The Sauk Centre herald., 1904-10-27
MINNESOTA HAPPENINGS.
Short Items Showing What has Hap
pened Throughout Confines
of North Star State.


Daniel Hedberg of st. Paul is
stabbed during a quarrel.
The state labor department under.
takes to solve the servant girl prob
lem.
Bruno Bonn, eleven years old, OF
st. Paul, is accidentally shot while
hunting.
The First NJ. E. congregation of St.
Paul purchases a site for a new
church building.
The Bohemian societies of st. Paul
join in observing a time-honored
ceremony.
West Duluth is to have a curling
ring to cost $1,000.
The state wins an important con-
test involving title to valuable timber
hands.
Otto Green, colored, of Lc Sueur,
fell under the cars and his arm was
cut off.
The Presbyterian church of South
st. Paul has decided to build q new
parsonage at cost of $4,000.
partridges are more plentiful this
year than for some time past.
Two Minnesota women win all the
prizes for dairy butter at the worlds
fair.
Capt. McCardy of St. Paul, auditor
of postoffice department treasury,
makes new suggestions on depart
ment matters.
Crookston people are hot on the
track of biscuit factory, with good
prospects of landing one.
The state labor commissioner pre-
pares an interesting report on female
wage earners in Minnesota.
Thieves entered the woodshed OF
c. R. Martin of Bemidji and stole an
axe, a shovel and a keg of wire nails.
Several Fergus Falls business men
have formed an organization for the
purpose of boring for gas in the vi
cinity of Foxhome and Pelican Rap
ids.
Bud Braun of Chicago is at St.
Joseph's hospital and may die as a
result of the injuries received in a
prize fight last evening.
Stella Aho, a dressmaker's appren
tice at Duluth, confessed to the po-
lice that she recently stole about
$4OO from the trunk of Charles Hill,
339 Lake avenue.
Frank Warner has been received at
the state prison from Beltrami coun-
ty to serve eight years for assault in
the first degree.
j. E. Cooley, of the state board of
equalization, says the entire tax levy
Of Ramsey county will be invalidated
If the $1,OO0,OOO item against the
Northern Pacific is removed.
Two engines On the 500 railway
collided at Henning. No one was in
jured, but one of the engines was
demolished and traffic was blocked
throughout the night.
With but Is cents in his pockets,
Dick McAvoy, i stranger IN the city,
was beaten almost into insensibility
by two highwaymen in the Milwau-
kee yards.
The battleship Minnesota now un-
der construction at Newport News
shipyards, Va, is so per cent COM
pleted and will be launched in Janu-
airy.
Pillsbury's Best -four takes every
thing that is high in the way of
prizes at the St. Louis fair. Pills
bury's Best takes the grand prize
for the best -four, the grand prize for
the finest exhibit, and the grand
prize for the best bread.
Thomas Voegeli of Voegeli Bros,
Minneapolis, was elected president of
the National Retail Dealers associa-
ton yesterday at it's annual meeting
in st. Louis.
Gold Medal flour, made by Wash
burnCrosby company. has once more
proved the right to it's name, as the
worlds fair judges gave it highest
award and grand prize.
The local management at the Fayal
mine exects to have all of No. 2
stockpile removed to the docks at
Two Harbors before the close of navi-
CATION.
A deal is in progress for the trans
fer of the lease of the Tesora mine
at Virginia, Mimi, from Capt. NJ. l..
Fay to an independent ore company
of Cleveland.
Belle Plaine, John O'Day was stabbed
three times in the abdomen. John
Cunningham, who is accused by
O'Day of the crime, says the action
was committed in self-defense.
ST. Louis county is to have a new
poor house to cost about $34, 900. John
Hilliard was the successful bidder
among eight that submitted propo-
sails for the construction of the build
ing.
Ferdinand Seabel was appointed
postmaster at Waite Park, Stearns
county, Minnesota, vice F. J. Zacz-
kowski, resigned; also, Ida NJ. Lilo
at Lilo, Red Lake county, Minnesota,
vice Maguus Johnson, removed.
The railways are almost swamped
by the tourist travel to the Pacific
coast.
Wages at the Cass mine, near BIZ
wabitz, have been advanced from
$1.75 to $1.s5 day. This is the only
mine on tie range paying better than
$1.75 for common labor.
The Union Manufacturing company
of st. Paul paid its gross earnings
tax for 1903 yesterday. The COM
pany turned $121.s9 into the city
treasury ard was given the first re-
ceipt ever issued for a payment un-
der the gross earnings provision Of
the city charter.
Suffering from a stroke of paralysis,