The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-10
MINNESOTA HAPPENINGS.
Short Items Showing What has Hap
psned Throughout Confines
Of North Star State.

Minnesota is building many school
houses.
The sales of oleomargarine in Min
nesota are decreasing steadily.
A new $4,000 schoolhouse here will
be occupied the second week in No.
vember.
Col. Alfred NJ. Flagg, Northwestern
newspaper man, commits suiside at
Duluth.
The charitable societies prepare to
distribute Thanksgiving dinners to
the poor.
The state educational association
will consider bill to take schools
out of politics.
The capitol commissioners COM
plete arrangements for furnishings at
the new state capitol.
Inspector Rankin says enough at
tention is not paid to the primary
pupils in the state schools.
The assistant dairy and food COM
missioner says that box car mer-
chants are becoming pest.
The passenger representatives OF
the Northern Pacific will take an edu-
cational trip through the Northwest.
The Northwestern millers may have
to import wheat in order to protect
the high grade of their brands of
-four.
Miss Hannah McCauley, 919 Smell
ing avenue north, dies after taking a
mixture of remedies to relieve an at
tack of cramps.
The jerome bridge at Crookston
seems likely to be held up for time
as there is a dispute over the terms
of the contract.
Dec. % is the date announced fol
the sailing of the new Great North
ern steamship Minnesota, according
to a circular issued by the company.
Some of the country merchants are
complaining in regard to the rural
routes, believing that the mail order
houses receive too much of the bust.
ness.
A burglar alarm frightened away
burglars who entered the Browning
King clothing store in Minneapolis
So hasty was their exit that not an
article was taken.
A new corn picking machine was
within the past few days tested on
the farm of D. McConochie, near Pilot
Mound, in Fillmore county, and
worked in a most satisfactory man
ner.
Allie Pulford, seventeen years Ole
and a bellboy at the West hotel, Min
neapolis. was arrested on a charge OF
taking from S. J. Mayer, a travelling
man from New York, diamond piI
valued at $500.
Several sales of lumber have beer
made the past few days. The Vir
ginia Lumber company some days age
placed with eastern buyers 100000
feet of Norway, and this is now being
shipped from Duluth.
While out with a Halloween party
at Hutchinson Fred Micka, aged Is
received a bad wound from a 80
caliber revolver, accidentally fired by
another young mau, the bullet pass
ing through the calf of his leg.
The Crookston Business Mems
union is considering the ACCESSIBILITY
of starting a creamery there. Cream
cries have been successful elsewhere
and there is no reason why ONT
could not be made to pay there.
Confined to his bed by an illness
which prevented him from working
to earn a living for his wife and 81,
children, Ben Arnold of st. Charles
in the western part of this county
shot himself in the head with re
volver.
The unusual scarcity of robberies
hold-ups and midnight assaults &C
curing in this city during the month
of October is partially explained by
the police records, which show thai
712 arrests were made by the police
force during that month.
Depositors of the defunct Mer
chants bank of Duluth, which failed
more than a year ago, have filed {
petition with the clerk of the fedora
court here asking that Hanson E
Smith, president, and James w
Smith, cashier of the bank, be ad
judged bankrupts.
The complete returns of registra
ton for Minneapolis and Hennepi1
county show that the registration this
year is a record breaker. The tota
registration for the county is 52,439
and of this number the city is cred
tied with 47,3O2.
The Minnesota hen has stepped
proudly to the front at St. Louis ant
gobbled 81 per cent of the poultry
prizes awarded. Out of forty-thret
birds competing in the poultry prize
Minnesota won twenty-six prizes, TIT
largest percentage of winnings by
any state.
State Auditor Iverson' yesterday re
ceived draft for $6,625 from the fed
eral government, as the quarterly in
stallment of aid for the Soldiers
home. The usual amount received
is about $4,000. The addition sum i:
in payment of a claim that has beer
held up from last year.
With impaired intellect, founding
dismissed from an English charitable
institution to make his way throgt
life as best he could, William Hine
aged 10, was intercepted by Immigra
ton Inspector Dean of Duluth an6
deported to Canada.
James Ewin, colored, Is years old
was found dead in his bed at 70:
Washington avenue south, Minneapo
lis. Coroner U. G. Williams was sum
moned and pronounced death due Il
heart failure.
Minnesota has what is called q Re
tail Dealers Coal association. II
costs $40 to get into it and SIS veal