The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-12-08
MINNESOTA HAPPENINGS.
Short Items Showing What has Hap
poned Throughout Confines
of North Star State.

building to cost $4,000.
Fire at South ST. Paul causes dam
age estimated at $4,000.
The st. Paul committee makes
plans for the saengerfest.
The assembly committee kills the
anti-free lunch ordinance.
John F. Kelley, 462 East Curtice
street, falls three feet and is killed.
N. P. Langford completes his fit.
tieth year as resident of st. Paul.
The state fair board makes a good
financial showing in spite of bad
weather.
John Schultz had his right hand
taken off in a corn shredder at Can
non Falls.
A copy of Raphael's "Sistine Ma
DONNA is unveiled at st. PauPs Epis-
copal church.
The barn of Mrs. Julia James, in
Port Douglas, was burned with eight
or nine tons of hay.
A two-weeks' course in practical
work for farmers will be given at the
school of agriculture.
St. Paul capitalists are interested
in the development of a rich iron
range near Winnipeg.
Henry Sharon and wife were thrown
from buggy in runaway at Little
Falls, and he was killed.
Counterfeit ten dollar gold pieces
are being unloaded in Minneapolis
by skilled manipulators.
liver Tostenson fell from a passen-
ger train at Watson. His left arm
was cut off above the elbow.
The board of directors of the Com
mercial club of St. Paul elected Gov.
Van SAINT an honorary member.
Joseph Fahcy of huntsville is found
dead at the base of the bluff at the
foot of Minnesota street, st. Paul.
The statute revision commission
will make it's report at the opening
of the session of the legislature.
Fred Nicholson of the firm of Mich
olson Bros, at Lynd, lumber and
hardware men, was badly hurt by
bull.
Gov. Van SAINT says a siX-foot chan
mel will make the Mississippi river
one of the great highways of COM
merce.
The legislature will be asked to
pass bill making it a misdemeanor
to refuse to rent flats to families hav-
ing children.
Frank A. Kurrasch of Orrock blew
off the top of his head with a shot
gun, after first having attempted to
cut his own throat.
The residence of Mrs. Lavina L.
Osborn was totally destroyed by fire
at Mankato. The loss is $1,000, par
tally covered by insurance.
Burglars entered hardware store
at St. Cloud and carried off six 32-
caliber revolvers and shotgun. No
trace of them has been discovered.
George Prof, an employe of a
hardware company at Duluth, will
attempt to loop-the-loop on roller
skates. He is an athlete of promi-
hence.
A promising young life was sacri-
feed to some hunters carelessness,
when a bullet struck down George
Wendt in Duluth. He was Fl years
of age.
Ripe strawberries were picked on q
farm at Minnetonka at late as Nov.
rs. The severe frost of that evening
ended the strawberry season, and
there are no more remaining.
The skeleton of a man was found
by young man named William Mar
shall, a Two Harbors clerk, near the
Duluth & Iron Range tracks between
Two Harbors and Knife River.
The body of Jacob Dryhaug, the
postmaster at Shotley, who mysteri-
ously disappeared with $1,000 on his
person a month ago, was found on
the shore of Red lake.
Something new in the way of an
amusement enterprise is being at
tempted by Captain Fred Sibley, who
in the summer season runs the
mona and Fountain City. He is also
the owner of the steamer Frank, and
started out today from Fountain City
with the boat for southern waters,
having in connection with it large
barge on which he has fitted up a
merry go-round. 1t is his intention
to stop at various points in southern
waters.
Mayor James c. Haynes has,
through his attorney, filed his formal
notice of appeal to the district court
from the return of the city canvass
ing board declaring David P. Jones
mayor of Minneapolis, and his de-
mand for recount of the ballots.
The Twenty-frst regiment of in
fantry which was stationed at Fort
Smelling previous to its departure for
San Francisco, according to orders
just issued by the war department,
will embark for Manila from San
Francisco harbor on Feb. 1, 1905.
Emil Wissan, an 1S-year-old youth
of Cloquet, is lost in the woods. He
went hunting, expecting to return
the same Gay, and nothing has been
seen of him since. The assumption
is that the lad is lost, though he may
have met with an accident.
Miss Edith Hunt, nurse for the
last year at the isolation hospital at
Duluth, has gone to Pierre, s. D., to
join her two brothers, whom she has
not seen since she was years old,
sixteen years ago. They have been
looking for her, and she for them,
for many years.
The Northern Pacific freight agents
begin an educational trip over the
lines of the company.
The appointment of Leonard A.
Rosing of Cannon Falls to a position
on the board of control was an
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