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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-17
VICTIMS OF ASSASSIN.
Unknown Murderer Kills Four Mem.
bers Of a Family and Burns
Their Home.

Auburn, CAL, Nov. 12.-It is now
known that Julius Weber, his wife, their
19-year-old daughter Bertha, and their
son Paul. aged IA years, were murdered
Thursday night by an unknown assassin,
who set fire to the home in an effort to
cover his crime. Before the fire had
made any great Roadway the bodies Of
the murdered woman and her two chill
dren were rescued from the burning
house.
An examination of the bodies showed
that Mrs. Weber and the children had
been murdered before the fire had been
started. The daughter had been killed
by pistol wound, as had been Mrs.
Weber. On the boys head were several
deep cuts. He had also been shot. All
efforts to reach Julius Weber, the father.
who was not thought to be in the burning
house, was abandoned until Friday when
search was made in the burning tim
bers and his body was found in the bath
room of the dwelling He, too, had been
shot down before being left to be con-
sumed by the flames.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-17
STATEMENT BY BRYAN.
Fixes Blame for Defeat of Democratic
Party on Control by the
Conservatives.

Lincoln, Neb.. Nov. 10.-W. J. Bryan
blames the democratic abandonment of
radicalism at the st. Louis convention
for the party's overwhelming disaster at
the polls. In long statement he
lashes the conservative reorganizers
and proposes planks for a platform to
be used in 1908. He repeats Judge Par
ker's charge that the trusts contributed
to the republican campaign fund In the
expectation of receiving immunity from
the law. In his proposed platform Mr.
Bryan says death to private monopoly"
should be the democratic slogan. His
prime issue is trusts, but he would at
tack the tariff and imperialism, strip
national banks of certain powers, restore
free silver, levy an income tax. prevent
government by Injunction and have thu
people elect federal judges. Mr.. Bryan
wants to go to worl- at once to reclaim
the democratic party to radicalism and
says he will do all he can in the fight.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-17

counties are retrieved by the improved
showing for johnson in Hennepin.
r. G. Dunn and James A. Martin, his
manager, have conceded Johnson'S cleo
ton. The Pioneer Press comedies the
state to Johnson by 1900.
The remainder Of the republican state
ticlAet Is elected by varying majorities,
including Ray w. JonsG and the supreme
court justices.
The next Minnesota house will consist
Of 107 republicans and twelve democrats.
The Roosevelt wave swept away several
democrats who had strong hopes Of cleo
ton, and the republicans have the strong
est hold on the legislature that they have
held in recent years.
Three of the democrats elected are from
st. Paul and two from Minneapolis.
The senate will be as before. fifty.two
republicans and eleven democrats. There
was one election, TO fill the vacancy
caused by the death Of A. F. Ferris, re-
publican senator from the forty eighth
district. John T. Frater. republican was
elected.
The legislature will therefore stand 159
republicans and twenty-five democrats
on joint ballot, and 1t will take eighty
votes to control the republican caucus.
Out OF 119 house members sixty-three
served in the last house, and eight others
were in the 1901 legislature. There are
forty eight new members.
The following tables shows the latest
returns on governor. Where only one fig
ure is given, it Is the plurality:
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-17
VICTIMS OF FLAMES.
New York Tenement Burns-Three
Lives Lost-Many Hurt
in Other Fires.

New York, Nov. 11.-Three persons
lost their lives, 20 were injured, nearly
half hundred were overcome by smoke
and an equal number are temporarily
homeless as result Of series of fires in
various parts of Greater New York
Thursday. In nearly every case the fires
we're in tenement houses occupied by a
large number of families, and at least
two of them are thought to have been
started by incendiaries
Three persons were burned to death.
half dozen others were overcome by
smoke, and saved only with the great
est difficulty by the firemen, and more
than 30 others after thrilling expert
ence on q narrow and crowded frees
cape were taken to the street in their
night clothes. in fire which practical
ly destroyed a ive-story apartment
house on the upper East side early
Thursday. OF the three victims two
were young girls. Blanche and Lillian
Uhlan, Is and Is years old, and the
other was their grandfather, Fred
erick Weber, So years old. Weber
was a helpless paralytic, yet under the
excitement of the terrible fate threat
ening him he arose from his bed aud
made his way to the hall, where his
body, burned to a crisp, was found.
Workmen ON the roof of the Ameri-
ca Cigar company's factory, alarmed
by clouds of smoke which came from
an overturned tar kettle in the street,
rushed into the factory, where scores
of girls were at work, and. with a cry
of fire." started panic in which II
of them were injured. One was SO
badly hurt that she was taken to a
hospital.
Forty-fiye families were driven from
a big tenement house on Boston road,
in the Bronx, and 20 persons who had
been overcome by smoke were rescued
by f1remen-
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-17

In the remaining districts the repub-
lfcan candidates ran pretty well with
their ticket and were elected by good
safe pluralities.
The vote in Hennepin. so far as con-
gress is cocerned, was not obtainable
last night, except scattering precincts,
but it is certain that Fletcher is elected
over Koh1er by a safe plurality.
Dunn held his own well in the Demo-
cratic districts. but strong republican dis
tricts were carried by Johnson, two to
one, particularly in Hennepin county.
Minnesota will be represented in con-
gress during the next two years by q
solid republican delegation. the returns
received during the night indicating that
the republican candidates had been sue
cessful in every district in the state
In three Of the districts, the fourth, sew
enth and ninth, there were no demo.
cratic candidates, and Congressman
Stevens, Volsted and STEVENSON had
things all their own way.
The only district In which there was
q hot contest was the sixth, but the in
dications are that Congressman Buck
man has been reelected over Van Dyke
by a plurality in the neighborhood Of
$500.
McCleary's strength IN the second was
more than Jones Of Rock" could over
come, but the hard campaign made by
Jones showed results in many localities,
where McCleary failed to get his party
HotA
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-17

left that party in 1896 on the money
issue and has since been most siren
uous republican. For several weeks
this fall he was assigned to a speech
making tour with Speaker Cannon. It
was a happy combination. Cannon
was the big gun, who fired the heavy.
solid shot, while Bede peppered the au-
dience from a rapid-fire machine gun
loaded with bon mots, jokes and apt
stories. Bede has James Whitcomb
Riley face and would be success on
the vaudeville stage as a comic mon
ologist.
Mr.. Bede's humor is not forced, but
is usually inspired by his surroundings
and some of his best illustrations come
to him on the spot. While addressing
a croSd of working people at a noon
day meeting in Wisconsin, he noticed
on the outskirts Of thrOng q woman
who had evidently just left her kitchen.
She was a large. fat female and was
dressed comfortably, IL not elegantly.
in a wide-fowing mother hubbard. The
Quaint figure at once appealed to Bede
and quick as a fash he declared:
"My friends, the democratic platform
reminds me of mother hubbard; 1t
covers everything and touches moth
ing"
At another place, in West Virginia,
he was discussing the vice presidency
as an obscure position and one OF lit
tie Importance. This was to offset the
argument that state pride ought to in
fiuence votes in that state for Vice
Presidential Candidate Henry CASA
way Davis. "Why, my friends" said
the Minnesota orator, "the vice presi-
dent is like the figure with the tail
cut on"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-17
MINNESOTA NEWS.
A Pearl Farm.

Pearl farms will certainly be popular
enterprises in Minnesota if the one
that Former Alderman E z. jefferson
OF Duluth has at Bay Lake, near Deer
wood, is success. He has kept the
fact that he has a pearl farm secret
for four years, and now that he has
actually grown some pearls, Mr.. Jeffer-
son has fenced of part of Bay lake
and in it he has seven hum
dred fresh water CLANS, each of which
he has treated with particle of for
eign substance. His method was to
bore tiny hole in the shell near the
hinge and insert particle of glass
Mr.. Jefferson began this treatment
four years ago, and has kept adding to
his stock until he has now the number
Of clans stated. Each is the possible
broader of a valuable gem. When q
clam is treated as described the date is
scratched in the shell for future refer
ence. Mr.. jefferson is exhibiting
about town two tiny pearls that were
taken from two of the clans that he
treated four years ago.
The pearls are about the size Of
pin head, and are of no value, but he
has demonstrated that his principle is
right, he says and has faith that among
the clans will some day be found val
liable pearls. Mr.. jefferson estimates
that it will take some years yet to de-
velop pearls of fair size. He says that
he has to protect his treated CLAIMS
from the raids of muskrats
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-17

of the week.
81 can always tell by the smell of
this corridor when Thursday comes"
said a clerk in the state department
the other day, passing through the
corridor leading to Secretary Hays
Office.
'Why, you are a regular almanac.
How do you do it?'
''Well, Thursday is diplomatic day
and representatives of the diplomatic
corps come to pay their respects to the
secretary of state. They nearly all
wear rank perfumes and by noon there
is a smell in this part of the state de-
partment which rivals musk fac
tory"
This habit of using perfume is gen.
eral among the subordinates of the dip
lomatic corps and almost universal
among the representatives of the latin
nations. The ambassadors are not
guilty and some of the ministers know
better, but those from southern coun-
tries in Europe and this continent lead
themselves with various artificial odors
and 1t is almost possible to locate a
diplomat geographically and to guess
his rank by the quantity and quality of
the perfume he uses. The further south
a foreigner lives and the lower, his dip
lomatic rank the stronger his perfume
seems to be.
This perfume nabit is so obnoxious
that some of the hotel proprietors de-
cline to have the lesser diplomats as
their guests. 1t is related that one of
the South American representatives
made himself conspicuous at Atlantic
City this summer by pouring musk on
his bathing suit before he went into
tho water
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-17
MINNESOTA POLITICS.
JOHNSON Is Injected GOVERN
OR BY SAFE MAJORITY.
All Other Republican Nominees are
Elected by Safe Figures. All
Congressman Republican.

John A. Johnson's plurality over r. c.
Dunn for governor of Minnesota viii be
not far from 10000.
Belated returns have somewhat reduced
his lead, but the figures as given in table
today will not be materially reduced.
Hennepin county complete except eight
city precincts, gives Dunn 13,407. and
Johnson 22.292. a plurality Of S,S85 for
johnson. This lead in Hennepin is much
larger than looked for, and larger than
the first returns indicated. The early fig
ures from the outside counties have been
scaled down somewhat in favor of Dunn.
as returns have come in from the back
more Of tendency To- Vote oeci the t iG1
straight. These changes in the outside
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-17

washington t b Q
Russian ambassa-
dor and the jap
anese minister are
engaged in q sort
Of game Of "hide
and seek" Count
Cassini is the dean
of the corps and
C u s t o m requires
that certain court
estes be paid to
him by the other
members. He is
punctilious in re-
Quiring these at
fontiapc ond tho
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-17
Professors wife a Suicide.

Chicago. Nov. 1I.-Mrs. Henry Fl.
Donaldson, wife of the head professor
of neurology at the University of Chi
cago. committed suicide at her home
here Thursday. Prof. Donaldson had
secured vacation until January in
order to take care of his wife. who had
been Ill. 1t is supposed dependency
over her i'll health caused Mrs. Donald
son to become temporarily insane.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-17

managers have dis
covered the value
of a humorist. In
most of the parties
of spell binders
sent out over the
country one men,
Der has been Sc
lected for his abil-
ity to entertain and
amuse the audi
ence. One of the
best in this line is
c o n.g ressman J.
Adam Bede, Of
M / n n esota. Mr..
Bede was a Cleve-
land dnmocrat hut
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-17

dOrS, ministers or
their representa-
tives call and pay
their respects to
the secretary of
state. The gather
ing of different
nationalities is in
teresting, h Q ! r
manners diverting
and their dress of
varied cut and de-
sign. They are a
sight for the lady
clerks in the de-
partment, who find
m u C b entertain
ment on this day
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-17

pei thlChtS /" Nv
termine the sue
cess of artifcially
Matched salmon in
the rivers of the
Pacific coast. This
year a lot of young
Chinook salmon
were selected for
special experiment
tation with a view
to determining va
rious points in the
life OF the hSh.
Before the young
salmon were re-
leased they were
tagged so that
4hoxr nnnld ho roc
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-17

terlOr pays q gOOd
deal of attention
to one of the terri
tory's new indus
tries, that of os-
trich farming. Ac-
cording to his pre-
dictions the for
tunes to be made
out of ostrich
plumes are more
certain a n d in
time will be great
er than those dug
out of the gold
bearing hills and
mountains of that
country. Even
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-17

John Hollingshead, who wrote for
Charles Dickens in Household Words.
and founded the Gaiety theater in Lon
don, is great authority on theatrical
lore. He Is now "a years old.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-17
Wants Arbitration Treaty.

Copenhagen. Nov. 12.-Negotiations
for q treaty Of arbitration between the
United States and Denmark have been
opened. The Danish government, 1t is
declared. is glad of the opportunity to
enter into such q treaty.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-17
"a Valuable Cargo.

San Francisco. Nov. 1.-THE steamer
Coptic, which arrived Friday from the
orient, brought $4,000. 900 worth Of raw
silk and over 100000 IN gold.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-17
Tired Of Fruit,

Mrs. Benham-You used to say that
was the apple Of your eye.
Benham-Well. what Of lit
Nothing, except that you don't
eem to care so much for fruit as y0u
,nce did assell's Journal
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-17

Caroline L. o. Ransome, Of Washing
ton, Is the first woman from whom the
United States government purchased a
painting for the walls Of the capitol.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-17

Miss Gwendoline Keats adopted the
name of one Of her rustic characters
('Zack''), feeling that Keats IN liter
atare belonged to the poet
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-17
Terrible Death.

Jack Conner, lineman for the Twin
City Rapid Transit company. was kill.
ed by live wire while working ON
new lines at Twentieth and Lyndale
avenues N, Minneapolis.
Connor was sitting on the iron arm
that supports the feedwire and the end
of it came in contact with another
wire. The shock lifted Conner up
from the pole and then dropped him TO
the ground. Immediately his clothing
was a mass Of flames. He was COW
cred with blankets from nearby wag-
on and taken to the city hospital and
died soon after.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-17
Strenuous Politics.

Danial T. Collins, a well known rail-
road man, living at White Bear, died
Of apoplexy on the street.
While on his way down town, Col
Inns engaged in heated political ar
gument, and he became so angry that
he suddenly became i'll He started for
home, but he rapidly became worse,
and few minutes after he reached his
house he was dead
Collins was about fifty years old and
was employed by the Northern Pacific
railroad.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-17
A Salmon Experiment.

United States Fish Commissioner
Bowers is conducting series of ex-
parimoptS fn do
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-17
School Expenses.

The total expense for running the
schools of Minnesota during the year
which ended Oct. 81, 1904, was So, 1885,
1924, according to a report made by
John Olson, superintendent of public
instruction.
The largest item is for teachers
wages and this amounted to 81, 95S, 946,
over half of the total amount. Fuel
and Supplies were purchased at total
cost of $719. 074, and $976, 500 was spent
in the erection of schoolhouses. Text
books cost S169, 666 and transportation
of pupils S4,267. The total increase
over 1908 was 81, $40, 1913, and there was
in the treasury at the end of the year
S2.177.595.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-17
Cool Burglars.

c. A. Crowel's fat at Minneapolis
was robbed of two gold watches and
s75 in cash by two men in the plain
view of several children who were
playing in the yard.
The children saw one of the men go
up to the house, open window and
crawl in. When the man inside was
through he came out as liesurely as he
went in. The children never thought
to mention what they had seen until
after it was learned that robbery
had been committed.
The police have good description Of
the men.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-17
D|PLOMAT|CQUARREL
STRAINED RELATIONS IN THE
CORPS AT WASHINGTON.
JAP AND RUSS ARE FRIcID
South American Representatives Are
Given to the Use Of Strong Per-
fumes That Are Obnoxious
Other Capital Gossip.

Washington.-Now that most of the
diplomatic corps have returned to
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-17
Use Strong Perfumes.

Diplomatic day at the state depart
ment is quite an event The ambassa-
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-17
Value Of a Humorist.

In the general apathy that has pre-
vailed during this campaign political
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-17
ostrich Farming.

The governor of Arizona in his an
uual report to the secretary of the in
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-17
Smothered.

Danial Danielson, aged IS years, .
St. Paul teamster employed in hauling
sand, was smothered to death beneath
tons of loose earth at the base of an
excavated cliff in the rear of East
Fourth street, st. Paul.
Danielson was digging and loading
sand from a loose vein which ran close
to and partially under the cliff. AS he
made the excavation near the base of
the cliff, which was about twenty feet
high, the earth above gave way and
plunged in heap upon the workman.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-17
News Notes.


Crying to the last that her husband
had forced her to drink poison Mrs.
Mary Clancy of Minneapolis with
lips, mouth and throat 'fearfully
burned by carbolic acid, sank to her
death.
Track laying for the Fargo &c Moor
head Street Railway was resumed in
Morhead to the qualification of the
citizens of Moorhead.
Ephriam Tressler, about so year old,
a wealthy farmer living near Delavan,
committed suicide by taking carbolio
acid.
A fire that originated in defective
wiring damaged the Globe building,
Minneapolis, to the extent of $4,000.
A loft of the National Order of Hay
Makers has been instituted in Winoua.
The natives of Holland in the Twin
Cities and vicinity will form an organi.
cation. in the nature of club. An in
tial meeting for that purpose has been
held, and a committee of two appoin-
ted to carry on the work of organiza-
ton.
The two small children of Gus Bolt.
ers, who lives on farm near Rice mar
rowly escaped death in a fire which
destroyed the house and barn on the
place.
The sum of $4,000 is now asked by
Attorney General Donahower from
Congressman C. B. Buchanan, for al
legged trespass on state timber lands.
The numbers of nonresident sports
men who will hunt deer in Minnesota
is unusually large this year
Abraham Berg of Duluth, is under
arrest accused of stabbing Oscar Lind.
strom, his rival in love.
Joseph Guilmette was arranged be-
fore Judge Mclean at Crookston and
waived examination and was held to
the grand jury without bail, charged
with the murder of Joseph Mongeon,
his companion near Mentor, on Oct, II.
The macadam paving in Crookston 10
finished, and there is general satisfac-
ton with the work.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-08-16
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natural wood in the same manner. the
mantels are Of quartered dark oak
with tiled faeings and plate glass bev-
eled mirrors. and the hardware
throughout Is Of ornamental dark
bronze. with apple wood knobs. roses
and escutcbeOns
The house is piped for gas and fitted
with fixtures. The sinks in the kitcii-
ems are steel gray. enameled. with
backs and brackets. The ranges are
portable, with boilers over sides. The
bathrooms contain copper open bath
tubs. with oak rims. and the basins
are porcelain. with marble slabs and
backs. The plumbing is Of open nickel
work in each Of the bathrooms.
This house Is designed for a forty
foot lot and can be built in most places
for $4,000. II would make a comfort
able home or q good Investment