The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-01-28
DOMESTIC.

The Kentucky legislature passed bill
appropriating 81 5000 for new state
capitol.
Mrs. Louisa Elton, % years of age,
killed her two children and herself in
New York city.
Santa Fe railroad officials were elated
over life sentence given John Devine
for wrecking the Colorado express on Oc-
tober 80, by which 25 were injured.
The New York Central railroad will
try to break the worlds speed record
of 120 miles an hour made at Prossen,
Germany.
Eight hundred carriage drivers went
on strike at st. Louis and the chief of po-
lice ordered the officers to shoot to kill
if any attempt was made to interfere
with funerals.
In cave-in at the coal mine at Rouse.
Col, six miners lost their lives.
Sixty students at the Methodist col
lege at Sioux City, Ia, were threatened
with prosecution for tearing a live roos-
ter to pieces.
Findlay. O., was partly submerged by
floods and $50 families were rescued.
A. w. Machen was accused by govern
ment counsel in the postal fraud trial
in Washington with saving" $4,000
yearly on $500 salary.
Chicago is shown by insurance statis-
tics to stand third in number of suicides
in so principal American cities, st. Louis
being first.
The Pere Marquette railway system
is to double track its line between St
Joseph, Mich, and Chicago.
Word has been received at the navy
department of arrival at Ilongapo, in Su-
big bay, of Rear Admiral Evans battle
ship squadron, consisting of the Ken
lucky, Wisconsin and Oregon.
Harry Hoffman, Charles Batser and
John Keen, repairmen on the Pennsyl.
vania railroad, were killed by the cars
near Lancaster, Pa.
Excitement prevailed over newly dis
covered gold fields Is miles east of Tu-
cumari. N. M.
Five members of the Brewers and
Maltsters' union in Chicago wereindicted
for an alleged conspiracy to boycott a
brewery.
The National Board of Trade in ses-
sion in Washington urged the govern
ment to begin the construction of ship
canals between Chicago and the Atlantic
ocean and Gulf of Mexico, and to con-
struct system of canals on the Atlantic
coast
Ice gorges and heavy floods in the riv-
ers of Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania
drove hundreds of families from thei1
homes and caused great damage.
The Chinese minister to the United
States in speech at the Holland Society
dinner in New York declared that The
Hague tribunal offered way to avoid
war for every nation.
John Alexander Dowie, with his party
from the east, sailed from San Francisco
for Australia
Three people have been burned tic
death and ten badly injured in a hotel
fire at Marion, Ind.
In a rail mill at Johnstown, Pa, three
men were killed, three fatally injured
and six more or less severely wounded
by bursting fly wheel
The body of Miss Sarah Shaefer, o,
Elkhart, Ind, teacher of Latin in tn.
Bedford Qnd.) high school, was found
in carriage house Friday. She hat
been assaulted and robbed and the body
was badly mutilated.
The house committee on rivers and
harbors has decided that there shall be
no river and harbor appropriation bill
at the present session of congress, al.
though a few surveys may be author.
lied.
A disastrous tornado swept over
Moundville, Ala, a town of 800 inhab.
itants, Is miles south of Tuscaloosa, and
as a result 81 persons were killed and
more than 100 injured. Every business
house with the exception of a emall drug
store. was completely DESTROYED.