Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-09-24
WEST AND SOUTH.

The aged Rev. DR.. William C. Pierce,
a pioneer Methodist minister of the
western reserve. died in Cleveland, O.
He had labored in Ohio, Michigan and
Indiana.
Fires in the forests of Washington
and British Columbia continue to
rage fiercely. Several villages have
been destroyed. Fully - score of
lives have been lost and many per-
sons are homeless.
The home of LOTUS Moritz, St. Paul,
Mimi, was destroyed by fire. Two
children, Louis, aged two years, and
Annie, aged II years, persisted in the
flames.
On Saturday anthracite coal sold
in Chicago at the highest figure
quoted in years. The Weaver Coal
company sold several orders of high
grade at $25 a ton and some at $40.
Democrats unanimously nominated
DR.. J. A. Rene, of West Superior, for
congressman for the Eleventh Wiscon-
sin district.
It is announced that free delivery
postal service has been established at
Washington, Ia, effective December II.
Because of the scarcity of funds for
the purpose, the Nebraska national
guard will not participate in the en-
campment of Fort Riley, Kan. Gov.
Savage has issued an order vetoing the
plan.
There has just been paid to the wild
ow of the late President Mckinley the
sum of $500 for salary which would
have been due him on July 1, 1902, the
appropriation for which was made at
the last session of congress.
At Maxwell, Ind, two men were
killed, one probably fatally hurt and
a dozen others more or less seriously
injured by the explosion of the boiler
in the sawmill owned by fremont
Cant.
Finding that his views in respect to
the treatment of trusts by reducing
the tariff in whole or in. part, are not
in accord with the views of many of
his party in Iowa, Speaker Henderson
has declined to accept the nomina-
ton for congress, and has withdrawn
from the race.
Arrangements have been made at
Piggott, Ark, for big wolf drive, in
which all the people will participate.
The animals have exterminated all
the hogs in the surrounding country,
have decimated the poultry and have
even invaded the suburbs of towns.
Heart disease caused the death OF
Hon. r. D. Bowler, prominent at
torney and formerly comptroller of
the treasury under the administration
of President Cleveland, at his home in
Cincinnati.
Flames burned over three acres of
Weyerhauser & Denkmann's lumber
yards, Rock Island, ILL.,, and Quilted sew
eral, neighboring houses. Loss, $780,
600; insurance. $40.500. >
Pittsfeld (Wis.) and Hazelhurst
(Pa.) post offices were broken into
Sunday night and robbed. Small sums
were stolen. y. .,.s
The town of Abbeyyille, in Reno coun.
ty, Kan, was destroyed by fire. Seven
retail stores were burned. The loss
will not exceed $4,000. -
Congressional nomination was given
to Myron H.. Walker, of Grand Rapids,
by the Fifth Michigan district demo
cratic congressional convention.
The Eighth Michigan district demo
cratic congressional convention II ON
mated Henry B. Youmans, of Bridge
port, for congress. ..s ..@*z j .Ts.z il s..<
The wifeaof Bishop J. N. Thoburn,
of the Methodist Episcopal church,
died in Port land, Ore, aged 46 years.
Notice has been given by T. NJ. link,
the congressional nominee Of the dem
ocrats Of the Eleventh Iowa district,
that he will not run. PreSp Of busi-
ness is given as the cause. s.7