The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-03
MINNESOTA HAPPENINGS.
Short Items Showing What has Hap.
psned Throughout Confines
Of North Star State.

Two Harbors has q murder mystery.
The old school house at Bagley was
sold at auction.
Manchester college will erect two
modern buildings
Nov. 81 is named as Twin City day
at the St. Louis fair.
The school teachers of Minnesota are
more efficient than ever.
The dairymen vote to put up the
price of milk 20 per cent.
Elvera Wagner, four years old, st.
Paul, was burned to death.
The Minnesota dairy industry in
creased 25 per cent during the year.
The state receives more than $500, 00o
for timber sold at the annual auction.
Minnesota butter wins the grand
prize and national banner at St Louis.
Nels Orvik was shot and killed in
Henry Castles saloon at Beltrami by
the bartender.
The insurance companies put up
rates Is per cent on risks in the bust
ness district of St. Paul.
The museum at Hamline university
receives one of the finest groups OF
orang-outangs in the country.
In two 25-minute halves Minnesota
broke all football records by defeating
Grinnell by score of 146 to 0.
The state school of agriculture will
have fine list of entries at the inter
national live stock exposition.
S. ]. Rasmussen of Starbuck has pur-
chased controlling interest in the
First National bank of Perham.
Harold Young, bystander, is stab
bed in the back during a street fight
between colored men in ST. Paul
The enrolment of the St. Paul schools
increased 1905 during October. The
total enrolment at present is 3s,23a
The Phythian lodges of the state are
divided into Twenty-Five districts and
deputy named to take charge of each
division.
William Dieball, late of Hebron,
has bought the st. Peter Hotel in
Hastings, and will change its name to
the Phoenix.
State Auditor Iverson received from
Warden Wolfer $25, 900 as the October
receipts on the state prison Irvine and
hemp account.
Nelson Bros independent elevator
and grain house burned at Milroy, at a
loss of BIC, 900. Insurance on grain,
5000; on house, So, 500.
Figures compiled by the state audi
tor show that there are in Minnesota
110,2s dogs which are valued at S574-
332 or fraction over IS each.
Thomas Judge of Minneapolis was
caught between the bumpers of two
freight cars in the Northern Pacific
yards and died from his injuries.
Ninety applications for mineral leases
on state land were made to the state
auditor. The pieces applied for were
leased last year, and had expired
A tramp by the name of Tom Hayes
died in a hack which had been sum.
moned to the hospital at Crookston.
His relatives live in Ogdensburg, N. Y.
The chain gang at Duluth is on a
strike for better food and more of it.
Seven of the men declare they will not
do another stroke of work until they
are properly fed.
Although st. Paul's attitude on the
question is still to be learned, it is prob.
able that Nov. 81 will be chosen as
'Twin City Day" at the Louisiana Pur-
chase exposition.
Gov Van SAINT has issued a requisi-
ton for the return of Joseph Gull
mette, wanted in Polk county for the
Mongeaon murder. He is under arrest
at Woonsocket, r i.
Andrew Olson, a miner at the Spruce
mine at Eveleth, was killed by blast
in drift. The dynamite failed to ex-
plode within reasonable time and
Olson went to investigate.
The Montrose public school burned.
The fire caught on the roof and was
caused by overheating the fues, which
run from the furnace in the basement
to the second story of the building.
Warrants to the amount of $500, 242
for school aid were drawn by the state
auditor, of which Ramsey county
schools will receive $6O,13 This is
the regular October apportionment.
The House of Hope Presbyterian
church at ST. Paul will enlarge its
missionary work in foreign fields. DR..
Boyle announced that the church will
endow a ward in some foreign hospital
for the care of the sick heathens.
Karl R. Kipp, former bookkeeper Of
the First National bank at Saratoga
Springs, N. Y, was arrested in st.
Paul, charged with embezzlement.
Kipp had been stopping at hotel in
the guise of a travelling salesman.
A verdict of 81 damages for the loss
of a human life was the award of the
Jury in the case of c. NJ. Rawitzer, as
administrator of the estate of Harry
Jacobs, against the st. Paul City Rail-
way company in the district court.
When the jailor at the central sta
ton in Duluth went to the cell in
which Mary Coleman was conhnud on
a charge of drunkenness, to give her
some supper, he found her dead on the
cot.
State Auditor Iverson received from
Washington the patent for the famous
thirty-six acres of swamp land north
of Virginia which has been in litigation
for some time. It is believed that
there are valuable ore deposits upon it,
and the tract has been valued at $780,.
600.
An attempt to catch a dog which
had escaped from crate at the union
depot, st. Paul caused a mad dog