The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-11-26

posts in Cuba, was given hearing De
fore senate committee in oppositionsto
the confirmation of Gen. Leonard Wood
as major general. -....-. ---..
Fire destroyed the old Masonic Tenn
pie and adjoining stores at Louisville,
KY, causing loss of $250,O 900. .-..
Tom Horn, known the world over as
a celebrated scout and Indian trailer,
was hanged at Cheyenne, Wyo., for the
murder of Willie Nickel, aged IA.
Cars were run on four lines of the Chi
cago City, railway and little violence
was met although the police guard in
the street had been greatly decreased.
Peter Mortensen, a mormon and the
slayer of James r. Hay, also a mormon,
was executed at Salt Lake City.
There were 228 business failures in the
United States during the seven days
ended on the Goth, against $50 the same
week in 1902.
DIV. Miller and Joseph M. Johns were
acquitted at Cincinnati, O., of conspiracy
to extort a bride from John J. Ryan, as
charged by the post Office department.
The steamer Discovery, which left
Nome October IA with 81 passengers, has
been given up as lost.
Orders to proceed to Colon have been
given to the commanders of the battle
ships Kearsarge and Massachusetts,.
Fourteen warrants have been prepared
at Grand Rapids, Mich, for aldermen
and other city officials implicated in the
water scandal.
Weekly trade reviews say that bust
ness is good throughout the country.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the seven days ended on the goth ag-
i gregated $2,112,572,192. The decrease
compared with the corresponding week
of last year was 21.4.
John G. Post, leading attorney OF
Holland, Mich, committed suicide by
shooting.
Final dividend of 4.65 per cent. on
Chicago worlds fair stock has been
declared by the directors.
Fire in the Park theater at Butler,
Pa, caused loss of 100000.
Gov. Ferguson in his annual report
! says the population of Oklahoma is $780,
600 and value of property $500, 100000.
The private bank at Ravia, I. r., was
robbed of $4,000.
The loss of the steamer Discovery is
confirmed from Juneau. She carried SO
or 60 passengers.
At Hill Farm mine near Connellsville,
Pa, ten men were killed by an explosion.
August Doller and his aged mother
were burned to death by gas explosion
at Columbus, Ind.
Twenty-eight Italian railway laborers
were burned to death in fire that de-
stroyed their lodging house near Lilly,
Pa.
At Logansport, Ind, D. M. Flanagan
and wife were fatally burned and their
i child was disfigured for life as the result
of gasoline explosion.
A strike of 5000 ironworkers through
out the country has been ordered for the
second time. Fully $4,000 other work
men will be affected.
Maj. Gen. John G. Bates, commanding
the department of Missouri, has turned
over the department to it's new COM
, mander, Maj. Gen. S. S. Sumner.
Peace negotiations in the Chicago City
railway strike were ended by the COM
pany's refusal to consider the employees
compromise offer. Fifteen thousand
union laborers in meeting at latter
sails upheld the cause of the strikers.
The First national bank at Dundee,
Ill, with capital of $3.50, 900, was closed
by order of the national bank examiner.
Experts in New York. predict gen.
eral resumption of building operations
next year, having faith in fewer dis
putes between capital and labor
Safe blowers looted the Citizens bank
at Clarksburg, Mo-, taking all the money
in sight.
A general crusade has begun by fed
eral authorities against bogus fire in
surance companies operating through
the mails.
Emile Richow, a strike picket, was
shot to death in Chicago by c. F. Lang,
whom pickets had surrounded and at
tackled.