The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-01-21

Butch" Riley, negro who killed c..
C. Mcmillan near Tallulah, Miss, was
lynched by a mob.
Alderman J. ]. Brennan, of Chicago,
was taken to the bridewell from the
county Jail, and began his years term
under conviction of vote-buying.
The state department his been in
formed of the recognition of the re-
public of Panama by Guatemala.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during
the seven days ended on the 18th aggre-
gated $2,265, 794 ,274. The decrease COM
pared with the corresponding week OF
last year was 1873.
Thirteen directors of the once power
full but now broken candy trust ap-
peared in a New York court and plead
guilty to breaking the conspiracy
law.
The Chicago livery drivers strike
ended on the employers acceptance OF
the "closed' shop and arbitration of
wages.
There were 324 business failures in
the United States during the seven
days ended on the 18th, against 267 the
same week in 1903.
Weekly trade reviews show a ia
vorable condition in all lines and re-
sumption of manufacturing with re-
newed confidence.
Two masked men robbed the bank at
Belen, N. M, of 81 900.
Rendered insane by illness, Edward
K Lands, of Philadelphia, widely
known expert chemist, shot and killed
his wife and himself.
John Robinson was hanged at Kinks
vile, Mo-, for the murder of his father
in-law, George Conkle.
John Harris, negro, who, while re-
sisting arrest, killed Policeman Dras-
bach, was hanged at Atlanta, Ga.
Brig. Gen. Grant has assumed COM
mand of the department of the lakes,
succeeding Maj. Gen. Bates, who goes
to st. Louis.
Many army officers oppose the bill now
pending in congress by which the Office
of adjutant general is abolished and g
military secretary created.
Eighteen sightseers in Mammoth
Cave in Kentucky were thrown into the
water when their boat sank and had a
narrow escape from drowning.
A committee of Michigan citizens in
vited President Roosevelt to attend the
celebration of the birth of the republican
party at Jackson July 6.
Seymour R. Chutch, a pig iron mer-
chant, failed in San Francisco with liza
bilities of $4,000.
The Citizens bank at Mount Ayr, a.,
owned by Ray Dunning, made an assign
ment with liabilities of $450,000.
The Olyphant breaker and washery OF
the Delaware & Hudson company at Oily
plant, Pa, was destroyed by fire, throw
ing $500 persons out of work.
Actors and theater employees who are
out of employment in Chicago and bust
ness men whose trade has been affected
appeal for relief in the opening of thea
tiers.
OF the 593 victims of the Iroquois
theater fire in Chicago only two remain
unclaimed. The coroner's inquest is
nearly ended.
Nine firemen, trapped by smoke and
flame high in an elevator in Chicago,
were rescued by comrades, who
chopped through the roof.
The senate committee on privileges
and elections began hearing arguments
in the case of Mormon Apostle Smoot
of Utah.
Franklin Union No. of Pressfeeders
in Chicago was placed in the hands of
a receiver by Judge Brentano.
In fire in the La Sale livery stable
in Chicago II horses were cremated.
George Udell celebrated his one hun
dred and fourteenth birthday at Pas
sale, N. J.
Developments show that G. F. Utter
back, cashier of the Sigourney ia
savings bank, who committed suicide,