The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-10-16
RESUME OF THE WEEK.
A BRIEF RECORD or IMPORTANT
HAPPENINGS.

HAPPENINGS.
Cream Of Homo and Foreign News
SKINNED From the Great Mass of Cur
rent Events and Dished Up Without
Trimmings.
The French statesman and writer,
M. Marc Antoine, is dead.
J. E. Thorold Rogers, professor of
political economy at the university OF
Oxford, died Monday.
A number of Armenians have been
killed and crops destroyed at Alashgerd.
A general massacre is feared.
The London Posts Berlin dispatch
says that the European cabinets are ex-
changing notes in regard to the McKin-
ley tariff.
The claim is made that an attempt to
assassinate ex-Congressman Brecken-
riege occurred at Center Ridge, Ark,
Monday night.
The Worlds fair commission adopted
system, which will require the erec-
ton of twelve separate buildings, plans
for which will be commenced at once.
The Spanish government is preparing
for submission to the cortez, a measure
to restrict the hours of labor and i'm
prove the condition Of the workingmen.
The Russian government is taking en-
ergetic steps to establish cotton planting
In Central Asia, and has sent to Egypt
for an English expert on cotton plant
ing.
Ex-senator Henry q. Davis, who has
been named by the president as one Of
the continental railway commission,
has written to the president accepting
the Office.
Gen. Booth has ordered that the only
token of mourning to be worn for his
late wife by members of the Salvation
Army shall consist Of a white band on
the sleeves.
The assistant secretary of the interior
has decided that the fact that q soldier
enlisted in the rebel army to escape
from a southern prison is no bar to q
pension.
The Pennsylvania ship canal commits
sion estimate that the cost of a water
way between Pittsburg and Lake Erie
at $25, OOO, 900, aid will ask the state to
construct it.
The Berlin correspondent of The Lon
don Chronicle says that Baron Wissman
positively refuses to return to his former
station in East Africa to play second
fiddle to Baron Won Soden.
The pope will donate 1000, 900 lire
toward the church which it is proposed
to erect in honor Of the Jubilee Of his
priesthood. Another 100000 lire are
to be subscribed by the public.
Advices from Zanzibar state that the
German authorities have begun the en-
forcement of regulations against the
slave trade. An Arab has been hanged
at Bagamoyo for slave dealing.
Mr.. Stanley has returned to London.
He says he is rapidly recovering his
health and strength. He visits Cam
bridge university on the 18th inst, and
will there receive the degree of LII. D.
Senator Hiscock denies the story sent
from Washington to the effect that he
and Mr.. Platt were concerned in q
scheme to secure the election of Secre-
tary Tracy as United States senator to
succeed Mr.. Evarts.
The Italian committee appointed to ar
range for proper celebration of Italian
art and industry at the Chicago Worlds
fair has dissolved, as few Italians are
willing to send exhibits to Chicago ow-
ing to the new tariff law.
The miners strike at Ishpeming is
growing formidable. Four thousand
are already out and strong probabilities
of an accession to the ranks by strike
at the Negaunee mines and possibly at
the Menomonee and Goebic ranges.
The sultan of Morocco has politely
but positively declined a French pro-
tectorate. He says that his people, by
popular vote taken under his direction
have declared their opposition to any
closer relations with foreign powers.
Chancellor Caprivi, succeeded during
his visit with the emperor to Austria in
settling satisfactorily with the Austrian
army authorities several vexed questions
regarding military occupation of the
frontiers by the respective armies of the
two nations.
The striking union workmen at Sgd
ney, N. S. w., attacked the firemen
heaving coal at Bull, and, after dispers-
ing them, occupied the mines. The po-
lice were unable to preserve order, and
re-enforcements have been sent to the
scene.
The condition of the king of Holland
remains unchanged. The attendant
physicians are about to hold consulta-
ton, after which they will present a
formal report to the cabinet. It does
not seem probable that regency will be
established for two weeks to come.
It is rumored that President Stickney
is behind the Winona and Southwestern.
Stickney's line now running into Mason
City is only leased of the Iowa Central,
and, as he has no access to the Southern
coal fields, it is generally believed that
the new road will at once continue oper-
ations southwest from Usage.
The Tooth anniversary of the birth of
Father Matthew, the great temperance
advocate occurred Friday. English
papers contained long articles eulogizing
Matthew's character and summing up
the important results which have flowed
from his labors. Celebrations of the
day by the various Father Matthew 80.
cieties were held.
The French cabinet is considering q
plan by which it is hoped to come to
terms with America on the tariff ques-
ton. The proposition is substantially
one Of mutusl concession or reciprocity.
Unless some terms are arrived at an at
tempt will be made to virtually exclude
American products from the French
markets.
A dispatch from Zanzibar says that
the natives are again in rebellion against
the Germans and that considerable force
will be required to subdue the outbreak.
The murder of Herr Kuensel at Vitu
has been followed by that of other Ger.
mans, and the authority of Germany is
not recognized, save within short dis.
lance of the coast.
The Oldest Member of the G. A. r. Dead
MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa, Oct. 49,
Capt. Peter Foster, the Oldest member
of the G.. A. r. in the United States,
died here Wednesday night. He was 90
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