The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-09-22
POLITICAL MUTATIONS.

POLITICAL MUTATIONS.
William H. Hale has been nominated
for governor by Massachusetts Republi-
cans.
David B. Hill addressed big Demo
+! cratic meeting at Brooklyn on Monday
night.
Frank J. Cannon. Mormon, has been
nominated for congress by Utah Repub-
| icans.
Theobald Otzen has been nominated
| for congress by Republicans of the
Fourth Wisconsin district.
Wisconsin Congressional Nominations
First district Democrats, Clinton Bah
bitt; Eighth district Republicans,
Colonel II. A. Framback; Fourth dis
trict Democrats, John L. Mitchell.
In a letter to the editor of the st.
Paul Globe G. A. Pillsbury agrees to
contribute $4,000 to the Democratic
campaign fund if the charges made
against him in the story of the alleged
wheat ring can be proved.
Ex-Governor Porter, of Indiana, is in
Washington, and says that he has re-
signed the position of minister to Italy
is true. He leaves the city at once for
his home in Indiana, where he will enter
actively in the political campaign.
James G. Blaine has written a letter
to the Kenebec Journal regarding the
statement that he did not vote at the re-
cent election. Mr.. Blaine says that it
would have taken three days to reach
Augusta, his voting place, and in order
to save time and trouble he 'paired"
with a Democratic friend.
CRIMES AND CRIMINALS.
A race war has broken out in Calhoun
county, ARK. Nine negroes and two
whites were killed and several wounded.
Masked men covered the cashier of
Watkins bank at Dexter, Kan, with
revolvers. The cashier gave up $1,000.
Berkman, who attempted to kill H. G.
Frick, has been sentenced on seven
counts. His sentence aggregates twenty
one years in the penitentiary and one in
the workhouse.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Wisconsin tobacco crop has been
injured by frost.
The threatened strike of all railway
employees on the Reading has been
averted and the trouble amicably set
tied.
Arthur Mckee Rankin, the actor, has
been denied a divorce from his wiIe,
whom he sued on the ground of de-
sertion.
The Northern Pacific railroad has
agreed to raise the wages of its 600 tele-
graph operators, and a strike is thereby
averted.
The twenty-first annual convention of
the national board of steam navigation,
at New York, adopted resolution in
dorsing the Nicaragua canal scheme.
Mayor Grant, of New York, has re-
quested President Harrison to stop all
immigration to this country until all
danger from cholera shall ~disap-
peared.
Rockaway Beach, the famous Long
Island resort, was visited Tuesday by a
fire which destroyed about million
dollars worth of property. Two persons
were fatally injured.
The Rev. DR.. jerks, of Indianapolis,
in an interview declares his belief that
the cholera epidemic now sweeping over
the world is warning Of the approach
of Christ's second coming.
A large shipment of sealskins has left
Victoria, B. c., for London, by the Ca
madam Pacific, valued at 1000 and
filling six large cars. The skins will be
offered for sale at the London fall sales.
1t is announced that the Northern
Pacific will withdraw from the Western
Passenger association, following the
Great Northerns action. 1t has already
withdrawn from the Transcontinental
association.
The question as to whether the inter-
state commerce commission has power
to compel railroad monopolies and COM
Dimes to obey the law against illegal
freight determinations is being argued
before Judge Gresham in Chicago.
The annual report of Governor Muir
ply, of Arizona, says the population of
the territory has considerably increased
during the last year, and now numbers
about 10000. The assessed value of
property is 1898, 1862. He urges that
Arizona be admitted to the Union.
Consul General Sutton has cabled the
state department that the time for free
importation of corn has been extended
by the Mexican government until Nov.
IS. 1t is important, he says, that this
information be given wide publicity
especially west of the Mississippi.