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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-02-12
EXPLOSION IN A MINE.
Observation-Disclosures Bod
les Recovered

Antonio, Tex, Feb. 3.-Eighty-four
miners killed and is more buried I'M
der debris is the fearful record made
by a dust explosion at the Hondo
mines in Mexico, the news of which
has been received here. At the time
the explosion occurred there were
11S miners at work in the mine, all of
whom were entombed by the shaft be-
ing choked up by falling earth and
stone loosened by the explosion. Just
how many are dead is not at this time
known, but at last accounts received
here "a dead bodies had been recov-
cred. It is thought that the death
list will be over 100.
The Hondo mines are located at Co.
hilla, at terminus of branch of the
Mexican international road, about 100
miles south of Eagle Pass, and are the
most important in that state. Details
of the disaster are meage-, no names
of the victims being learned here.
Eagle Pass, Tex, Feb. 5.-Thirty live
men and IS bodies have been recovered
from the Hondo mine. Of the 80 few
will recover, as all are badly mangled
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-02-12
HARD ON CATTLE.
Cold Weather and a Grass Famine
Depicting Herds i'm Indian
Territory.

Guthrie, Okla, Feb. 5.-Indian ter
ritory is suffering the worst grass
famine in years, and in the vicinity
OF Antlers cattle are dying by hun
dreds. There have been two weeks
of cold weather. Between Fort
Smith and Paris, Tex, the country
has nearly all been burned and feed
is very scarce. In the event of open
weather the owners hope to revive
cattle on the bottom lands, but con-
tinued snow and sleet have made it
almost impossible for cattle to get
water and back to feed again. The
Impson valley and Red river country,
which has always ,wintered cattle
with little loss, reports that third
of the cattle will die before winter
is over.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-02-12
MATTERS OF FACT.

Turkey exports about $4,000, 900
worth of opium annually.
The production of cotton goods in
Italy has doubled in five years.
The newest fancy buckles are of
god or gilt metal, with background
of black satin ribbon. Many of these
are set with real or imitation Jewels.
Use cheap varnish to attach labels; to
maple strip cans, to cans of tea and
coffee, to boxes of spices, starch, ETC.,
and all glass bottles. Never leave a
glass bottle without label. -
The regular deficit in the Turkish
finances appears to be from 100000
to $12, 100000 every year; and at the be-
ginning Of last year it represented an
accumulated deficit of SIS, 100000. =.
The crow and the blackbird fly much
alike, but there is certain air of labor
in the fight of the crow that distin-
guishes it from the faster and easier
winging of the blackbird. The swallow
does not fly. He sweeps through the
air in erratic circular flights, catching
bugs and flies on the wing, and even nip
ping twigs from the trees as he passes
with which to build hissnests. He lis
never still. & $500
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-02-12
BOATS CAST ADRIFT.
Three Big BarEes with Gre " of Thir-
teen Persons Probably Lost
OF Fire Island,

New York, Feb. 5.-There is every
reason to believe that three barges,
coal-laden from Newport News for
Boston, have been lost at sea as re-
suit of the storm on Sunday night, and
that 10 people comprising the crews
have persisted. The barges were the
Antelope, Belle of Oregon and Mystic
Belle. They were in tow of the tug Rich
mond, and the finding of piece of
wreckage bearing the letters 20 p e.
lends confrma ton to other Informal
ton at hand. The Antelope loaded coal
at Newport News for Boston. She was
towed to New York by the tug Claver-
ton and was there transferred to the
Richmond, which was to have lowed
her to Newport. During the height of
the blow the Richmond's heavy towing
hawser snapped and the barges went
adrift off Fire island.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-02-12
THE EAST.

By an explosion at fire in Boyer
town, Pa, four persons were killed.
A large number of vessels were
wrecked in storm along the Allan
tic coast. Big ships were driven ashore
in many places and several lives lost.
Losses by the fire at Waterbury,
Conn.,, aggregate nearly 100000.
Thirty acres of business buildings
are in ruins and hundreds of persons
are homeless.
Through New York, Pennsylvania
and in New England blizzard ragged
for 30 hours, and trains were stalled,
wires were down and business sus-
pended.
On their way from Newport News
to Boston three barges loaded with
coal, were lost and crews of Is per-
sons were drowned.
In Pittsburg the explosion of boil
er on towboat killed six persons.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-02-12
OLD CASE DECIDED.
Supreme Court UphOlds Illinois Cen
trails Claim to Valuable lands
in Chicago.

washington, Feb. 4.-Justice Har.
Ian in the supreme court on Monday
handed down a final decision in the
Chicago lake front case, in which he
upheld the right of the Illinois Gen.
trail railroad to the shore property
1T now occupies north of Randolph
street and between Twelfth and Six
teenth streets.
This is the termination of the long
litigation between the city of Chi
cago and the state of Illinois on the
one part and the Illinois Central
railroad on the other part. This liti-
cation began in 1883 and had for it's
object the dispossession of the rail-
road company from everything ex-
cept its mere right of way.
By the decision handed down Mon
day the court affirms the right of the
Illinois Central railroad to it's
wharves, freight yards, piers and
slips on the lake front, north of Ran
dolph street, and to the similar prop
erty between Twelfth and Sixteenth
streets on the South side, in the
vicinity of it's roundhouse and it's
main passenger station.
The court, however, perpetually en-
joins the railroad from filling in any
more land on the water front on the
ground that whatever rights it has
were acquired by the celebrated lake
front act of 1869, which was repealed
by the act of 1873, and hence the
railroad company only can enjoy
such rights as it acquired between
1869 and 1873.
The value of the property involved
in the decision is estimated at about
$10,00O,0OO, and it leaves the railroad
in undisputed possession, while at
the same time it reaffirms the abso.
lutte control by the city of Chicago
of what is known as the lake front
extending from Randolph street to
Twelfth street.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-02-12
His Third Term.

Managua, Nicaragua, Feb. al.
Santos .Zelaya was on Sunday inaugu-
rated president of Nicaragua for his
third term in the presence of the Mica
raguan congress and large assem-
blage of citizens. Judge Matos, of the
supreme court, administered the oath
to the president, who in his address
briefly reviewed his previous admins
tration in Nicaragua and referred
hopefully to the prospects for the con-
struction of the Nicaraguan canal and
to the benefits that Nicaragua would
derive therefrOm.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-02-12
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS DAMAGE.

Hungry Flames Sweep Business Por-
ton of Waterbury,, Conn.
Waterbury, Conn.,, Feb. 4.-For ten
hours. Sunday night and Monday
morning flames famed by high wind
held sway over the business portion
of this city, causing loss that will
exceed $3,OOO,OOO. The best business
portion of the city, forming triangle
on the north by Exchange place, on
the west by Bank street, on the south
by Grand street and on the east by
South Main street, was almost wiped
out.
The first fire which started in the
big store of the Reid & Hughes Dry
Goods company, on Bank street, was
not considered under control until
about 100000 worth of property had
been destroyed. About the time the
firemen supposed they had the flames
under control second fire broke out
and the establishment was completely
wrecked. The occupants of the hotel
were forced to seek the street in their
night clothes.
The following property losses are
believed to be conservative. They in
clude buildings and contents.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-02-12
August Thierry, first assistant chief
William Westenhoff. foreman.
The Injured.

August Thierry, first assistant chief.
William Westenhoff. foreman.
The injured:
Chief Swingley, hurt by falling bricks.
William Juelg. driver; fractured skull
and internal injuries.
Frank Lingo, driver; bruised and hurt
internally.
Patrick Mccarthy, engineer: struck by
falling bricks.
Monroe Moore, electric light inspector:
fell through shaft; bruised and
scratched.
William Wann, fireman.; hurt about hips
and legs.
The building was one of the Oldest
business houses in the city, having
been occupied by the Mclean Med
ical company 20 years ago, but of
late has been occupied by the Amer
lean Tent & Awning company. Two
years ago it was badly damaged by
a fire which started in the fifth story,
but it was repaired and the company
still occupied it. The monetary loss
will not exceed 100000.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-02-12

A San Francisco footpad was re-
Gently arrested, tried and convicted
and sentenced by Judge Cook, of the
criminal court, to imprisonment for
life-or, which is the same thing, to
cumulative sentences for each convic-
ton heretofore, amounting in all to
enough Imprisonment to amount to a
liz term. The terror of the criminal
law is the best means for the disci.
pline Of criminals. In the case of a
hardened, incorrigible and habitua]
criminal the ends of the law and the
safety of the public are served best
by keeping him shut up. .s
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-02-12
A WEEKS HISTORY
The Important Happ jennings Of a
Week Briefly Told.
IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNION
All the Latest News of Interest from
Washington, From the East the
10. West and the South.
THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES
F1FTY-sEvENTH CONGRESS.

FIFTY-sEvENTH CONGRESS.
The United States senate was not in
session on the 1st. The house after the
transaction of some minor business,
which included the passage of a senate
bill to prohibit the sale of firearms,
opium and Intoxicating liquors in the
New Hebrides, devoted the day to eulo-
gies on the life and public services of
the late Representative Brosius, of
Pennsylvania.
The United States senate on the Sd
discussed the Philippine tariff bill and
the measure providing for an increase
in the salaries of United States judges.
an amendment providing for increase
OF the salaries of senators and repre-
sentatives to $500 being defeated. In
the house the urgent deficiency bill
($2o.239.62O was reported, as was also
the bill repeating the Spanish war rev.
enue taxes, and the measure to impose
a tax of ten cents a pound upon oleo-
margarine. colored in imitation of but
ter. was discussed.
After brief discussion the United
otACeS senate on the 4tn passed Ghe
bill providing for 25 per cent. in
crease in the salaries of United
States judges. and during the re-
mainder of the session the urgent
deficiency appropriation bill was I'M
der consideration. In the house
Delegate Wilcox. of Hawaii, intro
duced a bill increasing annual sal
aries as follows: President Of the
United States, 100000; vice presi-
dent, $4,000: cabinet officers, $4,000
each; members of congress, $4,000.
A joint resolution was introduced in
viting Paul Kruger to visit the Unit
ed States as a guest of the nation.
The oleomargarine bill was further
debated.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-02-12

Lewis Nixon, the new Tammany
leader, a hard worker himself, tells
this story of Edison's industry: A
fond parent who was a great stickler
for punctuality, took his son to visit
the great electrician. Just before
leaving he asked Mr.. Edison to give
the boy word of advice: my boy"
said the inventor. never look at the
clock"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-02-12
BIG FIRE AT DWIGHT.
Laboratory of the Kelley Institute
and the Livingston Hotel
Are Destroyed.

Bloomington, ILL.,, Feb. 5.-The city
of Dwight suffered 100000 fire loss
Tuesday. The great laboratory of the
Kelley institute and other buildings
were completely destroyed, together
with the Livingston hotel. The hotel
was fine brick and stone structure
and was owned and controlled by the
Kelley company. All of the quests
and employees escaped without injury,
with the exception of colored cook,
who was bruised by jumping from a
second-story window.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-02-12
Invites Miss Roosevelt.

Washington, Feb. 5.-Hon. White:
law Reid has invited Miss Alice Roose-
welt, eldest daughter of the president,
to accompany him to London as his
guest when he goes to attend the
coronation of King Edward. It is the
present expectation of Miss Roose-
velt to avail herself of this opportun-
ity to see London, but if she does so
she will have no status save that sim
ply of a young American girl, and will
not figure in the coronation cere-
monies in any manner.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-02-12
DEATHS NUMBER SIX.
Last of the Bodies Taken from Ruins
of St. Louis Fire

Last of the Bodies Taken from Ruin.
of st. Louis Fire.
st. Louis, Feb. 5.-The deaths
caused by Tuesday nights fire, which
destroyed the five-story building at
1884 Chestnut street, occupied by
the American Tent and Awning com
pany, now number six. In addition
one man is missing and may have per-
ished. Nineteen fremen were buried
under falling walls, but Is were taken
out alive. Some of these were pain
fully hurt, but all are expected to re-
cover.
The dead are:
William Dundon, pipeman company
No. q.
Michael Kehoe, assistant foreman COM
pany No. 49,
Charles Krenning, pipeman company
No. II.
Franklin Mcbride, pipeman company
No. y.
Daniel W. Steele, foreman company
No. ~.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-02-12

The Swearing in" of new cabinet
officers has taken on unwonted dig
nifty of late. The oath of the pres
ent postmaster general was admins
tered by the chief justice of the
United States supreme court and that
of the new secretary of the treasury
by Justice Shiras, of that court. A
notary public could do it as we'll, and,
that used to be the custom.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-02-12
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer and
'Huckleberry Finn" are to be drama
tiled.
A Chinese dressed as woman at
tempted to enter Ogdensburg, N. Y,
from Canada.
Local capitalists will construct $1o,-
100000 bridge across the St. Lawrence
river at Montreal.
Millions of acres in Louisiana, CAL
ifornia and Texas are offered to home
seekers by railroads.
New York capitalists will construct
$4,000, 900 bridge across the St. Law
renee river at Montreal.
L. E. Cooley says $4,000 Americans
can engage in profitable business along
the Nicaragua canal right of way.
The Chinese government refused to
pay $4,000 in salaries due foreign pro-
lessons of the Imperial university.
An arbitration board of preachers
awarded Baptist pastor at Ports
mouth, Va, $3.50 for 2O2 sermons lost
in a railroad wreck.
- Nv: 1@OuAo JuuSC luIcu III d OdIaSe
case against street railway company
that "smooth" nickels must be accept
ed at their face value.
The sum of nearly 81, 900 900 was sent
by postal orders from persons in the
United States to friends in NORWAY
during the year 1901.
Prison guards at South McAlester,
Ind. T.. prevented the escape of 142
convicts by firing upon them. Two
were shot and the rest surrendered
Peace has been practically agreed
upon by the big copper companies and
a consolidation similar to the steel
trust is reported under way. Foreign
concerns are interested. %s~,.stl. -
Steamship lines plying between
America and England have reached an
agreement and advanced freight rates.
!! A material increase in CARRYING
charges for grain, -four and provisions
is made. ,* 4
Prof. Charles w. Pearson, of North
western university in Chicago, in q
proposed book, The Carpenter Proph-
et,'' rejects virgin birth, divinity Of
Christ, miracles in general and the
ascension. .s'...s SIS: 53. al.
a British author has started q con-
|troversy over Shakespeare's writings.
[claiming that the great poet was i
reincarnation Of the Messiah, and that
hts plays and poems conceal hidden
MESA ges.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-02-12

Statistics just published by the
Paris medical authorities show that
since the first application of Pas
tours anti-rabies treatment 26,165
persons bitten by mad dogs have
been treated at the Pasteur insti-
tute, and of these all but 1O7 have
recovered. No wonder the city of
Paris plans magnificent monument
to the memory of the great scientist.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-02-12

@s The city Of Galveston has about
made up its mind to accept the plans
prepared by the board Of engineers
for the protection of the city from
gulf storms such as overwhelmed it
IN September of 1900. The plans in
clnde the building Of sea wall along
the gulf front Of the city rising Il
feet above low water mark, and the
raising Of the city's grade for is feet
for 200 feet back from the water
front with 3 gentle slope down to the
sea wall. The improvement is to
I cost So 500, 600, and will make the city
- IL from all future storms.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-02-12
Follows America. Examp1e.

Washington, Feb. 3.-Britain has
announced her determination to abide
by the policy determined upon by the
United States with respect to the re-
turn to China of that portion of the
Boxer indemnity which may be in ex-
cess of actual injuries and expenses.
This determination is stated in the re-
port of w. w. Rockhill, late commits
sioner to China, which will be made
public in a few DAYS.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-02-12

By the will of Mrs. Priscilla P. Cres-
son of Philadelphia, a trust fund of
s5oO,00o is created. the, income of
which is to be expended in paying the
expenses Of promising students who
wish to study art abroad. It is to be
hoped that some day a fund will be
established to promote the study of
art at home. Although it is agreed
that course of study abroad is es-
sential to the artist. such a condition
of affairs is unfortunate, and so long
as it continues there will be no such
thing as native American art.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-02-12
DEHDnY CHS EXPLOSION
ELEVEN PERSONS KILLED Anp MANY INSURE
TERRIBLE Disaster Occurs in ChicaQo-S1t
Their Lives in a st. louis Fre-Flatoes
- Millions Of Dollars Damage
" . Waterbury, Conn.

Chicago, Feb 6.-Eleven lives were
lost and score of persons injured in
an explosion on Wednesday night that
demolished two buildings and blew
out the fronts of dozen other struc-
lures in Archer avenue at Twenty
second street. Street cars were lift
ed from the rails and whirled round
and round on the pavement, gas mains
blew up and sent steel and iron man
hole covers crashing through space,
flame mounted high at a dozen points
and panic reigned for almost an hour.
Firemen and policemen and ambu-
lances and patrol wagons were hur-
ried to the scene, and the conveyances
were used to carry away the injured.
| The list of dead is as follows:
| Otto Trostel, butcher, SIG Twenty second
street.
Mrs. Otto Trostel.
Otto TrOstel, Jr., aged II years.
Anna Trostel, aged nine years.
Minnie Trostel, aged six years.
"Baby" Trostel, aged two years.
| Fred Trostel, nephew of the proprietor
of the shop.
| Sophia Kneipp, domestic in the home of
| Otto Trostel. .:
| Mary Rosenthal, % years old, PHI Purple
street; was in butcher shop visiting with
family.
| Unknown woman.
| Unknown man.
Scores of people were more or less
injured.
The first explosion, which was fol-
lowed by four more bursts of flame
and noise along the road in Archer
avenue, occurred in the basement of
the meat shop conducted by Otto
Trostel, two-story brick and frame
building at 376 Twenty-second street.
There was q terrific roar and the
frame building trembled, then seemed
to fall into a thousand parts and col
lapse. The entire front blew out and
went whirling across the avenue,
while the roof and the side walls
crumbled and fell in, carrying the
helpless men and women and chill
dren down into the mass of fire and
broken timbers. J.. The flash of fire that
accompanied the defamation and the
collapse Of the meat market illumi-
mated the avenue for half a mile in
either direction.
! The property losses include not
merely the buildings destroyed by
lire, but the broken windows and
damaged stock: of practically all the
stores within o block of the explo-
sion. A partial estimate places the
losses at about $4,000.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-02-12

One feature of western civilization
has just made it's first appearance in
Japan, where native woman has
brought suit for breach of promise,
hitheTs, an unknown procedure in
the lar / of the chrysanthemum. The
lady il, question is a wise young wild
ow, WI: induced her well-to-do wooer
to sig: an agreement that in case
either party wished to back out he
or she Ahould forfeit sum of money
to the other. The prospective bride
groom broke the engagement.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-02-12

A suggestion is made that congress
investigate the matter of railroad
wrecks and see if some means of pre-
venting them, or at least lessening
them, cannot be devised. Tt is an
excellent idea. There are too many
railroad wrecks in this country
probably more than. in any other
country on earth, in proportion to
size. Many of them are certainly
preventable. In some cases they are
unquestionably due to overworking
men. We need more attention to or
binary precautions for the protection
of human life.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-02-12

A Berlin dispatch states that the
imperial secretary of state for the
interior has notified the tariff COM
mittee of the reichstag that if the
members of the committee force into
the tariff bill the amendment design
ed to provoke retaliation abroad the
bill will be rejected. as the govern
ment could not support it.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-02-12
WEST AND SOUTH.

Fire nearly wiped out the railroad
town of Clancy, Mont.
H. F. Pancake, NJ. C. Lawler, Chris
Ferndon and c. r. Blunt, Iowa stock
men, were killed in railway wreck
at Apple River. III.
The Illinois Central railroads title
to lake front land in Chicago valued
at $1O,O0O,000 has been affirmed by the
United States supreme court.
Agnes Inglis, of Detroit, leader
in her classes, committed suicide at
the University of Michigan in Ann Ar
Dor.
Flames ut Mentone, Ind, wiped out
half the business portion of the town.
The millionaire soda fountain
manufacturer of Boston, James w.
Tufts, died suddenly of apoplexy at
Pinehurst. n. C.
All laws enacted by the last Wv
oming legislature are invalid, for the
reason that the bills were not read
and recorded properly in the lower
house.
At Cumberland, Nd, three young
women were fatally hurt and six
others injured while coasting.
The Ohio legislature defeated a
resolution declaring for election of
senator's by popular vote. j. :.
The Minnesota legislature convened
in special session to enact tax code.
In Chicago Dowie compromised the
suit of his brother-in-law, Stevenson,
and further proceedings in court
were dropped. The latter is said to
have been paid $17s,Ooo by the Zion
leader. u. Il. .. 81.
Ten firemen were killed and six in.
jurcd by the burning of the American
Tent & Awning company's building
in St. Louis. .ss@ IS |.ssis sc Z .:3@ 4.
Fire destroyed the laboratory and
hotel conducted by the Leslie Z.
Kelley company at Dwight, Ill, the
loss being 5000, 900.
At Peoria, I'LL, coasting hobs on
which nix boys were racing ran into
9 street car and all were badly hurt,
three probably fatally.
p. Baker, Of Indiana, took the
oath Of office in Chicago as United
States circuit judge for the Seventh
circuit.