Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-01-10


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Charles T. Yerks, after making lio.
eral provision for his wife and chill.
dren as long. as they live, and Z few
minor requests to friends and rela-
tives, left practically all of his. great
estate to the public, 100000 going to
the University Of Chicago, $3.50, 900 and
the mansion to an art museum and
the remainder to build and endow a
hospital a.. y.
America will reinforce Philippine
troops. so as to be ready to throw
large armed force into China in case
of an uprising. The squadron is to be
increased.
The public debt was reduced almost
$5,O00,00O during the year 1905.
James H. Howard, charged with
helping murder Gov. Goebel, of Ken
lucky, must undergo life imprison-
ment, according to decision by the
United States supreme court.
The retail jewelry firm Of Herbert
L. Joseph & Co., Of Chicago, failed,
with liabilities estimated at nearly
100000.
Postmaster General Cortelyou says
Chicago's new post Office is inadequate
and officials believe congress in the
near future will authorize a new build
ing.
A new alien law has gone into effect
in England and immigrants are re-
fused permission to land.
Aroused by the success of convicted
cattle barons In escaping the laws
penalty the government officials will
soon bring more cases in Nebraska.
The printers fight for the eight-hour
day has become general throughout the
United States.
Mayor Mcclellan began his second
term as mayor of New York city with
an address to his heads of departments,
in which he told them they will be
held strictly to account and will be re-
moved if they fail in their duties.
Manning G. Palmer was convicted OF
Incorporating the funds of the
failed American Exchange National
bank, of Syracuse, N. Y, and sentenced
to five years in prison.
Thousands of negroes paraded at Sa-
vannah, Ga, in honor of the signing
Of the emancipation proclamation.
The parade was marked by the great
est disorder.
William Randolph Hearst, with the
aid of the republican and municipal
ownership aldermen in New York city,
is contesting the seat of the president
of the board, with the aim of forcing
Tammany to go to the courts, thus
bringing recount of the votes cast in
the recent municipal elections.
In attempting to quell a New Years
riotous celebration in his saloon at
Belleville, ILL.,, William Tannehill shot
and dangerously wounded Fred Hop
wood.
James Kittredge, who was a patient
in the private sanitarium of DR.. Will
liam Pickett in Philadelphia, jumped
from second-story window of the in
stitution and was instantly killed.
Gov. James o. Davidson was sworn
in as governor of Wisconsin to serve
the unexpired term of Gov. Robert M.
La Toilette.
Frank Phiscator, millionaire Alas.
kan miner, ended his life in mis- apart
ments at San Francisco hotel by
cutting his throat with a razor Phis-
Gator is said to have been one of the
pioneers of the Klondike and was at
Forty-Mile at the time of the great
discoveries.
Paul SovdeM, aged 40, a familiar
character of the red light district Of
Cleveland, O., for the past several
years, shot and killed Jessie Smith,
aged %, in resort, and then commit
ted suicide.
The average price Of commodities is
higher than in % years, according to
Dun's review of trade.
Comparative death rates for 1905
show Chicago to be the healthiest city
in the United States.
The seventy-seventh general assem-
bly, of Ohio convened at Columbus. the
house being organized by the republi-
cans, who have 81 votes against 50 for
the democrats, and the senate being
organized by the democrats, who have
10 votes.
At Duke, Okla, w. Goodnight shot
and killed his wife and then himself.
He was jealous. Mrs. Goodnight was
16 years old. They had been married
but a few days.
Secretary Root and British Ambas-
sador Durand are to sign an agree
f.7s h0 NJ h1
lakes fish.
Customs receipts at the port of Chi
cago during 1905 show an increase of
nearly $1,400,000 over those of the
previous year.
John Ellis, an ex-banker of Beatrice,
Neb., and ex-county treasurer of Gage
county, respondent over financial az
fairs, committed suicide by taking car
bolic acid.
MISS Barbara Toxer shot and killed
F. G. Clayton, a business man of Okla
homa City. The woman asserts that
Clayton attempted to assault her and
that she shot in se]f-defense.
Frank Steunenberg, former governor
Of Idaho, was murdered by bomb at
his home in a suburb Of Boise. His
fearless prosecution of the Occur
dAlene gang directs suspicion that
way.
Safeblowers opened the safe of Stick
ley, Wray & Co.'s bank at Iroquois,
ILL.,, and got away with 81 ,400 in cash.
The American Shipbuilding COM
pany's plant at Bay City, Mich, was
burned TnSs S250 00O