The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-04-21
NEWS CONVERSATIONS
Thursday. April Z.

NEWS CONVERSATIONS.
Thursday, April =.
The Bank of England has increased
it's Tass of discount from to per
cent.
The wheat yield of Victoria Colony,
Australia, is estimated at 10, 400, 900
bushels.
Archibald H. WEIGH, second vice
president of the New York Life Insur.
ance company, is dead at Morristown.
N. j., aged 60.
The monthly London board Of trade
returns for March show an increase in
the imports Of e2,275, 700 and a de.
crease in exports Of e813, 400.
Miss Jessie Parker was elected mayor
of Kendrick, Idaho, after a spirited
contest. Her opponent was one of the
most popular men in the city.
Benjamin Hill was hanged at San
Quentin prison for the murder Of his
wife. He made full confession and
expressed penitence and died bravely.
A strike is on in, the Wheeling min
ing district, the operators having de-
clined to treat with the miners
collectively as to the details OF the
Chicago agreement.
Friday, April 8.
Margaret Mather, the actress, is dead.
Acute Bright's disease was the cause.
Three Great Northern trainmen in
Montana were killed by locomotive
explosion.
A joint commission may be created
to settle all differences between Canada
and the United States.
James Kearney, aged 70, Of South
Chicago, shot and killed his wife, Min
ME Kearney, and then shot himself.
Jealousy is said to be the cause.
Gaudaur, champion oarsman Of the
world, and Robert johnson of Van.
couver, have arranged a match race for
the championship and purse and q
side bet of $4,000.
A pool room in the board of trade
building, Chicago, which is patronized
by women exclusively, was raided by
the police and 20 women who were bet
ting on the races were taken into GUS
tody.
Saturday, April 8.
Privy Councillor Bansch, engineer Of
the Emperor William canal (Baltic
and North sea canal) is dead.
Lieutenant Commander Mark of the
Maine court of inquiry, has been de.
tached from the Vermont and ordered
to the Scorpion.
A serious fire occurred at Doland, S.
D., sweeping away several buildings
and also farmers houses and barns for
a distance of 10 miles.
Al. Cutler, station agent at Glidden,
Wis, was found dead in his Office with
three bullet holes in his body. Robbery
was evidently the motive.
The governor of Delaware has issued
q proclamation calling upon the able
bodied men of the state to send in their
names for enlistment in the national
volunteer reserves.
General William P. Hardin, one Of
the leaders of the Confederate army
and superintendent of the Confederate
home at Austin, Tex, died of Bright's
disease in his s2d year.
Monday. April IL.
Cubans are said to have Pando prac-
tically surrounded.
Madrid papers are seized for attack.
ing the government because the latter,
as they claim, made concessions.
General Lee left Havana Saturday
afternoon. He called on Blanco to say
goodbye, but the latter was "busy"
and did not see him.
The remains of Miss Frances E. Will.
ard were cremated at Graceland ceme-
terry, Chicago, in accordance with her
repeatedly expressed wish.
A dispatch from Nagasaki states that
q collision has occurred between the
English and Russians at Ia Lien Wan.
The rumor is unconfirmed.
Vessel owners are uneasy owing to
lowering of the water in Lake Superior,
ascribed by some to subterranean out
let to Lake Huron, whose waters are
higher.
Tuesday, April IL.
Samuel French, the American theat-
rical publisher, died Saturday in Lon.
don.
The York cloth mills at Saco, Me-,
employing $4,000 hands, started in all
Monday, nearly all the
strikers returning to work.
The postofice department. awarded
to P. g. Richardson of Seattle, Wash,
the contract for carrying mail between
st. Michaels and Weare, Alaska, dis
lance Of 800 miles.
Rev. Frederick William Conrad. D.
D., L. L. D., for many years editor Of
the Lutheran Observer at Philadelphia,
is dead, aged 10 years. He had been
i'll for long time.
George D. Tinckler, the English run.
ner, and Mullet. the Irish champion.
contested in q mile race at Dublin.
Hnckler, by splendid squirt about LOO
yards from home, won by IS yards, in