The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-07-31
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
Important Happenings from All
Parts of the World Con.
cisely ChrOnfcIed.
A Complete Resume Of Crimes,
Casualties and Current Events
for the Week.

for the Week.
The Earl of Jersey has been appointed
governor of New South Wales.
A woman and two children were
killed in freight wreck near Portland,
Ore.
Gaudaur has challenged Hanlan for
race on Minnetonka for 81, 900 to s., 900
a side.
North Dakota elevator men say no
combine has been formed to refuse to
store wheat.
The business part of Travers, Cal,
was destroyed by fire Tuesday. Loss,
100000.
There have been 1867 notices of evic-
ton filed in Ireland during the past
three months.
Fire at Spokane Falls destroyed prop
erty valued at nearly $3.50, 900. Consid-
cred incendiary.
An explosion in East st. Louis iron
wor ks caused the death of one man and
the injury of five others.
T. NJ. B. Cook, prominent Republi-
can politician, of Jasper county, La,
was aSsassinated Wednesday.
The population of Wilmington, Del,
as determined by the census, is 81 1888,
an increase of $40 since 1880.
A general tie-up of all building trades
has been inaugurated by Brooklyn
unions to aid the striking roofers.
The new Northern Pacific line to
CrOOkston is completed, shortening the
distance to Winnipeg twenty miles.
The Ashland mill mems strike has
been ended by compromise of ten and
half hours pay for ten hours work.
Thirty Arabs were killed during the
recent attack upon the Spanish convict
settlement Of Metillo, on the Morocco
coast,
AT st. Paul, Charles Price Drained a
cook named Manchester. Saturday night
and Sunday gave himself up to the
officers.
The supreme court of Georgia has re-
fused a new trial for Tom Voolfolk,
who murdered nine persons in Bibb
county.
Several acres of mills and lumber were
destroyed at Saginaw, Mich, by fire.
Inc loss will aggregate nearly half
million.
a strike of Union Pacific railroad men
Is seriously threatened. The men claim
the road is not keeping it's agreements
with them.
Herndon Morril, the well known
Washington tenor, has accepted the first
tenor part in the new opera, THE Red
Hussar."
by the fall of a pavilion at Ironwood.
Mich, 600 persons were precipitated to
the ground. Several We're injured but
none fatally.
by a disastrous washout the Colorado
Central was damaged to the extent of
#2250.000. Twenty miles of track were
washed away.
Steamer Egypt, with its cargo of $40
cattle, was abandoned at sea on fire. The
crew We're III boats forty-eight hours be-
fore being picked up.
AT the Duluth yacht race Wednesday,
the yacht Roamer was capsized and its
owner, {. p. Linder. and friend. j,
Clark, We're drowned.
Minnesota alliance men are said to be
aElt&tl:iS the subject of another conven-
;!on. Many of them object to the pro-
cee'tings of the late convention.
A state convention of the PEOPLES
independent party was held at Lincoln.
Neb., and ticket headed by John H.
Powers For governor nominated.
An explosion of fire damp occurred in
the PelliSir coal mine at Stateinne.
France, causing the death of 12O miners.
About thirty-five others We're terribly
burned.
Masked robbers went through the
Elkhorn Valley passenger train near
Long Pine, Ncb., and relieved the pas
sengcrs of their valuables. No big haul
was made.
The railroad situation is beginning to
assume serious phase. The switch
men in the Cincinnati Southern yards in
that city have joined in with the strik-
ers, and no trains are being handled.
The excursion steamer Louise and the
Bay line steamer Virginia We're in COL
llSIon near Fort Carroll, ON the Chesa-
leakc. -Four people are known to have
been killed and seventy five injured.
a dispatch from Geneva says that
the federal council has about decided to
tNpel tne MormOns from the republic.
The number of persons protesting Nor
monism in Switzerland has increased
five fold in less than two years.
y PARTY Of moonShiners made de-
scent Oli the village of POcahontas, Va.
and terEOr1zed the town for several
hours. Tie citizens rallied with arms
and battle epSWed, in which the
were routed. Four were
wounded.
f;aahaliel r. Locke, the venerable
father OF the late d. r. Locke. better
known as Petroleum V. Nasty" died
ut Toledo, Ohio, Friday, at the advanced
"3r Of 81 years. He was native of
DreIiield, Mass, and served in the war
OF 1872.
At Buffalo, n. Y, Mrs. Wade, who
keeps boarding house on East Market
street Mary Sylvia, aged IS years, and
her brother John, aged were arrested
with attempting to poison Annie
>;ilEes, a dissolute woman, who lived
with the children's father
The WaShhurn 3 mill, at Minneapo-
lis. was started up Thursday, after an
idleness since March. The Pillsbury A
was placed i'll operation Monday and is
now running at full blast The mill
was shut down just three weeks-the
longest time it has been idle in several
years.
At Lynn, Mass, a story-and-a-half
dwelling, partially completed, fell in,
wrecking the building and
instantly killing Mary McCabe, aged IA;
probably fatally injuring Katie Griffin,
aged IA, and slightly injuring three
other children. The children took ref
uge in the building from the rain.
A Murder at st. Paul.