The Sauk Centre herald., 1899-02-16

sideration. Spooner wis. made princi
ral speech. House-River and harbor bill
passed. Saturday, Feb. II set apart for
tribute to Dingley.
The president has nominated Cadet
Taylor to be surveyor of customs at
Omaha, Neb.
The transport Michigan has sailed for
San Juan, Porto Rico, with a portion of
the Fifth cavalry
The German reichstag has passed the
third reading of the motion to repeal
the anti-Jesuit law.
Lord Hallam Tennyson, son Of the
late Lord Alfred Tennyson, has been
appointed governor of South Australia
tits reported that the Columbia River
Gamers association, recently formed at
Astoria, Or, is to consolidate with the
Alaska Packers association.
Frank E. Hixon, general freight and
passenger agent of the Duluth, Missis-
sippi River and Northern railway, with
headquarters at Mississippi, died at st.
Marys hospital, Duluth, of typhoid fever.
= CoNGREss: Senate-Expansion debate
held the floor all day. House-Filibuster
against relief bills on private calendar.
Cattle on South Dakota ranges are re-
ported to be suffering for water.
The Third regiment and part of the
Seventeenth have sailed from New York
for Manila.
Charles Pokagon, son of the noted
chief, Simon Pokagon. has been elected
chief of the Pottawattomies in success
sion to his father.
An express car on the fast mail train
on the Milwaukee road was totally
burned, with all the express matter, ex-
cept that in the safe, near Brookfeld.
Indians are on the warpath in Alaska.
One battle has taken place and more
fighting is imminent. Four Indians
were killed in the fight and four Amer
ican deputy marshals and several In
dians wounded. The Indians are drunk
and there may be general uprising.
CONGRESS-; Senate-Debate on expan-
sion continued House-Military acad-
emy bill passed.
An Anglo-American syndicate has
secured valuable concessions in China.
The Cherokee-Dawes treaty has been
ratified by the Cherokees by a majority
of more than l,500.
Germany has assured Ambassador
White that she will investigate the con-
duct of her agents in Samoa.
The record of the courtmartial in the
case of General Eagan is now in the
hands of the president for final review.
Bob Marks, noted sporting charac-
ter and typical dead shot Texan, was
killed in duel at San Antonio by John
w. Bennett, proprietor of saloon and
gambling house. Bennett received a
bullet in the abdomen and died later.
CONGRESS: Senate-Treaty ratified, 81
to 81. House-Census bill passed Also
several bills under suspension rules.
A dispatch from Berlin announces the
death of Emile Joachim, the singer.
Mrs. Botkin, the San Francisco muir
A1o UCOh SASCh @ AA4O SOAOCISCs
The Rt. Rev. William O Meara, bishop
Of the Roman Catholic diocese at Scran-
ton, Pa, is dead.
The ''no popery' agitation in England
mas reached an acute stage and has be-
come uppermost in politics.
Alice Atherton, the burlesque actress,
died in New York Saturday after a
weeks illness from pneumonia.
Germany claims that Chief Justice
Chambers, the American, EXCEEDED his
authority in the Samoan difficulty
Porter Warner, receiver of the United
States land Office at Rapid City, s. D.,
and one of the Oldest pioneers of the
Black Hills, is dead.
+ Frank Blair shot and instantly killed
Edward Brovard and Mary Anderson at
O., and Immediately
committed suicide.
CoNGRKas:s enate=-AfeEnery declara.
bory rese1nfinn debated, hut no vote.
taken. Indian bill also considered. House
Forty public building bills favorably