Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-10-11

publishers Of the Ladies' Home Jour.
nal for $250,00O damages. The suit
grew out Of q statement Of the Ladies'
Home Journal that q testimonial from
CONGRESSMAN George H. White. OF
South Carolina, used by the. Peruna
company, was fraudulent. The Pc
runa company claim to have the orig
inal letter OF Congressman White, and
will offer it as evidence.
A terrific explosion Of gas under the
floor of the county commissioners Of
fice at the courthouse In Cincinnati,
O.. killed George Zimmerman, CHIEF
clerk Of the commissioners, and Rus
sell Blair, an assistant clerk: Two
other men were injured. ,j, =
Relatives Of young student lost In
= Colorado abyss. unable to recover
body, are building tomb over 1t.
Pat Grove denies absolutely the al
legged confession published In Butte,
and refutes the statement that he said
young Cudahy plotted with him to ex-
tort money from Mr.. Cudahy, senior.
The peace treaty passed the privy
council at Toxic. It is expected that
the formality of the emperor's signau
ture will follow shortly.
Nearly every city in western Wis
consin and eastern Minnesota, espe-
cially those bordering on the Missis-
sippi river. are suffering from an ice
famine. Continued warm weather,
coupled with a small harvest OF ice
last winter is the cause.
Capt. Josiah Hall, one of the few
remaining early pioneer mining men
of the Lake Superior copper district.
died at Calumet. Mich.
DR.. Thomas Patterson, the treasurer
of Edgedeld county, South Carolina,
was suspended by the governor of the
state for alleged defalcation of the
county's money, amounting to $1,000.
Representatives of % central Michi-
gan breweries met at Grand Rapids,
Mich, and formed a cooperative brew
ing company, representing about S.
100000 capital.
The home of Paul Baux, two miles
west of Danville, ILL.,, was destroyed
by fire. as the result of using coal oil
to kindle the fire. Charles Baux, two
years old, was burned to death. and
Mrs. Paul Baux was fatally burned.
David Harum," the novel written
by the late Edward Noyes Westcott, of
Syracuse, N. Y, netted the authors
estate about $125,000.
Pope Plus will endeavor to send dele
gate to the forthcoming peace confer
ence at The Hague.
Russia will soon put on the market a
new bond issue for $3.50, 00O,O 900.
The National city bank of New York
determined to prosecute the boy bank
robber to the limit of the law.
Chief Wilkie, Of the United States
secret service, has announced the dis
covery of new counterfeit $40 United
States (''Butfalo") note. 1t is of the
series Of 1901.
Justice James Madison Barker, of
the supreme judicial court of .Massa-
chusetts, died Of heart disease at the
Union club, in Boston.
Charles E. Shively, supreme chan.
cellor of the Knights of Pythias, in an
opinion just rendered, holds that an
Indian is not eligible to membership
in the Pythian order.
Gen. Jose Miguel Gomez, head of the
liberal party in Cuba, landed in New
York and declared that liberty is dead on
the island. He blames the Palma gov
eminent for political murders and says
the United States is responsible for the
condition Of affairs.
President Roosevelt will go to New
Orleans despite the yellow fever cpl
demic. He will leave Washington o.
tober 18, and will visit St. Augustine,
Fla, Mobile, Birmingham, Tuskegee
and Little Rock, reaching New Orleans
October e..
The Union cotton mill, of Union, S. c.,
one of the largest concerns of the kind
in the south, which has lost $500, 900 dur
ing the year by speculation in cotton,
has been attacked in court by creditors,
who apply for the appointment of re-
ceiver.
President RamseyAof Wabash, has
applied for an Injunction to prevent the
Gould interests meeting and electfng his
successor.
President Mitchell laughs at the pre-
dicttons of general coal strike this fail
and says that the situation will work
out harmoniously.
The weather bureau reports condi-
tons as extremely favorable for late
crops and that the various yields will be
very large.
The federal government will use evil
dence given In the interstate commerce
hearing in Chicago in the prosecution of
railroad omcials for giving rebates.
Growth Of the trust companies and
their freedom to loan practically with
out restriction was declared to be q
grave danger to the country by New
York bankers at a meeting of clearing
house officials.
Counsel for the committee of Arcan-
um members opposing the new assess.
nent rates have formally placed their
protests In the hands OF State 1nsur-
ance Commissioner Cutting of Massa,
chusetts. The attorneys state that they
represent the protesting delegates of
New England and New York, Pennsyl-
vania and other states. :. =. =: =
The public debt showed a decrease
oflnearly $9,ooo.0oo during September
and is now below the billion-dollar
mark. m -" -, :: =: +. ! ~.
John Alexander Dowie, founder, up
builder and chief Of perhaps the greatest
independent religious movement in re-.
cent times, has been stricken with
paralYafa and has anna 70 Mo,ian- -