The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-01-14
DOMESTIC.

Rear Admiral Taylor, chief of the bu-
reau of navigation, urges naval sta
ton for Lake Michigan and Lake Bluff
and Racine are the location favored.
Nine. Lillian Nordica changed all
of her plans for another concert tour
through the United States and will re-
turn to Europe, actuated by fear that
threats against her life will be executed.
The Coliseum in Chicago, where the
republican national convention will be
held. has been closed for alleged viola
ton of law and churches come next.
Statesmen in Washington are vexed
at the delay of China in ratifying the
treaty opening two Manchuria ports to
trade with the United States.
Coroner Traeger says that many of the
Iroquois theater victims in Chicago are
buried in wrong graves because of mis-
takes in Identification.
]. E. MARCEL, cashier of the Highland
(Kan.) bank, was arrested on a charge
of forgeries aggregating 100000.
Former Congressman Edmund H.
briggs was found guilty in New York
of accepting money for contract while
a member of the house of representa-
lives.
The legislature of New York met in
annual session at Albany.
A negro was lynched at Buena Vista,
Ark, for attempted assault on a young
white girl.
Fifty-six strikers have been expelled
from San Miguel county, Col, by the
military authorities
E. H. Hartman has been elected
president of the Union Pacific railroad
Gov. John L. Bates, of Massachusetts,,
was inaugurated at Boston for his sec
ond term.
James Garfield killed his wife and
himself at Minneapolis, MINI.
H. Frazee, an electrical worker. was
found responsible for the $3.50, 900 fire
at the Iowa state capitol, he having
dropped lighted candle near the To-
cality where the blaze was first discov-
cred.
The coroner's jury begins it's inquiry
into the Iroquois theater horror in Chi
cago and many witnesses told of the
death struggle, saying that exits were
locked, that the so-called asbestos cur
tain burned, that there was little or no
fire fighting apparatus on the stage
and that the employees of the theater
were undisciplined
Russell Sage, who is 81 years old,
has given up his daily visits to Wall
street in New York, and retired from
active participation in affairs.
Gus Gregory (colored) was hanged at
New Madrid, Mo-. for the murder of
George Marshall July 10, 1902.
Gen. Rafael Reyes, the Colombian
special envoy, has been informed by
Secretary Hay that the Panama ques-
ton will not be reopened
The country's retail. trade is slow,
according to weekly trade reviews.
Nineteen buildings, including two
banks, were burned at Arson. Tex.
There were 262 business failures in
the United States during the seven
days ended on the Sth, against z6s
the same week in 1903.
Fire, which originated in the general
store of F. e. Macha, destroyed the en-
tire business section of Pisek, N. D.
United States Senator Dietrich
was acquitted at Omaha, Neb., Of re-
ceiving bride from a postmaster On
the ground that he had not yet taken
oath of Office.
Commissioner of Pensions Ware has
decided that all rights of pension are
barred by conviction of crime and sem
tence to prison for life. .r|
The exchanges at the leading clear
Ing houses in the United States during
the seven days ended on the Sth aggre-
gated $2,203, 059, 1859. The decrease COM
pared with the corresponding week of
last year was 26.5.
]. H. Coutts, president Of the First ma
tienai bank of Upton. Ia, dropped dead
IN hotel at Cedar RAPIDS.