The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-11-18

cate an average yield of 1910 pounds of
cotton per acre.
The Russian minister to the United
States, M. De Kotzbue, has been re-
ieved from his post at his own request
and owing to his i'll health.
Miss Bertha English, daughter of the
late John @. English, and Mr.. J. V.
Clark of Chicago, were married at St.
Joseph's cathedral, Columbus, O., the
Rt. Rev. Bishop Watterson officiating.
Saturday, Nov. Is.
Wisconsin university defeated Chi
cago. % to8.
Harvard and Yale played a remarka-
BILE football game Saturday, neither side
scoring.
The prosecution of Day, the failed
banker of Milwaukee. will probably be
dropped.
Malvolio, the Kentucky 2-year-old,
for which $40, 900 was refused recently,
is dead.
Michigan university defeated the
Minnesota football team IA to 0. Four
Minnesota men were badly hurt.
Syrup mixers of Chicago and other
cities between the Allegheny and the
Missouri river met at Chicago and or.
ganized the Western Syrup Refners'
association.
Albert Kneeland, the bigamist who
has IL living wives, was sentenced at
St. Joseph, Mo-, to three years and six
months in the penitentiary. This is
the third term for this offense.
Monday. Nov. Is.
Homer N. Hibbard, one of the
wealthiest of Chicago's pioneers, is
dead. He was Is years old.
Signora Verdi, wife of the celebrated
Italian composer, Giuseppe Verdi, now
in his Saith year, is dead.
Albert Oliver Wilcox, a well known
abolitionist and advocate of woman
suffrage and temperance, is dead at
Saratoga, N. Y, aged 81 years.
M. Romas, the Delyannist candidate,
was elected president of the Greek
chamber of deputies by vote of 50 to
Ga. Eleven deputies refrained from
voting.
A huge anaconda, on exhibition in a
Philadelphia museum, severely injured
Samuel Washer, the museum watch.
man, and crushed to death a valuable
trick pony.
DR.. Thomas w. Evans, the famous
American dentist, who facilitated the
fight of the ex-empress, Eugene, from
Paris in 1870, died suddenly in Paris
Sunday evening.
Tuesday, Nov. 16.
Patrick Dillon, aged 1Ol, is dead at
Minneapolis.
New York's great annual society
event, the horse show, is on this week.
The state supreme court has declared
Montana's inheritance tax law to be
constitutional.
The investigation of the charges OF
cruelty against Minnesota prison Of
ficials has begun.
Cuban forces are alleged to be pre-
pairing for an attack upon Havana, and
their sympathizers are already leaving
the city.
A special dispatch from Shanghai
Japan and Russia, owing to the latter's
efforts to control the Korean customs
Ex-Congressman Langston of Vir
ginia, the first colored man elected to
Office by popular vote in the United
States and noted as well as an educator,
is dead.
Wednesday. Nov. II.
Ex-Turkish Consul Iasigi, at Boston,
has received IA year sentence for en-
bezzlement.
The Iowa Wesleyan university foot.
ball team defeated the Keokuk, La.
medical college eleven by a score OF
48 too.
Charles Sommer, general agent fol
Mexico of the Mutual Life Insurance
company of New York, committed sui
eide at Mexico City.
The PAGERS John r. Gentry and Rob
ert j, having finished their 1897 cam
paign, have been taken to Somerville
N. j., for the winter.
William Elwood, well known actor
who has been a leading man in several
prominent companies, died of heart
failure in New York.
The Newfoundland ministry. headed
by Sir William Whiteway, has for.
mally resigned. The cabinet of Sil
James Winter will now assume office
The Knights of Labor general assem-
bly, has passed resolutions expressing a
strong sentiment against the formula.
ton of an arbitration treaty between
the United States and England