Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-01-24

Henry Wulff, former state treasurer
Of Illinois, and Justus W.*Lobb, asso-5;
ciated with Wulff in the Continental
Financing company, were each SEN
fenced in Chicago to two years. impris-
0nment in the bridewell and a fine of
500 for using the United States mails
to defraud and operating a scheme
similar to lottery.
Baron Won Richthofen, German sec
rotary of foreign affairs, died in Ber-
lin.
NJ. Fallieres, republican and presi-
dent of the senate, was elected to sue
coed M. Loubet as president of France
on the first ballot by the national as
sembly.
Monsignor Augustin Ravoux died at
St. Joseph's hospital, st. Paul. He was
81 years of age and located in St. Paul
when it was merely an Indian village
to begin his 1abors as missionary for
the Roman Catholic church.
Philadelphia, the city in which Ben
jamin Franklin spent most of his long
and useful life, fittingly commemoratei
the two hundredth anniversary of the
birth of the great philosopher.
Hugh s. Tuohy, the Oldest clerk in
the treasury department, is dead at his
home in Washington. He had been in
the treasury A years.
William Ramaker, living two miles
from sheboygan, Wis, crushed his
wife's head with q piece Of wood while
his children pleaded with him to spare
her. The woman was instantly killed.
The estate of the late DR.. William
Rainey Harper is valued at $4,000 in
his will, filed in the probate court in
Chicago.
The general assembly of the Presby-
terrain church in the United States has
appointed January Is as the day of
prayer for schools and colleges
throughout the country.
The New York state senate, by
vote of "a to /, rejected the resolution
of Senator Edgar T. Bracket, of Sara
toga, demanding the resignation OF
Chauncey NJ. Depew from the United
States senate.
President Mitchell advised the mi
ners at their national convention in
indianapolis to insist on higher wages.
Four tunnel workers in New York
died and four others barely escaped as
result of a compressed air pipe burst
ing.
John Burns, the champion of the
British workmen, has been reelected by
1900 majority, and thousands of men
thronged the streets celebrating MS
victory.
world for 1905 was about 1915. 900, 900,
an increase of $28,0O0,000 over the pre-
ceding year, gains being made in South
Africa, the United States and Alaska,
while the Australian product decreases.
President Roosevelt announces . he
will appoint no more negroes to offices
in southern states.
The recent decision of the railroads
to cut off passes has aroused the poll
ticians and Legislatures to retaliate
with laws to reduce the transportation
rates.
Lady Florence Grey, an English NO.
blewoman, died in Chicago, where she
lived eight years under an assumed
NAME
The Panama canal commission deciG-
ed that the canal shall be built by con-
tractors, and 1.-The president has ap-
proved.
Mrs. McMurrOw, a woman who posed
as a countess and borrowed millions on
the strength of $3O,000.000 estate in
Cuba, was murdered in her home in
Philadelphia. Her son has been ar
rested.
The University of Chicago faculty
members announced their position re-
garding football. They favor reform,
not abolition Of the game
The foreclosure of mortgages aggre-
eating $4,000 menaces the stability OF
Dowie's Zion City.
Clement Armand Follieres' election
to succeed Loubet as president of
France is regarded as certain in Paris.
Thomas Emery, multi-millionaire, of
Cincinnati, O., is dead in Egypt from
pneumonia.
Announcement is made of the death
at her home in Auburndale, Mass, of
Mrs. Eliza Harding Walker, founder of
the Walker missionary home. She was
80 years old
A total shortage in the Kansas state
the report Of Accountant Morris in the
treasury examination just closed at
Topeka
The International conference on Nor
ocean reform opened in Algeciras,
Spain. The duke Of Almodovar, the
Spanish minister of foreign affairs,
was elected president
Rev. w. N. Cleveland, brother of
former President Grover Cleveland.
died in Columbus, O.. from the effects
of paralysis. He was 70 years old.
w. r. Brandt snot and killed his
wife and Justin Adams, her alleged
paramour, at Otsego, Mimi. Brandt
was jealous of his wifes receiving at
tentions and visits from Adams.
All hope for the men shut up in the
burning portion of the Tamarack mine.
near Calumet, Mich, has been aban
dOned.
Mary Rowan, the eleventh victim of
the West hotel fire, died at the city
hospital in Minneapolis.
King Oscar opened the session of
the new riksdag at Stockholm, refer
ring only incidentally to dissolution
of the union.
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