Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-10-25


Five tons ot molten metal explods d s.,
the Joliet plant q 1.-THE Illinois Steel COM.
pany, falling Ia : shower OF death on
band of workmen about the converter
Two men are dead, three are fatally
burned, and half Z dozen injured SO bad,
they may die. .= !, sz
Jacob Brill, who has served three
terms In the Missouri penitentiary on
counterfeiting charges. was again sem
fenced to Ave years on a similar charge
by Judge Marshall in the United States
district court at Jefferson City,
William Tubbs, proprietor of the
Farmers hotel, Coshocton, o. shot and
probably fatally wounded his wife and
then put a bullet In his. own head, dying
instantly. Marital trouble was the
cause. <s~ #@.*@ = ::.a.:.ss> ,5s
teneced In the federal district court at
Jefferson City. Mo-, to Is months in the
penitentiary for robbing the post Office
at Holt Summit, Mo-, a year ago. @...+ Il. .
The Woman's hall was dedicated at
the University Of Illinois at Urbana as
the feature Of the second days. ceremony
connected with the installation OF Presi-
dent James. ~: r.. -
While her boarders were at dinner
Mrs. Caroline Buehler, of St. George,
Staten Island, suddenly excused herself
and, going to her room, shot herself
through the head with revolver. She
was Respondent through grief over the
death OF her four-year old son. who was
accidentally killed last winter. r.
The mayor of Chicago again put the
aldermen ION record" on municipal own
ership, getting vote of 81 to % against
It.
Stephen Francis Gale. the oldest con-
tinuous resident of Chicagosd at the
age of more than 80 years. ,..
awarded medals to ten persons for nota-,
BILE acts Of bravery.
The Indemnity Savings & Loan COM
pany, of Cleveland, made an assignment
as result Of the fight on it by the attor-
ney general of Ohio. -.
in support of Secretary Shaw for the
presidency.
A former official of the Waters-Pierce
Oil company declares in, an Investigation
at st. Louis that the company always
made at least 800 per cent. profit on a
100000 investment and that two-thirds
Of this went to the Standard Oil CON-
pany.
Newfoundland's right to search Amer
can vessels and drag off non-American
sailors is a vital question concerned in
the fishery dispute.
The Swedish riksdag passed the gov
eminent bill repeating the act of union,
recognizing Norway as independent.
The Lutheran general council at Mil
waukee adopted "a strong resolution
against the remarriage of divorced per-
sons
Miss Alice Roosevelt will have to pay
the full customs tax on all dutiable ar
ticles brought home from her trip. This
was decided by the president when re-
quested for an opinion by Secretary
Shaw.
The crusade against the location of
naval training school at Lake Bluff, ILL.,,
has been renewed by Senator Alger, OF
Michigan. He claims the water is pol
,luted by Waukegan and Kenosha facto-
ries.
Canada and Newfoundland threaten
tariff reprisals against the United States.
President Roosevelt and Secretary Root
are deeply concerned. .<- 49,. :,
For winning the American Baseball
league championship pennant the IS
players of the Philadelphia club were
presented with the sum of S., 131 40 to be
equally divided among the men: The
players also received $6,S48.46 as their
portion of the receipts of the worlds
series allotted to them by the national
commission.
The schooner Van Name and King
was beaten to pieces during gale OF
the coast of South Carolina. Six men,
bers of her crew of eight either died out
right, were washed away, or, crazed by
theik fearful experience, threw them
selves into the sea- The other two were
rescued by passing vessel.
Judge Quarles decided that Frank G.,
Bigelow, defaulting ex-president of the
First national bank of Milwaukee, Wis,
must be brought back from Fort Leaven-
worth penitentiary as a witness at the
trial of Henry G. Coll, formerly assistant
cashier of the bank. ..
J. w. Denton, a well-known horseman
of Bloomington, ILL.,, who was kicked
by a horse during the horse show, died
from his injuries.
E. H. Darrow, Of Lead, s. D., killed
his sons wife and himself in a cab
at Sioux City, Ia, after having stopped
at a hotel with her, registering as man
and wife.
President Roosevelt and Secretary
Root will try to push q bill through
congress providing for thorough re-
form of the consular service.
Isaac Taylor, Indian fighter, scout,
stage coach driver, and one of the first
men to make the trip overland from
Kansas to the Pacific coast, died in Kan
sas City, Mo-, aged "a years.
Fridtjof hansen, the arctic explorer,
will be appointed Norwegian minister
at washington. ~
After Offering q donation Of $4,000
to- North La Crosse, Wis, for public
library, Andrew Carnegie, after the city
had complied with the conditions, has
refused to give the money for the
library, on the ground that the city. Of
La Crosse has a good library and that
it is the duty Of the city to provide
library facilities for the suburbs
& Capt. Elmore F. Taggart was granted