The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-17
MINNESOTA HAPPENINGS.
Short Items Showing What has Hap
psned Throughout Confines
Il North Star State.

Nearly all the women registered IN
st. Paul cast their ballots
Minneapolis central high defeats st.
Paul central at football, to o.
Many interesting legal questions
arise during the voting in st. Paul.
Mysterious suicide dies from NOR
phine poisoning at Nicollet hotel,
Minneapolis.
1t is estimated that 10000 win hunt
deer in Minnesota during the next
three weeks.
The election results in many sur
prises for candidates on the Ramsey
tickets.
The Edwards-Wood company, grain
commission, have opened branch
Office at Argyle.
It is estimated that 10000 will hunt
demand for men in the mines and
lumber camps this winter.
Fifty-six fowls from Minnesota on
exhibition at the Worlds Fair Poul-
try Show, took thirty-five awards.
Biwabik is enjoying a revival in
business due to lumber camps which
are being operated in the vicinity.
Roswell Tousley, aged 6s, pioneer
settler Of. LIE Sueur, died of paralysis.
He is survived by wife and one son.
The total registration in Winona
county for the election next Tuesday
is 1870, as compared with 4,479 two
years ago.
The Faribault opera house has been
leased to George D. Reed, retiring
clerk of courts, and A. K. Ware of
Mortified. ..... ..
Arthur Anderson, of Ravenna, aged
IL years, managed to kill a wolf near
Hastings with the help of younger
brother, a dog and club.
J. Shirley, one of the oldest pio-
neers of Murray county, died from an
attack of apoplexy. A wife and six
grown children survive him.
Gustavet Peterson, while at work
in the woods near Bull with his part
ner cutting timber, was struck by q
falling tree and instantly killed.
George Sehaffer, wealthy farmer
of Douglass county, was gored by q
bull at Hastings and was instantly
killed. He is survived by a wife and
family.
Thousands of sheep are being re-
ceived at Winona and will be kept on
ranches near the city during the win
ter and fattened for the Chicago
market.
The new sewer and Waterman con-
tracts have been completed at Can
non Falls. Some $4,000 has been
spent by the village this summer in
improvements. ...
Thomas Glanagan of Austin. a rail-
way man, has filed petition in bank
ruptcy. The assets are placed at 5000,
all claimed as exempt, and the LA
bilities at $731.35.
In the presence of her family as
sembled at the supper table, Mrs.
Mary Clancy, wife of John Clancy,
Minneapolis, ended her unhappy life
last evening by drinking carbolic
acid.
Demands have been made on the
village Of Hokah for $4,000 damages
for injuries recently received by Jesse
Reynolds, young man Of Mime
sofa Lake The village denies any LA
bility and wilf~fght the case.
Rural carriers appointed for Min
nesota routes: Crookston, route 3,
Robert scribner; Halstead, route 2,
Joseph Henderson; Mcintosh, route
2, Christian c. Ostby.
Carl Knue Harry Schuberth, the
man who took his life In the Nicollet
hotel, Minneapolis, was an artist Of
note. He had painted for King Oscar
of Sweden and was of O rich family
In Stockholm, Sweden.
Farmers near Angus, Mimi, were
visited by fal<irs who collected money
and notes on the strength of prom
Uses to cure disease, but the game was
flushed too early, and constable
pursued the swindlers and compelled
them to give up the papers which
they held.
e. M. Fowler, retired lumberman
and mine owner, whose fortune is es-
timated at $4,000, 200, is dead at his
home in Pasadena, CAL, after brief
illness with kidney disease. His for
mer home was in Detroit, Mich,
where he started as laborer in the
woods and amassed his immense for
tune. He was seventy years old.
Eight passengers and conductor.
imprisoned in a burning street car
at Tenth avenue Sc and Fourth
street, Minneapolis. were obliged to
force the gates and jump over live
electric wires in order to escape from
the burning car.
As a passenger train was going
through Minnesota at the rate of
about fifteen miles an hour, a brake
beam on one of the coaches became
loose and falling detected the wheels.
This caused the express and baggage
cars to be thrown from the track and
almost into the river. The baggage
man and express messenger escaped
by jumping. The cars were left be-
hind and the train went on with the
other coaches. This is one Of the
worst places on the river division, as
the track runs on the river bank and
makes sharp turn.
Fritz Seifert, the hermit of st.
Augusta, is dead. For nearly half
a century. he has occupied little log
hut, built by his own hands and To-
Gated upon small piece of ground
upon which he raised such few vege-
tables as were necessary for his live
lihood. He died at the age Of seventy
five.
The new Carnegie library at Pipe
stone was opened without dedicatory
exercises. No books were given out,
however, but the public devoted the
time to looking over the building.
Next week the library will be open
for tho distribution of honLS