The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-06-02
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending May 81.

GOI Guc " cSh may
Maj Gen. Sir John C. Mcneil is
dead in London. He was born in 1881.
Hester Jackson, negro woman WAC
claimed to be 1913 years old, is dead
in Washington city.
Daniel Graves, an S0-year-old man,
was struck by lightning at North
Branch, Mich. and instantly killed.
On the first ballot Robert H. Patton,
of Springfield, was nominated for gov
ernor by the Illinois state prohibition
convention
Prof. William H. Pettee, senior pro-
fessor of mining engineering at the
University of Michigan, dropped dead
at Ann Arbor.
Stephen Herbert was arrested in
Providence, r. l., charged with steal
ing jewelry valued at 100000 from J.
w. Kiser, of Chico go.
c. c. Clark, a farmer near Wayne,
Neb., was killed by lightning and his
son severely injured Three horses they
were driving were killed.
Thomas w. Brennan and Daniel
Tautis, farmers, have been killed by
lightning near Sioux City. la. The Two
were killed by single bolt
The democratic state convention OF
Maryland met in Baltimore, adopted a
platform and elected delegates-at-large
to the st. Louis convention
Charles Penio, the oldest chief of the
Ukiah tribe. is dead at Cox ranchero,
in California. and the Indians cele-
brated death feast. Penio was 107
years of age.
Nine hundred heavy hardware ham
dlers struck for higher wages in Chi
cago. The strike will cripple for time
most, if not all, of the dealers in steel
and heavy hardware.
The president has appointed Com
mander Samuel w. B. Diehl to succeed
Capt Samuel c. Lemly, as judge advo-
cate general of the navy, when the lat
ter's term expires June 3.
Twenty persons were injured, some
seriously, in a wreck on the Cleveland
& Pittsburg road. near East Liverpool,
o. The wreck was caused by the train
running into some freight cars.
The Oxford University Athletic club
on behalf of Oxford and Cambridge
universities, has sent challenge to
Harvard and Yale to hold an athletic
meeting in London this summer
The Illinois democratic state eonven.
ton will meet in Springfield on June
IA, at IL o'clock noon, 10 nominate
candidates for state Offices. delegates
to the national convention, and presi-
Dental electors-at-large.
Rear Admiral Evans, just returned
from the far east on the battleship
Kentucky, says in an interview that,
there is grave danger of China taking
up arms with Japan, and predicts a
general war Guild follow.
In the superior court at Grand Rap
ids, Mich, a jury was secured in the
trial of Eugene D. Conger, manager Of
the Grand Rapids Herald. who is
charged with conspiracy in the Lake
Michigan water. deal of 1900. - ~.
Shortage of traffic and consequent ne
cessity for reducing expenses on the
Pennsylvania railroad, are the reasons
given for the closing to through traffic
of the new Portage branch, built within
two years at cost of $5,O00,000.
A tornado struck about two miles
south of Guthrie. O.. T., doing much
damage to property, five farm houses
and many outbuillings having been de-
molished. From the wind and hail
the crops also suffered heavily.
A bulletin issued by the census
bureau gives the, total number of EN-
ployes in the executive civil service
of the United States as 15O,3S3. These
figures include only those employees
who are required to take an examina-
ton.
The First National bank. of Cape
May, NJ j., was closed by order of the
comptroller of the currency. 1t is said
that the depositors will be paid in full.
Financial difficulties of the former pres
ident, it is stated, caused the present
trouble.
A double drowning in Big Yellow
creek, at Hammondsville, o. The dead
are Annie Piatt, aged IA years. and
Sadie Hardie, aged IL years. The girls
are supposed to have gone wading in
the stream. 1t is probable they VEN
tured out too far aid were swept away
by the swift current.