The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-10
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For tho Week Ending Nov. 5.

Japan enjoyed a holiday Thursday, in
nonor of the emperor's birthday.
Negotiations have been initiated for
a treaty of arbitration between Ger
many and the United States.
DR.. N. M. Smith was shot and killed
at Washington, Kan, by S. H. Bonar,
a farmer. They quarreled over bill.
The Philippine commission has grant
ed the right of eminent DOMAIN in the
islands to railroad companies holding
charters.
Jacob Grover, a farmer, killed Thomas
Layton, husband of Growers divorced
wife, during a family quarrel at Bur-
lington, Ia.
The emaciated body of Tom Wall. Of
Chicago, was found in the underbrush
near the town of Alton, Ia The man
had literally starved to death.
A cotton compress company in Okla
oma City has contracted to furnish 5000
worth of cotton to a firm of Japanese
for Immediately shipment to Nagasaki.
Fire destroyed the fve-story build
ing at Front and Vine streets, Cincin-
pati, O., occupied by Shinkle, Wilson &
Kries company, wholesale grocers.
Less, $4,000.
After a spirited debate, the Vermont
house of representatives, by close
vote of 80 to 81, refused third read
ing to the bill granting municipal suf-
fIage to women who are taxpayers.
The dead body of Miss Roa Butts,
aged % years, a white servant girl of
Marshall, Mo-, was found in the sub
urbs of South Marshall in a pasture.
The girl evidently had been murdered.
The British battieships Victoria and
Magnificent have sailed from Gibraltar
under orders to patrol the straits. The
battleships Illustrious and Jupiter
have been ordered to put to sea imme-
diately.
AS result of hold-up of the Cam
den, Wash, post office, in which two
MEN robbed the safe of S44, one man
lies dead at Chattaroy and the other
is thought to have been wounded by a
deputy sheriff.
Terribly cut and crushed about the
head, the dead body of Alma Steinway,
telephone operator, aged Is years, was
found in a vacant lot near the Spring
Grove cemetery at Winton Place, a
suburb of Cincinnati
Prices of all grades of coal have been
advanced IS cents ton at Pittsburg as
result of the increased demand for
coal and the strike of engineers in Illi-
nois, which has practically closed all
the mines in that state.
Mrs. Herman Trepanier and her son
,, Francis were drowned in we'll on their
farm near Oconto, Wis. 1t is supposed
the boy fell into the we'll and the
mother, in attempting to rescue him,
lost her balance and fell in.
Isaac Bearinger, a millionaire lum-
herman of Saginaw, Mich, who also
had large interests in Nova Scotia
and in the iron mining industry of
Minnesota, died suddenly from heart
disease at Inlay City, Mich.
John Kay, aged II, has been found
guilty of murder and sentenced to be
hanged at Victoria, B. c., January II.
The boy is in the last stages of con-
sumption and it is probable that he
will never live to be hanged.
The state department received cable
| gram from the American embassy at St.
| Petersburg which warrants it in the
assumption that the Russian govern
| ment will soon agree to recognize pass
ports of American Jews travelling in
Russia
A masked man, armed with a pistol,
entered saloon at Cotton Wood,
CAL, and lined six men up with their
faces to the walls and their hands
over their heads while they relieved
them of $500 in cash and $1,000 in
checks
A quarrel over a receipt for the pay
ment of board bill resulted in the kill
| ing of Hayden Y, Loring, manager of
the Loring hotel, near the Exposition
grounds in st. Louis, by Norman M.
| Vaughan, manager of the Elks' Publish
| ing company.
While sitting at the supper table Mil
! ton Greens, who lives near East Bern
stadt, KY, was instantly killed by a
rifle ball which was fired from the street
and passing through a window of his
home, pierced his heart. 1t is not known
who the assassin is.