The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-12-31
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persisted in the flames.
Burglars blew open safe in the Tower
Hill Qll.) bank and escaped with $4,000
in cash.
James Gillespie is charged by the
grand jury at Rising Sun, Ind, with the
murder of his twin sister and three other
members of the family are held as con-
spirators.
The advisory board of the Amalga-
mated Steel Workers union in Pitts
burg announced that SO lodges had
per cent.
New gifts totaling nearly 100000
were announced by President Harper
at the University of Chicago convoca-
ton, $1,S50,00O coming from John D..
Rockefeller.
Gov. Bliss, of Michigan, paroled Frank
c. Andrews, the Detroit bank wrecker,
who has served 10 months of Is years
sentence.
Livery owners refused to meet driv-
ers for conference to settle the strike
in Chicago and the employees declared
for fight to the bitter end.
The remains of AZ private soldiers
who lost their lives in the Philippines
wsre buried with military honors at the
National cemetery at Arlington.
Five officials of Franklin union, No.
4, of Press Feeders were indicted in Chi
cago as a result of recent labor troubles.
Eli Hilson, negro living eight miles
from Brookhaven, Miss, was assas-
sinated by whitecaps.
A battery of seven boilers in the pow
er house of the st. Louis (Mo.) Transit
company exploded, killing five en-
ployes.
Railway building Of the year 1903 has
added 5,723 miles of track, bringing the
total up to 2O9, 1896 miles.
Gladys Asch was shot to death in Chi
cago by Albert Altenhofen, formerly q
Milwaukee business man, who deserted
his family for her. The slayer commit
ted suicide.
Andrew Carnegie has set apart 81, 000,-
to relieve workmen injured in Carnegie
plants and to aid heirs of those killed
while at work.
Sixty-three persons were killed and
scores injured at Laurel Run, Pa, by a
collision of Baltimore and Ohio east
bound limited train with protruding
timbers.
Holiday shopping in Chicago this
year exceeds in quantity any previous
year.
Secretary Moody asks congress for
100000 for armor and armament for
the new naval ships now being rushed.
A panic among 1,400 steerage pas
sengers ON the Hamburg-American
line steamship Butcher was stopped
with revolvers, following collision
with a tramp steamer in midocean.
Thirteen indictments against union
labor leaders, members of unions and
sympathizers for rioting at strikes,
were returned by the grand jury in
Chicago.
All records for Christmas business
in the New York post Office were
broken this year. One million pack
ages passed through the Office in one
day.
The illinois Steel company mills in
South Chicago were closed without
notice and $500 men were made idle.
Lawrence. O.. Murray, Of Chicago,
has been chosen assistant secretary of
commerce and labor.
The Missouri supreme court has de-
cided against ticket brokers, and the
railroads will make reduced rates for
the fair.
Rear Admiral John G. Walker has ad-
vised the president that it is unnecessary
to send the army to the isthmus.
The navy department has been advised
that the first-class battleship Iowa had
been placed in commission at the Brook
Ign navy yard. :. e..
G. M. Waters has been appointed sup,
srintendent of the division of salaries
and allowances for the postoffice depart
ment in Washington. III. Z. 4
Charles w. Graves was arrested at Des
Moines, Ia, for alleged wife murder, the
information being given by his step
daughter, member of the Grau Opera
company.
Joseph Phillips, Hollowville IN. W
farmer, murdered his three children and
then hanged himself in neighborhood
barn. Phillips had complained lately of
his poverty, and it is believed his mind
became unsettled. =
William Goebel, 20 years old; Fred
erick Haberstraw, 80, and William Beck
husser, SO years old, were found dead
In their room in Baltimore. 1t is sup
posed they neglected to turn off the flow
of gas and were asphyxiated
Over 154.S00 railroad cars were built
In the United States during 1903, against
1854 800 last year; 2,007 were passenger
cars: 1918 were exported; 5.152 locomo-
tiyes were built.
Passer RS on the steamship Menom-
lnee, disabled in midocean by wave so
feet high. reached New York. One sea-
man killed and three injured. The boat
was helpless for five DAYS.