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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-09-16

Prices will tell call and examine
them at ANDREW J. SMITH s.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-09-16

c. c. Cushman, the st. Paul stock
buyer. was In town on Wednesday.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-09-16

First.four right and left, on Fri.
day evening, the Oath, at the G. A. r.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-09-16

q. Or. Garfield spent Sunday in Long
Prairie.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-09-16

Tho Grand Army boys will give a
dance at their hall on Tuesday even
ing Of next week, and no pains will
be spared to make it thoroughly
enjoyable party. The relief fund of
the post is running low. they having
used large sum during the past
few weeks in giving aid to sick COM
rades, and they take this cans of
putting themselves in shape to con-
tinue their charitable purposes.
Turn cut and give the old boys in
blue generous benefit, for sweet
charity's sake. They deserve it.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-09-16
FOR SALE.

Stoves, heaters and cooks, at
MARE & SCHANK's,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-09-16

Jonh j. BoObar has gone to Winona
to attend the meeting of wheelmen.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-09-16

Remember the G. A. r. dance on
Friday evening, the Oath.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-09-16

mum was nominated and elected enc
delegate by reclamation. The mo-
tion was then made to select the two
remaining delegates by ballot. The
first ballot resultediin no choice as
follows.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-09-16

Peter Hsffman was in the village
on Saturday.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-09-16

Silk handkerchiefs. Call and see
them. ANDREW j. SMITH.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-09-16

cider vinegar, sold cheap at
A. Dahlem's.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-09-16

Mrs. Webb and daughter are visit
ing Mrs. G. Il. TubbS.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-09-16

Tom Hogan came over from Glen
wood on Wednesday morning.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-09-16

jersey capes just the thing.
ANDREW J. SMITH.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-09-16

U. NJ. Tobey went down to ST.
Cloud on Monday of this week.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-09-16

What has become of the sidewalk
ordered on Ninth-st. from Third to
Railroad.ave? 1t has been built as
far as the north line of the Manitoba
right-of-way but it was ordered blythe
council extended through and across
the tracks. The end not yet built is
really of more Importance than all
the rest, as in the fall and spring it
is next to impossible to get across
the railroad. All who liye south of
the track have to make long detours,
or else wade ankle deep in the mud.
Will the council please note this fact?
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-09-16

Anything in the line Of seasonable
goods at ANDREW J. SMITHS.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-09-16

John P. Hammered was In town to.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-02-04
FOREIGN.

In reply to q second note from the
European Powers, Greece states that she holds
TO her original position, and refuses to disarm.
The British Government has made
the issue of coercion practically test one and
the Parnellites have accepted the gage of par
liamentary battle. They hope, with the aid of
the Liberals, TO drive the Salisbury adminrstra-
ton from power The severance of the implied
union of the eighty-six Nationalists with the
Tories is now complete.
The defeat of the Salisbury Govern
ment has left all the political parties in the
British House of Commons in a state of chaos,
and may result in dissolution of Parliament
and an appeal TO the country. The crisis ex-
cites but little interest among the general pub
lie Everything is quiet and the commercial
and financial markets are but slightly weaker.
Tho Frccnoss's Journal Of Dublin, is jubilant
over tho defeat OF the Government and
says: "The action of the leaders of the National
League in defeating tine Government empha-
sizes the fact that there is q new force in poll
tics which Parliament has to consider" The
for help on Mr.. Gladstone alone. They believe
that he will make them an offer looking to the
settlement Of the Irish question
A European feet will assemble in
Suda Bay, Crete, numbering about twenty
mon-of-war. Greece, il In announced, @is now
ready TO comply with the wishes Of Europe"
Bismarck addressed the Prussian
LAndtag for two hours on the expulsion Of
Poles for constant intrigues against the gov
eminent declaring that Germany would never
move hairs breadth toward a restoration Of
Poland
Four members of Polish revolu-
t;onary organization were executed at Wsrsaw
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-02-04
POLITICAL.


Washington telegram: ~The Cabinet
had long session over the Senate's demand
on Attorney General Garland for information
about the United States Attorneys Office In
Southern Alabama 1t in understood that all
the Presidents advisers looked upon the reso-
luton as simply clever device TO get by cir
cumlocution facts which could not be obtained
by direct methods, and, although no definite
conclusion was reached, il was agreed that At
torney General Garland should draft reply,
which will be submitted at another meeting,
and which will be a refusal TO give the desired
information"
The caucus committees of the Ohio
Senate held q conference Wednesday. the 9th
ult, 10 effect n settlement of the existing
troubles, and when the Senate met at 4 p. m.
adjournment was voted until morning, at the
request of the conferrees Previously the Re-
publican Senate held a session, the only
business transacted being tho approval Of
the journal The Democrats held an in
dignation meeting in the evening.
Chicago dispatch: "The attorneys for
the prosecution in the Mayoralty contest yes
terday asked Judge Prendergast to enter an
order Diminishing the case, andtaxing the costs
to the prosecution. The order was made as
requested
Columbus (Ohio) dispatches of the
Goth ult reported all quiet The Senate met
and Immediately adjourned, pending the con-
ference between the joint committee which had
been appointed with view to learn if some
plan could not be agreed upon. The commit
tee was in session all day. The proceedings
were had in executive session In the mean
time tho representative sides were preparing
their programmes of procedure in case COM
promise was not reached.
The New York Sun has effected a
complete change of front on the coinage ques-
ton. 1t now declares that bimetaHsm is a
practical impossibility and monometallism
the only safe and wise course to pursue, with
silver as the favored metal
At the Cabinet meeting on the 2Sth
ult the President expressed his determination
not to comply with the requests by the Senate
for information regarding suspensions from
Office. His views on the subject were sustained
by all the members of the Cabinet and letters
of refusal were formulated in reply to demands
for papers bearing on several nominations now
pending.
A Columbus dispatch of the 30th
ult, says @the conference of Ohio Senators has
thus far been productive of no results, the
Democrats insisting that the rules put in force
before Lieut. Gov Kennedy took his seat shall
be adhered to-"
The election OF successor to Con-
gresham Rankin will take place IN the Fifth
Wisconsin District, Feb. %.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-02-04

The carriage factory Of Hiram W.
fire TO the amount of sl50,00 The car-works
and foundry at Beaver Falls, Pa, worth s175,-
eco, were burned, az also the opera house and
the grocery of lines & Sons at Lexington, Ky.
The New York Produce Exchange
places the visible supply of wheat and corn at,
respectively, %, sos, IA and s,555,Sl2 bushels.
Fire destroyed five stores at Opelika,
Ala !; the Grasshopper mill at Youngstown,
Ohio, worth $4,000; the dry-goods store of
Robinson Brothers, at Wichita, Kan. and
Wheeler's Block, one of the largest buildings
in Burlington, VT
The Catholic Unirerse, of Cleve-
land, has received information that Archbishop
Gibbons, OF Baltimore, will be raised to the
Cardnalate
Freeman Clark, negro, who was
born IN Virginia IN 1864, died at Windsor, Ont ),
being over l2l years old
Gen. Sherman will, some time next
fall, remove from St Louis and take up his
residence in New York hotel
The total imports of dry goods at the
port of New York during the week were valued
ut over S., 500 00o, and tho amount thrown on
the market at nearly g., 100000
A party of Eastern capitalists has
offered the city of Cleveland $1,000 per year
for light and heat franchise, intending to run
natural gas from Butter County Pennsylvania,
where it has purchased ~, COO acres of land
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-02-04
WESTERN.

A portion of Stockton, Cal, was
flooded by an overflow Of the St joaquin
River. The Moss wheat tract 5000 acres, was
submerged, and the breaking of levee placed
5000 additional acres of wheat and orchards
under water, the loss being placed at s425, coo.
The Mississippi River, says st.
Louis dispatch, is blockaded by a solid mass of
ice from this point as far north as the mouth
of the Illinois River and as far south "a Ste
Genevieve, distance of sixty five miles. The
ice il sixteen or seventeen inches in thickness,
and resembles in many respects the gorge
which blockaded the river in 1915, and which
remained intact from Dec 81 TO March p This
year the river closed on Jan. -, and the ice-is
expected to break up about the latter part of
February.
Gov. Murray, of Utah, has vetoed an
act of the Legislature giving absolute right of
bail to all convicts except murderers in the
first degree.
John G.. Jones, o colored citizen of
Chicago, has addressed to II. b. Hayes d letter
of inquiry regarding the disposition of the
John +. Slater educational fund of 100000,
of which the Presidents a trustee, complain
ing that applications from reputable colored
people have not been even respectfully con-
sidered.
After two hours fight with Indians,
on the 18th ult, at East Nocorai, in Sonora,
the American force, under Captain Crawford,
was fired on by Mexican troops, American
scouts returning the fire. Five of the Amer
lean party were wounded, among them Captain
Crawford, who died three days later, while the
Mexican loss was four killed and five wounded.
The Mexicans claim that they mistook the
Americans for Indians, but Lieutenant Maus
gives It as his opinion that the Mexicans in
tended to rout the Americans and appropriate
their camp equipage and comnissary stores
Gen. David r. Atchison died at his
home in Clinton County, Missouri, last week.
He served in the National Senate for twelve
years, and was Acting President of the United
States for one day. Polk retired from Office
at noon Sunday, March 4, 1S49 and Taylor
could not be inaugurated till Monday. Mr..
Atchison, therefore, as President Of the Sen
ate, held the reins of Government until the
Inauguration had taken place.
The interment of the late Congress
man Rankin took place at Manitowoc, Wis, on
the 2Sth ult Thousands viewed the remains
as they lay in state in the Episcopal Church,
and the funeral procession was mile and o
half in length
Indiana, especially that part of it
lying southeast of indianapolis, is experiencing
a remarkable religious revival that bids fair to
sweep over the whole State
Near Chicago Junction, Ohio, a pas
senger train on the Baltimore and Ohio dashed
into freight train-a caboose, locomotive,
baggage, and two passenger cars being piled
into heap OF debris. Four employees were
killed and a number of passengers wounded
The financial loss is placed at $4,000
Murat Halstead, editor of the Gin
cinnati Commercial Gazette, and Joseph j. Nc
Dowell, business manager of the Enquirer of
that city, were arrested on the charge of pub
fishing lottery advertisements.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-02-04
SOUTHERN,

The State officers of Texas gave mil
itary honors to the late Col Ashbel Smith, a
veteran of the war for independence, whose
remains were on Sunday placed beside those of
Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston at Austin.
At Canton, Ga, DIR. Moore, an aged
physician, was bitten by his horse in the neck,
the teeth of the animal almost severing the
Doctors head from his body.
A party of hunters at Brushy Lake,
Arkansas, cut an air-hole in the ice and killed
thirty two beavers.
The PROSECUTING work of two Nor
mon polygamists at Walhalla, S. C., has caused
much excitement it being reported that fifty
converts are ready to proceed to Utah. The
young men of the district have organized, and
warned the Mormons TO quit
Two women, claiming to be widows
of the late J. A. Pierce, wealthy ranchnlan
from Los Angeles, Texas, who was killed in a
railway collision near Atlanta, GA two months
ago, have both brought suits for damages
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-02-04

where he continued to labor for two years;
was "a news agent on railroads for three
years; learned the trade of ship builder,
was elected President of the Ship-carpen
tiers and Ship-caulkers' Association, and
took an active part in organizing trade and
labor unions; was appointed upon the re-
quest of the trade and labor organizations
to position in the Chicago Postoffice, which
he held from 1869 to 1877; was elected n
member of the Chicago City Council in
1876, was reelected in 1878, 1880, 1882,
and 1884; and was elected to the Forty
ninth Congress as Democrat. The Den
yer Tribune says of Mr.. Lawler:
1T is the fashion Of several Chicago papers,
mostly Democratic, to sheer and poke fun mt
Frank LAWYER, the Democratic Congressman
who beat Mr.. tinerty. Frank Lawler is by no
learned and worked at the trade of n ship car
penter, was n letter-carrier in Chicago, and
finally drifted into the Aldermanic Board. He
Ia an Am erican, born in New York State. OF Irish
parentage, a natural orator, and pretty
square man. He Is particularly clover 10
newspaper correspondents, tells them what he
knows and neither lies about nor exaggerates
the facts. In these regards many of his col
leagues might emulate him to their advantage.
Mr.. Lnwler Is not "A coarse. uneduceted man.
He writes n dashing good hand and one can
read his signature and his chirography. 10
makes no mistakes in spelling, either.
MIR. LAWYER does not get. drunk play poker,
or buck the tiger, and, although plainly
dressed. wears clean shirts and collars, minus
the diamond headlight studs, like the average
city Alderman The only ornament he carries
consists of gold watch and he has n fancy for
square-toed boots, always neatly polished.
Like all natural orators, he talks little too
freely but there is world of good sense, and,
indeed, modesty in what he says. He is good
hearted and generous and, sizing him up ono
side aud down the other barring the slightest
suspicion of the 'brogue,' he is vastly the
perior OF many men who, either through acci-
t1fn
to the devil thereafter forever and forever with
no amenl"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-02-04

the different mines and great destruction TO
property.
In the trial at New York of Gen.
Alexander Shaler, on charge Of bribery In Of
fee. the jury failed 10 agree and were dis
charged.
Flames destroyed the Opera House
Block, at Franklin, Pa, filed with stores,
the loss aggregating 100000 The saw mill of
sherman A johnson, at Potsdam, N. Y, and
six blocks of buildings at Oneonta, in tine same
State, were also burned
A seven-story malt-house at Albany,
N Y, valued at SIPS, coo, was destroyed by fire.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-02-04
Connecticut Trades Unions Put Some
Questions to Their Congressman.

: New Haven special
The Amalgamated Trades and Labor
Unions of this State recently forwarded to
the Senators and Representatives from Con-
necticut at Washington the following meas
ures, requesting their influence in support
of the same:
First-That the public lands be reserved
for actual settlers, not for railroads and
spectators.
Second-The abolition of the Govern
ment contract system and n-competition
of convict with free American labor.
Third-Graduated tax on lands and in
comes.
Fourth--The establishment of postal saw
ings banks and safe deposits for small
amounts.
/ Fifth-That importation of foreign labor
under contract be prohibited.
Sixth-Incorporation of trades unions.
Seventh-Direct Government issuance of
money without the intervention of banks.
Eighth-That the Government shall con-
troll all telegraphs, telephones, and rail-
roads, and that hereafter no charter shall be
granted to any corporation for the construc-
ton or operation of any means of trans
porting Intelligence, passengers, or freight.
A request for an expression of opinion
on the above was made.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-02-04
WASHINGTON.

The Senate Committee on Public
Lands has received any quantity Of memorials
and petitions and complaints regarding the
management of the public lands and frauds
that have been committed in their acquisition
The committee has prepared n bill covering
the whole subject, and will report it 10 the
Senate at once. The bill repeats all laws pro-
viding for the presumption of tho public lands,
as well az the laws allowing entries for timber
culture.
When Mr.. Il. s. Dement,, of Lexing-
ton, ILL.,, received hs appointment as Surveyor
General of Utah Territory few months ago
he received instructions from Mr.. Sparks TO
make an investigation into tho frauds which
the latter believed existed in the public-and
offices of the Territory. Mr.. sement has re-
turned to Washington, where he had a long in
terview with Secretary lamar, at which SEN
ator Logan was present:
He claims that the entire Federal system Of
the Territory il honeYcombed with fraud, and
the repors which he will make upon that subject
Will contain numerous sensational features.
Immediately after his airiy al he employed the
services OF four detectives The result of their
investigation shows, he clains, that mast
Of the public land in the Territory has
been stolen by the railroads and GER
tain prominent private citizens that so
per cent. Of the entries made by the Nor
mons fraudulent, are also 2j
per cent. OF those made by the gentiles. These
fraudulent entries were made. 4. is claimed.
with the collusion Of a corrupt ring OF Federal
officials there and at the national capital. Mr..
Dement, also claims TO have documt ntary evil
dence in his possession showing that the Nor
mon Church mas spent large sums OF money TO
prevent legislation in1nical 20 its interests,
and to favorable decisions from the
courts. This money has beon disbursed through
lobbyists at Washington. His report will show
that a certain United States Senator received
s25 600 for leading the opposition 70 the Edmunds
bill
The Secretary OF the Treasury has
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-02-04

and two of their aecomplioos had their SEN
tenccs conmuted 10 twenty years servitude in
Siberia
! In the Prussian Lantag Bismarck do
clared that il spirit monopoly was refused the
Government would be forced 10 impose an
enormous license on dealers.
+. A London dispatch of the Both ult.
says: -The Queen has accepted the resgna-
tons Of Lord Salisbury and his Cabinet, and
has summoned Mr.. Gladstone for q consulta-
ton Lord Salisbury returned TO London from
Osborne He was closely guarded by de-
tectives.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-02-04

called in si0ooo, oo) Of the 3 per cent bonds
Of 1882, ON which interest win cease on
March L
Mr.. James Russell Lowell and others
argued respecting tho merits Of q system of
international copyright before tho Senate Com
mittee on Patents
A tariff reform bill, the joint produc-
ton Of Morrison and Hewitt is said to DO un-
der way
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-02-04

The workingmen of New York pro-
pose TO ask special Legislation at Albany, es-
pecially the passage OF an arbitration law. The
Commissioners of Labor Statistics has formally
pronounced boycotting better than striking
The st. Cloud Hotel and six stores
on Arch street, Philadelphia, were wiped out
by fire. The loss is estimated at over quar-
ter of a million dollars
Peachbuds in the Hudson River Val
ley have been kliied by the fros.s, and for the
third successive year there will be no crop.
The strikers in the Pennsylvania coal
regions have ordered out the engineers at the
water pumps This will cause the flooding Of
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-02-04

thereof cannot be but fattering to himself
and friends. John j. O'Neill, of st. Louis,
was born June %, 1916, of Irish parents.
He received common school education,
and during the war was in the employ of
the Government. After the close of the
war he engaged in manufacturing pursuits,
and in 1872 was elected TO the State Legis-
lature, being reelected in 1874 and 1876.
In 1878 he was nominated for Congress on
the Workingman's ticket, but withdrew from
the contest He was elected to the Munich
pal Assembly of st. Louis in 1879 and
again in 1881. He was sent TO the Forty
eighth Congress as n Democrat, and was
re- elected to the Forty ninth Congress.
Frank Lawler, Member of tho Committee
on Labor.
Hon. Frank Lawler, of the Second I'LL
nois District, is one of the most active
members of the committee of which Mr..
O'Neill is Chairman. He was born at
Rochester, n. Y, June %, 1912; attended
public school until 10 years of age, when,
owing to serious accident which befell
his father, he was compelled to leave school
and seek employment in brick yard.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-02-04
Feeling Against the Chinese Revived.
San Francisco dispatch.l

The recent murder Of Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse
G. Wickersham near Cloverdale, Sonoma
County, by their Chinese cook has again
thoroughly aroused the anti Chinese scnti-
ment throughout the Pacific coast. As soon
as the facts of the murder were confirmed
anti Chinese organizations were effected in
many of the most important towns in the
State. Resolutions TO boycott the Chinese
were adopted. and other measures devised
for getting rid of them. At Cloverdale the
Chinese were notified to leave.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-02-04

Hon. John j. O'Neiii, Chairman of the
House Committee ON Labor.
Hon. j. j. O'Neill, of Missouri, has been
made Chairman of the House Committee
on Labor. The importance of this COM
mittee is not to be underrated, and the APP
pointment of Mr.. ONeill as Chairman
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-05-29
SUCCESSION SALE.
State of Louisiana, Parish of
Madison, . tn Judicial District
Court.
Succession of

Succession of v ooo
5. AMANDA AsKEw, deceased. ] w. -'''
HY VIRTUE OF \ WRIT OF
!c Sale to me directed by said
Court, bearing date 3rd, December,
1885, requiring me to sell all or ii
part of the property Of said success
sion to pay the debts thereof. |
will sell at the front door Of the
Court House of said Parish, in
Tallulah on Saturday the
3rd day Of July, 1ees,
within the legal hours, all and
singular the right, title and interest
of said succession in and to all that
real property lying north of the
Vicksburg, Shreveport & Texas
MISUNDERSTANDING in and con-
tiguous to the town of Tallulah, q
plat and description of which Ian DIS
will be exhibited on the day of sale,
said lands containing about 40
acres more or less.
TERMS OF SALE-Cash with the
benefit of appraisement.
JAMES b. AsKEw, Administrator.