The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-05-19
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
For the Week Ending Nav "a

Col Henry B. B. Bristol, U. S. A. ire
tired, is dead
The Farmers State bank at Nardin.
o. T., failed. Assets and liabilities not
given.
The steamer Doric, arriving in San
Francisco from the orient, brought ST.
100000 gold from Japan.
Brig Gen. Peter T. Swalne. U. S. A.
(retired), is dead at his home at Los
Nietos, CAL, aged "A years.
Russia has decided to make an ex-
hibit at the St. Louis exposition and
reserved 10000 square feet of space.
A jury at Sherman, Tex, gave Louis
James, the actor, a judgment for $40 900
against the Oriental hotel association, of
Dallas, Tex, for libel.
Two mills of the Schaghticoke Pow
der company were blown up near Troy,
NJ Y. Two employees were killed and
many buildings demolished.
The restaurant belonging to John
Ziegle, at Rochester, Mimi. was de-
stroyed by fire, and the head waiter,
Emma ,Damvi, lost her life :.
Congressman Henry McMorran, of
Port Huron, was renominated by ac-
clanation at the republican conven-
ton of the Seventh Michigan district
Secretary Taft has appointed Charles
S. Lobingier judge of the court Of first
instance in the Philippines. The ap-
pointee is a young lawyer of Omaha,
Neb.
John Brown, under arrest at Dick
enson, N D., charged with the murder
of his 12-year-old son while in fit of
anger. The father buried the boy i'm
mediately. ~-.
South Trimble was renominated for
congress on the two-hundred and nine
tieth ballot by the democrats OF the
seventh Kentucky district with single
vote to spare.
The firm of Whitney, Pousland & Co.,
leading commission merchants Of Bos-
ton, filed a voluntary petition in bank
ruptcy with liabilities of Sill 1908 and
assets of $463.
While the rumor that a revolution
has broken out in Hayti are false,
there is general discomfort in the re-
public, and a revolution is momen-
tarily looked for.
Robert M. Furman, aged 81 years,
editor of the Raleigh Morning Post,
died at Beaufort, n. c., where he had
gone in search of health. The cause
of death was heart failure.
Tho rOctol roooiptc pri1
1904, at the so largest post officesin the
country, as compared with April, 1903,
aggregated $5,S3O,S19, a net increase of
$439,65S, or over eight per cent
Rear Admiral Albert Sewall Kenney
(retired), formerly paymaster general of
the navy, it is stated at the navy de-
partment has been selected as treasurer
of the Panama canal commission.
George w. Lederer, the theatrical
manager, New York, filed voluntary
petition in bankruptcy. He states his
known liabilities as $170,975, with as
sets of 500. He specifies 294 creditors.
The seat of H. Archie Pell on the New
York stock exchange has been sold for
the reported price of $6O,5OO This is
about $500 under the last price OBJ
tanned for a stock exchange member
ship.
Sympathetic strikes of the women
binders, blankbook binders and rulers
in Chicago are promised by union Off
Gals, If effort is made to run the shops
with nonunion binders, strike
being on.
Alfred Bissell, veteran of the Mex
lean and civil wars, died at Oregon
City, Ore, aged 80. Mr.. Bissell was 4
delegate from Illinois to the conven-
ton that first nominated Lincoln for
the presidency.
In a wreck at Hope Mills. N. c., on
the Atlantic Coast Line Engineer Bye
was killed and the fireman fatally in
jured. Twelve cars were demolished.
The wreck was caused by the engine
jumping the track.
Mrs. Robert j. Burdette, of California,
has advised friends in ST. Louis that she
will not allow her name to appear as a
candidate for president of the National
Federation of Women's clubs, which con-
venes in st. Louis May II.
Testimony was begun at Rising Sun,
Ind, in the trial of James Gillespie, Mrs.
Belle Seward and Mr. and Mrs. Barbour,
for the murder of Elizabeth Gillespie,
with the mother of the victim and of two
of the defendants as the first witness.