Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-01-04
MISCELLANEOUS.

The central and northwest states
were visited by blizzard, following a
rainstorm. Traffic is demoralized and
wires are down.. A Y mile gale which
accompanied a cold wave in Chicago
resulted in four deaths.
Fire at Council Bluffs, a., completely
destroyed the four-story warehouse and
the entire stock and fixtures of the Fuller
Il Johnson Shugart company, causing a
loss of $4,000.
Engineer Charles Heebe was instantly
killed, his assistant, Daniel Ferrier,
probably fatally injured when the cyl
Under head of the great power engine in
the Chelsea jute mills, in Brooklyn, N.
T., blew out. !.
Thomas E. Watson, of Thomson, Ca,
the candidate Of the peoples party for
president in the last election, will pub
Nsh a monthly magazine called TON
Watson's Magazine" *-
A modern hotel containing 400 rooms,
md costing more than 81, DOC, 900 is to be
erected on the site of the Pike opera
house building in Cincinnati, +
The newly-built Majestic theater at
Fort Wayne, Ind, was Quilted by fire,
causing loss Of probably $4,000.
Judge Francis J. Wing, of Cleveland,
o., has forwarded to the president his
resignation Of the Office of United States
district judge for the Northern district
Of Ohio.
The will of the late William Alvord,
president Of the Bank of California, st
San Francisco, leaves to his two step
sons his estate, valued at 81, 100000.
Rev. Father T. F. Li1lis, of KansaA
City, was consecrated bishop of the Ro-
man Catholic diocese of Leavenworth,
Kan.
The st. Croix Shoe company assigned
ut Calias, Me-, for the benefit of cred
itors. The liabilities are said to slight
ly exceed $150,000. The assets are not
known.
The federal grand jury at Portland,
Ore, has indicted S. P. Ormsby, William
H. Davis, mayor of Albany, Ore; c.. E.
LOOMS, Henry E. Young, George Sor-
enson and John Doe and Richard Roe, in
connection with the land frauds.
In a rear-end collision at Stamford,
Conn, between the Boston express and
q local, both going west, Conductor Hol-
land, OF the express, was killed and six
Others were badly injured.
John Guy was burned to death and five
others seriously injured in an explosion
IN furnace ~" Of the Edgar Thomson
plant OF the Carnegie Steel company, at
Braddock. 49,
George Bearss, who murdered Mrs.
Abel Brown at her home on a farm near
Berville, Mich, pleaded guilty at Port
Huron, Mich, to the charge and was
sentenced by Judge Law to life imprison-
ment in Marquette prison.
Great Britain has assumed control of
the legal and financial administration of
the Tonga islands, the native chiefs con-
senting.
John H. Landis, superintendent of
the United States mint in Philadel-
phia, announces that the available sill
yer bullion Of the country has been
exhausted. Unless congress takes
prompt action, he says, next year there
will be a $4,000, 900 shortage in small
silver coin.
The drought which has prevailed in
central Illinois for months was broken
BY heavy downpour. Il:
/" The Dedham savings bank. of DIED.
Ram, a., has been closed and the presi-
dent, J. G. Cation, who left ostensibly
for funds, cannot be found. He is said to
be short about $4,000. -.
Clarence Hunter, a 14-year-old negro,
who had received 22-caliber rifle for
Christmas present, participated in a
Wild west show with number of other
boys at Kansas City, NO., and shot
and killed his brother, aged IS.
Presbyterian churches plan q fedora
ton throughout the United States.
Two British warships have sailed for
the Tonga islands, it is reported with
the intention to annex them.
/ The International commission ap-
pointed to inquire into the North sea in
cident met at the foreign Office in Paris
and organized by electing Admiral Four
uier as president. Ny ".':s @..s NIX III:
Jacob Kuhn, travelling man, fell
from fourth story window at Evans
Vile, Ind, and was instantly killed. He
was 60 years old. Il: i. Il Ill ss.. ==.=....
=. Thirty~seven banks have failed In
Iowa In TWO years, and ten persons
connected with the banks OF the state
have committed suicide. SIS, :. \ 1
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