Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-01-17

Gov. Cumming Of Iowa, in his bt.
ennial message recommends that in.
surance SURPRISES be, divided and that
policies be made uniform. He upholds
the primary law and denounces rail-
road passes.
The National league championship
baseball season will start April IL and
that Of the American league April II.
H. Clay Pierce, oil magnate, re-
NAMED locked up in his apartments in
the .Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York
for two weeks to dodge process servers
in the Missouri custer suits:
First and Trinity Methodist church
congregations plan a $1,000,000 sky
scraper with the largest downtown
church building in the world on the
corner of Washington and Clark
streets in Chicago.
c. E. Mier, coming from Europe to
answer forgery charges in San Fran
cisco, killed himself on a steamer as
it was entering New York har Dor.
The athletic investigating commit
tee of the University of Wisconsin re-
ported in favor Of the abolition Of
football.
A dozen houses at Haverstraw, N.
Y, were carried into pit 100 feet
deep by a landslide. Fifteen are
known to be dead. The ruins
caught fire and there may be more VIC
Tins.
In quest for $5,o00,000 graft said
to. have been disbursed among con-
tractors for water tunnels and sew
ers, the special council committee in
Chicago will examine the books in at
least two city departments.
The north or main building of the
state normal college at Albany. N. Y,
was burned to the ground and the resi-
dence of the president of the college,
DR.. William J. Milne, was badly dam
aged. Loss, about 100000.
J. Cabe1l Breckenridge, son Of tho
late John c. Breckenridge, who was
vice president of the United States in
the administration of James Buchanan
from 1857 to 1861, died at the home of
his son-in-law at Yonkers, N. Y. He
was 81 years of age.
Twenty-year- old Roy Hull, of Tama,
Ia, was sentenced at Marshalltown by
Judge Burnham to life Imprisonment
for first degree murder. Hull killed
Daniel Leary, foreman of the Armour
paper mill, at Toledo, la.
George Polasky, director OF the
Central bank and of several manufac-
turing industries in Kalamazoo. Mich,
was arrested charged with fraudulent
ly getting $4,000 of bank funds.
John M. Pattison, of Cincinnati, who
defeated Gov. Myron T. Herrick by 61,-
900 plurality last fall in the contest for
the govern0rship, was inaugurated at
Columbus. The new executive is the
first democrat elected to the high
honor in many years in the Buckeye
state.
The foreign Office at Berlin says Ger
many is not sending any warships to
Mediterranean waters.
King Edward has dissolved parlia-
ment and has ordered an election of
members Of the new parliament, which
In the destruction by fire of their
home at Cove, Pa, Robert Adams, his
wife and two children were burned to
death. The fire resulted from a de-
fective flue.
The thirty-first session of the Iowa
general assembly began at Des Moines.
George w. Clark, of Odel, was unani-
mously elected speaker of the house.
Trade relations between the United
States and Germany in 1905 aggregated
the large sum of $300,0O0,000.
Mrs. Jesse w. Hall, of Detroit, tele-
phoned to the Palmer house, Chicago,
her fear of suicide by her husband and 3
search of his room resulted in the find
ing Of his dead body
Earthquake shocks were felt in Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Nebraska, but little
damage was DONE
The battleship Alabama rammed the
Kentucky while aground in New York
harbor and Admiral Evans entire fleet
miraculously escaped wreck.
Gov. Hanly, CT Indiana, filed in In
dianapolis suit for the removal OF
Secretary of State Storms on charges
OF dereliction in duty.
Sarah Williams, d negress who shot
and killed Carrie Taylor, a white wo-
man, was allowed to plead guilty at
Lexington, KY, Ond was sentenced for
life, the judge being deferred from in
n1ct1ng the death penalty by fear of a
~,
Rogers case in Vermont
Henry H. Rogers, vice president OF
the Standard Oil company, refused to
disclose trust secrets in the hearing of
Miss0uri's suit in New York.
Midshipman Stephen Decatur, Jr..
was acquitted by the court-martial at
Annapolis of the charge Of hazing.
Russia is in hard straits financially.
according to M. Kohovsoff. minister of
finance, who says in Paris that the bud
get for 1906 exceeds the revenues by
$241. 100000
Five men were killed and II Injured
by an explosion of a ton of dynamite
in the Dolese & Shepard quarries at
Gary. III.
On January 4 an explosion set fire
to d mine at Akita on the main island
of Japan, and 101 persons were burned
to death.
Mrs. Pauline Hermann, Miss Jewel
Reed and Mrs. Pulvermacher, of st.
Charles, Mo-, persisted in fire which
destroyed a boarding house conducted
by Erskine Reed at No. 1161 Missouri
avenue, st. Louis. -,
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