Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-12-13

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320, 900 bonds. 81. 4. .s. D. s..
Albert T. Patrick was sentenced in
New York to be electrocuted during
the week beginning January % for
the murder Of William Marsh Rice. i
The foreign office at Paris consid.
ers that the controversy between the
powers and Turkey is practically
closed and that only details remain
to be settled previous to securing a
satisfactory adjustment. .$s
United States Senator Depew has
resigned as a director of the ,Equit.
able Life Assurance society. He gave
no reason for his action. ~ ~,
The French senate, after a long de-
bate, opened the bill for the separa-
ton of church and state by vote Of
ISL against 1O2. -. ~ ;
John Reedy, a civil war veteran,
and his daughter Ellen were burned
to death in fire which destroyed
their home on Neversink mountain
near Reading, Pa.
Fourteeen Stag cars went through
a trestle 40 feet high on the Frisco
railroad, two miles north of Pratt
City. Ala, resulting in the death Of
two men.
The third International Congress of
American Republics will meet in Rio
Janeiro January Fl, 1906.
The Nebraska supreme court rem
dered q decision relieving from liza
bil4ty the bondsmen of Former State
Treasurer Joseph S. BARLEY. By the
decision the state OF Nebraska loses
3646,31s that Barley was convicted
of embezzling.
A New York pawnbroker was arrested
in connection with the theft of 5000, 900
worth of gems from Paris firm.
The Standard Oil company comedies
its workmen day of rest each week and
will not reduce the wages.
The United Mine Workers of America
have decided to make an appropriation
of nearly 81, 900 for the benefit of strik-
ing printers.
BY the collapse of the roof of Charing
Cross station, London, two workmen
were killed and others injured by being
buried in wreckage.
Republican leaders in congress plan to
rush bill through both houses provid-
ing an appropriation OF $16. $500, 900 for
the Panama canal.
A message tells of Norwegian ex-
plorer's discovery of north pole and the
long-sought northwest passage
The vice president of Mutual Reserve
Life Insurance company declared large
sums had been extorted from company
by lawyers, employees and state examin-
ers.
Consul General Parsons was killed in
City of Mexico by street car collision.
Net earnings of the Union Pacific rail-
road for the year ending June so were
$35, 451 ,006, and the balance applicable
for the common stock is $1S,S02, 697, or
at the rate of ia per cent.
Gov. La Toilette, in message to the
special session Of the Wisconsin legisla-
ture, urged legislation for railway rate
and insurance, reform. He will accept
senatorship by the end of the session.
Mark Twain at banquet in honor of
his SEVENTEEN birthday, given in New
York, said he had attained old age by
being regularly irregular and doing the
things which should have killed him.
Students at Columbia university held
a mass meeting and petitioned the ath-
letic board to rescind its action abolish
ing football.
In Chicago State Senator Frank c.
Farnum was arrested on a charge of be-
ing an accessory to the killing of County
Commissioner John Y. Kopf.
France raised the tariff on products
from Switzerland in retaliation for re-
strictions imposed by the latter country.
Fire at Manassas, Va, destroyed the
principal business section of the town,
Among the buildings destroyed was
the post Office The estimated loss is
considerably over 100000.
In fit Of anger caused by the abuse
of his brother Edward, Frank Guthrie,
well-known farmer living near Over
~, N. D., murdered his brother with
pitchfork.
The total number Of. dead hunters
this year in Wisconsin and northern
Michigan is rs killed and 81 wounded.
More hunters were killed this year by
the accidental discharge of their own
guns than ever before.
Sir Henry Campbell Zimmerman has
informed King Edward that he will be
unable to submit his proposed arrange:
ments in connection with the forma-
ton of new government until De-
cemher II.
George W. Perkins has been elected
chairman of the Pere Marquette rail-
road. His election to the same Office
in the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
road makes him the executive head of
the two properties. ~.
A guard for the American embassy
consisting of marines, under a petty
officer, from the United States cruiser
Minneapolis, has arrived in St. Peters
burg. - = r
The appellate division of the SUI
preme court at New York announces
that it will hear appeal Of counsel for
Hearst from the supreme court order
forbidding a recount of the Sixth dis
trict ballots. =
The United States supreme court de-
cided against South Carolina III the
suit involving the states right to re-
fuse payment of taxes on its own sale
Of liquors. s....s Fl
Secretary Bonaparte made start
ling suggestion to relieve congestion in
the higher ranks Of the navy. He
would deprive the navy of 285 officers.
Patterns worth $1,000, 1000 were de-