The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-04-07
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending April 2.

Mrs. Chauncey Morlan, the 429-
pound fat girl" died in a New York
museum.
Thirty-eight persons were killed in
| car accidents during March in Cook
county, Ill.
Colorado democrats will meet i'll
Denver June 7 to elect delegates to the
national convention.
Indiana democrats will hold their
state convention at Indianapolis to
select delegates to st. Louis.
Charles G. White, a clerk in the white
house at Washington, killed his wife
and himself at .Kensington, Md.
In New York George F. Siosson broke
the worlds billiard record at 18-inch
balk line, two shots, with a run of 291.
James -Lemlee and his wife were
burned to death in their home at Mont
rose, Ia. They were both 20 years old.
James E. Reeves, president of the
First national bank at Richmond, Ind,
for 40 years, died at the age of 80
years.
Thomas Baldorf; a farmer hear Woos-
ter, O., his wife and son, were drowned
while attempting to ford a swollen
stream.
The private banking firm of e. o.
Miller & Co. at Providence, Ia, failed.
1t is believed it can pay so cents onthe
dollar.
The British expedition into Tibet
lad a fight with $500 natives near
Guru, and 400 of the latter were
killed.
Henry T. Bannon, of Portsmouth,
O., has been nominated for congress-
ma by the republicans of the Tenth
district.
The great Hazleton Qnd.) fill of the
Evansville & Terre Haute railroad,
which cost $500, 900, was washed away
by a flood.
The Antarctic expedition which left
London in July, 1901, has been signaled
of the coast of New Zealand On its
way home.
Judge Parker is rated first by demo-
cratic leaders as a presidential posi-
bility, with Judge Gray second and
Cleveland third.
The Union Trust company closed its
doors in Boston, with liabilities OF
81, 600 900, and nominal assets of about
the same amount.
John Brink, SO years old, the first
white man to see Lake Geneva, Wis,
and who gave it its name. died at
Crystal Lake, Wis.
Records for fraternai order initia-
tons were broken in Chicago when the
Royal Arcanum received 300 candi-
dates into it's ranks.
Rev. John Gordon, formerly presi-
dent of Tabor college, Iowa, has been
ln%augurated president of Howard uni
versity in Washington.
Four more negroes have been put to
death near Dewitt, Ark, making 13 ne
groes who have been killed as the re-
suit Of a weeks rioting. -
The secretary of the interior has in
formed congress that the new pension
order will result in increasing expendi-
lures 5,400. 900 each year.
Frank B. Wright, formerly cashier of
the First national bank of Dundee, ILL.,,
was sentenced to five years imprison-
ment for embezzling SD, 200.
Wilkie L. Edwards was arrested at
Colorado Springs, Col, for attempting
to murder his bride of two months,
who is heiress to $40. OOO, 900.
Glenn Dawson, cashier of the Farm
ers' savings bank of Fenton, Ia, COM
mitted suicide in the bank. His &C
counts r said to be straight.
The largest insurance policy ever
taken out by IN individual, 81, 0 900.
has been issued by the Mutual Life to
James C. Colgate, a New York banker.
H. C. Jepson, a hermit, was found
dead in the woods nea Escanaba,
Mich, with a record Of his illness to
the day of his death. clutched in his
hands.
Gen. w. H. Payne, who was COM
mander of the famous confederate
Black Horse cavalry at the first bat
tie of Bull Run, died in Washington,
aged 70 years.
Three members of an alleged mall
practice syndicate were held in Phil
ndelphia in connection with the deaths
Of two women. Doctors testified that
The syndicate had disposed of hundreds
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