The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-08-18

Wisconsin and Iowa are making
strong effort to defeat Minnesota but
ter at the St. Louis fair in Septem-
Der.
University of Minnesota coed is
first person to receive registration
certificate at Devils Lake land open
ing.
Or. Ames of Minneapolis is a candi-
date for the republican nomination
for congress in the Minneapolis dis
trict.
A strong stand against the pension
ing of state employees is taken by
J. F. Jacobson of the state board of
control.
Supt. Whittier of the state training
school says the girls might run away
if there were fire escapes on the girls
cottage.
Foxes are devastating the Crookston
poultry yards. The residents should
organize a fox hunt to exterminate
the beasts.
Extraordinary steps are taken by
the state game and fish commission
to prevent the illegal shooting of
prairie chickens.
A laboring man named Emil Par
ras, said to have been on a protracted
spree, committed suicide by hanging
himself at Virginia.
John Wanke of South St. Paul has
been sentenced to thirty days in the
county Jail for assault and battery up
on his wife, Mrs. Lena Wanke.
Ten awnings were destroyed at the
Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce as
result of some one throwing a
lighted cigarette out of window.
A train crew on the 500 road found
man at the eastern approach of the
bridge crossing the river at Minneapo-
lis, with both legs cut off just below
the knees.
w. NJ. Rouh, a Great Northern
bridge carpenter, was seriously in
jured between Delano and Montrose
while attempting to board No. II, the
local passenger.
The board of trades SPECIAL COM
mittee Is meeting with success in
raising bonus to induce the pro-
prietor of a Wisconsin tannery to
locate at Owatonna.
Four round, pink little pills, attrac-
tive to the small child's eye and pleas
ant at first to the palate, caused the
death of Bessie, the one-year-old baby
girl of the E. H. Dahl family of Min
neapolis.
The little son of Joseph Sha, who
resides three miles west of Fergus
Falls, was seriously injured by bull.
The animal hooked him in the face,
inficting serious cash and tearing
his ear. ....... .
Lightning set fire to William Rober-
toms barn in South Rushford- and it
was destroyed, together with many
tons Of hay, some barley ana farm
machinery. The loss is over So 900;
no insurance.
Expert craftsmen have been busy
among the small country stores here
abouts. B. j. Bjerkens' store at
Waukon was entered for the second
time within few weeks and the till
tapped for So.
John Knight, seventeen-year-old
boy, was drowned in Cedar Lake. He
had been in swimming with num-
Der of friends and was taken with
cramps and went down where the
water is very deep.
Engineer j. R. Chapman performed
an heroic act in saving the life of a
small boy who had fallen into the
river near Winona. Dropping dis
lance of sixteen feet from the bridge,
he was able to seize the boy as he
was sinking for the last time.
Insurance Commissioner E. ii.
Dearth turned into the state treasury
June and July departments receipts
amounting to $4,295.2s. Most of this
is back taxes on marine insurance.
The total receipts at the department
since Jan. aggregate 100000, $685.
600 more than the receipts for the
same period last year.
Minnesota postmasters appointed:
Joseph Schmolke, Buchanan, vice
Frank Kuder, Jr., resigned; Charles
d. Lydiard, Long Lake, vice w. w.
Lawrence, resigned; Mary E. Pitcher,
Partridge, vice Irven I. Barfield, re-
moved; p. Saunders, Portage, vice
William Robbins, resigned.
In struction for the examination of
eyes of pupils in the Minnesota public
schools have been prepared by the
state board of health and will be sent
to the county superintendent for
distribution among the school dis
tricts in time for the opening of the
fall term in September.