The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-01-07
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE.

mill if all goes well.
The states revenues for closing year
establish a new record.
Fire Quilted the Grinnell block in
Minneapolis causing q loss of $780,
900.
Prof. ]. C. Bryant resigns as general
secretary of the Minnesota Education
al association.
John st. John, driver for the City
dye works, ST. Paul, had both legs
broken in a runaway.
Fire which destroyed half block
of buildings on Main street and
threatened to razez the town, of Hoff-
man, caused damage of $4,000 yes
terday.
George Nasner was given a sentence
of SIS or five days in police court, Min
neapoiis, for trying to throw his old
friend and roommate out of hotel
window.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. F. Sjosten celcbrat-
ed their golden wedding at their home
on Hodgman street, Red Wing. The
guests presented them with purse
of money.
Referee Flittie adjudged Cassidy &
Howe of Chicago, formerly doing
business at Mankato as the Southern
Minnesota Cold Storage company,
bankrupt.
The State Bank of De Graft, capital
$4,000, was authorized to do business
by Public Examiner S. T. johnson.
A. D. Baudreau is president and A. D.
Kirschman cashier.
Fire caused by an electric light wire
caused a loss of $225,OOO to the Wal
bloom furniture company, 47O Jack
son street, St. Paul, and neighboring
buildings and firms.
Mrs. Nancy c. Wallace was found
dead in her room at 249H West Third
street, St. Paul, by Patrolman Miske.
Death was due to asphyxiation caused
by a jet being left open.
j. Wetchen, an employe of the Mil
waukee company, at Plato, was bad
ly injured while reshingling the sta
ton. The staging gave way, precipi-
tating him to the ground.
During the children's services at the
German Lutheran church at Red
Wing, Mrs. Victoria Brandes, aged IS,
slipped and fell near the altar and
broke a rib.
Fire started in the basement of the
store of NJ. o. Madison & Co., at Men
tor. The flames were soon beyond
hn IF 10
company was either destroyed by the
fire or water.
Charles and Henry Nelson, the Owa-
tonna boys under death sentence for
the murder of Henry Krier, have filed
applications with the state board of
pardons, asking that their penalty be
committed to life imprisonment.
The Minnesota Valley Farmers
Mutual Telephone company is talking
of reorganizing as a stock company.
It's line runs through several town
ships in this county, and it has $50
subscribers among the farmers.
During the year about to close s.
O42 permits for buildings have been
issued by the Minneapolis building
inspector. These figures are far in
excess of those of 1902 when a few
over 1000 were issued.
The Minneapolis branch of the An
ti-Saloon League of Minnesota is pre-
pairing to enter an active campaign
agaiDs the violation of the wineroom
ordinance by Minneapolis saloonkeep-
ers.
The jury in the case of the state
against Mrs. Mary A. Williams at
Brainerd, charged with the murder of
her daughter, Lilly A. Williams, Aug.
%, brought in verdict of guilty in
the first degree.
Fire in the basement of the store OF
NJ. o. Madison & Co. at Mentor de-
stroycd the entire stock of the COM
pany. The building was not materi-
ally damaged. The loss is estimated
at $4,000.
Chief of Police Conroy of Minneapo-
lis received a letter from Bethany,
Mo-, this morning asking him to find
Jackson Haney, about so years of age,
to whom a large fortune has recently
fallen.
Eddie Donahue, four-year-old son
of John w. Donahue, st. Paul, romped
about the house playing with his
Christmas toys, when suddenly he be-
came i'll and in ten minutes was dead
in his sick mothers arms.
Theodore Abeleiter, a mail clerk on
the Milwaukee road who was killed
by falling from his car at Dakota on
Saturday, came to his death by rea-
son of a defective bar on the mail
car.
The southbound limited on the
Northern Pacific railroad crashed into
the northbound limited at Beroun.
D. P. Rouse, a mail clerk on the south
bound train, was burned to death in
his car and two men were injured.
The police of Mankato have in Gus
tody Willie MCGEE, the runaway son
of Patrick MCGEE, bridge foreman on
the Wisconsin road at Stevens Point,
Wis. He ran away from his home in
August with another boy.
Fifty dollars was stolen from the
Northern Pacific station at Fertile
when the operator was out for lunch
Suspicion rests on a man who was
recently discharged by the company,