The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-04-21
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE.

| Killed Dy a morse 1a1llnS on him.
The state board of pardon denies
the request of Frank H. Hamilton.
Fred W. Ames' wife makes a plea
for him before the state board of par
dons
The ST. Paul Rod and Gun Club
makes plans for acquiring shooting
park.
| The war department announces
rules to govern the use of the St.
Cloud river.
The state dairy and food commission
will prohibit the use of coal tar dyes
in soda water.
| Mrs. Flora +. Won Swessumilch is
| found dead in a bathtub at the Asto-
ria hotel, St. Paul.
M. Burton is on his way from Lake
Itaska to the worlds fair at St. Louis
| in a birch bark canoe.
The city council passes an ordin
| ance imposing restrictions on the is
suance of licenses to peddlers.
An anti-free lunch law similar to
| the one recently enacted in Minneap-
oils is being proposed for st. Paul,
John Regain of st. Paul may die
from razor cut received in a fight
and two others are injured seriously.
Frank White, a well-known Mime
apolis saloonkeeper, dropped dead in
his place of business on South Third
| street.
| Safe crackers blew open the safe
in the saloon of \. NJ. Bagger, Min
neapolis, and secured about $40 in
change.
A Minneapolis &, St. Louis east
bound freight train headed by two
engines was wrecked two miles east
of Belview.
A vigorous crusade is to be insti-
tuted by the state food and dairy
department against the use of coal
tar dyes in soft drinks and foods.
Higher wages and increased cost
the net earnings of the Omaha rail
road for 1908, as compared with 1902.
William Dolly, who had his leg
broken while excavating for a gas
company at Faribault has brought
suit for damages against the city for
$4,000.
Senator Nelson made chairman of
subcommittee to investigate dispute
about project to defect channel of
the Mississippi between Wisconsin
and Iowa.
Insurance Commissioner Elmer II.
Dearth has turned into the state
| treasury $3O,319.45, the total March
| collection of fees and taxes from in
| suranee companies.
H. w. Wheelander, a homesteader,
| was shot and killed at Blackjack as
| the result of quarrel between F.
Artz and p. j. Bergman over some
land at Battle River.
The meat market owned by Young
Brothers., at COS Hennepin avenue,
Minneapolis, was entered by burglars
and the safe blown open and robbed
of some $500 in cash.
Many Minnesota cattle are dying
| from hemorrhage septicaemia, one of
the most fatal diseases that have ap-
peared among the domestic animals
of the United States.
DIR. Henry Hutchinson of St. Paul
was elected president of the state
| board of health and vital statistics 20
fill the vacancy caused by the death
of DR.. Franklin Staples.
Wells has a centenarian in the per-
son of Mrs. Helena Christensen,
whose birthday came on the 9th. Her
| Fri ho1 ri fnr he ri l.
zens presented her with a gift of
money.
The state normal board by unan-
imous vote elected Prof. Guy E. Max
well, who for the past four years, has
been superintendent of the training
department. of the Winona normal
school.
State Oil Inspector Warmers March
report shows total receipts of $2,2oS.-
95 and total disbursements of $2,275.-
IS, leaving surplus of $11.7O. There
is not much oil coming into the state
in March.
E. S. Carmichael, game warden at
LIE Sueur, has notified the game and
fish commission that he arrested a
man at LIE Sueur for shooting one
duck. The man pleaded guilty and
was fined SIS.
| Thomas Simpson of Winona is pro-
posed for presidential elector by the
Republicans of the First congression-
al district. Mr.. Simpson has voted
for every Republican nominee for
| president since 1860.
The body of Gerd Gerdes, resident
of Fulda, was found in a snowdrift
near A1dover, S. d. 1t is believed he
was blown from railway coach plat
form while attempting to pass from
one car to another.
| An Indian by the name of Ton-ke-
| be-ness was found dead on the prairie
| two miles from Thief River Falls. He
had been in the city the night before
and had evidently become sleepy. He
was frozen to death when found.
Of the fifteen buttermakers who re-
| ceived over 95 in the second butter
scoring test of the National Cream
| cry Buttermakers' association at Chi
cago, twelve are from Minnesota, ac-