The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-03-17
NEWS CONVERSATIONS.
Thursday, March 10.

Thursday, March TO-, -.
Senior Polo y Bernabe, the new Span.
ish minister to the United States,' has
arrived. ,,r ....-. .
The senate committee on interstate
commerce recommends changes in rules,
but none in the law. .~.
John Wanamaker has decided to be-
come the candidate of the Business
Mems Republican league for governor
of Pennsylvania. g..
Senator Chandler has introduced q
resolution giving the senate committee
ample authority and funds in order to
investigate the Maine disaster.
Austria is said to have loaned Spain
$40, 00O, 900 because of the close relation
ship Of the emperor and queen. No
more money will be forthcoming.
Passengers on the steamer Humboldt
from Dyea and Skaguay, bring the
news that ON the night of March s a fire
occurred in Dyea in which it is thought
five persons persisted.
1t is officially announced that the Do
plant the mounted police now in the
Yukon territory by a portion of the per-
manent military force Of the Dominion.
Friday. March IL.
The dowager countess Of Elgin,
mother of the viceroy of India, is dead.
The report Of an uprising at Bolinio,
near Manila, Philippine islands, has
been confirmed officially.
Colonel Vanderbilt Allen, a grandson
of Commodore Vanderbilt, died March
6 at Capri, Italy, aged 50 years.
The nomination of T. G Mccoy to be
Indian agent at the Cheyenne river
agency, S. D., has been confirmed.
The monitor Miantonomah and the
ram Katahdin, have been placed in
commission at the League Island navy
yard
The senate has confirmed the NOM
nation of William J. Calhoun of Hi.
nois, to be interstate commerce commi-
sioner.
Prince Albert of Belgium has arrived
at Washington. He was entertained
at dinner by President and Mrs. Nc
Kiniey.
Saturday, March II.
Further reinforcements sof troops
have sailed from Santanderfor Cuba.
A counterfeiting plant has been dis.
covered within the walls of the state
prison at Folsom, Cal
Arthur Sherburne Hardy, United
States minister to Persia, was married
at Athens, Greece. to Miss Grace AS
pinwall Bowen of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Despondent because she thought her
husband had been taken from her, Mrs.
John S. Boyd, daughter-in-law of Mil
lionaire Francis Boyd of Milwaukee, at
tempted suicide at Chicago.
1t is reported that James G. Blaine,
son of the late James @. Blaine, is en-.
gagged to be married to Miss Kuhne
Beveridge, who has achieved a reputa-
| ton as sculptor and is now in Paris.
1t is stated that the governors Of
Wyoming. Montana and Utah have
agreed to work together for the exter-
| mination OF the Hole-in-the-Wall gang
of outlaws led by the Jones brothers,
of Belle Fourche bank robbery fame.
Monday, March n.
Edna Wallace Hopper has sued De
Wolf Hopper for divorce. ,','.
Floods have done considerable dam
age in the lower section of London, Ont.
In a fire in the Bowery Mission lodg-
ing house in New York II persons per-
ished. g.
The lower Mississippi river steamer
Grand Republic burned near St. Louis,
Loss, $50. 200.
Japan's premier says his country
cannot sell cruisers to the United
States, because she needs them herseif
Charles O. Skeer, the millionaire coal
operator and an ex-director of the
Lehigh Valley railroad, is dead at
Mauch Chunk, Pa. ..t " -.
The domestic troubles Of the Duke
and Duchess of Hesse have eliminated
in the separation Of tie couple. The
duchess Is daughter Of the Duke OF
Edinburgh. d. .~... ]
Tuesday, March Is.
France, it is said, intends to occupy
Lei Chau, in the Quang Tung PENN
sula, north of Hal Nan, as a naval base.
Senior Domingo Cana, the Chilian
minister at Washington, has been ap-
pointed minister plenipotentiary to tho
court of st. James. s-r
Lord Salisbury has temporarily with
drawn from the British foreign Office on
account of ill health, Arthur J. Bal