The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-07-17
news BRIEFLY TOLD,
Important Happenings from All
Parts OF the World Con.
cisely ChrOnicled.
A Complete Resume Of Crimes,
Casualties and Current Events
for the Week.

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Professor James R. Solely has been ap
pointed assistant secretary Of the navy.
The panic in Argentine republic is in
creasing. Gold jumped from 214 to 321
Friday.
Hon. Benjamin Butterworth has been
elected secretary of the Columbia
worlds fair.
Stevedores on the Lehigh Valley
steamship line at Chicago, have struck
for higher wages. d.
Fatal race riots occurred near Griffin,
Ga, in which four negroes were killed
and six injured.
The Pennsylvania railway is said to
have gained control of the Chicago
Union Stock yards.
Arkansas Republicans endorsed the
Union Labor ticket headed by Rev. N.
B. Fizer for governor.
Armsted Jones, a lad of is, was
hanged at Columbia, S. c., for the muir
der Of his step-mother.
Collision on the Memphis and Little
Rock railway, near Memphis resulted in
the death of four negroes.
French papers assert Gen. Boulanger
has asked the government to pardon him
and allow him to return.
Business failures for the United States
for the last week were 175. For the cor
responding week last year 191. la:
The territory acquired by England in
Africa by her treaty with Germany is
estimated at $50, 900 square miles.
Tex, between local political factions for
the town government. Six were killed.
The Knights of Pythias encampment
at Milwaukee came to close Saturday.
The conclave will continue through this
week.
Spectators have brought up nearly
all of the land on the little island of
Heligoland that is available for habita-
ton.
Monday, the centenary of the fedora
ton and the anniversary of the fall of
the bastile was celebrated as a holiday
in France.
A woman Of the town at Devils Lake
murdered her paramour and chopped up
the corpse. She and a female companion
were arrested.
Another gigantic lockout, due to the
cloakmakers' strike, took place Friday in
New York. Twenty thousand workers
were effected.
Switchmen and brakemen on the
Louisville and Nashville railway are on
a strike. No freight trains are running
on the short line.
A split in the Order of Railway Con-
cd D.
strikes forming new association at
Chicago Sunday.
The United Mine Workers of America
have decided to institute suits for $rO, 900
damages in the case of each victim of
the Farm Hill mine disaster.
By the disregard of orders five people
were killed and one fatally injured in a
collision on the Louisville and Nashville
railway. near Birmingham, Ala.
The mammoth summer resort hotel at
Lake Elmo, near ST. Paul, burned
Thursday. Several guests lost heavily.
Aggregate loss estimated at sec, 900.
A Fair Haven, VT, mother killed her
two children, fired the house and COM
mitted suicide. Probably insane over
the accidental death of her husband.
John Hart, of Ballyneale, Ireland,
killed his mother and chopped her head
off. When discovered the monster was
lying beside the corpse eating the flesh.
Mrs. Leslie, in an interview at Queens
town, admitted she had once promised
to marry Marquis de Leuville, but his
persecution of her has made that i'm.
possible.
The National educational convention
at st. Paul adjourned Friday. Most of
the teachers have returned home. but
many have remained to enjoy a longer
vacation in the Northwest.
Henry M. Stanley was married Satur-
day to Miss Dora Tenant, at London.
The presents were more numerous and
varied than were probably ever before
received by bridal pair.
About $50 negroes quit the plantation
of A. Heffner, near Oak Ridge, La, and
started west. They were pursued by a
party Of whites and surrounded. A fight
ensued in which five negroes We're killed
Details of the fire at Fort De France.
on the island of Martinique, state that
ali area of ninety acres was burned over
and ZOO houses'and contents DESTROYED.
The loss was 1900, 0O0 Twelve bodies
have been recovered from the ruins.
The following is statement of United
States bonds purchased from Aug, 9,
1887, to date inclusive; Amount pur.
chasedl Fours, $135, OFT $780, AS, $l41,.
800, $50; total, $277, 200, 800, Costs Fo1rs,
ST., G31 $50; AS, $3.50 ,O75. 500; total,
1924, 707, $50. Cost at maturity: Fours,
$235, AZ, $50; AS, $159. 172 $50; total,
1894, 621 ,106. Saving: Fours, $62,S15,-
9S1; 32s, $7,097 1865; total, $69, 913,S 46.
The cargo of oil on the steamer Tioga
caught fire Friday while the boat was
lying at the dock in Chicago. A large
number of the crew and stevedores was
busy unloading the vessel and many
were caught by the flames and either
burned to death or fatally injured.
Nineteen bodies have SO far been re-
covered.
A terrific explosion of 1900 kegs of
powder occurred at King Station, Ohio,
on the Little Miami railway. The depot
and all the adjoining houses were de-
molished. The cartridge factory was
shattered. A mass of earth was thrown
from the cut into the river, completely
damming the river and causing food
OF the bottoms above. Thirteen bodies
have been recovered, and twenty people,
many of them girls from the factory,
rescued seriously injured.
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