The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-03-13
CONCISELY CHRONICLED.
HAPPENINGS OF A WEEK CON-
DENSED AND CLASSIFIED.

HAPPENINGS OF A WEEK con-
DENSED AND CLASSIFIED.
The Rhode Island Democratic state
convention made the following nominations
Wednesday: For governor, John w. Davis, Of
Pawtucket; lieutenant governor, W. p. c. War
dell, of Bristol: secretary Of state, K. ID. Nc
Guinness, of Provdence; attorney general, z. o.
Slocum (renominated); state treasurer, John g.
Perry, of Kingstown.
State Senator Brown, of Ohio, threat
ems to resign if his colleagues will not act with
him to secure modification Of the Sunday clos
idg law. Such step would deadlock the senate
and prevent the r di 'tricting scheme
The Mississippi is dangerously near
the top of the levee for more than $50 mil along
the Yazoo front and more than 800 miles along
the west bank in Loui"iana and Arkansas Both
the Ohio and Mississippi are slowly rising.
At Emporia, Kan, committees repre-
sent ng the stat. organization Of the Farmers
alliance. the Grange, tho Farmers Mutual Ben
eft association, and the Knights OF Labor, were
in secret session here nearly oil day. A platform
was adopted looking to a consolidation Of the
different organizations for political purposes.
E. L. Harper, the f..-lous bank wrecker,
of Cincinnati was Wednesday recommended by
the board of managers Of the Ohio penitentiary
for pardon.
Mr.. Doane, the agent of the pool lines
at Castle Garden, Friday issued new emigrant
rates to West. Ire rate to Denver was Sal 40,
now it is .2S; to San Francisco formerly S6S2j,
now 500; to Omaha, $25.7s, now $ls.55
Hon. Warner Miller was on Friday
elected president of the Nicaragua Canal Con-
| struction company
All the twenty-one students of Kalam-
AGO college who kidnapped Professors Ferry and
|
college without senior class. The leader, w. w.
DeSantels, Of Detroit, Mich, was expelled The
| others are suspended for year.
The sensation Friday at Bismarck, was
the action of Representative Walsh, Of Grand
| Forks, in pulling the nose of Attorney General
| Goodwin. The trouble caused by Goodwin's
| reference to Walsh in the alleged lottery bribery
| cases. Goodwin is about half the size of Walsh.
A Pioneer Press special from Wash
ngton says that it is hard to tell just how coon
the millions of acres of the Chippewa reservation
will be opened up for settlement by white people.
The Indian bureau says it will be car at least.
possibly two.
| People in the Flathead lake region,
Montana, Friday, telegraphed to Governor Toole
| for militia They fear an outbreak Of Indians
| No troops have been Sent, as the soldiers at Mis-
soula are deemed sufficient to preserve order
San Francisco citizens held a meeting
| Saturday to devise means to relieve the prevail
| ing distress among the poorer classes there
Nearly 5000 was subscribed at the meet ng to be
| used to give employment to needy men in i'm
| proving Golden Gate park. The men Will be paid
| $1.5O per day.
A mass convention in the capitol at
| Topeka, Kan passed resolutions that prohibition
| is a curse to the state and that the people were
| tired of it. Statistics were submitted to prove
that the wealth and population of the state had
| decreased since prohibition went into effect.
An organized effort is being made to
! induce an exodus of Southern colored people TO
| New England The scheme finds is motive in
| the lack of suitable domestic servants in New
England and the desire of certain original Adolf
| tionists to place the freedmen in q Idtion Of
| civil liberty.
State Superintendent of Public Instruc-
| ton Mitch Ii, of Bismar k, n D.. died without
warning Monday night, of heart failure.
News was given out Monday of the
transfer Of the Crescent creamery at st. Paul to
syndicate headed by Henry Willard. The cream
cry op rates twenty creameries in different parts
of the state, using the milk of eco COWS. The
plant will be doubled by the new owners.
Florida officials have inauaurated a
schem. to guarantee employment to !, 900 servant
girls at wages ringing fro.a Sc to 10 per month.
They will run state intelligence Office.
Monday the switchmen employed in
the Northwestern yards at Chicago struck for
the discharge of an obnoxious foreman Late in
the afternoon the demand was granted and the
men went 10 work.
Monday the members of the American
Association Of General Passenger and Ticket
agents. who to hold their meeting in the City
of Mexico on the 18th in t., left Chicago at 10 a.
IN on what is probably the finest equipped train
in the world. 1t comprises eight Pumans, two
dining cars and an observation car, is vestibuled
throughout and is lighted by electricity and
heated by steam. The party numbered more
! than 100, all passenger agents and their families
French Catholics in Manitoba have
warned the government that they will resist the
enforcement of the educational bill with arms il
necessary.
The Missouri antitrust law Tuesday
was declared unconstitutional by Judge Dillon Of
the circuit court.
st. PauPs mortuary report, just COM
pleted by Health Officer HOyt indit ates q health
full condition there yluring the year. The death
rate has been only 1910 per loo of population
Only one city in the Union has had as low
mortality, and that is Los Angeles, Cal, where
the per cent. was as low as 80 per 100 of popu
latiOl.
The United States steamer Iroquois
arrived at Port Townsend Tuesday after an event
full voyage. While en- route to Samoa the ma
chinery broke. They proceeded slowly by steam
and sail for Honolulu but were driven out of their
course 800 miles. Coal gave out, rations were
scarce and they were obliged to make for the
nearest port, which was Port Townsend They
were at sea three months.
The naval court of inquiry to examine
the charges against Commander McCalla is in
session at the Brooklyn Navy yard.