The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-09-11
RESUME OF THE WEEK.
A BRIEF RECORD OF IMPORTANT
HAPPENINGS.

A BRIEF RECORD OF IMPORTANT
HAPPENINGS.
Cream of Home and Foreign News
Skinned From the Great Mass of Cur
rent Events and Dished Up without
Trimmings.
The potato crop of the Northwest is
turning out better than was expected.
Szhlnok and several other Hungarian
villages have been nearly destroyed by
fires.
Stanley is enjoying himself in the
Alps and has greatly gained in appetite
and strength.
The cholera epidemic at Jeddah is
abating, and the deaths now average
only two day.
The lumber firm of Hoxie e. Mellor,
Amigo, Wis, has failed for $51S, 1000;
nominal assets, 100000.
The temperance congress is forming
an international league against alcohol
with headquarters at Zurich.
Semi-official Canadian papers COM
ment favorably on Sherman's resolution
for reciprocity with the Dominion.
It is announced that Italy will off,
cially recognize the defacto government
of Brazil whenever England does so.
The residence and two livery barns of
8. P. Robb, of OsceOla, Iowa, were
burned with all the contents. Nineteen
horses were consumed in the barns.
Baron Wissman has been requested by
King Leopold to come to Brussels to set
tie the quarrel between Emin Pasha and
Stanley.
The government will appeal from the
decision of Judge Shiras, in the Des
Moines river land cases, to the United
States supreme court.
Nine breweries in Boston and vicinity
have been discovered by government
measure sent there from Washington TO
be using over sized packages.
The experiment of transmitting opera
music from the Berlin opera house to
the Urania theatre by telephone. was
made, and proved complete success.
Among the passengers on the White
star steamer Tentonic, which reached
New York Wednesday were Chauncey
M. De Pew and Archbishop Corrigan.
A passenger train on the Delaware
and Hudson road collided with a freight
near Plattsburg, N. Y. The engineer,
fireman and one passenger were killed.
A fire at Goessitz, Holland, Saturday,
which destroyed twenty houses, was
caused by a boy setting fire to his
mothers stable, in revenge for being
punished.
Arrangements are now complete for
the establishment of telephone commu-
| nication between London and Paris, and
the line is expected to be in operation
| within few days.
Physicians who examined the body of
Jacques Constant, a convicted MUIR
durer, guillotined at Epinal, France,
found the heart beating six minutes
after the decapitation.
A New York Central passenger train
was wrecked near Castleton by ties
| placed on the track. The train was
thrown down steep bank, but, strange
to say, no one was killed.
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.
Fire destroyed two and one-half
squares in the business centre of Hia-
currency was burned in the First Ma
tional bank. Total loss, $150,OOO.
The firm of Sawyer, Wallace & Co.,
commission merchants at New York,
with offices in all the principal cities Of
Europe and America, have failed.
Liabilities way up into the millions.
John L. Sullivan has made his debut
as star actor in Harrison's new COM
edy, Honest Hearts and Willing
Hands," at Bridgeport, Conn, and
created quite favorable impression.
Inportions of the unsurveyed territory
at the foot of Mount Baker and Mount
Tacoma they are hundreds of trees that
measure $50 feet in height. Some of the
trunks measure 30 feet in circumference.
Eight miners were entombed at Ish-
peming, Mich, by a cavern in the sixth
level Of the Angelina mine. They can
be communicated with through the air
pipe, and hopes of their rescue are en-
tertained.
Two girls at Pleasantville. NJ, Mary
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prominent men, fought in a prize ring
thirty-eight rounds to a draw. Both
badly punished. Rivalry for the affec-
tions Of young man was the incentive.
Another attempt was made Monday
night to wreck the New York Central
fast express near Old Troy. by placing
ties endwise in culvert. A hagman
discovered the obstruction just in time
RI cfnv tho train "hi1a IL: L
was fired at from ambush and wounded.
The state convention of Republican
clubs Of New York met at Saratoga
Thursday. Resolutions were adopted
endorsing President Harrison and
Speaker Reed, approving the Mckinley
bill, the federal election bill and Blaine's
tariff reciprocity project.
Richard Guenther consul general to
Mexico, is i'll at his home, in Oshkosh,
Wis. He has been spending a few
weeks vacation there, and was to start
for Mexico to-day. Mr.. Guenther has
been suffering from rheumatism, but is
now Frustrated by an attack Of stomach
trouble,
Emperor Franz Josef has contributed
nearly $4,000 for the benefit of the
sufferers by the recent floods. 1t is
claimed that the appropriations made
for the purpose of providing for protec-
ton against floods has been inadequate
and the niggardly policy of the Austrian
finance minister is severely condemned.
Count Herbert Bismarck is sounding
the French government, the Italian
government and the Vatican in regard
to the proposed visit of Prince Bismarck
to Rome and Nice during the coming
winter. The count is anxious to learn
what the disposition of French and
Italian crowds is likely to be toward the
great German statesman.
William M. Butts, of the, firm of Butts
& Robinson, printers and publishers of
The Protector, the official organ of the
Ancient Order of United Workmen Of
Maryland, died from the effects of
dose of morphia, which he admitted
having taken with suicidal intent. Mr..
Butts was past grand master of the An
Gent Order Of United Workmen. Mr..