The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-12-03
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Justice John G. Pollock, Of the su-
preme court of Kansas, has been select
ed as the successor to United States Dis
trict Judge Hook, who recently was ap-
pointed United States circuit judge for
Kansas.
The official canvass of the vote in
Iowa for governor has been completed.
Gov. Cummins received a plurality of
10000, a majority of 1854.
The official vote cast at the Massa-
chusetts state election, November g.,
shows that Gov. John L. Bates (rep.)
was reelected by plurality of 1884.
Harriet Hubbard Aver, the we'll
known writer for the New York World,
died of pneumonia after four days ILL
ness. .
David HOLSTER is dead at Mapleton,
Ia, at the age of 101. He was in good
health for 100 years.
William G. Wyman, a we'll known
philanthropist, died in Baltimore, Md,
aged 70 years.
Members of the Illinois COMPRESSION
al delegation are booming Speaker
Cannon for the vice presidential nom
ination.
Rev. DR.. William Charles Roberts,
president of Central university, died in
Danville, KY, aged II years.
Former President Grover Cleveland,
in letter to the editor of the Brooklyn
Eagle, announces Internationally and
irrevocably that he will not be a candi-
date for the presidency.
Hon. David Drummer, who was mem
Der of congress form 1888 to 1892, died in
Reading, Pa, aged 6S years.
Jules Levy, for many years the fore
most cornetist in the United States, died
in Chicago. aged IS years.
FOREIGN.
Israel Zangwill, the author, and
Edith Ayrton, daughter of w. E. Ayr
ton, president of the Institute of Elec-
trical Engineers, were married quietly
at a registry Office in the East end of
London.
Russian papers are alarmed at the
British move on Thibet and point out
that if it succeeds 50O,000,000 Bud
dhists will consider England the most
powerful nation in the world.
William ]. Bryan was the guest of
honor at the Thanksgiving day ban
quet of the American society in Lon
don, which was attended by over 400
members and guests.
The flood which has caused so much
damage in ST. Petersburg, Russia. was
the biggest since 1924. The intense
cold is causing much distress among
the homeless and the jewellers in nl-
lars.
At Panama the junta unanimously
decided to ratify the canal treaty as
soon as it is received.
Chinese viceroys offer 10000 foreign
drilled troops for use in war upon Rus
STA over Manchuria:
Alfred J. Firth, who murdered Fred
erick ]. Bailey, naval storekeeper at
Esquimalt, on June 81, was hanged at
Victoria, B. c.
Russia and" Japan are said to<have
agreed to tentative settlement of the
Manchurian question, and now have
only the Korean matter to dispose of.
Colombia continues her military prep
arations and Minister Beaupre and other
Americans are said to be in danger.
Emperor Williams throatis not heal
ing favorably after the recent operation,
according to Berlin belief, and a new OPP
Grafton is rllmored.
In typhoon off Swatow, China, thou
sands of lives were lost
It is estimated that l02 persons lost
their lives in the recent storms on the
North sea.
Canada Is stirred over the proposed
acquisition of Miquelon and st. Pierre
islands by the United States.
England's fight against the plague in
its eastern possessions has finally been
given up. Over 100000 persons are
dead in Ocean since its outbreak.