Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-01-31

/ In quarrel over bill Of IS cents,
claimed to be due him, Henry F. Fall
kinson; plastsrer, shot and killed DR..
Drake, dentist of Ashley, N. D., Mon
day night. -, - -: ISL ..
|; Five Italian miners employed at the
Sunny Side mine, in Colorado lost
their lives in an immense snowslide.
Eighteen persons were killed and
probably half a hundred injured in a
panic following the cry of fire" in St.
Paul's colored Baptist church, .Philadel-
phia. Pa. -
Plans are under way to improve the
rural delivery service by providing for
a local parcels post, by which families
in the country may have their pur-
chases delivered to them at a small
cost.
Eight Independent oil refiners of
Kansas petltioned James r. Garfield
for redress against discrimination of
railroads in favor of the Standard Oil.
The Anti-crime league suggested to
the mayor of Chicago and council an
increase of 1,0Uv men in the police
force, money to pay them being raised
by doubling saloon licenses.
The annual collection for the Amer
lean board of foreign missions in the
Old South church, Boston, Sunday
night amounted to $11,O 900, the largest
ever made for congregational missions
by any one parish in the country.
A mob of 300 men took Ernest Baker.
negro, who attacked young white
woman, from the Jail at Hopkinsville,
KY, and hanged him.
The supreme court of the United
States is to take recess for three
weeks.
Anniversary of RED Sunday, in St,
Petersburg passed quietly, the military
display completely overawing the peo-
pie.
A furious sleet storm caused inter-
ruption of transportation and business
in Chicago, and telegraph and tele-
phone wires were blown down.
John D. Rockefeller has again aided
the University of Chicago, this time
the gift being $1,450,000.
John Christ, aged 25, and Charles
Mc1ver, aged 10, employees of the Mid
land Valley railway, were killed by an
explosion Of dynamite near Arkansas
City, Ark.
Six men killed, three severely in
jured and several less severely in
jured are the casualties resulting from
the explosion of a boiler at the saw
mill of John Lagermaier, seven miles
southeast of Holcom, Wis.
The state department has received
a brief cablegram from Guayquil, Ecu
ador, announcing the surrender Of
GuayaQuil, and saying that the situa-
ton is quiet.
Mrs. Mary A. Hunt, mother Of D.
H. Hunt, of Chicago, celebrated her
one hundred and fourth birthday at
Beloit, Wis. She is vigorous physi.
cally and mentally, writes a good hand
and is interested in all current events.
The sentence of Lieut.. Pendleton,
who was condemned at Manila to life
imprisonment for murder has been re-
considered and changed to imprison-
ment for 20 years.
Herman J. Hagerman was inaugural
ed governor of New Mexico at Santa
Fe, in the hall of representatives in
the presence of large assemblage.
John Singer Wallace, naval chaplain
on the retired. list died at Alameda,
Cal, after a BRIGHTNESS. He was one
of the Oldest chaplains in the service,
having received his appointment from
President Lincoln in 1863. r,:..
George Jacob Holyoke, the author,
lecturer and advocate of secularism,
died at Brighton, England. He was
born in 1917:
Having reached the statutory age of
62 years, Rear Admiral Henry N.
Nancy, chief of the bureau of equip
ment, has been placed on the retired
list. -
Close friends of Senator Depew in
Washington are informed that he suf-
fers from aphasia and melancholia He
believes that every one is hostile to
him, and it is announced in New York
that he has given up all social affairs.
Rebels are in control of Ecuador and
zoe were killed or wounded in rioting
at Quito following seizure of capital.
A British politician predicts parlia-
ment at Dublin within the next two
years as result Of the political revo-
luton in England.
A splinter of steel three inches in
length was removed from the brain of
John Nail, of Winston, N. c., at the
Jefferson hospital in Philadelphia. The
patient is doing we'll.
Venezuelan ports are being garri-
soned and supplied in expectation Of
trouble with France.
Harvey B. Hurd, nestor of the Chi
cago bar and for many years leading
citizen of Illinois, died at his Evans
ton home from paralysis, with which
he was stricken Christmas eve.
Joseph H. Choate, Horace Porter and
Judge Rose, of Arkansas, have been
selected as the American delegates to
the peace conference at The Hague.
Mrs. John w. Cook is dead and four
persons are injured as the result of an
explosion Of acetylene gas at the Cook
home, three miles east of Richmond,
Ind.
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood will succeed
Maj. Gen. Corbin in command OF the
military division Of the Philippines on
February 1.
Twenty-four women were killed in
Chicago during the last year by brutal
assaults hY men,