The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-05-05
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending April 80

1t seems probable that the gold
standard will be adopted by Panama.
Almost 10000 acres of farm lands are
under water north of Hannibal, Mo-, and
wheat crops are ruined.
Over 100000 bushels of coal have been
shipped south from Pittsburg on the
present rise in the rivers
The steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse said from New York for Europe
with upwards of 800 passengers.
The republican convention for the
Twenty-fourth Illinois district nomi-
mated Pleasant T. Chapman for con-
gress.
At Middlesboro, KY, George Matthews
killed Green Henderson in quarrel over
young woman and fed to the noun
tains.
Three lives were lost and property
valued at 100000 was destroyed in
fire at the John Stanley soap works in
New York.
The war department has decided to
rehabilitate old Fort Omaha and es-
tablish signal station training school
at the old fort
Fire destroyed the greater part of
the business portion of Brainerd,
Mimi, causing a loss which is esti-
mated at $15O,000
monument was unveiled at Grafton.
w. Va, in the National cemetery to the
memory of Bailey Brown, the first SOL
6i1r killed in ha ix,;Ix
The supreme court of Indiana de-
cided that under the provision of the
Nicholson liquor law now in force ali
saloons must face on a street.
Marville and Constance Allen, aged
IL and eight years respectively, were
burned to death by the destruction Of
their parents home at Austin, Pa.
Nine-tenths of Fernie, B. c., town
of 5000, the largest settlement in
Crows Nest Pass district, was de-
stroyed by fire. Estimated loss $780,.
600.
A jury at Rock Rapids, Ia, found
Charles Rocker guilty of the muI der of
August Schroeder, at Doom, Ia, June
30, 1900, and fixed the penalty at
death.
DR.. w. S. Evans died at his residence
in Marion, ILL.,. aged a. Dr. Evens prac-
ticed medicine for 40 years, and was a
minister in the Methodist Episcopal
church.
The unprecedented speed of 1894
miles an hour has been made by the
Michigan Central train carrying Pres
ident Ledyard and President Newman
to Chicago.
Progress is reported in the movement
to endow a chair of political science in
Western Reserve university, at Cleve-
land, O., as a memorial to the late Sem
ator Hanna.
Mrs. r. L. Taylor has been granted a
divorce from former Gov. Robert L. Tay-
lor in chancery court at Knoxville, Tenn.
Mr.. Taylor served three terms as gov
ernor of Tennessee.
Under a resolution passed by the
board of education in New York city
female teachers in public schools may
now contract marriage without the al
tentative of resigning or being dis
missed.
Because nobody wants to be post
master the post Office at KilIingworth,
Conn, may have to be abolished
Congressman Sperry says he can get
no one to accept the Office. The SAL
airy is s172 year.
Thomas Emerson, a negro, whose
heart was pierced by penknife nearly
two months ago, has recovered after I'M
dergoing the operation of having the
wound stitched and has been discharged
from hospital in Philadelphia.
President Roosevelt has directed the
reappointment Of w. D. Crum as COL
lector of customs at Charleston, S. c.,
The senate will take up Crum's case i'm
mediately on reeonvening next session
when it will be disposed of finally.
Wendell Phillips Stafford. of Yer.
mont, has been appointed justice of
the supreme court of the District OF
Columbia, to succeed Justice Peter c.
Pritchard, who has been made a
United States circuit judge.
Indiana populists in state convention
at Indianapolis named elegates-at-large
and district delegates to the national
convention, which will be held July
at Springfield, Ill. Resolutions were
adopted indorsing Samuel w. Williams,
of Vincennes, for the nomination for