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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-12-24
DOMESTIC.

Oue UFdkeludu was burned 10 uedIQ
and two fatally hurt in collision be-
tween freight trains near Pawnee, Kan.
Sixteen hundred miners employed in
the Myersdale (Pa.) coal region quit
work owing to the proposed reduction
of ten cents per ton for mining soft coal.
Three children of August Batteen, a
farmer of Allamakee county, Ia, were
burned to death.
The transport Sherman arrived in
San Francisco from Manila, bringing the
men of the Thirtieth infantry.
Jimmy Dunlap, known as the most
desperate of craftsmen, was secretly
paroled from the Joliet CHI peniten-
tiary, where he has served only three
years of a 20-years' sentence for bank
robbery.
twenty-five citizens have been chosen
by Judge Tuthill to plan a crusade
against crime in Chicago.
w. A. McKowen, secretary of the Uni
versity of California regents, arrested
at Berkeley, confessed to embezzling
$4,000. ...s "
John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Car
negie are said to have reached an agree
ment to GUST j. Pierpont Morgan and hiG
friends from the steel trust
A supposed anarchist plot to dynamite
the white house was discovered through
the arrest at Galveston. Tex, of Charles
Pierzen, socialistic labor agitator.
The board of lady managers of the
Louisiana Purchase exposition decided
to ask congress for 100000.
President Roosevelt signed the Cuban
reciprocity bill and issued a proclarla-
ton declaring it effective on Deem
Der 81.
John Stringer (colored) was hanged
at Birmingham, Ala, for the murder of
William O'Neal.
The bank at Garden City, Ia, was
dynamited by three men, who secured
$1,000.
Benjamin Benedict, his wife and
their three-year-old daughter were
burned to death in a fire which de-
stroyed their home at Ashland, KY.
The livery and undertaking business
in Chicago is tied up by strike of
drivers for higher wages.
Martin Olson, John Rusk and Lars
Anderson were suffocated in a fire at
Sault Ste. Marie. Mich. 80 ....-
Mrs. Harry L. Smith and her two
young children were burned to death
by a fire which destroyed their home
at Oaklane, Pa. .'-HA .,r.s.s.'. L 80. 4
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
seven days ended on the 18th aggregated
$2,123,473,07S. ~, The decrease compared
with the corresponding week Of = last.
year was 1873.
- The interstate commerce commits
MISSIONS annual report showsnet earn
ings ofJrailroads for the past fiscal year,
were $641 .630,l96, an increase of $34, OOO, ::
900 over the year 1902, s9f9L9fL j. tol-s
There were 329 business failures in
the United States during the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 267 the same.
week H. 1902. sa 90 suo79gnH3 l&aya 7sd :
The negro problem has been solved In
North Carolina, according to Gov. Ay-
cock, by practically disfranchfsing him.
Anna Krenen, wife of Fred Krenen,
drowned herself and her two children in
a cistern at Lesueur. MINI. sr'',~'
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-12-24
FOREIGN.


10 w. N. Ellis reached Londonwith a let
ter from King Menelik inviting Ameri-
cans to Abyssinia. - ---.--~-~.---
News Of the passage by the United
States senate of the bill for reciprocity
between the United States and Cuba
caused rejoicingqin fHavanartGo9 JG9r1
y Sending ofta United States warsnip to
Chempuio, Corea, is asked by the Unit
ed States minister because OF uneasiness
among foreigners theressyolrs ia
= United States marines in Panama We're
ordered to San Miguel ,bayv ITO prevent.
invasionsby Colo mbian!treops.yt6 hna =.
Gov. Taft has reached settlement
with the friars, by which the United
States isato pay $7,25O,0OO for the lands
of the order in the Philippines. r
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-12-24
Life Imprison,nent.A

hGrand Rapids; Mimi, Dec s23-Wil-.
liza GOD dingtonl IVA Sentenced ITO
prison for life in the district court.
Tuesday after being found guilty OF
murder in the second degree for kill
Ing Henry Refining last August. :
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-12-24
Suicide 81 Convicted Prisoner.

Philadelphia, Dec. %. Charles D.
Fenstemacher.. aged 4s years, who was
Monday convicted in the United States
district court of using the mails to de-
fraud, e Tuesday, committed suicide by
hanging hi himself rs Elf With a. towel in cell
in the county prison. 2oio2n i.aDjD aa,t Itr
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-12-24
Mother of Iowa Governor Dead.
MYsterfous Theft.

bloomington lit, Dec. %. 717TheH mys-
teeriouuss theft OF an express package con
tanning $1,000 developed there tuesday
1T wasaconsigned by1theGPeople 81 bank;
of Bloomington, To- the bank attEllibtt'
Ali efforts to locate the money have
been unsuccessful. = While en- route the
money was extracted and blank paper
substituted.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-12-24
seek TO AVERT :
:. Crisis IN EAST
England and France Use influence
to Prevent War Between
Japan and Russia.
BELIEF is that DIPLOMATIC
NEGOTIATIONS WILL CONTINUE

Japanese officials at Paris Declare
Their Country VIII Not Give Up
Rights In Manchuria Even If Con-
hict Must Occur-Only One Russian
Cruiser Left at Chemulpo.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-12-24

whether they were killed or escaped and
failed to report. 1t is thought $3.50
will cover the total loss to the plant
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-12-24

anese answer are not yet known here,
but owing to the action taken by Great
Britain and France the officials here are
confident that her answer permits of a
continuance of the diplomatic negotia-
lions toward securing common grounds
for an agreement.
The officials of the Japanese legation
insist that they do not believe there is
any immediate danger of war between
Russia and Japan, and express the opin-
ion that the dispute will be settled amic-
ably. They add, however, that Japan
will not abandon any of her rights in
Manchuria and say that if conflict oc-
ours they believe the Japanese will OBJ
tain the first victory on the sea.
Only One Warship Left.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 23.-Of the Rus
sian warships recently at Chemulpo,
Corea, in connection with the disturb
ance there, oNy the cruiser Boyarin
remains at that place. All the other
vessels have returned to Port Arthur.
Vice Admiral Stark, commanding the
Russian Pacific squadron, while the
warships were at Chemulpo had an audi
ence with the emperor of Corea.
According to the Port Arthur Novy-
krai some of the Chinese militia fought
in the ranks of the Chinese robber
bands in the recent encounter with
Russians. The paper contends that Rus
STA is compelled to take active steps to
rid Manchuria of these bandits because
China has not filled all her treaty en-
gagements.
Asks Immediate Considerations.
Picking, Dec 23.-A report is current
here that Japan's request for the recon-
sideration by Russia of her reply to the
Japanese demands was accompanied by
the specification of a time limit It is
the expectation in St. Petersburg that
the question of war will be decided in IA
days.
Mother of Iowa Governor Dead.
Des Moines, Ia, Dec. ,23.--Mrs. T. J..
Cummins, mother of Gov Albert Cum
minis, q died of pneumonia Tuesday.
Mrs. Cummins was a, descendant of a
historic family, An ancestor was
signer of the Macklenburg declaration
Of independence. She was a native OF
Green county, Pa, and was II years of
age. Gov. Cummins was at the bed
side at the last moment. n 9n1HfoW
we aiJtil a.9jif9Im TTT-, 1eJieDd or
Okolona messenger., 1903-02-04

Washington society threatens to be
all torn asunder because the wife of
one of the leading diplomats located
there from 3 foreign land Is related in
a remote way to the agent OF an insur-
ance company, and some Of the set
have seen fit to snub the lady on this
account. OF course her immediate
friends are throwing themselves into
the breech and demanding that she be
given q fair hearing. Too bad, that
the President Of the nation can have
all kinds Of associates and impose
them upon his guests and that lady
who happens to have a relative selling
life insurance must become the object
OF suplcionl There is an occasional
chunk of tommy-rot tossed into socie-
ty In Washington.
Okolona messenger., 1903-02-04


Ever think about it that the Presi-
dent has no man in his cabinet South
of the Mason and Dixon line with
whom he can consult on questions re-
garding this vast, rich, productive,
cultured section of the country If
Mr.. Roosevelt can't find white man
from the South he cares to honor with
a seat in his official household, he
might try a negro. This paper could
furnish him the names Of half a dozen
negroes, Southern born, far better
qualified to sit with him than is his
postmaster general. Nothing like g
doctor occasionally tasting the medi-
cine he prescribes for his patients.
Okolona messenger., 1903-02-04

1t appears to be bad business for a
man who leads busy life, to be side
tracked and forced to rest too much.
Mark Hanna seems to be up against
this misfortune. Everybody knows
that during the two cam, aigns result
ing in the election of William McKin-
ley, Mr.. Hanna was very busy man,
and did not have time to lay around
and eat more than he should. The
four years intervening between Mr..
McKinley's two elections were also
busy for him, as those who wanted
Office and could get the Ohio senator's
ear, kept him on the jump. When
Mr.. Mckinley was killed, Hanna's as
sistance was largely dispensed with
and the report comes from Wash
ington that he has been eating toe
much and has the gout. After al
the poor cuss who must get along or
hog and hominy, and can't afford al
the swell dinners enjoyed by the rich
is in many ways the happies man.
Okolona messenger., 1903-02-04

The papers of Memphis are piling it
onto the mayor of that town thick and
fast for little shady deal the other
evening in which an immense sum of
the bonds of the city we're sold to a
single bidder In a little star chamber
meeting of the council, without real
izing as much for them as every res-
sonable financier in the city declares
should have been secured. If the pa
pers picture the acts of the mayor
properly, about the best thing Mem
phis can do is to get q new mayor at
the earliest opportunity. Robbing
cities through official acts is getting to
be too tame an affair in this country,
and the official who goes into such
work deserves even a worse fate than
received by the Memphis man who
called an Indian a negro and was
tomahawked for the offense.
Okolona messenger., 1903-02-04
Rev. bad q. tilcks, loo AImanac.

To say that this splendid work of
science and art is finer and better
than ever, is stating it mildly. The
demand for it is far beyond all previ-
ous years. To say that such results,
reaching through thirty years, are not
based on sound sense and usefulness.
Is an insult to the intelligence Of mill
lions. Prof. Hicks, through this great
almanac, and his famous family and
scientific journal, Word and Works,
is doing a work for the whole people,
not approached by any other man OF
publication. A fair test will prove
this to any reasonable person. Added
to the most luminous course in as
tronomy for 1908, forecasts of storms
and weather are given, as never be.
fore, for every day In the year, al
charmingly illustrated with nearly
two hundred engravings. The price
Of single almanac, including postage
and mailing Is thirty cents. WORD
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year. Write to Word and Work.
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their great value.
Okolona messenger., 1903-02-04


The past few weeks have been fow-
cry ones for MOTOR Vardaman as a
candidate for Governor OF Mississippi.
The men who imagined it would be a
picnic to beat him II they would as
sault his position on the negro ques-
tion and appeal to the sophistry Of a
higher education developing a higher
citizenship, have had their weak pleas
knocked sky high by the incidents
bought on thI ough the silly work of
the accidental President. Major Var
daman is not compelled to take ad-
vantage of the Presidents position ;
the people do that for him, and it is
the people who win choose the nomi-
nee for Governor this year, not the
politicians.
Okolona messenger., 1903-02-04

Discovery cures diseases of the stomach
and other organs of digestion and nutri-
ton. It puri6es the blood and enables
the perfect nutrition of the body which
means perfect health.
VFor SIX long years suffered with iudiges-
ton and my liver aud kidneys, which haffled the
best doctors in our country writes +. I. Ran
sell. ESQ. Of Wooisey Prince William Co., Va.
n suffered with my stomach and back for q long
time, and amer taking q cart-ioad' Of medicine
from three doctou grew 80 bad ceuld hardly
do days work. Would have death-like pains
IN the side, and bind spells. began taking
Or. Pierce's Golden Mediaai Discovery and
Pleasant Paiieta.i Befosa ! hed taken half Of
the second bottle began % feel relieved. got
SIX more bottles and used them, and am happy
% ssy owe my life 70 Dg. pisrce.'
Accept no substitute for Golden Ned
icai DiscoveFy." There L nothing Wjust
as good" for diseases Of the stomach,
blood and lungs.
The Common Sense Medical Adviser,
zoos large pages. in paper covers, Is sent
free on receipt Of Al one-cent stamps 70
pay expense Of mailing oaly. Address
Dr.. +. v, Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
Okolona messenger., 1903-02-04

IF the results reported of the dam
age done by the German navy in
three days bombarding are to be re-
lied upon as accurate, the Germans
"better hadn't" get mixed up in a
shooting scrape with any of Uncle
Sans accurate projeotile tossers. 1t
is a fair estimate to make that one
George Dewey conld take almost any
one of the ships in his squadron and
sink the entire German navy about as
fast as he could hunt up the individ-
ual hoaters.
Okolona messenger., 1903-02-04

A Texas town named Mckinley is
trying to raise ten thousand dollars to
secure the location in their place of a
Presbyterian University. Amy kind
of University is good thing, but
few of them do much toward the ma
terial interests of the community in
which they are located. One of the
deadest towns we know Of has had for
years a splendid Presbyterian Univer-
sity under the very best of manage
ment. Maybe its the town, though.
Okolona messenger., 1903-02-04
a sHIETINo oF VIEWRoINI.

There is more Catarrh in this section of
the country than any other diseases put 10
gether, and until the Last few years was sup
posed to be incurable. For a great many
years doctors pronounced Il local disease,
and prescribed local remedies, and by con-
stantly falling to cure with local treatment.
pronounced It incurable. Science has prov
en- Catarrh 10 be a constitutional disease, and
therefore requires constitutional treatment.
Halps Catarrh Cure, manufactured by +.
J. Cheney 6 Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only
constitutional cure on the market. II is
taken internally in doses from 10 drops to 3
teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces Of the system. They
offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails
to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials.
Address, F. J. CHENEY 3 CO.,
Sold by Druggists. 75c. Toledo, Ohio.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
Okolona messenger., 1903-02-04

its allied organs of
digestion and nutri-
ton are diseased.
1t is not a question
with him Of winning
in the race for bust
ness but Of simply
keeping up under
any circumstances.
Whenever disease
affects the stomach
1t is affecting also
the blood and the
health Of every or
gan of the body.
For blood is only
food converted into
nutrition and nutri-
ton is the life of
the body and every
organ Of it.
Doctor Pierce's
Golden Medical
Okolona messenger., 1903-02-04

Sam Jones was lecturing in Dallas
Texas, the other night, and took occa'
sion to say something about prohibi'
tion, when the lights in the hall sud-
denly went out and he was compelled
to proceed with his talk in the dark
Next to ordering Texan to hold NJ
his hands is any sort of a remark
which indicates that his whisky is like
ly to be taken away from him.
Okolona messenger., 1903-02-04

A few more Indianola affairs will
convince the reading world that Mis-
sissippi is not such a slow old state
after all when its people sre fully
aroused. This incident alone has been
sufficient to spprise one and all, even
if Mr.. Roosevelt insists upon being
designated as the one, that upon the
question of resenting any effort to
establish equality between the races,
the old state is as firm and immovable
to day as it has ever been.
Okolona messenger., 1903-02-04

# you have been thinking sighting
ly Of the President Of Venezuela, make
a note Of the fact that he is showing
some genius If not judgment in coping
with the united powers and revolu-
tion at the same time, and is still on
deck. Then again we have a Presi-
dent of our own, who has spent $780,
900 within few months to At up the
white house for the reception of ne
groes. The fact is that the white
house isn't worth half the amount
spent upon 1t this last time. It would
MT sell for more than few hundred
dollars if it was to be moved to anOth-
or location. While speaking about it.,
why doesn't the United States build q
home for the president that would not
require so much fixing? The old rat
trap of a white house, as every one
who has seen it must admit, isn't as
good as many private residences to be
found in any of our country towns.
Okolona messenger., 1903-02-04

There seems to be a few members
of the Republican party in the United
States Senate who are unwilling to
follow the crazy President to the
limits of his obnoxious''negro policy"
At least it is reported that the senate
committee to which was reported the
appointment of the negro Crum as
collector for the port of Charleston,
South Carolina, opposes the confirm
Okolona messenger., 1903-02-04

That "American peril" Is becoming
bigger and bigger with the foreign
powers as they familiarize themselves
with IL. It is even worse than was
the yellow peril, out Of which it is
doubtful II they would ever have ex-
tricated themselves If Uncle Sans
boys had not come forward and taken
the lead to nberate the imprisoned
diplomats in Pekin.
Okolona messenger., 1903-02-04

alton, and that the oolored appointee
win be forced to step down and out.
Il has been the hope Of the South that
that there are enough self-respecting
men Of the dominant party IN high
position to, In q measure, stay the
hand Of the President In his apparent
determination to tear asunder the
cordial relations between the North
and South builded up by Mr. MoKin-
ley, and the senate committee makes
this hope brighten somewhat.
Okolona messenger., 1903-02-04

1t really begins to look, from the
dispatches, that Uncle Sam win be
compelled to sink a few German ships
before that arrogant old power can
realize what fool it is making of it.
self. The task would be a very easy
one, yet no one wants to see the COM
plications become so strained. Eng
land is taking due pains to get well
out of the muss.
Okolona messenger., 1903-02-04

The newly elected senator from
Kansas is bright young man and goes
to Washington with influence and
power, and it will be through him that
the people of Kansas will expect much
at the hands of the administration,
the senior member of the senate, Mr..
Burton, by his buster and egotism
having lost cast almost entirely at the
national capital.
Okolona messenger., 1903-02-04
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my case.
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Okolona messenger., 1903-02-04

No wonder Germany wanted to get
England into an alliance with her to
make a little collection down in Vene-
zuela. II the shooting done by her
feet is an indication OF the ability Of
the Germans to enforce a collection,
it is altogether probable that the little
South American Republican would
have quickly run Germany out Of it's
neighborhood.
Okolona messenger., 1903-02-04

Mrs. Nation is stin drawing good
houses and good newspaper publicity
when she is out Of jail and able to fill
dates. The old girl is one of the wo-
men who has held public attention
longer than the traditional nine days.
Miss Ellen Stone and many others are
surely jealous of her.
Okolona messenger., 1903-02-04

The defeated candidate for seat in
the United States senate, from Kan
sas who took occasion last week to
close his speech at the celebration
jollifying over the election of his COM
petitor, to say that he felt like John
Allen, of Mississippi, when Speaker
Reed once told him to take his seat,
and then give Aliens response, got
somewhat mixed in his story, and the
mixture was also used in these col
umns. The colloquy the Kansas as
pirant was trying to quote, was like
this. Private John Allen and Speaker
Read,w always great friends, the
Mississippi Democratic congress-
man often being shown much atten-
tion by the arbitrary parllmentarian.
One day while Mr.. Allen was speak
ing on some pending question in con-
gress It occurred to him that Mr..
Reed had just been turned down by
the Republican national convention
for the presidential nomination, ana
he also recalled that he had himself
Just been defeated by the Mississippi
legislature as a candidate for the
United States senate. After looking
ct the massive speaker several NOM
ents Mr.. Allen said with g sOlemnity
that pervaded every corner Of the
Representative hall: "Mr. Speaker;
don't know how it looks to you, bat
It strikes me that the people are not
selecting their best men for high ofi-
cial positions this year" The smile
which greeted the jest and spread
over the face Of Speaker Reed sent 3
ray Of sunshine throughout the house,
and Mr.. Allen was cheered to the echo
without any thought to his politics, Or
the state be was representing.