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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-02-14
WORK OF CONGRESS.

WASHINGTON, Feb. Sin the senate
Mr.. Sherman presented the conference
report on the bill to incorporate the Mar
thine Canal company, of Nicaragua.
The bill now goes to the president for his
approval.
Mr.. Blair reported fayorably joint
resolution proposing a constitutional
amendment to prohibit the denial by the
United States or any state of the right
of suffrage on account of sex. The res
olution was placed on the calendar.
Mr.. Sherman offered a resolution,
which was agreed to, for the appoint
ment of committee of three senators to
make the necessary arrangements for the
Inauguration of the president-elect on
March 4 next. -
The house amendment to the senate
bill as to cutting Of timber on Indian
lands was concurred in.
The senate then resumed consideration
of the legislative appropriation bill,
which was discussed until adjournment.
WASHINGTON, Feb. Elm the senate
the naval appropriation bill and the for
LITIGATION appropriation bill were re-
ported and placed on the calendar.
Mr.. Chambers resolution as to naval
officers claims was agreed to.
On motion of Mr.. Plumb, the house
bill to quiet title of settlers on the Des
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-02-14
Richard Realfs Poems.

Richard Realf, who lived on trans
Mississippi prairies quarter of a century
ago, turned off many pieces of rare
beauty and delicacy, besides others of he
roic quality, well deserving of preserva-
ton. He was born in England, and
there used to be romantic stories about
his being a natural son of Lord Byron.
He is said to have borne a marked re-
semblance to Byron in face and figure,
and the last ten years of his life were
passed, as Byron's were, in warlike adj
venture and poetic creation, which lasted
up to the year OF his death. Soon after
he landed at the port of New York, in the
SOS, he struck out for the plains of Kan
sas, where he joined the Abolitionist cru
saders under old John Brown of Osa-
wattomie, and he was the hero of many
vicissitudes from that period till the time
of his death under tragical circum-
stances. The merit of Realf's poems will
be seen after their publication.-New
York Sun, -. -
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-02-14

Contracts Awarded for Seven More OF
Zalinslxi's Dynamite Guns.
NEW YORK, Feb. 12.-The news that
the secretary of war has awarded the
Pneumatic Gun company the contract
for seven guns for coast defense was lit
tie else than was expected by the officers
of the company.
The contract calls for three guns for
Sandy Hook, two for Fort Schuyler and
two for Fort Warren, Mass. AS the pc
culiarities presented by the fifteen-inch
gun now mounted at Port Lafayette are
specified, the guns must be capable of
elevation and depression by either pneu-
matte or hydraulic power, and have an
extreme elevation of at least thirty five
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-02-14
ZAJJNSKJ'S GIN.

degrees. They must be capable of an
all around fire, or through $50 degrees,
the training and elevating to be wholly
under the control of the gunner in
charge.
The range of fire is also specified, the
extremedemanded being a mile. Ra-
pidity of fire is also called for, being a
requirement not called for in the recent
tests of the stationary gun. The delivery
of these guns ready for mounting must
be made within eight months of the time
of execution of contract. The sum of
money as bid by the Pneumatic Dyna-
mite company is 1895, 500.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-02-14
Sheriff Smith Goes Free,

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Feb. 1.-THE
grand jury to-day made is report in the
case of the Jail shooting of last Decem-
Der, in which thirteen persons lost their
lives and twenty-fOur others were badly
injured. The jury refused to indict
Sheriff Smith or any of his posse. They
say. however, that the sheriff did not, on
the evening in question, evince that dill
gence, judgment and GOODNESS always
desirable in an officer of the law in
position which clothes him with so much
mower
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-02-14
MINNESoTA SoLDIERS' HOME.

MINNESOTA SOLDlEtSS HOME.
stone, and the group Of twelve win cost
about $250,000.
Other buildings to be erected and to
form part of the home are an admins
tration or general headquarters and Office
building. cut of which appears in this
article, size 80 by so, three stories high.
Hospital, 35 by 80, three stories, with
two wings, each 30 by 81 feet in size.
Amusement hall and chapel, 40 by 70.
Laundry, kitchen and dining room. 80
by IS. Engine house and steam heating
plant, 80 by 100, with wing 40 by AZ.
When these buildings are all COM
pleted and the home grounds are laid out
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-02-14
Blaine Has a House

WASHINGTON, Feb. Tt can be au-
thoritatively stated that Mr.. Blaine has
leased for term of ten years the resi-
dence on the east side of Lafayette
square, known as the Seward house. 1t
is an old fashioned structure, with an
abundance of great hall-like rooms. The
house will be in the hands of force of
workmen in few days and will be ex-
tensively repaired and thoroughly rem
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-02-14
Our Gamma Formulation.

One of the proofs of the eminent re-
spectability of the United States Is that
We have dog for every three inhabit-
ants. 1t costs us $500, 900, 900 per annum
20 support our 100000 900 dogs. The food
given to an average dog every year
would yield return of $40 if fed to
chickens. Our high toned dogs, many
# them, consume more than working
people and move in the best society,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-02-14
Friday, February s.

The newspapers again came in for a
small share OF the senate's attention,
when Mr.. Days bill amending the libel
law came up for final passage. The vote
on the bill was II for and 10 against its
, "a sil and as there was not a majority
of the entire senate on either side of the
question it was declared lost.
The senate bills respectively providing
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-02-14

from Ottawa, Ont,
says: 1t is report
ed on the best of
authority that at
the conclusion of
the present session
of the federal legis-
lature the govern
ment will appeal to
the country on the
annexation ques-
:tion. Sir John
! Macdonald, pre-
srnier, and the lead
fer of the govern
'ment, will retire
from public life
and Sir Charles
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-02-14
A Noted Institution in Ruins.

TRRRE HAUTE, Ind, Feb. S.-St.
Mary's of the Woods, the largest Catho-
lie school in the West, four miles from
here. is burning and will be total loss
to the extent Of 100000 or more. The
people all got out safely.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-02-14

OTTAWA. Feb. 13.-In the house of
commons, Sir John Mcdonald, in reply
to an inquiry, said that the government
had never directly or indirectly received
an invitation for the members of the
house of commons to visit the principal
cities of the United States. The honora-
BILE gentleman seemed to regard the
affair as a Joke.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-02-14
ONE OF THE COTTAGES

ONE OF THE COTTAGES.
and finished up as proposed in the plans,
Minnesota will have one of the finest
equipped and most beautiful soldiers
homes in the United States.
The present state legislature will I'M
doubtedly condemn 200 acres of land for
park purposes on each side of the Mis-
sissippi river at Minnehaha Fails, thus
entirely surrounding the site of the SOL
diers' home with one vast park.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-02-14
Coming Home to Hang.

LONDON, Feb. 8.-Kuhni, the Swiss,
who is charged with having murdered a
man in Primrose, Wis. and was arrested
on the steamer Lord Cough at Queens
town, some weeks ago. has been handed
over to the United States government,
and in custody of an officer he sailed
from Queenstown for New York on the
steamer Brittanic,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-02-14
NEW CABINET OFFICE.

Tho Bill Creating a Department of Agri-
culture Approved by the President.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-The president
has approved, among others, the bill to
enlarge the powers and duties of the de-
partment of agriculture and to create an
exclusive department to be known as
the department of agriculture.
Has a Man For the Place Already.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-The president
sent to the senate the nomination of
Norman j. Colman, of Missouri, to be
secretary of agriculture.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-02-14
Death of a Cardinal.

NEW YORK, Feb. IA cablegram to
the Catholic News of this city announces
the death of Cardinal John Baptiste
Petra, who was second in rank in the
sacred college. He was born in Cham
forgueil, France, on Aug. 1, 1912. He
was made cardinal in 1868. and was
one of the six suffragon bishops of the
Roman MONTH";
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-02-14
MINNESOTA SOLDIERS HOME.

Description of the General Buildings
and Cottages Now Being Erected.
ST. PAUL, Feb. 7.-During the past
year two of the cottages for the Mime
sofa soldiers home at Minnehaha Falls
have been completed, at cost of
$4,000. One of these cottages. cut of
which we give, is occupied and the
other is nearly ready for the old soldiers
to reside in. Twelve of these cottages
are to be built, each being 80 by 65 feet
feet and two stories high. They are
built of red pressed brick and brown
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-02-14
Work on the Panama Canal.

PANAMA, Feb. S.-Matters along the
canal have assumed their ordinary ap-
pearance, save that there are still some
of the men out of work, and contractor S
are by no means as confident and cheer
full as they were few months ago. A
number of them have suffered.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-02-14
Out in Time for His Sons Hanging.

PLATTsBURG, N. Y, Feb. IL. The
father of Greenwall, the Brooklyn MUIR
derer, has just ended seven years
term in Clinton prison for forgery, and
will go at once to visit his son, who is to
be hanged this week,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-02-14
INSURANCE IN MINNESOTA.
Figures Cleaned From the Annual Report

Figures Cleaned From the Annual Report
of the Insurance Commissioner.
ST. PAUL, Feb. 1.-THE total amount
OF insurance risks written in the state of
OF Minnesota last year was $227, 1903, 1856.
The amount received in premiums was
So ,26O, 239, and the grand total of losses
incurred during the year 1888 was ST.
7S9, 706. The average premium rate paid
for insurance was IA, and the average
ratio of losses to premiums paid was "a,
plaking a very good showing for the
year past. These figures are CLEANED
from a preliminary statement given out
bv the state insurance commissioner.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-02-14
Mackenzie Must Go.

LONDON, Feb. 12.-It is rumored that
the college of physicians and surgeons
has decided to erase the name of DR.. Sir
Morrill, Mackenzie from its rolls, and
that its action will shortly be publicly
announced.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-02-14
mot GUILTY.U

Such Is the Verdict Rendered in the Fa-
nous Brown Murder Case.
MASON CITY, Iowa, Feb. 13.-The Jury
in the Brown murder trial returned
verdict of mot guilty." at 1890 o'clock
a. nj. Mrs. Brown received the news
calmly. The verdict gives general sat-
isfactiOn here
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-02-14

Moines river lands in Iowa was taken up

Moines river lands in Iowa was taken up
and passed.
The disagreeing conference report on
the South Dakota admission BEL was
presented and new conference ordered.
A message from the president on Sa-
moan affairs was read, and after the
passage of number of private pension
bills the senate at $50 p. m. adjourned.
WASHINGTON, Feb. AT the conclu-
sion OF the morning business the senate
took up the bill to establish a United
States court in Indian territory.
After some debate the senate agreed to
the senate Judiciary committees substi-
tute for the bill to establish a United
States court in the Indian territory. At
2 o'clock the Notifications appropriation
bill was taken up.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-At the con-
clusion of the morning business of the
senate Mr.. Sherman said that he was in
structed by the committee on foreign re-
latlons to move an executive session.
Accordingly the galleries were cleared
and the doors closed. 1t is supposed
that the matter under discussion is the
question of the condition of Americans
who have been working on the Panama
canal. During the session it was voted
to appropriate $500, 900 for the relief and
protection of American citizens in
Panama.
When the doors were opened the naval
appropriation bill was taken up and dis
cussed till adjournment without action.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 13.-At the conclu-
sion of the morning business the senate
went into executive session for five min
utes. Consideration of the naval appro-
priation bill was then resumed and with
minor amendments passed.
A message from the president trans
hitting report from the secretary of
state as to the seal fisheries of Behrings
Sea, was presented, read and referred.
The Texas election outrages matter
was taken up and discussed without
action. .=
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-02-14
Parna!I Is i'm Poor EaaIff,

DUBLIN, Feb 9.-The Dublin Express
states that Mr.. Parnell's health is very
precarious and that the carriage of his
physician is often seen at the door of his
villa at Streatham, from whence the
Irish lender seldom emerges OF late
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-02-14
Hungarian Riots Renewed.

PEsTH, Feb. 13.-Rioting on the part
Of the students has been renewed. The
military charged upon the rioters and
arrested number of the ringleaders.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-02-14
Arrived. HaYtien Renuhlic

Boston, Jan. t1.-The steamer Hay
ten Republic, whose seizure occasioned
the trouble with Hayti, has arrived here.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-02-14
ANNEXATION THE ISSUE.

Great Changes Pending in Canada That
Will Materially Affect Its Future.
NEW YORK. Feb. "a Herald special
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-02-14

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All L.. sent advertising must be paid in
advance.
ADVERTISEMENTS in the local notice column
ccpt>a line for each Insertion.
Announcements of mar riageS and deaths
published .Ier; hut obituary notices, except
Ia snecla! cases, will be charged al advertis-
1h2 rates
Legal notices VIII be charged at IS cents
per folio for the FIRST insertion, and 37s cents
for each sul,Seq trut in Jertion. All legal no
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publication fees are paid.
All accounts payable quarterly,
IN connection with the paper, we have Q
splendid aSSOI tmeut OF jobbing material, and
ave prepared to execute all kinds OF printing
In a St3 Lee unsurpassed.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-02-14
FOR COAST DEFENSE.

SIR CHARLES UPPER. Topper. present
commissioner in England, will assume
the leadership of the Conservatives.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-02-14
Saturday, Feb. :

SENATE.
Not in session.
HOUSE.
Not in session.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-08
TREASURERS OF THE SEA.
Interesting Collection from the Coro
DadO Islands.

Irwin bhC SoEo-
Dado Islands.
The marine collection at the light
house has been enlarged by u yacht
load of sea urchins, abalones, starfish,
MOSES, eggs and seal skins which
Harry israel, the son of the keeper,
brought in the other day from cruise
around the Coronado islands, says the
San Diego Sun. He was accompanied
by Henry Gerrul, of Ballast Point, and
they remained away a week fishing col
lecting and hunting. At the east is
land they found schooner with a party
of Americans who were fishing and seal
ing. There were two parties of Portu-
guese at work at the western island.
Israel SAID that he and Gerrul secured
fifty hair seals in one day. They shot
the large ones and killed the young
ones with clubs. There are three seal
rookeries on the rock points of the west
side of the west island and two on the
east island. Israel, who has observed
their habits, says that they are clannish,
and that the seals of one rookery never
NIX with the others. The females are
covered with fine hair, while that of
the males is much coarser. The color
of the young is dark drab, but the old
The breeding season is nearly over,
return until next spring. Where they
go IS mystery that has never been eX-
plained. They swallow a quantity of
small stones for ballast which remain
IN the false stomach or ballast bag"
as the sailors call it until they return
when they spit them out. Mrs. Israel
has number of these greenish cobbles
at her museum. A bucketful is about
the quantity required to ballast an or
dinary seal.
Mr.. Israel said the west island was so
solid rock with a coating Of loan of
the west side. 1t was there that they
found the "mutton" birds which burrow
like a mole IN the ground and come out
only at night. After il became dark
the explorers listened for the whirr of
the birds. and when it came they struck
out at random with stones and sticks,
and when they heard something ilutter
on the rocks would know they had been
successful. The bird is a triile larger
than quail and has short, stubby
wings, resembling those of penguin.
They are nearly black with some white
on the breast and towards the tail.
Their legs are short and their beak is
longer than a quall's. Their flesh is
said to be palatable but the eggs only
We're tried. They are pullet size and
white, and Israel said they were the
best sea-fowl eggs he ever tasted. He
brought n number OF them and also the
eggs of the gull and shag.
In cave on the west island he found
new kind OF sea urchin, very beautiful
and numerous. Instead OF the usual
purple and black colors it was a brown
ish-red, and was some four inches in
diameter. He also found an abelone the
size of a brown bean which Is much
llar thap tha loaCt i'm the naEt at tla
lighthouse.
Mr.. Israel's formula for tanning the
skin of hair-seals is to first soak them in
a solution OF alum and salt They must
then be tackled up against Hat surface
with the inner side out, and have to be
scraped every day for ten days in order
TO get off all the blubber.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-08
DAKOTA WHITE GAPS.
They Cause Something or Sensation
in the Vicinity OF Bismarck.

BISMARCK, N. d., Sept. 7.-lSpecal Tele-
gram to THE BEE. The first outcropping
of White Caps in North Dakota has come to
inc sensation. Mrs. Mary Scott, the aged
wife of farmer living near Drscoll, ten
miles east of here received the following
letter:
SPRINGvILLE, August 2.-Mrs. Mary Scott
Madam: This Is TO notify you that you
will be a dead woman before long il you
don't stop talking about people and peoples
affairs. We have heard you making the most
slanderous attacks upon your neighbors, and
that without any ground; and once more, if
you don't quit right away, you will be a dead
woman. A WHITE CAP.
Mrs. Scott came to the city to-day to lay
the case before the authorities She says
she has well founded suspicious as to who
sent the letter. She says that a man who
was recently elected to the school board in
her district, has for a number OF years been
living with lewd woman, who came from
St. Paul or Minneapolis, and that she has
made comment on the disgrace to the COM
munity of electing such man to the school
board. 1t IS her conviction that he or some
of his friends sent her the letter, and she has
decided TO investigate until she uncovers the
White Caps. The matter has created no lit
tie sensation, as 1t is the first evidence of the
existence of White Caps in North Dakota
and the feeling on, the matter is such that it
is safely predicted that speedy suppression
of the organization will follow. Mrs. Scott
has many friends who will zee that she is
protected, and her house will be guarded
until the matter is thoroughly investigated.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-08
Notes About the City.

A son born to Mr.. and Mrs. John Daniel.
a stray horse, white, has been taken up by
the police.
A meeting of the real estate and rental
agents will be held Monday IN z. =. Hedges
office.
At the Blue Grass Palace exposition. Cres-
ton, Ia, Miss Helen NJ. Leavett, of this
city, took first premium on oil paintings.
A meeting of the Live Stock exchange will
be held Monday afternoon to hear aud act
on the report of the special room committee.
John Rosenan, who fell from a car at the
George ii. Hammond packing houses last
Sunday, is better and able to be about the
house.
Mr. William Mills, of Omaha, and Miss
Edith King, of Albright, were married
Friday night at 1890 at the home OF the
BRIDES parents by the Rev. Mr.. Lang, of
Omaha. Many friends were present who
helped make joyous the occasion.
A revival is in progress at the Albright
NJ. Il. church, and the pastor reports many
conversions. The services are being con
ductcd by Rev. Lang, Scottish evangelist,
who will also be present at the meetings of
Saturday and Sunday at 10 u. IN. and s p. IN.
respectively.
The picnic to be given the Omaha Fores-
ters to-day ut Peckard's grove will be well
represented by South Omaha Foresters. A
special train will leave the Union Pacific
depot. South Omaha, at 1890 O'Clock this
morning. Among the attractions will be a
game of base ball between the Omaha and
South Omaha Foresters.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-08
Rnnrnnf Education.

All members of the board OF education
were present at the special meeting held
Saturday evening. The communication
from L. 4. Sunderland & Co., offering
to furnish walnut block coal in
car lots, September delivery, AT
So 9S for the season. White Breast lump,
September $500; nut, s2T4; Iowa lump,
So 15; steam, Sl74. and slack at Sl.67, was
read. BY resolution, the salaries of teach
ers will commence from the opening of school
in their respective rooms. The board. as a
committee of the whole, will inspect the
Selby lots, in Selby's addition Contractor
Burt Bullock will be given three days to re-
move his apparatus from the unfinished well
at the Brown Park school,
Superintendent A. A Munroe has made
the followingh assignments of teachers:
High School-Mary E. Spaulding, assistant
principal; Hettie Moore, seventh grade; Elsa
Boudop, fifth and sixth grade; Gertrude
Glasgow, fourth grade; Mabel l.. Silver,
third grade; vacancy, second grade; Maud
Eastman, second grade; Agnes q. Hoffman,
first grade; Julia B. Spaulding, first grade;
Mary E. Beane, first grade.
Albright-Dora e. Sduier, principal; Grace
Z. Richardson, second grade.
Third Ward-Nettie M. Prichard, princi
pal; Elizabeth Sharpe, second grade; Flor
ence Warner, first grade.
Fourth Ward-Ailice Evion.
Brown Park-Mary Cusick.