Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-02-04
SUMMARY OF THE WEEKS NEWS
Monday, Jan. Fl.

~ ID reported the Santa re Will take
OH its Pullman sleepers and put in the
Wagner cars.
Between 400 and 500 men employed
at the coal mines at Vintonville, Pa,
have gone on a strike.
The volume Of buying orders for
American securities has increased rap
idly during the last week.
Lord Leighton, better known as Sir
Frederick Leighton, president Of the
Royal academy, is dead He was 50
years Of age.
,, Yang Yu, Chinese minister to the
United States, has been promoted to
president Of the Chinese imperial board
of sacrifcial worship
Mrs Betsey Holler Moody, mother Of
DIV. ght Lyman Moody, the famous
evangelist, is dead at East Mortified,
Vt. She was 81 years old
The sale of the Macon and Birming-
ham railway to Edwards & Parsons of
Baltimore for 5000, 900 was confirmed
before Judge ~Fenton at Macon, Ca
Tuesday, Jan. rs.
A Populist meeting at Powhattan,
Ark, broke up in riot in which sew
eral persons were seriously injured.
". A. and c. S. Brown of Marinette7
Wis, have purchased the Last Chance
gold mine i'll the Cripple Greek region.
AS the result Of a fire at the house of
!; John Steele at P1ttsburg, two Of his
children are dead and his wife is dying.
W. T. Jacobs, George Props and
Thomas Higgins were drowned at
Sewall, W. Va, while crossing New
river in q boat.
Colonel Theodore Seminario, the hero
of the Northern campaign in the recent
revolutionary movement in Peru, has
committed suicide.
The Franklin mine at Houghton,
Mich, has resumed work after two
months Of idleness caused by the burn
ing OF the engine houses.
Near Sulphur Springs, KY, John
Flora, q well-to-elo farmer, aged IS,
was shot and probably fatally injured
by his wife, aged rs, while trying to
kidnap their child
Wednesday, Jan. 20.
The annual meeting Of the National
Board Of Trade is in session at WASH
ington.
Sir Joseph Barnby, the well known
musician and principal of the guild hall
school of music at London, is dead.
The treasury lost $40, 900 in g old coin
and 5000 i'll gold bars Tuesday, max
ing the reserve at the close of bu siness
$50 1866, 4G3.
General Joseph H. Porter died at
New York. The Immediate cause of
death was complications from a gunshot
wound in the lung received during
the war;
The New York Republican delega-
ton i'll the house will hold conference
within few days III the interest of
Levi P. Morton's candidacy for the
presidency.
George Cochran Lamb Oman, the
we'll known artist, is dead at Philadel-
phia, aged sc years. He was the eldest
son OF the late jaime Reed Oman, the
distinguished portrait painter.
Thursday, Jan. 80
Columbia Harriso n, cousin of ex.
President Harrison, is dead at Decatur
Ind
The president has nominated John
M. Lenlhan surveyor Of customs at
Dubuque, Ia.
The Rhode opera house, Kenosha,
Wis, was destroyed by fire. Loss,
SAC, 900; insurance, $1,000.
A young couple Of LaWrenceburg,
KY, have j ust announced that they
were married four years ago.
John L. Sullivan, while drank, walked
off the rear platform of Rock Island
and Peoria tram. He was not much
hurt.
The boiler at the lumber mill of the
Southern Pine company at Offe1man,
Ga, exploded, wrec!1ang the mill and
killing four employees.
Friday Jan. 81.
'oSAA IL. sullivan . 1l1Jt!l1CS HULL las
fall from a train may prove fatal.
Associate Justice Kilam Of the South
Dakota supreme co urt has resigned.
Ambassador Bay;ard was the subject
Of bitter partisan discussion in the
house.
A colored bishop Of Ohio was barred
out by leading Bo ston hotels because he
is black.
Indiana'e Legislative apportonment
was declared unconstitutional by the
supre court
Cuban General Gomez is hardly dead,
as reported He has broken through
the panish military line to support
Maceo
The st. Paul Title Insurance and
Trust company secured a favorable de.
cision in pro ceedings involving the ST.
Cloud street railway.
Satu day, Feb 1.
The treasury deficit for January il
about SIS 100000.