The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-09-25
RESUME OF THE WEEK,
A BRIEF RECORD OF IMPORTANT
HAPPENINGS.

~ .~'sS VI lWFSn AIN
HAPPENINGS.
| Cream of Home and Forsisr Novs
Skinned From the Great Mass of Cur
rent Events and Dishsd Up without
Trimmings.
The cholera is decreasing in Masso-
wah. ~,
Senior Frerao is forming a new cab
met for Portugal. ~,
Prince Bismarck has taken a villa at
San Reno for the winter.
The Democrats of the Eighteenth
Kansas district nominated Thomas
Moonlight for congress.
Stanley and his wife will for some
time be the guests of the Duchess de
Melzi at Bellagio, near Lake Como.
Mrs. Gen: Fremont is quite i'll at Los
Angeles and in very straitened ciroum-
stances, verging on actual restitution.
A two inch dynamite bomb, sufficient
to blow up train was found on the
Michigan Central tracks at Windsor,
Ont.
The report that an enormous order for
locomotives for German railways had
been placed in London is officially de-
MED.
Consul General John G. New is en-
route home. Rumor has it that he Is
coming to conduct the Indiana cam
paign.
Vancouver, Wash. is having a boom
on account Of building through the town
Of the Union Pacific branch to the
sound.
DIR. Arthur Taggart, Of Groffstown,
was nominated for congress by the Re-
publicans Of the First New Hampshire
district.
The reports of the Austrian state rail-
ways show largely increased traffic and
| profits since the introduction OF uniform
low fares.
Eight thousand lace makers are idle
"a Calais, France, and rioting is feared.
~ extra regiment of troops has been
oe6ered to the spot.
The terms proposed by Gen. Butter
&e1d for the construction Of a railroad
. Siberia have been rejected by the
Russian government.
Miss Nellie Willoughby, the noted
author and lecturer, was arrested
charged with burning her ex-husband's
livery stable, at Luverne, MINI.
John Kean, Jr., president of the State
National Bank of Elizabeth, has been
nominated for congress by the Republi-
cans of the Third district of New Jer.
sey.
| Official figures published at Ottawa
show that while Canada in 1883 i'm
ported 2,134. 764 tons of hard coal, the
imports during 1889 fell to 1,276, 1855
tons.
A dispatch to The London from Cal
cutta says the government is inquiring
into the the question of age in Hindoo
marriages and will probably legislate on
the subject.
The ship Raglan, with wheat valued
at $94 900, from San Francisco, Feb. "a,
has not been heard from, and the
| Gretna, from Europe, is many days
overdue at San Francisco.
Horace M. Porter, son of Gen. Hor-
ace Porter, died in Philadelphia Of ty-
| phoid fever, aged 25. Deceased had
been employed by the Reading Railroad
company.
Mrs. Sarah Mcintyre and her two
daughters were burned to death and
their home destroyed by fire at Phila-
delphia, which was caused by an intox-
icated son upsetting lamp.
Charles Miller, Prohibition candidate
for governor of Pennsylvania. has writ
ten letter withdrawing his name from
| the ticket, owing to the pressing de-
mands of business upon his time.
| Mrs. Emma Cooper, formerly of Lock-
| MORT Ills has fal1an hair. IN 0nO OO0
in England. Some time ago she re-
moved to Fulton, N. Y, where she
keeps a dry goods store. Her maiden
was Garlic.
The incorporators Of the North River
Bridge company, authorized by con-
gress, held their fifth meeting at New
| York Friday. The minimum amount of
81 ,00O, 900, as specified by congress, was
| announced to have been subscribed.
| McAuliffe and Slavin were arrested
Monday in London to prevent their
prize fight which was to have taken
place that evening. They were bound
over to keep the peace. The men will
probably fight on the continent.
| A terrible tragedy occurred at Ports
husband, shot his wife's paramour ia
tally, then going home shot and killed
two daughters, aged Is and II, and IA
tally injured third, aged IL. He then
committed suicide.
There is every reason to believe that
within a short time the St. Paul and
Duluth will pass under the control of
the Northern Pacific. The latter road
has been quietly buying up the formers
| stock, and at the next election Of officers
will probably have full control Of the
policy Of the Duluth road.
| The largest sale of apples ever made
in jackson county, Missouri, has been
effected. Capt. L. P. Williams sold the
entire product of his apple orchard to a
Cincinnati firm for nearly $4,000. The
yield of apples in jackson county this
year is enormous, and many farmers
will make more off their apple crop this
fall than they could have got for their
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