Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-12-28

has caused great loss of life. From re
ports already received 81 persons hav,
persisted.
President Roosevelt has accepted al
invitation to deliver an address at tn.
Lincoln day dinner to be given by thu
Republican club, of New York, on tn.
18th of next February.
! The Minnesota board of pardons ha.
granted pardon to Col. Ames, brother
! of former Mayor Ames, of Minneapolis
and who was Mayor Ames' chief of police
He was convicted of graft in connection
with the Ames administration.
The First national bank, of Conneaut
o., and the Marine bank, of Conneaut
Harbor, have suspended. The suspen
sion resulted from runs on both con
Germs owing to the panic caused by thu
Chadwick affair.
The protestants in the Smoot inquiry
rested their case. The hearing was post
poned until January 10. when the de.
Tense will present evidence.
The convocation of the University Of
Chicago was held and gifts of something
rOoNSooO
Many Europeans flocking to America
! now are paupers and unfit for citizen
ship, according to Mr. Sargent, commits.
sioner of immigration.
Frederick Hall White, a Harvard foot.
ball player. has taken possession of q
fortune of $3,O0OO00 inherited from his
| mother
The government has adopted a stand
ard showing the chemical requirements
! in foods and liquors, and this is to be
used in prosecutions.
Mrs. William Astor. of New York, has
broken all precedents, by issuing 1900
invitations to her great ball in January
Industries in Western PENNSYLVANIA
and eastern Ohio are paralyzed by rea-
son of the prolonged drought There
is much suffering and scores of towns
and villages in the district are at the
mercy of flames, there being an utter lack
of water
An order to mobilize reserves in seven
districts will add 100000 men to Kuro-
patkin's army in the far east.
Judge Wilkinson. at Brookhayen
Miss. sentenced one whitecap for life
ana five to so years each. He proposes
to end reign of terror.
James Britt was given the decision
over Battling Nelson in 20 rounds of hard
fighting at San Francisco.
Nan Patterson withstood a severe
cross examination, her story of the
shooting of Caesar" Young remaining
practically mistaken.
Kingdom Gould, son of George J.
Gould, fired four shots at sophomores of
Columbia university who chased him
up Broadway in New York city, seeking
to haze him. No one was hit.
The governor of Viatka reports serl-
Gus outbreak of Siberian plague in fac
tories in the districts of Viatka and Slo-
bodskoi, which are preparing fur coats
for the troops in Manchuria.
In quarrel growing out of SNOWFALL
ing bout in New York between the chill
dren of Felipe Scilaboro and Joseph Say
erino, Saverino was shot to death and
Scilaboro was stabbed so badly that he
died later.
At Carbon, a mining town in Adams
county, Ia, two men blew the safe in the
store of R. S. Marlette and got away
with $4,000 which had been deposited
there for safety by stock buyers.
BY an explosion and the burning of
100000 gallons of petroleum on Stand
ard Oil company's barge at sea off Long
Branch, N. j., four men were burned to
death.
Plans are forming for the establish
ment OF an exhibition of American
manufactures in Paris, France.
Four more have been added to the list
of six dead, and two are reported dying
from the effects of wood alcohol poison
ing at the mouth of Big Sandy river in
Kentucky.
The United States supreme court has
adjourned until January for the Christ
mast holidays.
King Alfonso has signed decree au-
thorizing Senior Ojeda, the Spanish min
lister at Washington, to sign the arbitra-
ton treaty with America.
The factory of the Passumpic Fiber
company and the flour mill of E. T. G. H.
K. 1de & Co., in the village of Passumpic,
VT, were completely destroyed by fire,
involving financial loss estimated at
$4,000.
1t is estimated that when Christmas
day has passed it will be found that Chi
cagoans have spent total of $40, 0OO, 900
for Yuletide presents.
The Rothschilds, of Paris, are eaid
to be forming a 500, ZOO, 900 pool to con-
troll Mexfco's mining output and the
worlds silver.
An orthodox Jewish society in New
York. warned parents against permit
ting children to celebrate Christmas.
President Harper, of the University
Of Chicago, ange:ed by newspaper
guesses at Rockefellers Christmas gift,
issues statement in which he says only
S245,000 has been received.
A history hotel, to be built on the
site OF the Morrison block, in Chicago,
under the terms of the 1O3-year lease,
must perpetuate the name of the Chicago
pioneer. The land. which cost SCI in
1888, now rents for s45, 1000 year.
The United States supreme court de-
cided that the title to McKissick's island
belongs to Nebraska and not to Missouri.
A loss OF 100000 was caused in Phil
adelphia by the burning of building
occupied by number Of firms.
Robert H. Patton, newly elected ma
tional chairman Of the prohibition par
ty, refuses the place. O. w. Stewart,
the deposed leader, declines to call an
other meeting.