Williams stole an overcoat from the
Commercial college at Lake City and
took the train for Wabasha, where
he was arrested. He pleaded guilty
and was sentenced to sixty days in
Jail.
a resident of Duluth, and for a num-
Der of years engineer of the Mesaba
block, committed suicide by taking
chloroform.
Three families were rendered home
less by the destruction of the tene-
ment house at 1919 Hewitt avenue,
Merriam Park. H. J. Hubbard and
Frank and William Kahn, who occu-
pied the upper story, had to seek
shelter with friends.
Twenty-Five million feet of the ex-
pected production of 100000 feet of
No. boards by the mills on the Du-
luth-Superior harbor for the season
of 1904 has already been contracted
for by eastern box makers and 9TH
ers.
Frank Palacek, living at 2010 Sec
ond street north, Minneapolis, was
severely burned in a fire which dam
aged his home to the extent of a few
hundred dollars.
Secretary E. w. Randall of the state
fair board announces that Minnesota
has again secured the cooperation q
the American Hereford Breeders as
ISOLATION and the American Shorthorn
Breeders association for a national
cattle show at the next state fair.
Plans for amending and revising
the probate code in general and the
ACCESSIBILITY of committing people
who have a mild form of insanity to
special home for indigents instead
of TO regular asylum were discussed
at the annual meeting of the Mime
sofa Association of Probate Judges,
in st. Paul.
With his frontal bone fractured,
his nose crushed and his right cheek
battered in, Paul Schmideck of Roll
lingstone is recovering from very
serious accident. In company with
Alfred Sens he started to drive to AL
tura. The horse ran away and the
buggy was dashed against post.
With less than twenty minutes in
| which to work, sneak thieves entered
the home of Mrs. r. II. Passmore, in
Minneapolis, and stole more than $500
worth of jewelry from ''blind"
drawer, taking also some valuable
sealskin garments.
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