The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-10-20
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Oct. Is.

EoI IAS week Wv. I've
The emperor of Japan has decorated
the American nurses with the Order OF
the Crown.
Andrew Leonhardt was hanged in the
Jail yard in Baltimore, Md. for the muir
der of his wife in 1903.
John Harper, a negro, was hanged at
Magnolia, Ark, for the murder of his
wife last February. He admitted his
guilt
Arrangements have been made to hold
an American forest congress in Wash
.ington for five days, beginning jan
uary 2.
Burglars broke into the post Office at
Wabash, Mimi, dynamited the safe and
obtained nearly $1,000 in stamps and
currency.
Edwin P. Welles, the millionaire
treasurer of the Brainerd Lumber COM
pany, was found dead in bed in Mime
apolis, MINI.
The number of drownings in Portage
lake, Michigan, for the past few weeks
is suspiciously large and the authorities
are Investigating. .
Fire destroyed the cotton compress at
Ellisville, Miss. Loss $4,000, covered by
insurance. Seven hundred bales of cot
ton were destroyed.
The archbishop of Canterbury and his
party, who have been in this country for
several weeks, sailed for home on the
White Star line steamship Cedric.
Fire Thursday destroyed three build
ings of the plant of the United Zinc &
| Chemical company at Argentine, Kan,
causing loss estimated at 100000.
The largest vessel ever built in the
state of Maine, the twin screw, first
class battleship Georgia, was launched
from the ways of the Bath, Me-, iron
works.
A jury having been secured in Mime
apolis, Mimi, after two days work, the
third trial of former Mayor A. a. Ames
for bribery and corruption began in
earnest.
/ Pho Boggio an Italian, who murdered
a countryman named Rudolph LenZi in
a saloon in Springvalley, ILL.,, May 8,
pleaded guilty and was given life SEN
tence at Joliet.
The will of the late postmaster gen.
eral, Henry c. Payne, was filed for pro-
bate in Milwaukee, Wis. The estate is
estimated in value at 100000, of which
$500, 900 is personal and 100000 real es-
tate
The employees of the Jeffersonville,
Ind, branch of the American Car &
| hnx Cd
that the plant will be closed Indefinitely
November l. About 300 men are af-
fected.
In public speech delivered before the
American street railway association,
| President Francis declared that the
worlds fair has lost at least $1O00,000
through being compelled to close on
Sunday.
Edmund Burke of Chicago, a retired
shoe dealer and reputed to be million
aire, committed suicide by shooting him
self in the head. Mr.. Burke was 67 years
old, and is said to have suffered from
nervous prostration for many years.
Miss Bessie Stone and Robert Gill,
who elOped from Ashland, Va, were
| lOuuu ucdu WIFI IuolT nduuS GAS pea, near
a pond in that vicinity. bullet hole in
the head of each told the story of sup
posed double suicide or murder and sui
eide.
Emperor Williams gift to the Amer
lean people of bronze statue of Fred
erick the Great will be unveiled by the
Baroness Speck Sternburg. the German
ambassadress, on the Esplanade of the
Army War college, Washington, No.
vember 10.
Grove Hurlbut, one of the most re-
markable characters in the Berkshires,
is dead at his home in Pittsfeld, Mass
Hurlbut was "a years old. He could
neither read nor write, but amassed a
fortune estimated at 100000 through
shrewd trading
Frank De Peyster Hall, member Of
several prominent New York clubs,
shot and killed himself. A suit
brought by him against two other
clubmen alleging SANDER and demand
ing 100000 damages, was to have
come up in court.
The census bureau has issued a report
on the executive civil service of the
United States, showing total of 271 ,169
employees, embracing all persons en-
ployed in the executive branches of the
federal government, except enlisted men
in military and naval branches.