Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-12-21


wrecked near Bristol, Ill. One person
was killed outright, two fatally in
jured and a number of mail clerks
bruised. The wreck was caused by a
spreading Of the rails.
The contract for the sale of the prop
erty offered by the worlds fair COM
pany to Chicago wrecking company
for $450,000, has been signed in St.
Louis and the first payment OF 500, 900
made.
August Belmont has been elected
president of the National Civic FEEDER
alton to succeed the late Senator Mar
Gus A. Hanna. -,
Fire in Goshen, Ind, destroyed
Hawks hardware store, Hawks Elec
trio company, Collins saloon and the
Globe Milling company. The loss is
about 100000.
Wireless telegraph messages were
sent from Kansas City to Cleveland.
725 miles, without relaying. This is
said to be the longest distance over
land ever covered.
Three men lost their lives and four
others were terribly scalded by rush
of steam and boiling water in the fire
room of the battleship Massachusetts.
lying at the League Island navy yard,
Philadelphia.
Philip Weinseimer, former president
of the New York Building Trades al
lance, who has been in the Tombs
since October Is last under sentence to
Sing Sing for eX!ortion, was released
in $4,000 cash bail.
Horace Wolcott Robbins, lawyer and
well-known landscape artist, is dead at
his home in New York. He was ma
in 1872
A loss of between $150,000 and $780,
900 was caused in Cincinnati by a fire
which destroyed. the Ohio Seat COM
pany's plant and the Rudolph Sure
Anchor tannery
injury received in football game, has
caused the death at Lakewood, N. j.,
of Augustus +. Holly, Jr., former
member OF the Princeton team.
Acting presumably for the bondhold-
ers, Henry Jayne purchased the Musca-
tine North & South railroad at receiv-
er's sale in Muscatine, la. The price
paid was 100000.
Three persons are known to have
been killed and four others seriously
injured by the collapse of the suspen-
sion bridge across the Elk river, which
connects East and West Charleston,
W. Va.
Berlin has passed the 100000 mark
in the population of the city proper.
Roosevelt's plurality in the state of
New York was 1862. as shown by the
Official returns. That of Higgins for
governor was 8O,560. Parker is shown
to have run nearly $4,000 behind Her
rick.
Miss Eva Booth, the new commander
of the Salvation Army in the United
States, was given an enthusiastic well
come on her arrival in Chicago
The prohibitionist national executive
committee practically asked for the res
ignation of Oliver w. Stewart national
chairman, though freeing him from all
charge of Misrepresentation of funds.
After IA years of litigation George F.
Harding, of Chicago, must pay his form
er wife more than $780, 900 back alimony
or be sent to Jail for contempt of court.
A postal clerk in New York found pa
pers worth 100000 in trunk he bought
for four dollars at auction.
In a conference of New York repub-
lican leaders to discuss the United States
senatorship II voted in favor of former
Gov. Black for the toga, only seven ia
voring Senator Depew.
A treaty of arbitration between Italy
and the United States has been signed.
A lone highwayman held up the bank
OF Chisholm, Mimi, during business
hours and secured $4,000. He forced
Cashier Greiser into the vault at the
muzZle of revolver
In an article on Violence in Labor
Conflicts Slason Thompson says tina:
during the Il months from January l,
1902, to October 1, 1904, 1913 persons have
been killed, 1866 injured, and CHA ar
rested.
Joseph Willoughby, who killed negro
named Shaw at Oklahoma City, because
Shaw refused to take off his hat in Will
loughby's presence, was found guilty of
murder and sentenced to life imprison-
ment
Led by girl, 10 revolutionary con-
spirators resisted an attack by the police
in Odessa, with the result that seven of
the revolutionists and three policemen
were killed.
The Mississippi river has frozen over
and navigation IS closed at La Crosse,
Wis.
The Main hotel was burned at South
l., T., and Sam Mccoy,
Choctaw Indian, guest, persisted.
Loss, $4,000.
First reports Of the loss by big fire
In Minneapolis, Mimi, were exagger-
ated. The amount is placed at $780,
000 Two men were killed and three
injured.
DR.. A. A. Ames, former mayor of
Minneapolis, Is now a free man. Judge
Elliott granted the motion of the spe-
cial prosecuting attorney to dismiss
all the indictments .or bribery and cor
ruption against the much-tried mayor
The Russian battleship Sevastopol,
the last OF the Port Arthur feet has
been successfully torpedoed, accord
ing to report received in Toxic.
A bill has been introduced in con-
gress providing for federal supervision
of the insurance business.
Senator Stewart introduced bill to
increase the salaries of the president
to S100 900 u,ca nroaidont and anaalor