The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-08-14
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
Important Happenings from All
Parts Of the World Con-
ciseIy ChrOnicled.
A Complete Resume of Crimes
Casualties and Current Events
for the Week.

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The deaths from cholera at Jeddah
average 100 daily.
Several German sailors were killed in
fight near Zurich.
Two men were killed by boiler ex-
plosion at Muncie, Ind.
Baron Leon, of Vienna, has been killed
by falling over precipice in the Alps.
The pope will build new palace in
the Vatican gardens for summer resi-
dence,
At Joliet steel works four workmen
were killed by the explosion of molten
metal.
Sixty miles of the Santa Fe road be-
tween Benson and Nogales, Ariz., has
been washed out.
The town of Moran, in Hungary, has
been almost totally destroyed by fire.
Ten lives were lost.
"A. G. Spalding, of the Chicago league
base ball club, has sailed for Europe, to
be absent until fall.
Heligoland has national debt of 49,
600 pounds. The revenue is between
o,ooo anu S,Voo pOuuuS.
President Celman, of Argentine, has
been compelled at last to resign. The
resignation has been accepted.
The Farmers alliance party of Min
nesota, will hereafter be known as the
Alliance and Labor Union party:
The Italian government has ordered
the cessation of emigration from Italy
to the countries of South America.
The Socorro mine, near Hermosillo, in
Sonora, Mexico, has been flooded and
twenty miners have been drowned
Reminders funeral occurred Friday.
No clergyman was present and not a
word of religious import was uttered.
Postal cards for ladies will be printed
on pearl gray card board, and will b.
one-third smaller than the ordinary ones.
A Portsmouth, Ohio, man has a we'll
developed apple growing on an ordinary
grapevine, the result Of skillful graft
ing.
The Russian government is contem-
plating the establishment of free schools
in Finland for instruction in the Russian
language.
Gen. Miles has been transferred from
the division of the Pacific to the division
Of the Missouri, succeeding the late
Gen. Crooks.
Senior Pelligrini has accepted the pres
idency Of Argentine Republic. Public
confidence is improving. Gold has
dropped to 1875.
There are 10 cases of the worst type
OF cholera at Jeddah. Pilgrims from
Mecca are forbidden by the authorities
to embark at Jeddah. --
Spanish soldiers while gathering wood
unarmed. on one of the Caroline islands.
were attacked by natives and twenty
seven of them killed.
Cattle disease is raging with disas-
trous effect in the southern provinces of
Russia, and strict quarantine of those
regions is being observed.
At Louisville, KY, letters have been
received which lead to the belief that
Dick Tate, the defaulting state treasurer
of Kentucky, died In China over year
ago.
A mob of soldiers combined with the
peasahtry and destroyed the railroad at
Cutai, China, on the pretense that it
caused the recent floods in the Pei-Ho
river.
Senator Blair says that not one of the
important measures ON the senate calen-
dar can he passed without the adoption
of rule for the arbitrary closure of de-
bate.
The pilot Of the river packet City of
Savannah became insane when ap-
preaching Danville, Tenn, and nearly
wrecked the steamer in collision with a
bridge.
Seven persons We're killed by the
bursting of the steam pipe on the Rus
sian man-of-war Tehesma, in the Black
sea. Among the victims was Prince
Khilkoff.
A cyclone swept over Lake St. Louis
and the st. Lawrence, in the vicinity of
Montreal, Monday evening. Much
property was destroyed, but no lives are
reported lost.
Mexican, the gentleman who had
charge of the presentation of the cottage
to the president, now states that Mr..
Harrison has paid 81 900 for the build
ing and furniture.
1t is stated that ex-Queen Natalie of
Seryia, has resolved to devote the bulk
Of her fortune to the erection of a nun
merry in Russia, in which she will install
herself as abbess.
A party of fourteen Baltimoreans in
bathing at Rosecroft, Md, q summer
resort, were drawn beyond their depth
by the undertow of passing steamer,
and four of them drowned.
Congress is practically adjourned this
week, leaves of absence having been
granted to all Wishing to attend the
G. A. r. encampment at Boston, which
leaves the house without quorum.
Cotton exports from the United States
during July past aggregated in value
$780, 76, against $2,246,3l0 in July,
1889. Breadstuffs exports during July
aggregated in value $40, 773, 80, against
$9,SO6, 945 in July, 1889.
Gen. Alger, as commander-in-chiefo of
the q. A. r., reminds his comrades that
$4,000 is needed for the fund that
is to build monument to Sheridan on
Pennsylvania avenue, Washington. He
asks for from 10 to % cents member.
At Swift Birds camp, on the Chey-
enne river, when the government issue
of soap was being made, Cora Belle
Fellows-Chaska got into quarrel rs to
the portion she was entitled to, and
began to sling the soap right and left.
She soon cleared the agency.