The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-07-28
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

The government of Great Britain has
demanded of Russia the release of the
British steamer Malacca, captured in the
Red sea. Anger in England is at fever
heat. The leading daily newspapers dis
cuss the probability of war.
The emperor of Russia showed dis
pleasure at the possibility of complica-
lions with Great Britain in consultation
with Count Lamsdorff, Russian foreign
minister, and it Is expected in Russian
official circles that speedy readjust-
ment of the troubles arising over the
seizure of British ships in the Red sea
by the Russian cruisers will be reached.
After many efforts Mrs. Florence May
brick, the American woman sentenced
to death in 1889 in England on convic-
ton of the murder of her English hus-
band, and later sent to prison on a COM
muted sentence, has been given her free
dom on ticket-of-leave and has left the
convent where she has been since being
removed from prison last January.
The immediate release of the British
steamer Malacca has been ordered by
Russia on the assurance of the British
government that the war stores on
board were destined for British depots
in the far east.
People and press Of England clamor
for war to revenge the nation on Russia
for her naval affronts.
LATER NEWS.
John Lynch was convicted at Mar
quette, Mich, of smuggling Cinnamon
across the line.
A lake of solid ice is discovered near
Denver, Colo.
The Japanese drive the Russians
from Kiao-Tung.
Wilson Barrett, the we'll known
American actor, died in London, after
an operation for cancer.
The cable line from Seattle to
Alaska is about completed.
United States troops have been sent
to Bonesteel, s. D.
For the second time within a week
the Russians are defeated with heavy
loss.
The Russia reply to the British pro
test was handed to Ambassador Har-
dinge at st. Petersburg. Russia agrees
that the Malacca shall not be brought
before prize court and undertakes
that no similar incident shall occur in
the future.
The packing house strike was order
ed renewed in Chicago and all other
cities. Violation of agreement by the
clearinghouse proprietors is assigned
as the reason.
The steam yacht Castanet of the Wis
gor line, returning from Kingston, Ont,
with load of $50 excursionists, caught
fire in midstream and only by the
most fortunate circumstances was an
awful accident averted.
Fred Hokuf, the self-confessed muir
derer of Peter johnson, at Sibly, Ia,
who has been confined in Jail for the
past few weeks, shot himself with a
revolver in the stomach.
In an alteration with a saloon
keeper at Elizabethtown, KY, Carrie
Nation was knocked down, receiving
a severe scalp wound.
The man who shot Sheriff Harris
near Falls Creek, Wis, was arrested
at GAINESVILLE, Va.
David Wolf Brown, for forty years
official reporter of congress, died in
Washington.
Secretary Shaw opens the republican
campaign at College Point, T.. I.
For the week ending the 22d there
were 213 business failures in the
United States.
A summer hotel will be built at
Esopus, N. Y, to accommodate callers
on Judge Parker.
The cotton mill operatives at Fall
River, Mass, have decided to strike
against a reduction of wages.
All efforts to make peace between
the meat packers and the strikers have
failed.
A dozen rattlesnakes escaped from
their cage in the American express car
near Baltimore. The reptiles showed
fight and the messenger left the car.
Chinese kill a French bishop and a
priest and burn their chapels.
The report that Mrs. Maybrick
sailed for America proves incorrect.
She is still in France.
Geo. B. Nation, president of the
Nation Manufacturing company at
Sheboygan, Wis, the largest furni-
ture factory in the world, is dead.
The Russians have seized two more
British vessels and one German.
Frank Wilkinson, auditor of the
American Spirits Manufacturing COM
pany, Peoria, Ill, received fatal in
juries by falling underneath street
car.
The exhibits collected through the eff
forts of an official Russian commission
of merchants manufacturers, artists
and educators, have reached st. Louis
and the work of installing them at the
worlds fair will be expedited.
No union hands or musicians will
participate in the G. A. R. encamp-
ment in Boston in August if any en-
listed bands of the regular army from
the harbor or other forts parade with
any of the posts.
At the Belmont mine, at Butte,
Mont, three miners were drowned by
the breaking of bulkhead which held
back the water of the Caromo us mine.
At Greensbury, Pa, Steve Papauich,
aged II years, killed Mike Maddox
because he danced with his sweet
heart.