The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-02-18
EVENTS OF A WEEK.
News OF Current Interest Given Brief
Mention.

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News Of Current Interest Given Brief
Mention.
Cincinnati and Columbus. O.. both
suffered disastrous fires Wednesday.
Emperor William asks for increased
appropriations for the German navy.
The funeral of G. b. Spurgeon was
day.
Hedspeth, the notorious Missouri train
cisco.
Negotiations in regard to reciprocal
trade with Canada have been formally
opened in Washington.
Several people were injured, some
fatally, by a collision between q train
and street car at Chicago.
La Crosse celebrated the fiftieth an
niversary Of its founding by the dedica-
tion OF Its new city hall Wednesday.
The golden chalice and all the silver
were stolen from the St. Marys church,
Toronto. The vandals broke up images,
candlestioks and other articles they
found too cumbersome to carry.
Princess Montbeliard, Of Paris, .
daughter Of Mr.. Singer, the sewing ma
chine manufacturer, who recently Sc
cured divorce, denies the report that
she Is about to marry again.
Willard has been elected president Of
the Edison General Electric company.
John A. Mccall has been elected pres
ident Of the New York Life Insurance
company.
Cardinal Paul Melohers, at Berlin, and
Cardinal Gaspard Mermillod, at Berne,
are dying.
Lincolns birthday was generally OBJ
served as . holiday In the principal
cities Of the country Friday.
The United Mine Workers associa-
| ton has refused to send delegates to tho
Peoples party convention In st. Louis,
Feb. ~.
After electing their board of directors
| for 1892, the stockholders of the Illinois
Steel company resolved to increase their
capital stock from $s5, 000, 000 to ESQ.,
OO0, 900. {,
The first volume Of tho blue book for
| 1891 shows that there arc employed in
the postal service of the United States
| in all capacities 184, 431 persons, and in
all other departments Of the govern
ment 81, 1858 persons, making q total of
"a, 249 persons.
The Michigan supreme court has de-
cided that the order of Judge Sabol re-
| leasing Convict Wilson, who was SEN
| fenced to the state prison under the
| defunct intermediate sentence law,
should stand. By this decision dozen
convicts will be released who were sem
fenced to the prison under the law.
A tanners trust Is being formed.
A stockman and his little daughter
were killed by wild dogs in Kansas.
DR.. Edward McGlynn expects to b
reinstated in the Catholic priesthood.
Secretary Blaine will oppose Tom
Reeds election as delegate to the Min
neapolis convention.
Twenty-four sailors and coalheavers
| of the Baltimore who were wounded in
Valparaiso have file claims aggregat-
ing 81, 1906, 900.
The American Federation of Labor
accuses the worlds fair management Of
discriminating against labor unions.
The federation may boycott the fair.
Diphtheria has developed to such an
extent in Pleasant View, a suburb OF
Black River Falls, Wis, that the phys
| icians have ordered the schools to be
| closed.
The Kansas City roads new move
will result in passenger rates being
| lowered to cents per mile. The road
will issue 2,000-mile transferable tickets
for $40.
The Republican state executive COM
| mittee of Tennessee has called state
convention for May to nominate can
didate for governor and select delegates
to the national convention.
1t is likely that all the railroads enter
| ing Chicago will build and use belt
line instead Of elevating their tracks in
response to the demand caused by the
numerous crossing accidents.
Twenty-Five wolves were killed by .
| Kansas hunting party Saturday.
A valuable gold mine is said to have
been discovered near Lathrop, Mo.
The Louisiana Lottery company will
locate In Mexico in 1893, it is said.
In consequence of the financial crisis
Portugal will not take part in the
worlds fair.
The Canadian reciprocity negotiations
in Washington have been concluded,
but no results are given out
The widow of Millionaire Smell has
been threatened with death unless she
pays over $1,000 to unknown parties.
John Kelly, the negro who murdered
]. T. McAdams at Pine Bluff, Ark, was
lynched In the presence of 10000 people.
Invitations will soon be issued to all
the architects In the world to attend the
convention Of architects during the
worlds fair.
| Otto and Edith, aged respectively u
and IA years, children Of Wayne Sim
COX, Pennsylvania engineer. of Sun
bury, were drowned while skating ON
the sqsaqehanna riFer at that place, :"
The Prince of Wales win visit the
United States in May.
The National Butter Makers associ-
alton met in annual session at Madison
Wednesday.
IT is proposed to have A national con-
ference Of Ipdepsndept voters held in
New York in April.
M. Sardou is writing novel based on
bis play, "Thermidor, q which was sup
PRESSED by the mob.
The Pine Ridge agency Indians have
organized society with the purpose of
advancement in the state of civilization.
Owing to the death Of his eldest son
ex-senator Fair has changed his win
and beqqeathed TO three orphan asylums
$500, 600. Y :. '''
The woman in hiding in the woods in
South Carolina, who was thought to be
| the missing Miss Mcbride Of Minnesota,
turns out to be another woman.
British authors like the American
convriQht law. nuhlishara do not mind