Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-12-20

Attorney General Moody has IN
structed his climates q whenever
possible to prosecute railroad officials
and shippers who violate the rebate
law for conspiracy and send them to-
Jail " #zsS z I'd. 5.. 5s.s
Fire Chief Croker ct New York de-.
clares the city's fire department Is in
efficient in nearly every branch, and
recommends changes to avert the dam
ger Of . great oonflagration, Z ...-,;
For President ROosevelt's Christmas
dinner 6O-pound turkey will be sent
from Beloit, Wis. This bird Is the
largest ever raised In Rock county and
measures two feet across the back. It
was raised by Herman Reimer and is
two years old. .
Alonzo J. Whiteman, convicted OF de-
frauding the Fidelity Trust company, Of
Buffalo, N. Y, by means of forged and
raised paper. was taken to Auburn
prison to begin term Of eight years and
five months.
George Holzhammer, known through
out the northwest as the ice king,
died at the home Of his son, of La Crosse.
Wis. For half a century he has laid out
the various ice routes Of travel from La
Crosse.
The president has reappointed Charles
B. Morrison to be United States attor-
ney of the northern district of Illinois.
A mother and her five children were
burned to death in a fire in a five-story
apartment house at Columbus avenue
and One Hundredth street, New York.
The trial Of Charles Pflster on the in
dictment charging him with larceny as.
bailee of $4,000 was taken up in the
municipal court at Milwaukee, Wis. The
work of securing q jury was completed.
With liabilities amounting to 1000
and with only $2.S7 in the treasury, E.
D. Martin and the board Of directors Of
the Peoples Life and Accident Insur-
ance company, with headquarters in
Louisville, KY, assigned.
Left Tackle Joe Curtis, of the Uni
versity of Michigan football eleven, was
unanimously elected captain for next
year.
Milo Keep was found guilty of killing
Bert Miller in Kalamazoo, Mich, May 2.
Miller was found dead in bed with his
head frightfully crushed by blows from
large file. Jealousy is supposed to have
been the motive for the crime.
Edward Atkinson, the well-known
social and political economist of Bos-
ton, Mass, died suddenly after an at
tack of acute indigestion, affecting the
heart. He was 78 years of age.
Miss Cora Weinland was fatally and
Mrs. Thomas Wallace and the latter's
infant daughter were seriously burned
at Bluffton. Ind, by the explosion of =
pan of crude oil.
Amos NJ. Brown, for half a century
well-known horseman of St. Joseph,
MO-, was found dead in bed at the home
OF relative in Greenwood, Mo.
Roy Walker, six years old, was shot
and killed at Knoxville. Tenn, by Jesse
Barber, seven-year-old playmate
with toy pistol. The boys were play
Ing, and the pistol was fired, the bull
let entering the boys body over the
heart.
Lord Rosebery announces that as
surances have been given by the new
cabinet that no Irish home rule bill
will be introduced in the next parlia-
ment.
Garrett Biblical institute of Evans
ton, ILL.,, has been presented with &c.
900 by former pupil, whose name is
suppressed, for the purpose of forming
Christian archaeological museum.
John D. Rockefeller left New York
for the south to evade the service of
subpoena to testify in the Missouri
case against the Standard Oil COM
pany.
The pope created four new cardinals
at a secret consistory, one of them be-
ing the archbishop of Rio Janeiro.
Vicar General schinner of Milwaukee
was made bishop of Superior.
Minister Korogo Takahira, Japan's'
representative at Washington, asserted
while in Chicago that the post will be
raised to that of ambassador.
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman an.
nounces the makeup of the new Brit
ish ministry, which includes Herbert
J. Gladstone, John Morley, John Burns
and James Bryce.
Two Ohio financiers were sentenced
to prison for completely in the failure
Of the Gallon national bank.
The Brazilian government has sent
protest to Germany against the &C.
ton Of German naval officers in arrest
ing a political refugee on Brazilian
soil.
Grover Mason, Is years of age, who
was injured about the head during a
football game between the Ridgeville
and Russiaville, Ind, high school
teams three weeks ago, is dead.
Trapped in ring of fire, guests at
the hotel on the top of Mount Lowe.
near Los Angeles, fought for hours
for their lives, finally beating back the
flames by the use of dynamite.
Herbert Shannon and John Turner,
oil drillers, were blown to pieces by
the explosion of a boiler on the Burk-
hart lease, seven miles east Of Cha
mute, Kan.
The country home of Charles
James, a widower, aged Is years, was
burned at Hamilton, o. James
cnarred corpse was found in the
ruins.
| United States Senator. John H.
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