The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-12-29
NEWS CONVERSATIONS.
Thursday, Dec. 20.

Thursday, Dec. 20.
Senator Allen has introduced bill
for the establishment of the postal tele-
graph system.
A company, of which Alderman
Charles f. Gunther is president, will
erect a. mammoth new coliseum at Chi
cago..
Seventeen of the brewing companies
of Baltimore have consolidated under
the name Of the Maryland Brewing
company.
The Merritt & Chapman company b
made contract with the governing
for the raising of the Spanish warsl
Reina Mercedes. ~
Arthur A. Hall, well known bicJ
trick rider, was instantly killed at S.
euse, N. Y, by being struck Oh
head by timber which fell six stoi
crushing his skull.
Congressman Stevens of Mimi d
has introduced the bill to amend e
election laws to provide that voting ma
chimes shall hereafter be used at al
elections for members of congress.
Friday, Dec. 20.
Prince George of Greece has formally
taken charge of affairs in Crete.
M. Jules Cambon, French ambassador
to the United States, will probably lie
transferred to Berlin.
The United States cruiser New York,
from Havana, has arrived at New York.
Admiral Sampson is on board.
Andrew Wanless, we'll known lit
erary character of Detroit and poet and
prose writer Of no mean ability is dead.
The senate committee on foreign re-
lations has concluded its revision OF bills
providing for territorial government
for Hawaii.
Ethan A. Hitchcock of ST. Louis, the
present ambassador for Russia has been
nominated to succeed Mr. Bliss as secre-
tary of the interior.
Through fast mail service will be es-
tablished between New York and Seat
tie by way of St. Paul over the Great
Northern, leaving st. Paul for the west
at 9 a. m.
Saturday, Dec. "a.
Countess Thun-Hohenstein, wife of
the Austrian premier, is dead.
Tommy Ryan of Syracuse defeated
Dick O'Brien of Boston at Hartford,
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It is said that Whitelaw Reid will be
nominated as ambassador to Russia and
Secretary Bliss to England.
The, British admiralty, it is reported,
has just placed orders for four warships
with shipbuilders ON the Clyde.
A new combination of some Of the
leading rubber firms in the United
States is in course of organization.
The French chamber of Deputies has
unanimously voted credit of ST, 900, 900
francs to complete the new artillery.
Percy M. Jaffray, center rush of the
Harvard university football team, died
at Cambridge, Mass, of spinal menin-
gifts.
The military force in the Sioux Indian
country in South Dakota is to be in
creased.
The United States will take possess
sion of Wake Island, i'll the Pacific
ocean for cable station.
The Rock Island and the Chicago.
Burlington and Quincy roads are likely
to be extended to the Pacific coast.
The United States troops have begun
a regular patrol of the city of Havana in
order to guard against possible disor-
ders. ......
st. Patrick's Cathedral, the church of
the Bishop of Harrisburg Roman Cath
olic diocese, was ruined by fire Sunday
afternoon.
According to the Rome correspondent
of the London>D Daily News, King Hum
bert has signed a decree granting am
nesty to minor offenders in the recent
Milan riots.
Tuesday, Dec. "a.
DR.. John B. Hal ilton, former sur
geon general of the Z 1ited States marine
hospital, is dead.
The American National Bank at Lima,
O., was robbed of $18, 162, the com bina-
ton cf the safe being worked.
At Brookline, Mass, thirty children
were plunged into water by the break
ing of ice on pola. Three were
drowned.
A dispatch from Madrid says Emilio
CASTELAR,, the distinguished Republican
statesman, orator and scholar, is pros
trated with a serious pulmonary catairil.
The Sheffield Independent announces
t'on the highest authority" that the Duke
of York will not go to the United States
in 1899, contrary to reports that lie might
do so.
The Filipino congress which has been
in session at Malalos, has unexpectedly
adjourned, owing to the difficulty OF
forming constitution. Aguinaido's
cabinet has also resigned.
Wednesday, Dec. 28.
The Pittsburg baseball club will not
play Sunday ball next year.
Hoilo has been surrendered by Span
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