The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-03-10
EVENTS OF A WEEK.
News of Current Interest Given Brief
Mention.

News of Current Interest Given Brief
Mention.
Whitney Jones, who helped organize
the Repu blican party, has died at Lam
sing, Mich, aged 80 years.
Peter Maher, the Irish champion was
whipped in twelve rounds in New Or
leans by Bob Fitzsimmons the Austral-
ian.
The late Mr.. Parnell's house and
estate will be sold at auction. The
timber on the estate has already been
sold.
The list of subscribers to the burgo-
employed in Vienna is headed by the
emperor with a contribution of $2,5e0.
Senator Aldrich expresses the opinion
that free silver bill will pass both the
house and the senate at the present ses-
sion and be vetoed by the president.
The pope gave q solemn audience in
the throne rooms of the Vatican to all
the members of the college of cardinals
present in Rome. The pope was 81 years
old Tuesday. w.
The executive council of the Ameri-
hold the seventeenth annual convention
Of the American Bankers association In
San Francisco on the 7th and 9Th OF
September, 1892 III
Riots similar to those in Berlin hAvs
occurred at Dantzic, Germany.
Rumor has it that Cleveland will soon
announce his retirement from the peesi-
Dental race.
The Behring sea joint commission
has finished its work, which is believed
to be complete failure.
The comptroller of the currency has
called for the condition of national
banks on Tuesday, March 1.
According to an official estimate l05
fishermen were drowned in last Satur-
days storm along the coast of Spain.
DR.. Scudder, son of the distinguished
cused of causing the death of his
mother-in-law in Chicago.
A syndicate at Indianapolis headed
by ]. G. Shelter, has been given q thirty
days option on the Citizens Railway
company of Indianapolis for 81, 75O, 600.
In Denver a jury has returned YER
dict of guilty in the trial of the city
boodlers, Deputy City Auditor George
Raymond and Deputy City Treasurer
James p. Bradley.
The executive council of the Ameri-
can Bankers association has decided to
hold the seventeenth annual convention
Of the American Bankers association in
San Francisco Sept. Z and next.
Mr.. Springer has had relapse and his
condition is critical.
The Sioux City and Northern railroad
engineers threaten to strike.
The Tories have been overwhelmingly
defeated in the county council elections
in London.
It is reported that Colonel John Hay
will succeed Whitelaw Reid as minister
to France.
Many young couples at Lake Dauphin,
Man, discover that they were illegally
married.
A race war is threatened in Memphis,
growing out of the shooting of three
officers by negroes.
A new railroad is to be built through
the upper peninsula of Michigan to
shorten the distance between Lake Su-
perior and Chicago.
A four-column letter from the Vati-
can has been published in a Roman
newspaper defending Archbishop Ire
land, of st. Paul, against the attacks
made upon him by his opponents. The
chances for the archbishop becoming q
cardinal are said to be excellent.
The railroad labor trouble at Butte,
Mont. has been settled.
Kansas Democrats and the Alliance
have arranged plan for fusion.
Sir William Gregory, member of the
privy council of Ireland, is dead.
Cornelius Vanderbilt is to erect q
$4,000, 600 residence in New York.
The Spanish government has deter
mined upon policy of retrenchment.
Congressman Castle, of Minnesota,
will make speech against the silver
bill.
New Jersey has increased it's worlds
fair appropriation from $4,000 to
$4,000.
General Russell A. Alger has an
nounced himself as q candidate for
president.
Baroness de Stuers has been granted
. divorce at Sioux Falls, and at once
married Count Elliott Zebrowski.
Frank Shaw's pool room in Chicago
opened Monday and was at once raided
by the police, who arrested $50 occu-
pants.
A newspaper investigation of the
workings of the interstate commerce
law in Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri and
Nebraska shows the law to be failure.
The population of New York city,
exclusive of inmates who are to be
looked after by the state, is, according
to the census just completed, 1890, 1871.
According to the government census it
was 1913, Dol.
Charles Wall was executed at Turk
hammock, Pa, for the murder of his
wife.
Cholera has appeared at Herat, and is
said to be advancing along the road to
Persia.
It is said Ex-Governor Thayer, of Ne
braska, has decided to make an effort
to oust Governor Boyd.
It is said that the United States gov
eminent offered to buy the Congo Free
State, but that Belgium refused. 60