The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-12-10
EVENTS OF A WEEK.

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EVENTS OF A WEEK. g
News OF Current Interest Given Brief
Mention.
The Virginia legislature is in session.
Four men were killed in railroad
accident in New York city.
BY the burning of the steam barge
Edward s. Pease, at Cleveland, the en-
gineer and fireman wers cremated.
i Destructive prairie fires are reported
In Lyon county, Kan. Many farm
buildings and much hay and grain have
been destroyed.
The total cut of twelve lumber mills
| on Chequemagon bay, Ashland, WASH
burn and Bayfield, for the season is 251,-
600, 900 feet, as compared with $50, OOO,-
600 feet last year.
Five persons of one family, father,
mother and three children, were crem-
ated in burning building at Detroit,
Mich. Two other children and serv-
ant narrowly escaped like fate.
The armored cruiser New York, de-
signed to be the most formidable, as
well as the largest man-of-war in the
United States navy, was launched with
appropriate ceremonies at the yard OF
William Cramp & Sons, at Philadelphia,
Wednesday.
United States Treasurer Nebecker has
submitted his annual report to the sec
rotary of the treasury. The net ordinary
revenues of the government were $10,-
1886 less than last year, and the net
ordinary expenses were increased
57.636, 10S. The public debt reduction
was $37, 239, 762.
Michael Farmer, Of Hinckley, Mimi,
was cut in two by st. Paul and Du-
luth train.
The Iowa State Travelling Mems asso-
citation held its annual meeting at Des
Moines Saturday.
There are $4,000 cases of influenza re-
ported in Hamburg, and the death rate
Is considerably higher, owing to the pre-
valence of the disease.
| General McCook has issued orders for
| the reoccupation of Fort Marcy by
troops. The post was abandoned last
spring.
General John G. Black, commissioner
of pensions under Cleveland, is can
didate for the Democratic gubernatorial
nomination in Illinois.
The executive committee of the Ma
tional Editorial association will meet
at Cincinnati Jan. to fix the date and
place of meeting of the next convention.
4 Colonel Dick Taylor is dead in Chi
in Chicago, aged 80. Colonel Taylor
was veteran of the Mexican war, and
g personal friend of both Lincoln and
Douglas. It was Colonel Taylor who
first suggested to Abraham Lincoln the
idea of greenbacks.
Loppy. the murderer, was electrocuted
/ at Sing Sing prison at 12:0S p. m. Mon
day.
At Belle Piaine, g., safe blowers got
away with $4,000 of the local banks
money.
The Pacific mail steamship Nicaragua
was wrecked off San Salvador. Loss
$500, COO.
In a row near Birmingham, Ala, col
ored miners fired 1000 shots. Eleven
were killed or wounded.
An oil well has just been drilled in
Wayne county, KY, which is produc-
ing 1900 barrels day of lubricating
| oil.
A Danville, Conn.,, correspondent tells
OF the capture near that place of snake
nineteen feet long and as large around
as a mans body.
It is reported that Miss Florence
Blythe, heiress to Thomas Blythe's mil
lions. will marry San Francisco mer-
chants son, Charles Koenig, by name.
At meeting of the stockholders of
the Anaconda company it was resolved
that the capital stock be increased from
$12, 500, 900 to $25, 600 600, and the num-
Der of shares from 500, 600, of the par
value of $25 each, to 100000.
Sioux City is threatened with water
famine.
| The propeller Fountain City is sup
posed to have been lost.
| w. 81. Sargent, traffic manager of the
Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis
road, is dead.
The poor house at Osceola, Neb., was
burned Monday night. All the inmates
were safely removed.
i The bylaws of the Minnesota Grain
Growers association have been filed
with the secretary of state.
/ Minister Whitelaw Reid telegraphs
the state department that France has
removed the prohibition on American
pork.
-Four employees were killed outright
and i've badly injured in wreck on the
Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis
road.
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1t is reported on what is considered
| good authority, that Rev. j. 81. Oechter-
ing will be named to succeed Father
Flasch as bishop of La Crosse.
4 The plant of of the Long Lake Roller
| Mir company, of Hubbard, Minn., in
Guiding its water power and elevator.
all owned by James Billings, and the
stock of flour and wheat on hand, have
been sold to the Hubbard Mill and Ele-
vator company.
Mr. a. IS. oacKett, Of Mankato. Is max.
ing preparations to issue 10, 600 boom
pamphlets of over one hundred pages
each, to be sent to all parts of the
country and create boom for Mankatc
next year.
the Bears Ear Boom company, Pine
City, has let contract to drive ]. OO(
piling, to which their new booms viii
be tied. This boom is the longest in the
state, and fifty men are constantly em.
ployed by the company.
NJ. N. Kellogg, the Minnesota prophet
predicts that the coming winter will be
warm one. With the exception q
some severe cold days the latter part d
January, it will be mild, and saws ht
expects to hang up his fur overcoat fol
the winter on Jan. 90.
A Bold Diamond Robbery.
81. Paul, Dec. IAN unknown man
dashed fifteen pound stone through the
plate glass window of j. E. Inghsm's
1ewelry store, 3s7 jackson street, seized
g tray OF diamond rings, estimated by