Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-01-03

for Miss Alice.
resignation Of Daniel E. Storms, secre-
! tary of state, because Of an alleged
shortage in the latter's accounts.
Andrew Hamilton declines to give an
accounting of the moneys he received
from the New York Life Insurance
company.
Capt. A. w. Toilet, of the Salvation
Army, was killed in Chicago by the ex-
plosion of a picture machine tank.
While out hunting, Charles Hale,
aged Is, living near Chrisney, Spencer
county, Ind, accidentally destroyed the
sight of both eyes.
Postmaster Will Smith was shot and
instantly killed at Boliver, Tenn, by
Ran Marsh. The murder, it is under:
stood, was the result Of Marsh's atten-
tons to Miss Hillhouse, the postmas-
ter'sGstep7daughter.;
T. In q. pitched battle between a posse
i fsWhlfe men and three negro despera-
dies near.Williams Cross Roads, Choc-
ftaW county, Alabama, two negroes were
killed and the third captured.
Joy Morton, of Chicago, who, with
his family, is spending the holidays at
the Morton homestead near Nebraska
City, Neb.,. was thrown from horse
he, was riding and badly hurt.
The Chicago police report a large in
crease in the crime of shoplifting dur
ing the Christmas season, many women
and children being caught in the act
Of stealing.
David Hamil, of Dayton, O., was
crushed to death and $4,000 worth of
property destroyed in the collision of
two extra freight trains on the Penn
sylvania railway at Cincinnati. IT,: Mis-,
taken signals caused the wreck. >.
District Attorney Jerome's plurality
was increased by nearly 5000 over the
police returns made on election night
in New York by the official returns
made public by the board of elections.
His plurality is 1904, instead of II, $50.
Miners at Hazleton, Pa, have decided
to present to Miss Alice Roosevelt as
wedding gift, a carload of the best
coal that can be found in the anthracite
services in ending the great strike Of
1902.
The grand jury returned a joint in
dictment against representatives of the
leading coal companies doing business
in Cincinnati. The indictment includes
over 20 names and is for conspiracy
in restriction of trade.''
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only bank in the town of Moore, a
small village seven miles southeast of
Oklahoma City, Okla, and escaped with
81, 1000.
Santo Domingo is swept by revolu-
ton, the president is forced to flee
from his capital and heavy fighting is
imminent. Officials of the United
States, when the news reached Wash
ington, displayed a disposition to
stand aloOf.
James J. Hill, president of the Great
Northern, will retire from active work.
His son is to succeed him.
ssAas Federal agents secured sensational
evidence against the Standard Oil com
pany preliminary to a prosecution of
the combine under the antitrust law.
|. The movement to canonize Christie
pher Columbus is revived and a petit
ton requesting this action is under
consideration.
Two aged sisters died in one day in
Chicago, following one who expired
last July and another who succumbed
last week. A fifth sister is dying.
Charles G. Dawes of Chicago, is re-
ported in Washington to have assumed
charge of Vice President Fairbanks
campaign for delegates in the west for
the next national convention.
The Commercial National bank will
build an 18-story building at Adams
and Clark streets, Chicago, to cost
$1,500.000.
Judge ". J. Calhoun, in his forth
coming report covering his investiga-
ton OF affairs in Venezuela, according
to rumor in Washington. will deal
blow to the asphalt trust by uphold
ing the stand of President Castro.
A strike of structural iron workers
caused lay-off of 2,10O men at steel
mills at South Chicago, III.
Mr.. Merritt, of New York, says Pres
ldent Roosevelt is trying to obtain con-
troll OF the party organizations in New
York, Connecticut and Ohio.
In preparation for possible Russian
crisis France orders warships to he
made ready for service in the North
sea.
Gov. Hayward, of South Carolina or.
dered the arrest of $50 white men. who
lynched two negroes at Barnwell last
Friday.
Irvine Baxter. United States district
attorney for Nebraska has been sum-
marily removed from office by Presi-
dent Roosevelt. !.
"A new high record of a price for a
seat On the New York stock exchange
was reached. when $4,000 was paid.
This rs with the $4,000 initiation fee
brings it up to $4,000
The <three-masted schooner Sahara,
OF Parsboro, N. S., has been wrecked
on the Florida coast, and it's entire
crew OF at least seven men drowned.
Robert McFall and Clarence Misner.
six and eight years old, were drowned
near Terre Haute, Ind, while skating.
Defending his mother against her
quarrelsome husband, John Pollock,
aged % years, Of Philadelphia, struck
his father in the face, which resulted
in his death.
Mrs. A. B. Dibble, first president of