Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-12-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

The Consolidated Gas company OF
New York has just completed the first
of six tanks to hold 9O,OOO,000 feet Of
gas at Astoria, N. J.
Ground was broken for the Illinois
state building at the Jamestown (Va.)
exposition.
The gunners of the armored cruiser
Drake, flagship of the second cruiser
squadron Of the British Atlantic fleet,
have made a record of 1O6 hits out of
1873 shots.
Mrs. Angie Birdsong, a prominent
Mississippi woman, is on trial for
murder at Hazelhurst. She shot and
killed DR.. T. H. Butler.
Ambassador Reid and wife sailed
from Southampton on the Kronprinz
Wilhelm for the United States.
The steam barge Hikkok, Oswego,
N. Y, for Belleville, Ont, Is long over
due, and much anxiety is felt for her
safety.
Three violent patients escaped from
the state hospital for the insane at
Weston, w. Va, and are believed to
be hiding.
John H. Kejampaa, while crazed
with dirk, ran amuck at Astabula.
O., armed with a revolver and a knife,
attacking nearly Everyone he met,
with the result that FIVE men were
more or less seriously injured, and
Kejampaa was killed by policeman.
Train No. SO, on the Monon road,
which is the fast limited of that line
between Cincinnati and Chicago, was
dera1led two miles north of Frank.
fort, Ind, by broken rail. Eighteen
passengers were injured.
Edward Mcdonald, son of a farmer
near Benton, ILL.,, accidentally shot
and killed his ten-year-old nephew.
Mcdonald, 1t is believed, has lost his
reason as the result of the tragedy.
Fire at the plant of the American
and British Manufacturing company,
successors to the Corliss Steam En-
CINE company, at Providence, R. l.,
caused damage estimated at about
$4,000.
p. w. Finley was elected president
OF the Southern Railway company,
succeeding the late Samuel Spencer.
Mr.. Finlay has been second vice pres
ident Of the company.
Calvin Drake, a Pullman car clean
er at st. Louis, shot and killed Forest
Gay, saloonkeeper, and fired two
Intellectual shots at Mrs. Drake. -,
In a panic and fire that started
from an explosion of thousands of
paper matches at the factory of F. A.
Rathbun & Co., West Indianapolis.
eight young women were seriously
burned.
Chief Of Police Chopote Of Kazan,
Russia, was shot and killed while leav-
ing a theater. The assassin was ar
rested.
James Joyner was killed and sev.
seral persons were injured in a wreck
on the Coal Belt electric railway at
Donahue. Ill.
"a magnificent monument to Count
Julius Andrassy was unveiled in Bud.
apest in the presence OF Emperor
Francis Joseph. +. 4 T., :zs5 i: e
i; III More than one-third of the nations
wealth was represented at the funeral
of Samuel Spencer, railroad president,
who was killed in q wreck: =, <5s s
Otto Young, multimlll ionalre, form.
er Chicago merchant 5printe and phil
anthropist died ct his summer home
ut Lake Geneva after an illness, aris-
ing from q compl ation ofs diseases, of
! but two weeks. He left q fortune es.
! timated ut from $17, 900, 900 t. Il 36, ooo,.
900. b.
S.55 Is'oiled in IN temp tto hold up the
! Bank .of5 Bend na. 81 Bend lena. an
ssJesse j. Harris, & farm, hand, 3of-. West.
DOR, Mo-. nred S. 4 shot into his brain:
which caused instant death
sHss1T Ko women Were seriously Injured
IN EbattleI On ~ ork; t side.
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