The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-06-17
NEWS SETTINGS.

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NEWS sIFTINGs.
Mrs. Cleveland is fond of champagne. II =
Beecher expects to give forty lectures in
Europe. = 4 81
The British parliament Win DO dissolved
June "a. = '"
F. Marion Crawford earns $50 900 wear by
writing novels.
The volcanic eruption In New Zealand
kills ITO persons.
The brotherhood Of Telegraphers join the
Knignts OF Labor. 81
Onions from Egypt are being sold In the
streets of Boston.
1t cost the dominion 81, 45l ,5s4 to- put dswn
the RieI rebellion.
In some places in Arizona there has been
no rain in three years.
The outlook for the hop crop in California
is not very prom Using.
The agricultural department favorably re-
ports as to spring wheat. %. {
The rivers In British Columbia are higher
than ever tefore known. ,s,a yrsA
- Mrs. Vanderbilt has Just bought sl00 900
worth OF diamonds in Paris. ...r..... -
Holman, the obJector. il so modest that he
won't have his picture taken. III y
The Ohio Democratic convention will be
held at Toledo August IL and Is.
A kind of white blight is reported in the
wheat in many parts of California.
The steamer Great Eastern will hereafter
be used as y coal barge at Gibraltar.
Another rich vein of hard steel ore has
been discovered near Neguanee, Mich. .....
Gold in paying quantities has been discov-
cred in Warren county, Pennsylvania.
Squirrels are doing considerable damage
In the corn fields of Western Nebraska.
Last year the American Bible society print
ed ,4s7 ,440 Bibles and New Testaments.
The Cincinnati saloons are now closed at
midnight, actually as well as nominally.
The Shah of Persia grants ex.Mlnister
Winston valuable railway rights in Persia.
The First district Republican COMPRESSION
al convention Is booked for July q al Kas-
son. go -'''S - D
1t is believed the fall wheat crop in Onta-
rio will not be more than one half the aver
age. -
A bed Of salt thirty feet in thickness has
been struc x in Michigan at depth Of 1850
feet. 'S'--
Vancouver. B. c., has has been destroyed
by fire. Loss, a million dollars. and twelve
lives.
There Is a NOV ement on foot for the nomi-
nation u Prohibition state ticket In Ne
vada, j. SIS.
A terriflc cloudburst In California com.
pletely washed away sooacres of wheat near
Tulare.
Terrible sJorms and floods are reported In
France. Three shocks Of earth quake visited
Boitiers.
More pictures of speaker Carlisle are sold
in Washington than Of any other man in
public life.
Late Oregon returns show that the Demo
Gratis elected the governor, treasurer and SUI
prems Judge. N ~
The stamp mill at Douglas Island, Alaska.
shipped $4,000 in gold bars, the product OF
Aprips work.
A dozen buildings were burned at Tona-
wanda, N. Y. and an unknown man perish
ed. Loss. 100000.
The first Republican county convention
held in Vermont this year gives Edmnnds a
sweeping victory.
President Cleveland accepts the presiden-
cy of the American exhibition TO be held in
London next year. ,Eygz-.
There were several cloudbursts in CaIifor.
mia last week, one of them making a food
three feet in depth.
At the Comstock mine near Kingston, N,
M. 500. 900 in silver wss taken out In five
days by thirty men. gs
Mr.. Arthur was the most popular pregi-
dent In a Photographic way. His pictures
had predigious rum.
The report OF the receivers OF Remington
Son shows assets. $I.7Il ISL; liabilities, si255
70S, and surplus. $456.070.
There are more fish in the Mississippi riv.
er below Quincy this season than there has
been before for forty years.
A joint caucus OF members eff the Louisi.
ana legislature agreed not to entertain amy
lottery legislation this session. fH &
Charles Baltz & Co the largest dealsrsan
butter and cheese In the West, failed e. CHI
cago, with liabilities Of sl00. 600. e
The area sown in wheat In Manitoba this
year is 10000 acres. which. 1t is estimated.
viii produce II $50 600 bushels Of grain
One hundred natives and ten English per-
sons lost their lives through the eruption of
the volcano of Tarawera. New Zealand.
Members of Catholic church at Nsw Ha-
ven were refused permission TO hold an Ice
cream festival. whereupon they retsliated
by boycottipg the Sunday collectionat tho
church
The California refinery announces arednc-
ton of one eighth of o cent per pount on all
grades of sugar. The price of cube hgar Is
made $ 70 cents. the lowest ever rea.hsd in
san Francisco.