The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-06-04
THE wEEks EVENTS.
News Of Importance Given Brief Men,

News Of Importance Given Brief Men,
Tommie Page, aged 10, killed ais
mother with garden hoe at Benton,
Ark, while she was trying to whip him.
Queen Natalie, it is stated, viii go to
q health resort, to recover from the
effects of the recent excitement at Bel
grade.
There are $50 families in the PENN
syivanla coke regions homeless and
penniless, who are living in stables and
coal sheds.
A dispatch from Ottawa says that the
Dominion government will undoubtedly
grant aid to the Hudson Bay railway
this session.
United States Treasurer Nebecker
has mailed 2,548 checks, amounting to
$4S9, 2l5, In payment Of interest on Ia
per cent. bonds.
Assistant Secretary Nettleton has
signed draft for Sc, ZOO, 600 for the pay
ment OF June pensions. This leaves
net balance in the treasury of s., COO, 900.
An official denial is given by Spain of
any secret clauses or any hitch in the
negotiations of a commercial treaty be-
tween the United States and Cuba and
Porto Rico
Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. Dimmick, Mrs.
Mckee and Mrs. Russell Harrison have
left for New York. Mrs. Mckee and
Mrs. Russell Harrison sail for Europe
on Wednesday.
Sir Henry Verney, now in his
Goth year, the father Of Capt. Verney. is
In precarious condition of health, and
may succumb at any time, leaving his
son baronet in prison.
? Lake linen, in the government of
Novgorod, has been the scene of a terri
BILE hurricane. Nineteen timber vessels
We're wrecked in the hurricane, and all
OF their crews were drowned.
The Pope's encyclical is not altogether
satisfactory to the weather class
among the German Roman Catholics,
who consider that it lends too much en-
couragement to labor agitation.
A Cape Town dispatch says that the
British South Africa company has
driven back the Portuguese all along
the line, and unless England interferes,
may drive them out of East Africa.
The Berlin Tageblatt says that forty
russian colonists have been sent back
to Russia by the Brazilian government
at its own expense to encourage their
relations and friends to emigrate to
Brazil.
Capt. E. P. Ewens, Indian agent at
Tongue river, says the cattle men are
more to be feared than the Indians. as
they want all the land they can grab for
their stock. The Indians complain bit
terly of these marauders.
j. A. Barnard, assistant general man.
ager of the Big Four, whose headquar-
tiers are at Indianapolis, has rendered
his resignation. 1t is understood that
Mr.. Barnard resigned voluntarily and
has another job in view.
The labor unions in London are much
excited over the prospect of the arrival
OF more Russian Jews, and there is rea-
son to fear, that if the immigration is
persisted in at its present rate, objection
may take the form of violence.
: Reports from all over South Dakota,
North Dakota, Minnesota and Manitoba
indicate that Saturday nights rain was
the heaviest and most general this
spring. Farmers are said to be happy
all along the line, and predicting the
biggest crop in many years.
England is rapidly devolpfng an efsoo.
tive system of naval defense Hereafter
every important seaport is to have what
might be called Q naval garrison. In
accordance with recent regulations a
war ship is to be assigned to every port
OF consequence.
The end of the London tailors strike
causes much rejoicing among the 4a5
master tailors in the city and West end
who were affected. The men who
struck, about 1000 in number, are of
the first-class type, who make clothes
for the nobility and wealthy generally.
The act recently passed by the Mani
toba legislature abolishing Roman
Catholic separate schools in the country,
is now being argued before the supreme
court at Ottawa on appeal. Catholics
are making bitter fight, and judging
from the temper Of the court and ex-
pressed opinions, the act will certainly
be declared unconstitutional