The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-09-04
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
Important Happenings from All
Parts Of the World Con.
cisely ChrOniclef.
A Complete Resume Of Crimes,
Casualties and Current Events
for the Week.

Casualties and Current Events
for the Week.
The pope has forbidden Catholics to
cremate their dead.
Eighty miners were suffocated by an
explosion at Boryslav, Galicia.
The pope has appointed Abbot Schom,
of Hamburg, archbishop of Bamberg.
Fire almost totally destroyed the
town of Oxford, Iowa, Monday, Loss,
$4,000. ...-.. '>-.-
An American actress has sung "The
Star Spangled Banner" at the top of
Eiffel tower.
Two people were killed and several
hurt in a Northern Pacific wreck near
Hot Springs, Wash.
Minister Lincoln will deliver an adj
dress at the great Welsh national festi-
val, the Eisteddfod.
By the explosion of gasoline stove at
st. Paul fire, four fremen were badly
injured, one fatally.
The aggregate debt of all the colonies
of Australia is $215 per head of the pop
ulatlOn or S6SS ,OOO,OOO.
Mayor Charles E. Mech, of Mandan,
died suddenly at the Northern Pacific
depot in that city Friday.
At reunion of ex-slaves and freed
men in Fort Gaines, Ga, 1000 colored
people of that region came together.
The Democrats of Western Colorado
adopted resolutions indorsing Chief
Justice Fuller for the presidency in 1899.
The earnings of Michigan railroads
for June were 81, 451 ,295, an increase of
$685., 9O5 over the same month last year.
A train was derailed near Arrens,
France. Seventeen carriages were
wrecked and several people killed and
injured.
Sarah Micauel, aged s, of Manches-
ter, n. H., grieved so because her father
failed to kiss her that she committed
suicide.
The proposed railway across the
Sahara desert has been approved by the
French commission appointed to investi-
gate it's feasibility.
People in Northwest Wyoming are ex-
cited over rich finds Of gold in the
Tong river field, and there is a stampede
from Dayton and Sheridan.
By premature explosion in the Lex
ington, Colo, tunnel Sunday two work.
men, F. w. Bennett and David Will
Jams, were blown to atoms.
Governor Campbell, of Ohio, has re-
prieved Elmer Sharkey, until Sept. 26,
so that he would have an opportunity to
examine doubts as to his sanity.
By the falling in of the roof
Of burning building at the village of
Mejoe Kerestze, in the district of Bor-
sod, fifteen persons were killed.
The largest sailing vessel afoat was
launched Tuesday at Glasgow. She is
fve-masted ship of $3.50 tons burden
and is intended for the nitrate trade.
Over iii, 0OO-to be exact III, $50
emigrants embarked during the last
quarter from the various ports of the
British Isles. These include 81, 1853 for
eigners.
A new electric car on the Davenport.
Iowa, street lines became unmanageable
and dashed down a steep grade, collid-
ing with railway train. One killed,
several hurt.
Camp No. 10, Sons of Veterans. St.
Paufs representative at the national en-
campment of that order at st. Joe, Mo-,
won the first prize in the competitive
drill Wednesday.
1t is stated that Stanley has informed
the French publisher of his biography
that he will devote the proceeds of the
edition toward the abolition of the
African slave trade.
The unclaimed articles of value found
at Johnstown, Pa, after the food were
sold at Pittsburg, the whole bringing
$1,000, which will be used to erect a
monument to the unknown dead.
The Potter-Loven company. of Bos-
ton, has assigned. The firm did bust
ness of SOC, 200 yearly, Assets are
expected to fully equal liabilities but are
in such shape as to practically wreck
the firm.
The cellar of brewery in
Stoetteritz, Saxony, in which number
of men were at work, collapsed, burying
sixteen of the workmen. Of these seven
were killed and the remainder severely
injured.
The archbishop of Kingston has bor-
rowed $500, 600 from the Standard Life
Insurance company at Al per cent. The
loan is tor twenty years. The lives of
forty young men will be insured for
s. ZOO each.
The London dockmen have cabled
$1,000 to the striking Australian dock
men. Many of the men who are able TO
do SO have subscribed a shilling a day
instead of a shilling week pledged by
resolution of the union.
The Russian government is about to
appoint commission to prepare q
scheme to open trade routes to Central
Asia by connecting the Amu-Daria river
with the Caspian sea, or by railroad
from Orenburg to Tashkend.
The excessive rains, resulting in seri-
Gus food, have converted the Austro-
Swiss frontier into a series of lakes.
Hundreds of houses are isolated by the
floods and immense damage has been
done to crops and property of various
kinds.
Six more villages in Southern Hun
gary have been burned. This fearful
destruction by fires is due to the dryness
of the buildings caused by long season
of torrid weather. Twelve persons lost
their lives during the burning of Mezoe-
Kereshtes recently.
A dispatch from Calcutta says that
the Amer Of Cabul has returned in
triumph to his capital, after an absence
of two years, during which he has been
engaged in subduing the rebels against
his authority. He has treated the rebels
with great severity and cruelty.
Otto Leuth, the Cleveland boy MUIR
derer, who outraged and then killed
little Maggie Thompson in that city
May 9, 1898, was executed in the peni-
Tertiary, at Columbus, Friday. With
him was also executed John, alias
"Brocky" Smith, who horribly butch
cred old Bridget Byron, at Cincinnati,
on Dec, s. lcS9.
Argentine Mutt Pay Indemnity.
LONDON, Aug. At is stated that
England and France have demanded in
Gemnity from the Argentine Republic