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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13
WEST AND SOUTH.

The legislature of Mississippi assem-
bled in regular biennial session at Jack
son.
In Chicago Herbert J. Croft commit
ted suicide, after Frank J. Croft, his
twin brother, had taken his own life.
Julius Frederick, arctic explorer and
member of the Greedy expedition in
1881, died in Indianapolis, Ind, aged
So years.
At the age of los years John Reed,
a veteran of three wars, died in neca-
tur, Ind.
The students of the Wesleyan uni
versity at Delaware, O., will hereafter
not be allowed to use tobacco.
A general strike was ordered in Chi
cago among hotel engineers. Some re-
fused to go out and nonunion men re-
placed others.
In wreck on the Rock Island rail-
road near Willard, Kan, II persons
were killed and SO injured.
Niedemeier, Van Dine and Marx, the
in Chicago.
Coroner's. inquest over victims of
the theater fire began in the city coun-
Gil chamber in Chicago. The death list
has been reduced to SOS, because of
shifting bodies between morgues.
In wreck of a Burlington passen-
ger train at Rockford, S. D., nine per-
sons were injured, some seriously.
Admiral Taylor, chief of the bureau
of navigation, urges naval station for
Lake Michigan, and Lake Bluff and
Racine are the locations favored.
For alleged violation of the law
the Coliseum in Chicago, where the
republican national convention will be
held, has been closed, and churches
come next.
Many of the 1roquois theater victims
in Chicago, says the coroner, are bur-
led in wrong graves because of mis-
takes in Identification.
The Chicago school board adopted q
memorial for SO pupils and 80 teachers
of the schools killed in the theater
fire. ....., ~. 49,. q
On a charge of forgeries aggregatine
$3.50, 600 J. E. MARCEL, cashier Of the
Highland (Kan.) bank, was arrested. !
At Buena Vista, Ark, q negro wis
lynched for attempted assault on q
young white girl: ii
An electrical worker named H. Fra.
zee was found responsible for the fire al
the Iowa state capitol, he having
dropped q lighted candle near where
the blaze was first discovered.
From San Miguel county, Col, 5t
strikers have been expelled BY the mil.
itary authorities.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13
Are Placed ON Trial.

Chicago, Jan. Ivan Dine, Marx
and Niedermeier, three men accused
of the street car barn robbery and
double murder, and a long list of
other desperate crimes, were put on
trial for their lives in Judge Kersten's
court Wednesday morning. The
Criminal Court building was filled
early with a crowd of the curious.
The work of obtaining a jury is ex-
pected to take several days. Lawyers
for the accused men will make a hard
fight, and many objections are looked
FOR
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Nine. Nordica has changed all her
plans for another concert tour through
the United States, and will return to
Europe, actuated by fear that threats
against her life will be executed.
At Montreal, Que, and adjoining mu-
inequalities 1000 cases of typhoid fever
were reported.
En- route for the United States ex-
Gov. Taft, of the Philippine islands,
sailed from Manila.
A Russian squadron sailed from
Port Arthur for the Corean coast with
sealed orders and will attempt to in
tercept any japanese force that seeks to
land on the peninsula.
United States warships were assem-
bled at Colon, and it was believed by
naval officers there that their mission
was to insist on the withdrawal of the
Colombian army now across the border
or force fight.
Secretary Hay has Informed Gen.
Rafael Reyes, the Colombian special
envoy, that the Panama question will
not be reopened.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13

Is there no limit to the lconoclasm of
the age? Here they have started dis
pute over the question as to the date
on which the Pilgrim Fathers landed in
Plymouth, and are even assailing the
authenticity of the story about the de-
barkation on the famous rock. Just as
if anybody who chooses to do so cannot
go to Plymouth and see the rock for
himself.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13
LATER NEWS.

| Charles Brooks, an inmate of the
New Jersey state prision, is dead.
Keeper John Fitzgeral has bullet in
his hip and William j. Harvey, de:
putty, is suffering from scalp wounds
as the result of Brooks attempt to es
cape.
Some 5000 Japs at Vancouver are
preparing for departure to Japan the
moment war is declared. Most of them
are army reserve men.
| Street car men of Salt Lake, Utah,
made an infectual attempt to storm
the city Jail and lynch John Shock
leigh He is charged with shooting
and killing John Gleason, moterman,
and fatally wounding Thomas Brigh-
ton, conductor.
The president sent to the senate the
nomination of of J. j. McCardy of St.
Paul, to be auditor for the postoffice
department.
Congress is expected to pass laws
|opening to settlers large tracts of the
Indian lands in North and South Da-
kota.
American warships patrolling the
eastern coast of Panama may make a
demonstration against Colombians.
! The cabinet decides that hundred
thousand government employees must
work half an hour longer each day.
The case against Senator DIETRICH of
Nebraska was dismissed. The court
decided that he was not senator when
the alleged bride was accepted.
The president dominates Major Gen.
eral Adna r. Chaffee to be lieutenant
general, vice Young, to be- retired.
The boiler in the high school at
Spirit Lake, Ia, exploded, but no one
was hurt.
J. H. Coutts, president of the First
National bank at Upton, Ia, dropped
dead in a hotel at Cedar Rapids.
Capt. Fred Pabst, the deceased Mil
waukee brewer, left an estate of S1O,-
100000
All the Jewish bankers in Europe
have decided not to help Russia in
placing large loan.
France has decided not to mix in the
Russo-Japan squabble.
At Kansas City a trolly car jumped
the track and fell down ten-foot en-
bankment, injuring five persons
| The licences of seven theaters in St..
Louis are revoked until building re-
quirements are complied with.
Three poolrooms were raided in New
York and eighteen persons were ar
IreSted.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13

A Kansas editor, whose soul has evil
IDENTIFY been rasped by well-known de-
moniac quality of the types, observes:
"A typographical error is hard thing
TO find in the proof, but in the printed
and completed paper it looms up like a
tat lady in group of vegetarians'
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13
Shot by HOld-UD Men

Salt Lake City, Utah, Jan. 8.-John
Gleason, motorman on the Consolidated
street railway car, was shot and in
stantly killed and Thomas Brighton, the
conductor on the same car, was fatally
shot shortly after midnight by masked
highwaymen, who attempted to rob them
of their money and valuables.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13
Shot THROUGH the Heart

Superior, Wis, Jan. 7.-Gordon H.
Campbell, aged 80, was shot and killed
Wednesday, three bullets having en-
tered his heart. Charles Crump, color
ed, is under arrest. Crump's white
wife is the mother, by a former mar
riage, of Campbelrs white wife, and the
women are being held as witnesses.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13

At the age Of 81 years Warren Bafn-
hart, Oldest member Of the firm of Barn
hart Bros. & Spindler, type founders,
died in Chicago.
At Minneapolis, Mimi, James Car
field killed his wife and himself.
In Chicago the coroner's jury begins
it's inquiry into the Iroquois theater
horror and witnesses said that exits
were locked, that the so-called asbestos
curtain burned, that there was little or
no fire fighting apparatus on the stage
and that the employees Of the theater
were undisciplined.
At New Madrid, Mo-, Gus Gregory
(colored) was hanged for the murder of
George Marshall July 19,1902.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13

AS lone touch of nature makes the
whole world KIM so one tragic stroke
like the Chicago theater catastrophe
ELECTS sympathy from all mankind.
Probably no other local event has ever
drawn out as many expressions from all
parts of the country and from other
countries as this One>has.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13

tits announced that a Spanish warship
will participate in the Louisiana Pur-
chase, celebration at New Orleans, and
of course the officers will be treated with
every courtesy and be the recipients of
unstinted hospitality. This is the first
naval vessel of that nation to visit
an American port since the late unpleas-
antness. And there is not an American
in or out Of the navy who does not re-
call with sympathy and admiration the
gallantry and mssfortunes Of Admiral
Ceryera and the other brave Spanish
sailors who fought and lost at Santi-
ago and Manila. =
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13
Accounts Are Short.

T. Washington, Jan. 6-The secretary
of the treasury transmitted to the house
a statement of the accounts of postmas-
tiers who have retired from Office during
the year and who are short in their &C.
counts. The total shortage amounts to
$23,454, and is divided among 1913 post
masters
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13
Three Killed.

Harrisburg, Pa, Jan. 8.-Three Ital-
cans, employed as masons by McHale
brothers on the construction of stone
bridge for the Pennsylvania railroad
near Millerstown, were struck and In
stantly killed by an express train
Thursdav
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13
Death of Gen. Lonxstreet.

Longstreet died at the home of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. J. Estin Whelchel, Saturday
afternoon at five o'clock. Acute pneu-
monia. was the cause of his DEATH He
was "a years old. His sudden death was
a great shock to his family. Only Fri
day he was discussing improvements to
be made on his farm and talked as if he
had every hope of life for some time yet.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13
Fire Chief Killed.

London, Ont, Jan. 7.-Chief Roe,
If the fire department., was killed, and
three flremen were badly injured by the
collapse Of a burning wall at fire
Wednesday,. Sterling Bros wholesale
shoe factory and warehouse was burned
The loss is estimated at $4,000!
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13
Responsible for Fire

Des Moines, Ia, Jan. 8.-H. Frazee.
an electrical worker, is found to be re-
sponsible for the $4,000 fire at the
state capitol. Frazee is found to have
dropped lighted candle near the
locality where the blaze was first dis
covered. He will not be prosecuted.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13

THE year 1903 finished with an cpl
demic Of disastrous fires" remarks the
Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. That
is beyond the limit of the use of that
overworked word "epidemic'' Epi-
denies of suicide, of murder, of ping
pong-these may have some figurative
excuse; but an epidemic of fires is be-
yond comprehension. Fires are CATCH
ing, to be sure, but not that way.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13

Canada is trying to annex Greenland
IN order to get even for that little piece
of Alaska she lost. The news that Den
mark refuses to sell comes as sur
prise to about nine out of ten people
who did not know that Denmark owned
Greenland
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13

The Virginia peanut crop is nearly so
per cent. short this year and prices on
all grades are higher than they have
been for ten years. The news is de-
pressing. but let us endeavor to look on
the bright side of life and think of more
cheerful things.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13
Three Miners Killad

Middlesboro, KY, Jan. 8.-Abner Rob-
erts and James Turner, miners, were
killed by a cavern at the Kropt mines
here Thursday. At Ferndale, near here.
Henry Wells, a miner, was killed BY fall
ing slate,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13
Indicted for Embezxlement.

Washington, Jan. 5.-The grand jury
reported three indictments for embezzle-
ment against James M. A. Watson, for
merly a clerk in the Office of the auditor
of the District of Columbia. Watson has
been in Jail since last June, when he was
arrested on the charge of embezzllng Dis
trict government funds. The total
amount of his embezzlement is placed at
$4,000.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13

A faint idea of the tremendous size
of the United States Steel trust may be
gained from the figures of the CONSOLE
dalton of the American Sheet Steel and
the American Tin Plate companies.
Seventy-one plants are included, and
their joint capitalization will be $780,
100000. These are only part of the
constituent combination in the gigan-
tic trust.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13
The Public Debt.

Washington, Jan. 4.-The monthly
statement of the public debt shows that
at the close of business December 81.
1903, the debt less cash in the treasury,
amounted to 914,150,8S0, a decrease for
the month of $11 ,61S.53O.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13
Murder and Suicide.

Minneapolis, Mimi, Jan. S.-H. A.
Garfield, of Hurley, Wis, late Tuesday
afternoon shot and killed Miss Pearl
Guyot, of Cresco, and Immediately
turned the revolver on himself, dying at
the city hospital shortly afterward.
Cause, a lovers quarrel.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13

A Jersey City man named Schmidt
has made teapot about the size of a
pea, with capacity of two drops of
water and an alcohol lamp small enough
to go under the pot. Such patience and
ingenuity are worthy Of a Chinaman, but
for an American it somehow seems a
waste of time and energy.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13
New Price for whalebones,

London, Jan. 8.-A new record price
of $4,000 ton has been established for
whalebone. Two and quarter tons
brought that price in sale at Dundee.
The previous high mark was $4,000.
Experts say the visible supply is now
only four tons in England and America.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13
Only Four Killed,

Sydney, N. s. W., Jan. 8-The Brit
ish cruiser Wallaroo has arrived here.
It appears that the signals were mis-
read and that only four were killed
and three injured by the explosion Of
the ships boiler
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13
Blizzard I'm Connecticut.

New Haven, Conn.,. Jan. 4.-Connec-
t;cut lies buried under more snow than
has fallen in single storm for a great
many years. and along the coast line the
only comparison of the experience of
Saturday night is with the memorable
blizzard Of 1883. Intense cold prevails
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13
Killed Himself.

Sioux Falls, S. D., Jan. IN. w.
Miles, vice president of the PEOPLES
savings bank, committed suicide by
shooting himself. Personal troubles
are ascribed as the cause. He leaves a
family. "~
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13
Fire In Famous Church.

New York, Jan. Fire early satur-
day Quilted the rectory of the famous
Little Church Around the Corner
I In East Twenty-ninth street. Four
women servants were taken out Of an
upper story by hremen. rs . =..s5
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13
4 new breed of mosuuitoe

a new breed of mosquitoes has been
discovered in New Jersey, which ap-
parently 'thrives in the coolest weather
and annoys skaters. This is discourage
ing! May New Jersey keep her winter
blossoming variety of mosquitoes to
herself-the west has no desire to i'm
port them
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13
TRAGEDY in New yorE

New York, Jan. 7.-Maurice Fallik
shot his wife Sarah Wednesday, and
she died soon after in the hospital.
Fallik then attempted suicide by hang
ing. but was discovered before life
was extinct. He will probably recover.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13

II you cannot think of any good new
resolutions, take last years good inten-
tions down off the shelf and brush the
dust from them. They will look strange
and unfamiliar enough to be almost as
good as new
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13
B0l6 Robbery.

Y Chicago, Jan. 7.-David Freedman
was held up, by two young robbers in
q sixteenth floor Office of the Masonic
temple, locked in q wardrobe and
s.. 800 and iewelry worth $500 stolen.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13
Grief Ca,use. .suicfa.,. !.

Cleveland, O., Jan. Airs. Nellie
Goodell committed suicide by drinking
.carboNc acid on the grave Of her daueh-
ter in Lakeview cemetery Sunday.
Grief over the death OF her daughter il
supposed to have. been tho cause for
the suicide. b.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13

A New York negro has been engaged
at salary of $4,000 to go to Hayti as
court pianist to President Nord Alexis
Good! There is one ruler who likes rag
lime and isn't ashamed to say so.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13

1t is estimated that Nine. Patti will
clear 100000 from her American tour
Now, everybody can see why it was
called fare welLtour."
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13
Two Lives Lost.

Baltimore, Md, Jan. 1.-Two persons
were killed and q large number injured
by the breaking Of q rail ON the west
ern Maryland railroad (the Wabash
SYSTEM near Blue Mountain house sta
ton Sunday. A coach was derailed and
rolled down the mountain side. /. +
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13
Rice Crop In Excellent.

Manila, Jan. 8-This is the first year
since the instruction in 1896 that the
crops of rice and other cereals in Bulu-
can, Pamanga and Tarlac provinces of
Luzon have been large and of good QUAIL
ity.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13

Grand Rapids, Mich, Jan. 5.-State
Senator Burns was arraigned in the SUI
perior court Monday afternoon on the
charge of accepting bride for influence
ing legislation in the water deal. He
stood mute, and a plea of not guilty bro
lorna was entered.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13

G1VeD Cfe01t 10 Arhbt0h0p IFelQnd.
Rome, Jan. S. Archbishop Guidi. the
apostolic delegate in the Philippines, re-
porting to the vatican on the settlement
of the friars' land question, says the in
fluence of Archbishop Ireland contrib
uted considerably to bringing about a
satisfactory solution of the problem.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-08-31

The Danish peasantry have a not
able love of order and symmetry in
household arrangement, placing their
furniture wherever possible in pairs
and in exactly corresponding positions.
One old peasant who had accumulated
little money and had been prevailed
upon to buy his daughter piano Sc
riously considered buying another to
place against the opposite wall. Their
bedsteads consist of great boxes, gen
orally painted red or green and heaped
with feather beds, between which they
insinuate themselves winter and sum-
mer. If unable to afford so many
feathers, the underbed is of straw
and receives so little attention that
mice build their nests In 1t and race
back and forth squealing shrilly with
out disturbing the stolid peasant slum.
bers. The bedding is not washed Of
tener than once or twice year.-Lon-
don Standard.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-08-31
EIlhle nirdn' Neata.

Coron. little island Of the Philip
pines. Is one of the chief sources from
which come edible birds nests. II has
sheer walls of rock fronting the sea.
in which are deep holes where Ger
tain sea swallow builds It's nest. The
wild aboriglnrs. TngbanOunas. collect
the nests from the cliffs by means Of
long vine ropes. selling them TO Chi
nese traders. who export them to their
own country. where they are consid-
cred great dclcacy. The ncsts are
three inches long and bring Sl2 (Mexl'
cam for bunches OF ten or twelve. nc.
cording to size. The gum OF which
they ure largely composed Is u secre.
ton from the salvary glands Of the
swallows.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-08-31

A naturalist who Is familiar with
Ceylon writes: I'm the clear water of
Colombo harbor II is not uncommon
to see fallen and faded leaves of the
jab tree floating short distance be
low the surface or sinking slowly to
the bottom. \ certain small fish, com
monty known as the sea bat. mimics
these leaves, both in form and color,
in order TO escape detection. Both In
shape and color they look when in the
water like waterlogged leaves, but
when removed from their native ele-
ment this resemblance is Immediately
lost. They float In the water half
sideways and all swim in the same di-
rection. turning simultaneously. On
one occasion Mr.. Wiley attempted to
capture Que of these sea bats In a
rock pool and directly he made a
plunge with the hand net saw nothing
except what he took to be jak leaf
slowly and inertly sink to the bottom
To his establishment, as he withdrew
the net, the supposed leaf righted itself
and darted away"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-08-31
PlTH AND POINT.

II is easy to make fun" OF people,
We all promise more than we can
perform.
Consider the other side. You may
be unreasonable.
Don't forget that you are not rs clev'
er as you think you are.
Somehow the applause given at anna.
teur entertainments sounds terribly like
relief.
You know how selfish you are? Well.
you can Judge from yourself how sell
fish Others are.
When man says impressively and
confidentially, "The facts are" ETC..
how often does he tell the facts?
When the baby keeps man awake
at nights, he casually" mentions 1t to
every one he meets on the way down
town.
If the pictures In the family album
were taken as long as thirty years ago.
looking through II is almost as interest
ing as seeing a different tribe of the
human race.-Atchison Globe.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-08-31

A severe cold or attack Of Ia grippe Is
like fire, the sooner you combat II the
better your chances are to overpower
IL. But few mothers IN this age are
willing TO do the necessary work re-
qulred TO give a good old-fashioned
reliable treatment such as would be ad-
ministered by their grandmotbers, back
ed by Boschee's German Syrup, which
was always literally used ip connection
with the home treatment Of colds and
Is still in greater household favor than
any known remedy. But even without
the application Of the old fashioned aids
German Syrup will cure severe cold
In quick time. II will cure colds In
children or grown people. II relieves
the congested organs. alays the irrita-
tlon, and effectively stops the coughs
Any child will take IT, 1t Is invaluable
In household OF children. Trial size
bottle. 25c /; regular size. 75c. For sale
by II, Alex stoke.