Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-12-07

| company, have been destroyed by hre.
The loss will reach S500,000.
Private Secretary Loeb has issued an
official signed statement denying that
President Roosevelt's children had
cruelty treated the Thanksgiving turkey
sent to the president by Mr.. Vost, OF
Rhode Island, by chasing 1t until it was
exhausted. The turkey came to the
white house dressed ready for cooking.
Battling" Nelson, of Chicago,
whipped young Corbett," of Denver,
in the tenth round of glove contest in
San Francisco.
Calling guns were used to repulso a
night attack of miners at Zeigler, ILL.,,
and two companies of troops give pro-
lection to the Letter plant
Russia has accepted the invitation
of the United States to conclude an ar
bitration treaty on the lines OF the
American French treaty.
| The Citizens Industrial association
began its second annual convention in
New York
Paul Schumann, husband of Mime.
schumann- Heink, the well-known sing
er, now in Boston, died at their home
in Dresden, Germany. Death was due
to paralysis.
The Japanese reported as saying they
will capture Port Arthur in Fl days.
They lost 1900 men in one hours fight
ing there.
Nine. Janauschek, the noted actress.
died Of paralysis in an actors home on
Long Island
In a clash between Italian factions
at Carbonate, Pa, two men were
killed and another seriously injured.
| Three laborers employed in the dig
ging of "a trench for the laying Of wa
ter mains in southwest st. Louis, Mo-,
were buried by a cave-in and persisted.
Gen. Jacob S. Coxey, of Mount Ver-
non, O., celebrated as the leader of the
Commonwealth" army, filed a per-
sonal petition in bankruptcy in the
United States court at Columbus, o.
His liabilities are given as $287 ,OO0
! BY voting to return to work pending
arbitration, the 400 miners of the
Wade and Morgan mines ended the
only coal miners strike existing in
Ohio.
Rev. DR.. ]. D. Rankin, formerly pres
Eident of Howard university, Washing,
ton, D. c., died in Cleveland, O.
Raymond Wilsey, proprietor of the
Wilsey house, at East Berne, N. Y.
lies dead as the result of an accidental
shot from the gun of his younger
brother.
The official canvas Of the electoral
vote OF Indiana gives Roosevelt plu-
rality of 1894.
President John Mitchell, Vice Presi-
dent William Lewis, and Secretary
Treasurer w. B. Wilson, of the United
Mine Workers, will be reelected with
out opposition at the next national
convention at Indianapolis, January Is.
Capt. A. Ross has been selected as
commandant of the Great Lakes naval
training station.
Rev. DR.. William M. Paxton, of
Princeton university, and seminary,
died at Princeton. DR.. Paxton was in
his eighty-tirst year and his death was
the result of a paralytic stroke. He
was the Oldest living trustee of Prince
ton.
The drought in Kentucky affects all
forms of industry and milk famine is
threatened.
The United States supreme court de-
cided that the Fayerweather will, giving
$3,500,OOO to colleges. and hospitals, is
valid.
Frank and Arthur Thayer. aged II and
IL years, respectively. sons of Capt. Ar
thur Thayer, broke through the ice in a
pond in West Point, N. Y, and the older
boy was drowned.
Spain accepts Americas call for a
peace congress. None of the powers so
far have declined.
Complete returns on the vote of Hill
nois give Roosevelt plurality of 304,-
739 and Deneen 300,047.
Samuel Gompers was practically unan-
imously chosen president of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor.
| Gen. James R. Carnahan, head of the
uniform rank Knights of Pythias, has
been exOnerated of the charge that he
showed favoritism in the awarding of
drill prizes at the conclave held in Louis
| vile, August Is to 20.
The Standard OH company is to be in
vestigated by the bureau of corporal ions.
The inquiry will be conducted in WASH
ington.
P. H. O'Donnell, once convicted and
fined as jury briber, was set free by
Judge Hanecy in Chicago on writ of
habeas corpus.
| Secretary of War Taft arrived at Pam
ANA and assured the residents of
Americas friendship.
Fred r. Hamlin, the theatrical man
ger and producer of successful comic
operas, died suddenly in New York city.
The porte has issued orders to the au-
thorities at Trebizond to cease interfer-
| ence with the sale of American Bibles
and to restore those that have been
seized.
The bullion buyer for the Wood
Street smelling works, in London, for
years operated by the Rothschilds, is
said to have absconded, his populations
amounting to more than 81 ESQ, 900.
One of the largest tobacco shipments
that has ever been made to a foreign
port has been sent abroad from James,
vile, Wis. It consisted of 5000 cases Of
leaf tobacco and was consigned to Ant
werp. 49,. -. x
The text OF the Anglo-Russian North
sea treaty has been given out in London,
and it raises a storm because punish
ment is not provided for. ~
While on their way to Sunday school:
at New Britain. Conn. Harold q Parko