The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-05-08
Round UP on Thu news.
Most Important OF q Weeks
Events COrralled i'm One
Column.

NOAsAAAhs
Happenings from All Parts of a
Busy World Presented in
aConcise Form.
It is definitely announced that the
Northwestern will build into Dead
wood, S. D.
Trials of the torpedo boat Cushing
prove her to be one of the swftest YES
sells afloat.
At Concord, N. H., James Palmer was
hanged for the murder of Henry T.
w hitehouse.
The bill to abolish capital punishment
in New York has been killed by the SEN
ate committee.
A bill providing for weekly payment
by employers of wages earned by en-
ployes has passed the New York as
sembly-106 to 1.
The big meteor which fell in North
western Iowa Friday, was found twelve
miles northwest of Forest City. 1t had
exploded and the fragments were widely
scattered.
Governor Hill, in q message to the
New York legislature, favors the trans
fer of election contests from the legisla-
ture to the j judicial branch of the gov
eminent.
Officers of the Chicago and Calumet
Terminal company and the Chicago and
Great Western Terminal company deny
that their roads have been bought by
the Northern Pacific
The Texas Spring Palace, opens May
10 and continues till June 1. The pal
ace is 460 feet long, $50 feet wide, main
dome ITO feet high. The building isA
the shape of cross.
Phil Dryer the New York sporting
man, has offered to put up $50, 900 to
back Corbett against any heavy weight,
Sullivan preferred. He believes Corbett
can defeat Sullivan.
A curious condition of affairs exists in
James county, Tenn. The legislature
abolished the county, but the citizens
and officers ignore the law. They talk
OF seeding and forming a new state.
The agricultural department at Wash
ington is distributing sugar beet seeds to
farmers who desire to experiment. with
the industry. Instructions for planting
and eultivating accompany each package
| of seed.
Detectives Strickley and Lowe, of
| Findlay, Ohio, have both died under
circumstances. which lead to the belief
that they We're poisoned by members of
q gang they We're active in bringing to
| justice,
The largest gathering London has
ever known took place Sunday at the
labor demonstration. The monster out
pouring was variohsly estimated at from
500, 900 to 1,000,0 900. There were 200, 900
in the procession.
The municipal election in st. Paul re-
| suited in sweeping Democratic victory.
| Republicans getting but three aldermen.
The Republican candidate for mayor
ran ahead of his ticket in spite of the
Pioneer Press attacks.
Southwestern stockmen to the mum.
Der of 115 and representing capital of
$1,000 600 met at Corpus Christi, Tex,
Thursday to inaugurate fight against
the Chicago packing combine. A huge
| refrigerator system throughout Texas
was provided for.
Blooming Grove, Tex, was struck by
hurricane, Thursday, doing great dam
age to property. Thenew Baptist church
and many residences were totally de-
! molished. The postofice, the Presbyte-
rian church and several business houses
We're partially wrecked.
The Texas Farmers alliance is in
trouble: In 1857 an exchange was Or
| ganized with capital of 100000 The
exchange has since sqandered $3.50, 900,
and has nothing to show for it but about
$40, 900 worth Of property. Farmers are
anxious to have an Investigation.
The remains of DR.. Cronin were re-
moved Sunday and placed in the tomb
prepared for them, Sunday was the
first anniversary of his death. The Sher-
idan guards, Illinois drum corps, Ancient
Order Of Hibernians, and other Catholic
and Irish organizations participated in
the ceremonies.
Stock for the exhibition to be held at
Spokane Falls, commencing Sept. II,
has been taken. The exhibition will
include Montana, Idaho, Washing
ton, Oregon and British Columbia. A
| notable feature will be the palace built
Of ore from neighboring mines like the
st. Paul ice palace,
The United States department of agri.
culture Ia preparing, under the supervi-
sion of the chief Of the pomological
division, to issue very full report on
the many varieties of fruits grown in
this country. This report viii consist
largely of the actual experience of prac-
teal fruit growers in all sections Of the
country,
At the Ohio G.. A. R. convention a
resolution was passed that without aban-
| doning any claim heretofore made in
behalf of our needy and disabled COM
rades and the widows and orphans of
our dead comrades, we now demand of
! the congress of the United States the
passage of per diem service pension law
pure and simple"
Foreign.
Many planters in Yucatan have de-
| cided to stop planting hennequen, which
! is quoted at low figures at present, and
will plant cotton instead, bringing negro
and Chinese labor from Cuba.
Dispatches from Africa announce that
a difference in regard to delimitation
Of the frontier has led to an encounter
, between Tripolitans and Tunisians, and
that many on each side were killed and
wounded.
The French government has accepted
the plan for the conversion of the Egyp-
tan debt, but demands control of the
disposition of the amount saved by the
operation. Dispatches from Cairo indi-
cate that the proposition will be ao-
copied,
The tsarewitch has definitely decided
to make a voyage around the world. He
will be accompanied by his brother, the
grand duke George, and will make the
voyage in the Orel, which will be accom-
panied by two men-of-war. On his re-
turn the tsarewitch will land at Vladi-
yostock and will return by land across
Siberia.
MOISTURE IN MINNESOTA.