The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-12-17

. John McCrea, tho colored murderer OF
Detective William Murphy on June rs
last, was hanged in Peoria, Ill.
There we're 331 business failures in
the United States during the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 269 the same
week in 1902.
Mrs. Rachel A. Beall, an eccentric and
we'll to do widow, was shot to death ct
her home in Washington by some one
unknown.
Weekly trade reviews say that bust
ness in all seasona1le lines makes a
favorable companion with the CORES
ponding period of tile previous year.
Prominent educators met in Washing
ton and started movement in behalf of
better salaries for teachers.
Senator Hanna will request the senate
committee on military affairs to sub
poena Gen. Wood to answer charges
National and local labor leaders in
Chicago decry use of violence in strikes,
while attacks on nonunion men are al
most of daily occurrence.
At New Haven, Conn, the Yale uni
versity forestry school building was de-
stroyed by fire, the loss being over
100000.
Charges that William J. Bryan manu-
featured the letters giving him $1,000
of Philo Benefits estate and induced
Bennett to sign them were made in court
in New Haven, Conn, by Mrs. Bennett.
Gov. Brady, of Alaska, in his annual
report urges provision for Alaska's
representation by delegate in congress,
and says that Alaska's main need is for
pioneers and home builders.
Near Piedmont, w. Va, five men were
killed and several severely injured by
the overturning of two engines.
The northwest experienced the coolest
weather of the season, the thermometer
ranging from four to "a degrees below
zero at various places.
Gen. Reyes, of Colombia, now in
Washington, has decided that it is use
less for his government to attempt an
invasion of Panama in view of the de-
termination of the United States to pre-
serve peace on the isthmus.
Three trainmen were killed and five
injured in a collision on the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul road near Abel, Ia.
Judge Holdom fined Franklin Union of
Press Feeders in Chicago $1,000 for
violation of the typothetae injunction.
Zion City will be conducted hereafter
on a cash basis, according to John A.
Dowie.
The Great Lakes vessel season now
closed was the most prosperous since
1893.
A protest against Reed Smoot, Of
Utah, remaining in the senate was adopt
ed by a mass meeting in Washington
called by women.
DR.. I. B. Washburn, of Rensselaer,,
Ind. died as the result of an operation
two years ago in which it is alleged sur
geons left pair of steel forceps near the
liver.
Secretary of Interior Hitchcock in his
annual report shows 22,824, 299 acres of
public land sold during the past year.
The pension list decreased 2.901 names,
the total number now being 1,043,933.
Walthour and Munroe won six-day
cycle race at New York.
Railroads in Minnesota killed I'll per-
sons the past year, against 1873 in 1902.
Carroll D. Wright, United States labor
commissioner, in an address at Philadel-
phia predicted the abandonment Of
wages for profit sharing.
The national contractors convention
in Chicago adopted a radical rule for
an open shop.
Fire at Whiting, Ia, destroyed the
Bank of Whiting and Cassidy & Whit
ing's department store, entailing loss
of 100000.
Five passengers were cremated and
ten injured in wreck on the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy railroad three
miles west of Abba, Ia.
w. 1. Buchanan, of New York, has
been chosen special minister to the Pa
mama republic by President Roosevelt.