The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-05-26
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

Queen Victoria's 78d birthday occurred
Tuesday.
Emperor William was slightly hurt in
runaway Tuesday.
Queen Victoria has conferred the dec
GRAFTON of knight of the Order of Bath
upon the khedive of Egypt.
The French forces in Toasain have
captured pirate stronghold, killing 1876.
Fifty-three French soldiers and officers
were killed.
The Brazilian senate has passed law
granting amnesty to political prisoners,
of whom there are a large number con-
fined in the prisons In Rio Sasearo.
A dispatch from Montevfdeo says a
rumor is current tha& the Brazilian
cruiser Bahia has foundered DIT sea, but
there is no official confirmation Of the
report.
Dispatches from Les Cos snnounce
that the British have Tefeated the Jsbus
near Magbane. Twenty chieftains apd 400
Jebu soldiers were killed. Captain OWen,
Captain Harding, and thirty men Of the
British troops were wounded. The Brit
ish have occupied Jaboude.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Sunday ball playing at Toledo has
been stopped.
1t has been decided to open the doors
of Tufts college, Boston, to women.
The Northern Pacific railroad has es-
tablished line of steamers from Tacoma
to Hong Kong.
New England states are having a
touch of winter. Five inches of snow
has fallen in New Hampshire.
An interstate wool convention, repre-
senting states west Of the Mississippi,
has been called to meet at Albuquerque,
N. M, July 5.
The message Of General Miles, by
bicycle from Chicago to New York,
reached the latter city u hours and 80
minutes behind time.
A call has been issued for a meeting
of the executive COMMITTEES Of the ma
tional Republican league ct the West
nOCel, MlnnedpOnS, June o,
It is definitely settled that W. w.
Finley, ex-chair1nan Of the Western
Passenger association, becomes general
traffic manager of the Great Northern.
Sioux City's mayor refuses an otter of
saloon keepers to contribute $4,000
toward repairing flood damages, provid-
ing they be allowed to reopen their sa-
looms.
It is believed that two American YES
sells, the Centennial and the Vesta,
bound from ST. Jacques with bait for the
banks of Newfoundland, We're lost in a
recent storm with all on board.
Rev. r. De Witt Talmage announces
that he will embark on the steamer City
of New York on June Is for Liverpool,
and will engage in a preaching tour
through England, Scotland and Ireland,
General H. F. Sickles, a cousin of
General Daniel E. sickles, and who
served with Sherman and was after
wards military governor Of South Caro-
lima, died In Monte Vista, Colo, Monday
aged 70.
W, w. Finley, it is officially an
n6unced, is general traffic manager Of
the Great Northern. J. N. Faithorn
will probably succeed Mr.. Finle5 as
chairman of the Western Passenger as.
ISOLATION.
In excavating some ancient Aztec
ruins, near Chaco Canyon, N. M, Gov
ernor Prince has unearthed twenty stone
idols of different type from any before
discovered. They are supposed to be at
least 600 years old.
The total collections of internal rev
enue during the first ten months of the
fiscal year ending june so, 1899, were
s125, 543.0 61, an increase of 1905. 841,
compared with the collections during the
corresponding period Of the previous
fiscal year.