Willmar tribune., 1905-03-08

OtnerWlSe. possession OF Haytl or San
Domingo. nor of extending American in
fluence in that direction.
A passenger train was stopped by
three bandits eight miles north of Man,
moth Springs, Ark. and the express car
robbed. The safe was blown open and
all Of it's contents were secured. 1t is
said that the robbers did not secure more
than $4,000.
Two robbers blew the post Office safe
at Earlpoint, suburb OF Atlanta. Ga,
secured $500 worth Of stamps and $50
in money. and made good their escape.
1t is officially announced that the earl
of Selbourne first lord Of the admiralty,
succeeds Lord Miner as British high
commissioner in South Africa.
George Rice, for many years we'll
known as an independent oil operator
in the Ohio field, is dead at Asbury Park,
N. j. He was IS years old.
Mrs. Joe Griston, Chippewa squaw.
was burned to crisp in her home in
Waucedah village, II miles from Nor
way, Mich. Her husband accidentally
set fire to the bed clothes while she was
asleep.
Thirteen of the Is republican members
of the Colorado gubernatorial contest
committee have signed a report in favor
of seating James H. Peabody and the
nine democrats signed 4 report in ia
vor Of continuing Gov. Alva Adams in
the Office. The other five republican
members refused to sign either report.
William Vanderbilt, wealthy farm
er living near Sioux City. Ia. beat his
wife's head to an unrecognizable mass
with chair
Mrs. Elijah Melvir Schrader. aged 81,
died at Iowa City, la. She was the
daughter of revolutionary soldier.
Her grandfather was transported and
kept in London Tower during the revo-
lutionary war.
Two freight trains met in a head-on
collision few miles south of Lebanon
Junction, KY, killing two men and in
juring one.
John Marzt, bartender, is in Jail at
Uniontown, Pa, in connection with the
poisoning of his wife and three children.
All four were made ill by drinking coffee
which contained arsenic.
The Lakeside malleable iron works, at
Lakeside, three miles south of Milwau-
kee, Wis, burned and will prove total
loss. The plant was valued at $125, 600.
The dead body of Elvina Schneider. a
13-year-old girl. was found near Neills-
Vile, Wis. She had been frozen to death.
Eleven persons were killed and about.
SO injured by the collapse OF the floor
of the African Methodist Episcopal
church in Brooklyn. Funeral services
were being conducted at the time.
Because the Iowa statutes which make
it crime of embezzlement for banker
to loan money to himself fails to provide
a punishment for the crime, NJ Beuthien
and Arnold Beuthien, president and
cashier of the wrecked New Liberty Oa.)
bank, will go free, although one pleaded
guilty and the other is under indictment.
A B. & o. train struck four men near
Evitt's Creek, Md, instantly killing
three and slightly injuring the other.
The bodies of the three dead men were
ground to pieces.
The six-story building occupied by
Frank Teller & Co., cigar manu1actur-
ers, on South Second street. Philadel-
| phia, was destroyed by fire. The loss is
estimated at 100000.
A premature explosion of dynamite in
Red Jacket shaft of the Calumet & Hecla
mine, at Calumet, Mich, killed one man
and injured three. The accident oc-
Cured on the 1ifty-seventh level, one
mile beneath the surface of the earth.
With the breaking of the ice gorge in
the Mississippi river and the passing OF
| the last of the big foes from the St. Louis
| harbor, it was discovered that the new
government dyke, 900 feet long, had been
completely demolished The cost of the
work was 100000.
! In removing hill in the eastern part
OF Chattanooga, Tenn, to supply dirt for
the approaches of viaduct, workmen
have unearthed 20 Skeletons supposed tc
be the remains of federal soldiers killed
in the desperate assaults on Missionary
ridge.
The president has signed the joint res
olution providing for the return of battle
flags captured during the civil war.
! Henry c. Whitney, for years one OF
Chicago's leading lawyers and member
OF the Boston bar, is dead at his home in
Salem, Mass. He was "A years of age
and was at one time connected with
Abraham Lincoln's law Office in Spring
field, III.
| Charles H. Niehaus, New York sculp.
tor, swallowed two false teeth while en-
joying a hearty laugh at the home of his
brother in Cincinnati, whom he is visit
ing. He is in no danger.
During a two weeks religious re.
vival in Louisville, KY, just closed
$500 persons confessed Christianity. As
about $4,000 of L0uisville's 225, 900 pop
ulatfon had no church affiliation before
the revival began, the two weeks work
resulted in the conversion of ten pc,
cent. of the unchurched.
| A dispatch from Odessa says it is re-
ported there that ten Jews have been
killed and 80 wounded in an anti-Jew.
ish riot at Theodosia.
! Philip Burke and his wife, Eliza
were convicted in Chicago of the mur.
der of Andrew Larson and given Is
years each in the penitentiary.
The isthmian commission has signed
a report recommending the building OF
a sea level canal
A comparison between railway acci-
dents in the United States and Prussia,
shows that derailments are three times
more frequent in the United States, and
collisions three e-and-One-h times