The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-04-16
THE WEEKS EVENTS.
News of Importance Given Brief Men,
ti0n.


News of Importance Given Brief Mem
The cruiser San Francisco has sailed
for Chill.
Bishop Zardetti Is lying very i'll at
st. Joseph's hospital, st. Paul.
The leak in the Golfer dam at Sault
Ste. Marie has been stopped.
Bishop Scanned was formally installed
as bishop of Omaha Sunday with impos-
ing ceremonies.
The National and Provincial banks, of
Buenos Ayers, have suspended payment
of depositors until June.
The kaiser has concluded to remove
the old cathedral at Berlin, and have q
new one erected as soon as possible.
The Servian Skupschina has ad-
journed after voting credit of 10000
900 francs for the purchase of new guns.
At Zanzibar the powder magazine ad-
joining the sultan's palace exploded and
thirteen were killed and twenty more
wounded.
The cattle sheds and two feed barns of
the Union Stock Yards company at Gin
cinnah have been destroyed by fire. The
animals were gotten out safely. s
The report of the health department
of Minneapolis for the month of March
shows that during the month there have
been $50 deaths.
A porcupine that weighed about
twenty-five pounds was killed in James
vile, Wis. Its quilts were from one and
half to three inches long.
Lapoka, the dam of Lucky Baldwin's
greatest mare, Los Angeles, died We'd
nesday at the Elmendorf stud, Lexing-
ton, KY. She was the property of D.
Swigert. ........ ..... 80.
Owen McNiff, who died in Rochester,
Mimi, Sunday, bequeathed large sum
for the benefit of st. Johns Roman
Catholic church and st. Mary's hospital
in that city.
The first train to pass through the
Grand Trunk railroad tunnel under the
st. Clair river made the trip Thursday
afternoon, carrying number of the
roads officials.
Surveys are now being made by the
Canadian Pacific in the Rocky noun
tains for the purpose of diverting its line
some $50 miles south of where it is at
present located.
In letter to The Floridian John F.
Dunn has formally withdrawn from the
Florida senatorship contest. The anti.
Call men will put up Ex-Governor Blox-
ham and insist on a two-thirds rule.
Heligoland is to be fortified 80 as to
be of some use to Germany in the event
of war. The scheme comprises a har-
Dor for torpedo boats, and the planting
of several batteries of long range guns
on the land.
The rumor that the Deutsch bank of
Berlin had repudiated Henry Willard
has been efectually laid to rest by the
official denial of the bank, which was
cabled to Jesse Seligman & Co., of New
York, Wednesday.
Survey of the Duluth, Red Lake Falls
and Northern railroad has been COM
pleted to Duluth. J. B. Holmes, the
general manager, is endeavoring to Sc
cure 1850 feet along Park Point for the
location of terminals and ore docks.
The Canadian minister of railways
| and canals has under consideration the
question of asking parliament to vote
| an appropriation for the purpose of
making a lock of the new canal at
Sault Ste. Marie 100 feet wide and 20
feet deep.
The governor of Alsace-Lorraine has
| SO far relaxed the passport regulations
as to permit French farmers to come in
| with poultry and farm produce, pro-
vided they cross the frontier into France
again before dark, after undergoing in
spection.
Wednesday the I'D birthday of King
Christian, of Denmark, was celebrated
with much display at Copenhagen. The
king received congratulations from his
sons-in-law, the ozar of Russia and the
Prince OF Wales, and also from various
other royalties to which he is related.
Secretary Foster has received so many
complaints about the inferior quality of
the distinctive paper upon which gov
eminent money, bonds and securities
are printed, that he has decided to see if
it cannot be improved, and has ap-
pointed a committee of experts to in
quire into the matter.
The Indiana state encampment G.. A.
R. adopted resolution denouncing Tha
Century article on Camp Morton AS false
| and infamous, and libel to the mill
tery honor and civil integrity of the
state, and appointed committee to pro-
cure and compile evidence of the falsity
of the charges msda n The Century.
A remarkable fact in regard to this
years conscripts for the German army
in Silesia is the extraordinary large
number who are manned in hand and
foot. This is said to be due to the grow
ing belief among the peasantry that a
war is imminent. The most common
form Of manning ID the loss of a small
toe on the LETT foot: to :" : . =