Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-08-24
MINOR NEWS. ITEMS.

szr For the Week Ending Aug. is.
Col, Isaac S. Tichenor died at his
home in Washington, aged 60 years.
Gen. Tchernaief, the conqueror of
Tashkend, died suddenly at St. Peters
burg.
Charles H. Meyer, German consul in
Philadelphia, died of apoplexy, aged 70
years. sr,"
A dispatch from Paris says eight
deaths from sunstroke occurred in that
city Tuesday. ~~-~. A..
Large and extensive coal deposits
have been discovered about 40 miles
from Sitka, Alaska.
According to German advices the
Berlin schools have been closed on
account of the heat.
Fire at Fresno, CAL, destroyed prop
erty valued at $500, 900 and caused the
death of four persons. IA
It is authoritatively announced that
Gen: Fitzhugh Lee will enter the SEN
atorial race in Virginia. =
The bubonic plague is again epidemic
in Bombay. There were 1913 deaths Of
AC1d1ly IcpOIteu ldSL week. y
Mrs. Delilah Cromwell, the oldest
woman in Nebraska, died at her home
in Table Rock. aged 100 years.
j. Frank Lee, known as the largest
man in Michigan, died at his home in
Bangor. He weighed 452 pounds.
Two young women committed sui
eide by jumping from a ferryboat into
the Delaware river at Philadelphia.
j. F. Stattz, ex-state treasurer and
pioneer of central Kansas, died sud-
denly of heart disease at Enterprise.
John Searles, a wealthy farmer, MUIR
dered his young wife and then killed
himself at their home west of Peru, Ill.
A mob took Amos Nicely, negro
rapist, from the officers near Sheridan,
Ark, and shot him, killing him in
stantly.
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie has offered the
town council of Dumfries, Scotland,
the sum of e 10000 to build q public
library.
John S. Robinson was nominated for
congress at Norfolk, Neb., on the
fusion ticket to represent the Third
district.
Three cases of yellow fever and
three suspected cases were officially
reported at the marine barracks in
Key West, Fla.
Capt. John Carmichael, commissary
department, committed suicide by
shooting at Lakeland, Fla, ill-health
being the cause.
Republicans of the Fifth Wisconsin
congressional district nominated Con-
gresham Samuel S. Barney, of West
Bend, by reclamation.
Herman E. Blair, the millionaire CAP
italist of Cincinnati, at dinner in
Denver, COL, gave his wife birthday
presents amounting to 100000.
The fourteenth annual meeting of
the Society of American Florists
opened in Omaha, Neb., with an at
tendance of over 300 delegates.
The Fourth Wisconsin district re-
publican congressional convention re-
nominated Congressman Theobald OF
jen, of Milwaukee, on the first formal
ballot.
A rare scene of military splendor
was witnessed at Chickamauga Ma
tional Park, Ga, when $4,000 soldiers
passed in review before a throng of
10000 spectators.
At Rockford, Ill.,. George Emmett,
while in temporary At of insanity,
shot and instantly killed his sister,
Anna, aged IS, and then shot himself,
blowing his own head off.
The New York board of aldermen
killed an ordinance introduced provid-
ing punishment for swearing in pub
lie places by laying it on the table by
an almost unanimous vote
Rev. Samuel Breakwell, an aged Bap-
list clergyman and one of the oldest
settlers of Highwood and Lake county,
ILL.,. was stabbed to death by Carl
Pethl1e, trouble over property being
the cause.
Arsenic in Jumps as big as peas was
found in the chocolate bonbons which
were sent to Mrs. John P. Dunning. of
Dover, Del, and which not only sent
her to her grave but caused the death
of her sister. Mrs. Joshua D. Dean: