The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01
5 WEST AND SOUTH.

by uudululOuS NOlt VI TIE lTuSletS,
DR.. Edmund ]. James, head of North
western university, was elected presi-
dent of the University of Illinois. e.
Lime caused a fire resulting in $780,
900 damage to Armour & Co.'s glue
plant at Chicago.
Judge Fox, of Indiana, wants laws
revised so that four years will be re-
quired to obtain an absolute divorce.
Eleven persons were hurt and both
engines demolished in head-on COLI
sion between two Frisco trains near
Sarcoxie, Mo.
Leslie Shaw, secretary Of the treas
ury, opened the republican western
campaign with speech at Helena,
Mont
A petition has been presented to Pres
ident Roosevelt by men Jleported from
Cripple Creek to intervene in their be-
half and charges Of conspiracy filed
against the mine owners and strike
breakers.
In special session the Chicago city
council granted 60 days grace to the
alter managers for the completion of al
terations in their playhouses, making
the limit November 1.
At Chicago a new system of pneumat-
ic tubes was opened in the presence
of federal representatives and many
business men.
Six men were buried in cavern
which occurred on the Knoxville & Au-
gusta branch of the Southern railroad
at a point where workmen were exca-
waiting for the foundation of bridge
pier at Little River, Tenn. Two were
killed and four injured.
Bruce G. Warren, of Forest River
NJ. D., aged %, drew the first prize at
the DEVILS Lake Fort Totten land lot
terry.
Dave Fields and Albert Davis, wife
murderers, were hanged at Rolling
Fork, Miss. on the same scaffold.
In a rowboat accident in the drainage
canal near Morris, ILL.,, two Chicagoans
were drowned.
In a reply to Grover Cleveland's story
of the Chicago strike of 1894, Eugene v.
Debs declared the former president was
the complaisant agent of the railroads.
At Chicago a coroner's jury called the
Consolidated Traction company and the
Terminal Transfer company responsible
for race train wreck August 10, which
cost five lives.
A 19-year old girl. Gertrude Sawyer,
steered drifting rowboat with five pas
sengers 80 miles across Green Bay to
safety.
The packers at Chicago planned to ask
aldermanic committee to visit yards and
be shown that so far as operation OF
plants is concerned the strike Is
"ended."
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition at
st. Louis will not be opened Sunday, de-
spite agitation.
Disastrous cloudbursts and washouts
have caused thousands to face starya-
ton.
Marshall Field is said to be the largest
individual taxpayer in the United
States. His Cook county assessment this
year reaches total of SAC, O00, 900.
John Otto, aged IS, and Peter Holling,
aged %, of Clinton, Ia. fell OF a skiff and
were drowned in the Mississippi river.
Frank Seary killed Michael Moynahan
at Warford, Ia, with piece Of iron pipe,
following quarrel over an alleged in
suit by Seary to niece Of Moynahan.
At Knox, Ind, Grin Enrich and Omer
Poor were killed and Arthur Conner,
William White, John Schultz and Clay
ton Halter were seriously injured by a
bolt of lightning which struck shed
under which dozen farmers had sought
refuge from storm while working in q
wheat field. The rest were shocked BY
the stroke: