Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-06-08
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the Week Ending June d

AAS AAAOAASAA ~ ~AAAy JNSe IoSSCu was
the coolest on record.
Mrs. Maria Pruett (colored) died at
Chillicothe, O., aged 104 years.
The Hubbard Mining company at
Mankato, Mimi, failed for $5oO,oo0.
Vice President Carrot A. Hobart cele-
brated his fifty-third birthday Thurs
day.
The Merchants bank at Lincoln,
Neb., closed it's doors with liabilities of
$4,000.
The Illinois senate killed a. bill to
allow 30 days horse racing and pool
selling in the state.
James B. Ireland celebrated the hun
dreth anniversary of his birth at his
home in Skillman, Ky.
President Mckinley has appointed
Miguel A. Otero, of Las Vegas, to be
governor of New Mexico.
At Arlington and other portions of
Texas many houses were destroyed and
crops ruined by tornado.
Thomas A. Boyd, a member of con-
gress from 1876 to 1880, died at his home
in Lewiston, ILL.,, aged 81 years.
The gold production in South Da-
kota in 1896 was 235, Alb fine ounces, a
gain over 1895 of 1925 ounces.
Joseph Howard. Jr., of New York,
has been elected president of the Inter-
national League of Press clubs.
William NJ. Boggs, paying teller of the
First national bank at Dover, Del, con-
focco1 hot lo, ~,
Griswold & Gillet, bankers and brok-
ers in New York, have made an assign
nlent with liabilities of 100000.
The new armored cruiser Brooklyn
sailed from New York for England to
participate in the queens jubilee.
James T. Lloyd (dem.) was elected to
congress from the First district of Mis-
souri, to succeed the late r. p. Giles.
John G. Carlisle, secretary of the
treasury under Grover Cleveland, has
opened law office in New York city.
Benjamin H. and Peter NJ. Dorland,
formerly of Oakville, Can, were killed
by Indians on Mount Wahsatch, Cal.
The steamer Massachusetts, ran down
in the English channel during a fog a
fishing boat and it's four occupants were
drowned.
The greatest fire that ever visited AL
exandria, Va, broke out in Bryan's fer
tilizing mill and did damage to the ex-
tent of $450,OOO.
John Borten and wife, living near
Edgerton, Ind, were fatally injured in
runaway. They were dragged 300 feet
before being released.
William H. Crawford, one of the most
widely known breeders and owners of
trotting horses in the country, died in
Chicago, aged 50 years.
Maria and Frances Butler, unmarried
sisters about so years of age, commit
ted suicide at their home in Lowell,
Mass, because of financial losses.
Charles w. Spalding, of the defrnct
Globe savings bank, at Chicago, has en-
tered plea of not guilty to indictments
recently found by the grand jury.
Nine German Catholic pastors in Gin.
cinnati announce that hereafter ser.
mons in English as we'll as in German
will be preached in their churches.
Mary Ann Pheister, mentally sound
and physically strong, celebrated her
one hundred and second birthday ami
versary at her home near Pataskala, o.
The one hundred and first anniver.
sary of the admission of Tennessee into
the union was appropriately celebrated
at the Centennial exposition in Nash
Vile.
At Morristown, n. j., David Wilson
(colored) was hanged for killing his
wife. The murder of Mrs. Wilson was
the first to occur in Morristown for 60
years.