The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-05-14
1891.
THE WEEKS EVENTS.

THE WEEKS EVENTS.
News Of Importance Given Brief Mem
tion.
The news of the burning of the ship
yards at Bilbao is confirmed.
The new tariff law relating to the abo-
ition of special taxes on tobacco went
into effect Friday.
The United States supreme court has
decided to hear no more oral arguments
during the present term.
The members of the Confederate Vet
Grams association wear silver lapel
button, similar in size to the bronze but
ton of the Ct. A. r.
The steamer Japan, of the Lake Supe-
rior Transit company, the first boat
from the lower lakes, arrived at Wash
burn, Wis, Sunday, with merchandise.
The United States steamer Vesuvius
has been ordered from the New York
navy yard to the Norfolk yard, where
she will prepare for trial Of her guns.
A new amendment to the Maine pro-
hibitory law went into effect Monday
providing for heavy fine and sixty
days imprisonment for single sale of
liquor.
An organization has been perfected
for the purpose of tunneling under the
Detroit river from Detroit to Windsor,
Ont. The Michigan Central is backing
the project.
In the session of the Massachusetts,
diocesan convention of the Protestant
E-,c nh,1r tho Dhi1iy,
Brooks, d. D., was elected bishop by a
vote Of 90 to So.
The around the world excursionists
reached Winnipeg Thursday night at
1890, having made the trip from the
Pacific coast (half way across the con-
tinent) in 90 hours.
Edward Gedenny and Frank Ingersoll,
who were president and cashier of the
defunct North River bank, New York,
have been arrested, charged with per-
jury in swearing on June ii that there
was $3.50, 733 in the treasury of the bank.
Agrarian outrages are being resumed
in Ireland, with the practical disappear
ance of the plan of campaign. The burn
ing of dwelling houses and mutllation
of cattle are reported with increased
frequency.
A Rome dispatch says that some stir
has been created there among visitors
from the Southern part of the United
States by derogatory remarks which the
United States consul, Augustus Bourn,
is said to have uttered about New
Orleans.
Austria proposes to reduce her garri-
sons in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the
troops in those provinces having sue
ceeded in destroying the bands of rob-
beers that had their haunts in the noun
tains and forests of the Montenegro
frontier.
Mrs. Almira Locke, mother of David
R. Locke petroleum V. Nasby) who
has been living in poverty and misery
in small house in Wheeling, w. Va,
has been granted pension on account
of her first husband having served in
the war Of 1912.
The lady managers of the worlds fair
have decided to send Miss Mary r.
Schiller, of Pittsburg, to Colon bia,
Venezeula, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and
Brazil to work up interest in woman's
exhibit at the exposition from each of
those countries.
4NOW IOlh CuOUOlllS OiuCCIo udf0 SSlZt0l
for differentiation $4,000 worth of
dresses made in Paris consigned to the
agent of a Partisan exporter. 1t is
learned that this agent has built up ?
large business in supplying dressmakers
in the various cities of America direct.
A Berlin dispatch says that severe
measures of repression in Westphalia
have had their effect, and the strikers
are thoroughly cowed. Many of their
families are In starving condition, and
expected remittances from Belgium and
England have not arrived.
A subscription is called for in behalf
of Justin Mccarthy, Herbert Gladstone
and Lord Arthur Hill, members of par
lament, to relieve those gentlemen from
the payment Of 5000 pounds, liability
incurred in connection with the late
Irish exhibition, which proved fnan-
cial failure.
The committee counting the cash in
the treasury has completed the cash
bond room, redemption division, inter-
est division, sinking fund of the District
of Columbia, and $12,000,000 of the
$3.50, 000, 900 in the reserve vaults The
count so far shows that everything ia
correct.
Switzerland proposes to come into the
commercial arrangement between Rus
STA. III. Hammer and M. Cramer Freye,
Swiss deputies, are charged by the fed
eral council to represent the confedera-
ton at the conference to take place in
June at Vienna, between Austria, Ger
many and Switzerland.
James McRoberts, aged IS, and Miss
Mary j. McRoberts, aged IS, brother
and sister, who lived together on their
farm near the village of Kingston, Wis.
died within few hours of each
| other. They were Scotch-Irish PEG.
pie. and have no relatives in this coun-
try, it is understood. A good farm, i'm.
plements, stock, some grain and consid-
cradle ready money are left.