The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-08-04
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.
CASUALTIES.

DhlUt NGWO lIEWC.
CASUALTIES.
During theatrical performance at
Rural, France, the seats fell and eighty
OF the audience were seriously injured.
Lehmann's iron foundry, the largest
establishment of the kind in Hamburg,
has been destroyed by fire. Loss 1,O0O,-
600 marks.
The business portion of the town of
Bodie, New, was destroyed by fire. Loss
estimated at 100000. Many peoplesuf-
fered and misery prevails.
Several cars loaded with gasoline and
.naptha caught fire in a wreck on the
Big Four road, near Cold Springs, o. A
terrible explosion followed, in which
nearly two hundred persons were more
or less severely injured.
FOREIGN.
The eruption of Mount Etna is sub
siding. The flow of lava is decreasing.
A general European epidemic of chol-
era is prophesied by German physicians.
A prominent Italian naval engineer
has been arrested in Toulon and will at
once be expelled from France.
The queen has knighted the lord
mayor of London. comforting upon him
the order of st. Michael and st. George.
George Victor Drogo Montagu, duke
of Manchester, is dying at Tanderage
castle, county of Armaugh, Ireland, one
of the family seats.
Foreign residents of Samoa fear that
civil war is shortly to break out in that
country between the followers of Male
toa, the reigning chief, and his old enc
my Mataafa, the border king, who still
has powerful nation at his command.
POLITICAL MUTATIONS.
The Peoples party of Washington
has nominated presidential electors.
The Republicans of the Sixth Califor-
MIA district have nominated Harvey
Lindley.
j. A. Tawney has been nominated for
congress by the Republicans of the First
Minnesota district.
Congressman Allan G. Durburow has
been re-nominated by the Third Illinois
district Democratic convention.
w. L. Wilson was renominated for
congress in the Democratic congress
sional convention, at Grafton, w. Va.
Robert Neil was nominated for con-
gress on the 759th ballot by the Demo-
Gratis of the Sixth Arkansas district.
Hon. Thomas B. Reed was nominated
for congress by reclamation by the First
Maine district Republican convention.
II. G. VOORHEES, has been nominated by
the Republicans in the Fifteenth Ohio
congressional district, after two days
session on the 550th ballot.
The supreme court has decided the
Michigan apportionments of 1885 and
1891 unconstitutional, and ordered new
elections on the basis of the act of 1881.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Saw mill employees at Stevens Point,
Wis, to the number of 800 are on strike
for more pay.
The California Athletic club has
signed Joe Goddard and Billy Smith to
fight ten rounds for purse of 300 on
Aug. 90.
Mrs. A. A. Ames, wife of ex-Mayor
Ames, of Minneapolis, died Monday
morning. Mrs. Ames was 80 years old
and was born in Minneapolis.
A Waterman named Gulyas has been
condemned at Pesth to be hanged for
numbering fellow Waterman, his wife,
her sister and his three children.
Whitelaw Reid has accepted the invi-
tation of the Illinois state central COM
mittee to attend the convention of the
league clubs at Springfield, Ills, Aug. IL.
The British steamer Queen on her trip
to Alaska carried bonds to the amount
of 1926, 900 for the release of the British
steamer Coquitlan, and her cargo of seal
skins recently seized.
Professor Charles Riddlemeier, A. M,
Phi. D., one Of the foremost educators of
the German universities twenty-five
years ago, has just died at the insane
hospital at Kankakee. He was IS years
of age.
The fight between Tommy Ryan and
Jack Wilkes at Omaha Saturday night
YVES stopped by the police in the seven
teenth round. The affair was declared
draw. Both men were badly pun
ished, the floor Of the ring being covered
with blood,
fhe New Hampshire supreme court
has rendered decision sustaining the
constitutionality of the law under which
Frank Almy, the murderer of Christie
Warden, was to be hanged and denied
the motion of his counsel for new trial.
Fully three hundred men turned out
in search of the lost boy at Swanville,
Mimi, but no trace of the child was
found, He has been gone now four
days and no hopes are entertained of
finding him alive.
The American Bar association has had
struck off at the Philadelphia mint two
gold medals. each containing 800 worth
of pure gold, which will be presented to
David Dudley Field and Sir ROUNDED
Palmer Earl, of the English bar, for
distinguished services in the advance
ment of the science of jurisprudence,
.
Heaviest Death Rate for Twenty Years.
New YORK, Aug. During the
twenty -four hours ended at noon there
had been 1856 deaths reported. This is
the heaviest death rate for single day
for twenty years. The number OF
deaths for the week just past is 1,434,
tho haaYiaSt sinca I11lx 1895 when