The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-06-16
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE.

on rural schools.
Elias Steenerson is to be the next
postmaster at Crookston.
A big Independence Day celebration
is to be held at Excelsior.
Nine bands were in the parade Of
Woodmen's picnic at Mankato.
Gov. Van SAINT offers a reward for
the murderers of j. c. Sullivan.
The Northern Pacific crop report
shows generally favorable conditions.
Three Minnesota men pass the ex-
aminations for Rhodes scholarship.
Highwaymen in St. Paul Knocked
down and rob John Peterson, of Luz
verne.
Tony G. Wisch, a military prisoner,
is shot while trying to escape at Fort
Smelling.
The work of remodeling the old
buildings at Fort Smelling is nearly
completed.
The state buys the $45O,O0O worth
of certificates issued by the capitol
commission.
DR.. J. W. Bell, of Minneapolis, is
elected president of the State Medical
Association.
1t is hoped to dedicate the Twin
City building at the st. Louis fair the
middle of June.
The state sends carload of butter
to St. Louis to be entered in the but
ter scoring contest.
June 2, fire destroyed the postoffice
and contents of Kramer's hotel and
Mahlum's store at Nevis.
St. Paul.is to have a German consul
and it is expected that the appoint
ment will be made next fall.
President Weld, of Moorhead nor
NAL school, says Minnesota teachers
are better paid than ever before.
Work has begun at the agricultural
experiment station in the new stock
pavilion which is to cost $4,000.
The Crookston Journal says that
the chances are in favor of a new site
being selected for the public library.
Thousands of small pike and bass
were received from the state hatchery
and deposited in Lake Rebecca, Del
ano.
Frank L. Bacon, general agent Of
the Omaha at Superior, was yesterday
appointed agent of the road at St.
Paul.
Mail Carrier w. II. Allen, of st.
Paul, is sentenced to one year in the
state penitentiary for pilfering let
tiers.
The State Bank of Richmond, hav-
ing a capital of $4,000, was author
lied to begin business by the public
examiner.
Lizzie Menard, four-year-old child,
fell from the porch of her home in
Minneapolis, breaking both legs above
the knee.
The State Live Stock Sanitary Board
condemned and killed at South ST.
Paul thirty-two cattle affected with
tuberculosis.
The state treasurer received $5S,000
from the Observation-Disclosures Com
pany of Cloquet in payment of tim
Der stumpage.
Three iron mines, the Sibley, Savoy
and Zenith, on the Nermillion range
at Ely, have resumed operations on o
moderate scale.
The fourteenth annual convention
of the Catholic Total Abstinence So
ciety of the Diocese of Winona was
held in Winona.
Gust Osking. shoemaker whose
resident and shop is located at FOG
Cedar avenue. Minneapolis, was found
dead in his bed.
The village council of Perham has
leased ten acres of the park to the
new picking company, which is build
ing a factory here.
Arne Hanson, an old resident of
Cyrus, was bound over for manning
and disfguring Carl Rohde, by biting
off part of his nose.
The Minnesota State Board of In
vestment was the bidder for $4O5, 200
of certificates of Indebtedness issued
by the capitol commission.
1t is probable an effort will be made
to secure the convention of Mime
sofa State Music Teachers Associa-
ton for Winona next year.
A south-bound freight train on the
Rock Island left the track near Tros-
ky. Five cars and the caboose were
damaged and a woman injured.
Two Of the huge Italian marble COL
umns of the. grand stairway corridor
of the new capitol have been received
and are in place. The other columns
are on their way.
Elk River has won the county seat
removal proceeding instituted by citi-
zens at Becker. Enough voters signed
a remonstrance to defeat the holding
of special election.
N. 0. Dahl, of Crookston, and his
daughter Agot, eighteen years old,
are believed to have been murdered
the last part of April On their claim
near During postoffice.
Twelve cars, loaded with $500
boxes of Strawberries, arrived in Min
neapolis one day and retail dealers
are not charging over 10 cents for a
box, or 25 cents for three.
James A. Macleod, of st. Paul, was
awarded the contract for furnishing
plans and specifications for the erec-
| ton of a new court house for Lake
county to cost about $4,000.
A spark from a. daective wire in
George L. Gillette's boathouse at Gid
cons Bay. Lake Minnetonka, mixed in
with some gasoline in the bottom of
his yacht ''Delleumar" and both yacht
and boathouse were totally lost in
the explosion and fire which ensued.
While trying to escape the guards
at the workhouse in Minneapolis. Ed
ward Hawkins, aged eighteen, jumped
| into the river and was drowned near