Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-08-16

with its 600 feet Of train sheds, the ferry
house, q hotel nearby, the terminal Of the.
street railway, newimmigrant station.
burned two, fairy boats and threatened
the docks of the North German Lloyd
and Hamburg American lines. The loss
is estimated at about 100000. No lives
were Apst. >
A run was started on the Denver saw
ings bank, which owes depositors about
$2,000,000. The doors were closed, and
thereafter depositors were allowed to en-
ter one at time and draw ten per cent.
of their deposits.
Charles P. Sapp, editor of the Nor
folk (Va.) Virginian-Pilot, died at Nor
folk, aged SO years.
A switch engine crashed into 4 way
car at Emporia, Kan. The way car,
which contained number of stockmen,
was demolished, and ten persons injured,
one probably fatally. !.
The Chinese minister conferred with
President Roosevelt in regard to pend
ing negotiations for the purchase by
China of Hankow railroad and conces-
siOns.
Phillip Loew, 70 years old, committed
suicide in aSChicago hotel, leaving q
note reproducing his children.
Eva Dakin, Chicago actress who shot
and killed a robber. was acquitted.
Miss Agnes Ruckle, of Vancouver, B.
c., and Miss Anderson, Of Cascade, two
school teachers, while attending picnic
went swimming in Christina lake and
lost their lives.
C. H. Prescott, Portland lore. CAPT.
talist, and at one time prominent in rail-
road circles, is dead here as the result
OF stroke of paralysis.
An unknown man committed suicide
by jumping from the Brooklyn bridge.
Mrs. Leslie Dreamer and daughter,
aged six months, living near Edenton,
O., were burned to death. Mrs. Creamer
used gasoline in starting a fire in the
cook stove and an explosion followed.
Representatives Of all the Independent
telephone companies in Illinois met in
Peoria, ILL.,, for the purpose of forming
a powerful organization, the object Of
which will be to fight for business in
this state.
Alexander Melville Bell, father of Prof.
Alexander Graham Bell, died at the home
OF the latter at Washington. aged Sc,
from pneumonia, following an operation
for diabetes.
The International Brotherhood Of
Transfers began its third annual con-
vonfi0n IN 0a1 + oil
delphia. The delegates represent men,
bership estimated at 125,00O men and
boys.
Rev. Lewis Albright, of Della
ware, O., widely known in Ohio, hav-
ing been presiding elder of the North
Ohio Methodist conference, trustee of
Ada university and of Ohio Wesleyan
university, is dead.
Gov. Robert M. La Toilette, of Wis
consin, in an interview at St. Paul, Mimi,
stated that the report that he would re-.
sign the governorship in September and
go to Washington as United States SEN
ator in October was without his authox-
ization.
President Schurman, of Cornell univer-
sity, has received diploma and the an
nouncement of his appointment as life
member of the American Academy in
Rome, established for the advancement
of the fine arts.
Capt. William E. English, command
er-in'chief of the United Spanish War
Veterans association, has issued a gen.
eral order for the second national en-
campment and reunion of the ass0cia-
ton, to open at Milwaukee Septem-
Der z.
Mrs. Annie J. Taylor, aged SO, seam
stress, and her granddaughter, nine
years of age, were burned to death in a
fire in a tenement house at Dallas, Tex.
Edward Coffey, farmer of Lexington,
KY, shot and instantly killed John In.
gram, another farmer, in quarrel about
a ditch.
]. Pierpont Morgan had conference
with President Roosevelt over the pro-
posed sale of the Yankow railroad in
China.
= A severe electrical storm accompanied
by a heavy dOwnpOur of rain did dam
age in southern Indiana estimated at
over half million dollars.
King Oscar of Sweden is leaving the
capital in search of quiet and rest and
Crown Prince Gustave will again be an.
pointed regent.
Five Italian laborers were struck by
an engine and killed at railroad juno
ton near Alexandria, Va.
Fire swept the docks at Hoboken, N.
j., destroying depot and train sheds,
two ferry boats, hotel, immigration
station, and other buildings; loss esti-
mated at 100000. Many lives imper-
lied.
An excursion steamboat sank at
Broad Ripple park, ten miles from In
dianapolis, Ind, with 100 passengers
on board, all of whom were men, ex-
cept one, woman, who was rescued
by launch. One person was reported
missing.
The New York state court in dis
missing manslaughter charge against
three Christian Scientists, under whose
care young girl died of diphtheria,
held that child may be treated by
healers.
Paul Morton and his wife, with two
friends, narrowly escaped injury in an
automobile accident in New York.
State Senator Frank H. Farris, of
Missouri, was acquitted by a jury of
the charge of bribery in the legislature
Nine boats capsized by storm during
a regatta at Pewaukee. Wis. i;
Coe, the Boston athlete, made new