The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-10-28
SUMMARY OF THE WEEKS NEWS
Thursday. Oct. 81.

baseball writer of the country, is dead.
The Edgerton Owls. bank has closed
its doors. Itwas capitalized at $50, 900.
Students of the Baptist college at
Sioux Falls, S. D., are on strike and
demand the resignation of the president.
Sir Julian Pauncefote, British am
bassador to the United States, will sail
for New York next Saturday on board
the American line steamship st. Louis.
| Frank ]. Starbuck and Jimmy Mi
chael, the middle distance bicycle
riders, have been matched to race %
miles, at Madison Square Garden, New
York.
General Frederick Puga, former Sec
rotary of state of Venezuela and late
consul general for that country at Phil.
adelphia, died at his home in that city,
aged 81 years.
At the Crystal Palace, London, James
of Cardiff and Nelson of London broke
the worlds tandem bicycle record for
100 miles by covering the distance in =
hours and 26 minutes.
Friday, Oct. 22.
J. F. Hartley, ex-assistant secretary
of the United States treasury, died at
Saco, Me-, aged 50 years.
Joe Patchen broke the worlds wagon
record, pacing the mile at Joliet, Ills,
in 2:0434, which reduces the record 81
seconds.
w. G. Hitchcock & Co., New York,
dealers in silks, have assigned to w. J.
Curtis. The lawyers for the firm said
that the liabilities would exceed 81 900,
600.
It is reported that the gross earnings
of the Burlington road for October will
be something over $4,000, 0cO, or an in
crease Of $500, 900 over the same month
of last year.
James K. Taylor of Pennsylvania has
been appointed supervising architect of
the treasury. Mr.. Taylor has hereto
fore been the chief draughtsman in the
architects Office.
Saturday, Oct. 20.
The National Bank of Asheville, N.
c., has closed it's doors.
Mayor Harrison's gubernatorial boom
was launched Friday at the second an
nus.l meeting of the Democratic editors
of Illinois.
The controversary over the use of
Victor Hugo's Lies Miserables" in the
girls high school Of Philadelphia, has
been settled by the placing of the book
on the eligible list of French books for
the school.
A special train on the Erie, bearing
President Thomas, Vice President Mer-
rill and other officials covered l22 miles
between Huntington, Ind, and Ham
mond, Ind., in III minutes.
Unusually heavy rains and floods
have done serious damage in the dis
tricts about Ancona, on the Adriatic,
Recanati, in Macerata, on the Murone,
and at Rimini, Italy. All these towns
are partially submerged.
Monday, Oct. rs.
Justin Winsor, LII. D., librarian of
Harvard, and president of the Ameri.
can Library association, is dead.
At Atlanta, Ga, Eddie Bald won the
four.cornered race in which was entered
Bald, Eaton, ..Walthour and Longhead.
Eight heats in all were run.
Charles E. Carbonneau, the manag-
ing director of the Canadian Athletic
association, announces that the Mccoy
Creedon fight will come off at Quebec
on Nov. 10.
Fire at Excelsior, Wis, destroyed the
drug and grocery store of Harvey &
Ellsworth. MIR. Harvey, who lived
above the store, received probably fatal
burns while rescuing his wife from the
burning building.
A sensation has been created in polit-
ical and Roman Catholic circles in New
York by the announcement that Father
McGlynn had made his final peace with
Archbishop Corrigan and is to return to
an important parish in that city.
Tuesday, Oct. 26.
John Sartain, the eminent artist and
engraver, is dead at Philadelphia.
The conversion of the Spanish lega-
ton at Washington into an embassy
has been postponed.
Mondays statement of the condi.
ton of the treasury shows available
cash balance, $211, 325, 537; gold reserve,
$152, O2O, 1896.
Mayor Taggert of Indianapolis and q
number of prominent Indiana Demo
Gratis will go to New York with Mayor
Harrison and the Chicago Democracy
to work for the election of Tammany' S
candidate for mayor.
William N. Allen, manager Of the
Kansas branch of the Kelley institute
at Kansas City, Kan, was shot and per-
haps fatally wounded by G. E. Riley, a
travelling salesman. Riley's action was
prompted by the belief that Allen had
alienated his wife's affections.
Wednesday. Oct. &c.
The splendid new town hall of Ham.
burg, which cost $1,000, 900 marks, has
been formally dedicated.
A large bonded warehouse on York
street, Glasgow, was Quilted by fire
Tuesday. The damage amounts to
$40, 900.
The boiler on Bedford, Weikel &
Nugent's gravel digger at Evansville,
Ind, blew up killing one man and in
Gxro ~ horc s