Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-05-03
MISCELLANEOUS.


Frank G, Bigelow, president of the
First National bank of Milwaukee. con-
fessed to embezzlement of 81 ,45O, 900. He
was arrested and is out on bonds. Chica-
so banks saved disaster by sending
100000. The depositors are being paid
in full The assistant cashier is fugi-
tive.
Ten miners were instantly crushed to
death at mine located in the northern
part of Wilkesbarre, Pa. The men were
being lowered into the mine, when the
rope broke and the cage fell to the bot
tom of the shaft, distance Of 400 feet.
1t can be stated positively that Frank
G. Bigelow, the defaulting ex-president
OF the First National bank, of Milwau-
kee, will be prosecuted to the full ex-
tent of the law. 80. -. - -
Mrs. Antoinette Tolla, who has been
on trial at Hackensack. N. j., for the
murder of Joseph S0nta at Kingsland on
May 4 last, was convicted of murder in
the first degree She will be sentenced
later.
Reports from many counties in Ne
braska indicate that the Hessian fly is
busy and many wheat fields will be de-
vastated by the pest. Some grain men
estimate that the wheat will be dam.
aged 20 per cent. in the central section
of the state.
The worlds conference of the Young
Mems Christian associations, which is
celebrating the semi-centennial of the
establishment of the international alli-
ance of the associations, was opened in
Paris, France. Over 1000 delegates
representing 20 nations were present.
At Saratoga, Tex. Sam Watson has
shot and killed Mrs. Stella Hambrey, Il
widow of whom he was jealous, and then
fred bullet into his own brain, death
resulting instantly.
With hammer William Koabs. a
tailor, beat his wife's skull in at Grundy
Center, Ia, and then attempted suicide.
The woman will die. The man was
crazed with morphine.
Col. Willard Glazier author, soldier
and explorer, is dead at his home in AL
bany, N. Y, of heart disease. He was 81
years old. In 1876 he rode from Boston to
San Francisco on horseback.
The lower house of the Michigan
legislature passed unanimously the
Bland antitrust bill. It declares illegal
all corporations which aim at the mo-
nopoly of any business, trade avocition
or profession.
Near Burneyville, !. T., Ed F. Roger,
q well-known planter and ex-confeder-
ate soldier, has been shot and killed by
William Burgess, a negro.
While section gang was at work re-
moving large bowlder from a cut on
the East Lynn railroad near Wayne.
w. Va, the walls of the cut slipped
down, killing two men
The tax collector of San Francisco has
disappeared and his total shortage is
said to be about 100000
Britain is said to have warned France
to stop aiding Russia and thereby raised
the possibility of war between English
and French.
NJ. Delcasse, yielding to the appeals
of President LOubet and the French
government leaders, announces that he
will not resign as foreign minister;
Philadelphia was swept by cyclone,
which damaged more than 500 buildings
and injured scores of persons. -.
Frank Kilgour, Fred Knox, Henry
Meredith and Isaac Woomer were as
phyxiated by gas while working in q
tunnel at the Edgar Thompson blast fur
mace, Braddock, Pa + ...
Wholesale dismissals are promised
in the Indian warehouse service in Chi
cago, as the result OF the discovery
that the payrolls are overloaded and
that many men do no work at all,
President Roosevelt Will arrive in Chi
cago at noon, May II, and remain there
until late at night. e. ~. ~ :. = Eft
+ Secretary of the Navy Paul Morton,
when he retires from his present posi-
ton, will become an official Of great
financial institution in the city Of New
York. - # E Is (
NJ. Paul Lessar, Russian minister to
China, whose foot was recently am
nutated, died IN Peking.