The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-24
MINNESOTA HAPPENINGS.
Short Items Showing What has Hap
pened Throughout Confines
Of North Star State.

A Jail delivery was narrowly averted
1t Moorhead.
w. w. Sweeney, formerly Of st. Paul,
kills himself in Seattle.
The speakership fight is beginning
TO assume definite form.
The state live stock sanitary board
makes its annual report.
Detective T. E. Haggerty of St. Pau.
is drowned at Lake Heron.
The program for Twin City day az
the worlds fair is arranged.
The marksmen of Company c win
the Bazllle- Nelson loving cup
Monthly auction sales for benefit o.
farmers will be held at st. Cloud.
Farmers take advantage of law al
lowing spearing of fish through ice.
William P. Murray suggests Gov.
Ramsey and Gen. Sibley for statuary
hall.
Indians apply for licences to catch
whitefsh, the first time in the states
! history.
! The secretary of state is making ar
engagements to take the state census
next year.
Fl. A. Kendry, of Stanton, has been
appointed agent of the Great Western
road at Faribault.
The confectionery and bakery OF
Mrs. Jennie Baldwin of South Still
water was burglarized.
Henry Theleman, wealthy farmer
living near LeSueur. was gored to
death by a vicious bull.
The Minnesota congressman are in
favor of an extra session of congress to
revise the tariff schedules.
A thief relieved the proprietor of the
Ottawa house in Crookston of three
gold watches and S75 in cash.
John Cratic, years old, is injured
while sliding down the baunister OF
stairs to st. Paul public library.
John Phillips of Wilson was thrown
from his wagon down the Mankato
dixie. and is in critical condition.
Harry w. Frazee. a locomotive en-.
gineer on the Northern Pacific. was
fatally injured in the Duluth yards.
State labor bureau reports results OF
experiment with Canadian plan of
equalizing supply and demand for
labor.
Governor-elect John A. Johnson has
officially announced that Frank A.
Day of Paramount is to be his private
secretary.
John O'Brien, of Cannon Falls. was
found dead in the rear of John Dor
dams barn. He is supposed to have
died in a fit.
The Butter and Cheesemakers' asso-
citation of Minnesota will hold its an
nual convention at St. Anthony Park.
Dec. l. and 2.
The Minnesota State AIT society will
hold an exhibition in the new state
capitol this winter for the edification
of legislators.
The name of Ernest Kent of Duluth
was added to the rapidly growing
hunters death roll of the season of 1901
in the northwest.
Otto Fisher, proprietor of the hotel
at Hewitt, committed suicide by jump.
ing from the second-story window,
breaking his neck.
The two spans of the aerial ferry
bridge across the ship canal at Duluth
were successfully joined, and the work
of completing the structure will now
be finished rapidly.
Miss Nellie Ingram attempted to end
her life at Monticello by jumping from
the bridge into the river. She was
seen by several men, who rescued her
as she was sinking for the third time.
At Crookston, Freddie Brown, aged
6 years, fell from the rear of a wagon
loaded heavily with dirt, caught in the
wheel and was crushed under it. death
following in less than five minutes.
Several players are mourning the
loss of about $50 worth of chips in a
poker game at East Grand Forks. The
banker sold all the chips he could and
then excused himself. His absence did
not create alarm for about half an
hour.
John Draper was sandbagged by two
| unknown men, about one mile east Of
Murdoch. Two men jumped from the
bushes near the railroad track, and
one of them pointed a revolver at
Draper, demanding him to hold up his
hands.
An automobile belonging to c. s.
Bracket, of Minneapolis, was de.
stroyed by fire on the Lake of the Isles
| boulevard Mr.. and Mrs. Bracket and
a lady friend, who were occupants OF
the machine, had a narrow escape from
injury.
| It is estimated that not less than
$50, 900 changed hands in St. Louis
county on the late election. There
was more betting this year than ever
before in presidential contest. Forty
thousand of this sum changed hands
among Duluth men.
Miss Elizabeth Pfeffer, handsome
and polite, was sentenced to serve one
year at Saltwater for forgery. Last
July she passed upon Mankato bank,
two large-sized checks, both of which
were forgeries.
Charles Berg has been received at
the state prison from Carleton county
to serve ten years for manslaughter in
the second degree.
Herbert Kaiser, a 19-year-old boy,
Of st. Paul, had his left foot badly
crushed under a freight train while
crossing the Fourth street viaduct.
The state historical society has re.
ceived a portrait in oil of ]. v. Brewer,
who was the first state commissioner
of the Itasca state park. Mr.. Brewer
is the author of works upon the Indian
mounds in Minnesota and of a book