The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-07-19
Domestic.

A packing house employe at Omaha
found a diamond set in fine gold in
the stomach of a COW. The stone IS
valued at 800.
Obed Caswell, FOR two terms Judge
Of the Seventeenth judicial district
and nominated for a third term, died
suddenly at Marshalltown, Iowa.
Joe Walcott of Boston retained the
welterweight championship of the
world by knocking out Jack Dougher-
ty of Milwaukee In the eighth round
at the Lincoln Athletic club in Chel-
sea, nea Boston.
John Cody. single and aged twenty
tw,. was killed while at work in an
excavation at the site of the new
French Catholic church at Marquette.
Mich. He was buried in sand and
Suffocated to death.
Devolney Dunn, proprietor of the
Seneca Driving Park of Tifin, Ohio,
who vas attending the races at
jamestown, n. Y. was found dead in
bed at the Humphrey house. Heart
W "dS iiC dbS VI Ills utdlu.
Winston Churchill, the novelist, has
announced that he will be a candidate
for the Republican ~gubernatorial nom
ination. Since he was a member of
the state Legislature four years ago he
has been a factor in New Hampshire
politics.
Robert A.. Scott. a Civil war cap
tain, ex-postmaster and retired poll
tician died at La Crosse, aged sixty
seven. Mr.. Scott was the husband Of
Elsie Gle Scott, the richest woman in
Wisconsin. The couple were divorced
two years Ago..
The offer made by the New York
biological society to the governnen
o place a herd of buffalo on the w.
tia forest reserve in Southwestern Ok
lahoma, has been accepted, and a
herd of from fifteen to twenty buffa-
loes will be shipped as soon as an area
OF good grazing ground can be fenced
in.
Gov. Carter Of Hawaii has written
to President Roosevelt, inviting him
to visit the Hawaiian islands in con.
nCction with thc expressed intention
of the president to go to Panama.
o Garter suggests that the presi-
dent return by means of a triangular
trip from the isthmus to Honolulu, and
thence to San Francisco.
James Manning, f1fty-seven years
old, who. it is said, led Guiteau, Presi-
dent Garfield's assassin, to the gal.
lows. died in the hay loft of a stable
owned by Andrew Skau. lac Thirty
first street, Chicago. Manning served
a number Of terms as marshal of the
District OF Columbia. At the tir
his death he was employed as a
BILE hand. He left Office with $4,000
to his credit.
In choosing motormen for what Is
believed to be the first municipality
built and owned street railway in the
United States, the street railway Of
Monroe, La, Mayor A. A Forsythe
said that the first test for fitness for
this position will be total abstinence
from all intoxicating liquors. 1t is ex-
pected that the railway will begin
operating in a short time.
f.. Gates, professor in the divinity
school at the University of Chicago,
in an address before the junior college
students, declared that the disaster at
San Francisco occurred because the
city was built in the name Of Mann
mon and not in the name of Christ.
The 500 and more lives sacrificed in
the lroquois theater were sacrificed
because the building was erected in
the name of greed" he said, carving
his argument further.
The Berlin correspondent IF the
Daily Telegraph SAYS that 1t is de-
clared to be Emperor Williams inten-
ton to grant a somewhat extended
amnesty on the occasion of the bap-
tism Of his grandson. This amnesty
is to apply where there has been no
heinous breach Of the criminal code
involving a loss of civic honor.