The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-06-18
THE WEEKS EVENTS.
News of Importance Given Brief Me

News of Importance Given Brief Mon.
ton.
Sir William Gordon Cumming and
his bride will come to the United States
in the fall.
A syndicate Of New Workers. are nego-
tiating for the purchase of The Boston
Journal.
Ell. G. Cross was elected president and
j. Waldo vice president of the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas railway.
The committee of artists to select new
coin, designs met at Washington, and
after examining about 300 rejected them
all.
1t was decided at French cabinet
council to ask parliament for grant tc
enable France TO take part in the Chi.
cago worlds fair.
The steamer Kite, with Lieut.. Perry
Grant and expedition from New York,
is coaling at North Sydney, G. B. AL
on board are well.
Kate Mott Nugent was placed ON trial
at Riverhead, L. l., On the charge OF
blgamy. She had three husbands before
she was IA years of age.
LIE National announces that M. De
Lesseps will be legally prosecuted fol
having misled the French investors in
the Panama canal project.
Governor Peck, of Wisconsin, has at
least a score of invitations to attend
Fourth of July celebrations, but he will
go to Lacrosse on that day.
1t has leaked out that the proprietor
of well known wax works and curio
exhibition is trying to get hold of the
famous baccarat counters. They are
said, however, to be inaccessible.
The French representative at Hayti
has been instructed to inquire and re-
port upon the nationality of the mer-
chant Rigaud, said t. have been mur-
dered by order of the Haytien president.
The Rothschilds have received tele-
gram from Arnold White, Baron
Hirsch's agent at Kieff which says that
the reports of the wholesale emigration
to England of Russian Jews are un-
founded. e.
Ex-senator Ingalls, denies the report
photographed from st. Louis that he has
been rendered the chancellorship of the
Washington university of st. Louis.
The report was as great surprise to
him as anybody else.
A detailed statement of the facts in
connection with the struggled goods
seized on board the United States
steamer Omaha, according to instruc-
tons has been forwarded to the score
tary of the treasury.
Dispatches from Shanghai announce
that fresh attacks are continually being
made upon the Christian missions in the
interior. In one case troops sent by the
Chinese government to quen the dis
turbances Joined the rioters.
The California Athletic club has
matched George Dixon and Abe Willis
to fight on July %, for a purse of S., 00O
The men are to weigh IFS pounds three
hours before entering the ring. Dixon
now weighs l29 pounds and Willis 1874
1t is reported in Paris that the pro
posed prosecution of M. de Lesseps and
others is connected with the scheme Of
la Credit Fonsier syndicate to place the
Panama canal enterprise on such 9
basis as will insure the completion Of
the work.
The Princess Of Wales has started q
subscription among the wives Of army
officers for the relief Of Mrs. Grimwood,
widow of Mr.. F. st. G. Grimwood, late
British political agent at Manipur, who
was killed during the recent massacre
at that place.
The kaiser has caused it to be made
known informally in the German army
that any discussion of the Prince OF
Wales affairs will be treated as grave
indiscretion, if by officers, and as a
cause for severe punishment among
those of lower rank.
A Constantinople dispatch says that
the Sultan has been celebrating with
great eclat the circumcision Of his
three youngest sons, 5000 poor children
undergoing the ceremony at the same
time, at the Sultan's expense. The city
has been Illuminated, and rejoicing
generally over the sacred occasion.