The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-06-05

Harvard faculty has approved the
project of granting diplomas to students
upon the completion of the sixteen
courses. A good student can complete
the work in three years.
The monthly public debt statement
shows q decrease in the debt amounting
to $G,G61 81, during the past month of
May, and for the eleven months Of the
current fiscal year, SCI, 7S7,722
The people of Newfoundland are ex-
cited over the outrages rerpetrated by
French war vessels Oh fishermen on the
coast. They propose to pay no taxes till
the government will protect them.
The Chicago Post says that the Play
ers' league has tired Of its fight with the
National league and will meet in New
York this week to change their schedule
so that there will be 10 conflicting dates.
Carelessness of a bridge tender Oh tie
narrow guage road near Oakland, Cal. =,
led to the fatal plunge of an engine and
one car into a creek. Twenty bodies
have been recovered and many more arc
missing.
a decree has been issued by the Boy
Of Tunis, in which it is ordered that ev-
cry negro domestic in his dc1ninions
shall be furnished with a certificate of
freedom. Employers failing to prompt
ly comply with the mandate will be
fined.
On June = General Superintendent
Earring. CT the Milwaukee and st. Paul
feau, Viii become general manager Of
the same. Assistant Superintendent
Collins will succeed Mr.. Earring. Z. 2.
Ripley's appointment as vice president
will be made July IA.
The emperor has forbidden TIE Berlin
magistracy to receive money for the
purpose of erecting g memorial of the
late Emperor Frederick. This order is
given, the emperor states, for the reason
that he himself intends to defray the ex-
pense of erecting the memorial.
Eleven hundred Cincinnati carpenters
went out on strike Monday. and it is
probable 600 more will quit work. They
demand nine h0prs' work for ten hours
pay. Chattanooga printers struck for a
raise. Lowell, Mass, plasterers de-
manded an advance to $3.50 per day.
Several other small strikes occurred the
same day.
It Is the purpose of the Women's Lib
eral Federation, of England, to mem
orialize Mr.. Gladstone on the subject of
the franchise for women. The memorial
will ask for Mr.. Gladstone to include in
the programme OF issues to be presented
at the next parliamentary election pro.
vision for the granting of the franchise
to women,
A dispatch from Warsaw: in Poland
states that eighty-four German resi-
dents We're expelled from that city in
obedience to the decree of the governor
1t is also stated that nearly 100 more
Germans, engaged in commercial pur
suits, have had notices served upon them
that the best interests Of the government
demand their immediate departure,
Officers of the Western Union Tele
graph company claim to have unearthed
a gigantic fraud by which the company
has been robbed of upwards of $50, 600
The conspiracy has extended over forty
South Dakota towns, and the stealing!
have been going on for years, Siou,
Falls, Pierre, Aberdeen, Mitchell, Red
field, Milbank and other important
towns are included in the list. The plar
adopted was to get in collision with
managers at other offices, then the fraul
/. was easily perpetrated.