The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-10-13
70 the French troops e given as sixteen
killed and seventeen wounded.
PoLIIlcAL NoIAIloNs.

POLITICAL MUTATIONS. Il
The Indiana supreme court has de-
cided that the gerrymander cases must
await their regular turn on the calen-
dar. They will probably not be reached
before election.
GRIMES AND CRIMINALS.
In Louisville, Conrad Bender, Ger
man timer, shot his wife through the
lungs and then cut his own throat with
. razor. Both are expected to die.
Forty men, including chiefs of eight
communes in the province of Rome,
Italy, have been arrested, charged with
connection with society Of brigands.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Edwin Booth, the actor, is i'll.
A state good roads convention will be
held at st. Paul some time during De-
cember.
John Magone, 50 years old, has walked
from John Day, Or, to Chicago, arriv-
ing Tuesday.
Peter Maher has accepted the chal-
lenge of Joe Goddard for fight before
the Coney Island Athletic club.
George Shiras, Jr., has taken the oath
of Office as associate justice Of the SUI
preme court of the United States.
The peaks of the Catskills were COW
cred with snow Wednesday. Snow also
fell in various portions Of New York.
Secretary Charles Foster has con-
sented to make an address at the Col
umbian festivities in New York Oct 10.
Yale defeated Wesleyan in foot ball
game Wednesday by a score of to 0.
It was the opening game of the season.
George G. Ger, who was engineer Of
the Monitor in the engagement with the
Merrimac during the late war, is dead.
The 'sheresy" case or Professor Briggs
will be tried publicly by the New York
presbytery on Nov. 8.
Marcus Mayer, the opera manager,
will bring Patti to this country in No.
vember, 1898. She will appear in new
opera.
The various type foundries Of the
country have consolidated under the
name Of the American Type Founders
company. The capital is $9, 000,0
A furious gale is prevailing on the
Lancashire England) coast, and it is
feared much damage to shipping and
loss of life may result.
Policeman Mcbride, st. Paul, was
seriously and perhaps fatally injured in
fight with a thug named Barney
Kelly, whom he was attempting to ar
rest.
The tenth annual convention Of the
Roadmaster's Association Of America,
which was to have been held at Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, Oct. Is to 20, has been
postponed for four weeks.
The Parnellite convention in Dublin
passed resolution in favor of placing
the Paris fund in the hands of COM
mittee consisting of three Parnellites
and three anti-Parnellites.
Bishop Potter, of New York, states
there is no truth in the rumors that Rev.
Dr. Heber Newton, rector of All Souls
Protestant Episcopal church, Of New
York, is to be tried for heresy.
The lighthouse board is engaged in
preparing plans and specifications for
four lightships to be stationed on the
great lakes-three in Lake Michigan
and one at Bar Point, Lake Erie.
The Wisconsin Grand Lodge Good
Templars at Oshkosh adopted resolu-
ton petitioning the legislature for the
repeal of all laws against drunkenness,
setting forth drunkenness as no crime.
Miss Francis Willard and Miss Cor.
don, accompanied by Lady Henry Som.
erset, have sailed from Liverpool, arriv.
ing in New York about Oct. Is. Lady
Somerset will attend the national w. G..
T. q. convention at Denver.
j. T. Conley, passenger agent in st.
Paul for the Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul railway announces that his COM
pany proposes to make reduced rates on
round trip tickets Oct. ~ to %, during
the dedicatory ceremonies of the worlds
fair buildings in Chicago.
Sixteen mules which have been at the
bottom of tho Twin shaft at Fittston,
Pa, for four weeks, have been found.
They were alive and in fairly good con-
dition. There was fire at the mouth
of the shaft and falling timbers choked
it up, leaving the mules confined in the
| mine.
The postmaster general has executed
| contracts for ocean mail service with
the New York and Brazilian Steamship
company. The service will begin De-
cember, 1899, and three steamers will
leave the port of New York on that day
| and twice each month thereafter.