The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-07-02
TIE WEEKS EVENTS.

News OF Importxnce Given Brief Mem
General Bronsart Won Schellendorf,
formerly German minister of war, is
dead.
Prince Alexander of Battenburg, late
ruling prince of Bulgaria, is dangerously
i'll with cancer in the stomach.
The commercial treaty with America
was signed by Spain Friday. 1t will be
published Aug. and will go into opera
ton Sept. 1.
The Paris police visited the offices Of
the Panama Company and seized all
documents relating to the business of
the company.
The japanese steamer Ishizah Maru
was capsized near Choshi on tho night
of the 4th INST, and all hands. number
ing over fifty, are missing.
Chief Special Agent Of the Census
Thompson, charged with the collection
of statistics of manufactures in Phila-
delphia, has been removed.
Herr Mayer, director of the Hesse
branch of the German State bank has,
been sentenced to ten years imprison-
ment for fraud and forgery.
The Vanderbilt roads have declared
the following dividends: Lake Shore,
Ia per cent; Michigan Central, per
cent, and Canada Southern, Ia per
cent.
Several hundred men at the Pioneer
iron furnaces, Pottsville, Pa, have
struck because the owners Of the plant
refused to pay them according to the
Pittsburg scale.
The Boston common council passed
over the mayors veto the ordinance
providing for visit of the council
committee on fire department to New
York and Chicago.
John l.. Sullivan left San Francisco
for Australia Saturday. A large crowd
waved the big Boston pugilist adieu and
many worshipers wished him q safe
journey and speedy return.
The Sunday closing law was in effect
at Tacoma, Wash, again Sunday. A
outside state jurisdiction, and those de-
sirous of getting the ardent went out in
boats after it.
Chancellor Caprivi will remain at his
post during the summer months and
not go to Bath as reported. His health
is said to be excellent, now that the
severe labors of the recent session of the
Prussian parliament is ended.
J. A. Barham. attorney for State
Comptroller Colgan of California, has
advised him not to pay the $500, 900 ap
propriated by the legislature of Califor-
MAS exhibit at tho Worlds fair, on the
grounds that the appropriation is nm
constitutional
A dispatch from Vienna says 1 that
there Is but little prospect OF the speedy
establishment of a. gold currency in
Austria Hungary. Dr.. Stenbach, the
Austrian finance minister, 10 opposed to
any course that would tend TO weaken
or impair the confidence oftrsde.E
The German kaiser, to show his es-
TEEN of religion, has bestowed ON all
the Protestant superintendent general,
dignity in the Lutheran corresponding
very much to that Of bishop in the
ANGLICAN church, large gold crosses to
be worn by them when officiating.
The German authorities are taking
extraordinary precautions to prevent the
spread of infectious diseases from the
Russian Jews who are flocking through
the country, and visitors for this reason
are no longer permitted to enter the
vaults at Charlottenburg, where the ex-
lies are permitted to rest.
A Calcutta dispatch says that the
government of British India has
formally made claim on the part Of
the Mekong valley now IN dispute be-
tween France and Siam. 1t is claimed
that the part in question formerly be-
longed TO the kingdom of Burmah, am
nexed not long ago by the British.
Among the German visitors to Eng
land to see the naval exhibition is Vice
Admiral Knerr, commander at Kiel,
whom Americans still remember as 1av-
ing been the hero Of q naval fight in the
Gulf of Mexico in 1870, when the Ger
man gunboat Meteor damaged and beat
the French despatch vessel Bouvet, Of