Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-12-19

crimes treasurer oiuun:
|:tarily paid to-. the state ofs Kansas
1853, tor which amount 90. inYestt-
CATION committte some time: ago held
his administra ion respo nsible
Ex: Gov, Franklin ]: Moses, or South
Carolina found dead i'm bed at
his lodging house at winthrop Beach,
Mass, death being. caused by: asphyx.
iatlOn. Gas was found escaping from
a small stove used to heat the place.
Matt Priestly, one Of the county su-
pervisors at Rock. Rapids, Ia: re-
Gently indicted by the grand jury for
transportation of road funds, com
mitted suicide by cutting his throat
with q jack knife. <:s f..
The American Sugar Refining CON-
pany and the Brooklyn !. Coopsrage
company were fined $4,000 and $7O,-
900 respectively in New York for &C..
cepting rebates on sugar shipments.
DR.. G. w. Benin. chief of;the disin:
lection staff Of the Chicago health
department, is seriously i'll with dipb-
liberia, contracted while carrying On
experiments to secure a more potent
germicide. ~ = :
John J. Kinneally. the socialist
labor candidate for mayor of New
York In the campaign of 1905, was
drowned in, Long Island sound, of
Oak Point.
Frank w. Chamberlin, prominent
as theatrical manager in Iowa and
Illinois, died at Augusta, Ga.
John D. Rockefeller has promised
100000 to the board Of foreign mis-
sions of the United Presbyterian
church for educational work in Egypt
and the Sudan.
The funeral of Bishop Seymour, of
the Springfield diocese of the Episco-
pal church, took place from st. Pauls
pro-cathedral, Springfield, Ill.
J. G. F. Harrington, Of Decatur, ILL.,,
has been appointed superintendent of
public instruction In Bolivia.
The Norwegian storthing conferred
the Nobel peace prize on President
Roosevelt, who will use the money
to establish an Industrial peace COM
mission.
Mitchell Bruso, a Greek deckhand
on the ocean tug Luckenbach, hero
ically rescued two men from found
ering barge in an icy storm.
The steamer Monarch was wrecked
on Isle Royale, 40 miles from Fort
William, Ont, and one man was
drowned.
A furious gale in San Francisco did
many thousands of dollars worth of
damage and cost several lives.
The Wisconsin legislative committee
on life insurance made it's report,
'mingling censure and praise OF the
companies doing business in that
state.
Levi Boster, reputed to have been
the oldest person in Missouri, is dead
at his home near Houston, Texas
county, aged ZIG years. He was born
in Virginia.
The president has filled the vacancy
to be created by the transfer to the
cabinet of Ambassador Myer at st.
Petersburg, by the selection Of John
w. Riddle, at present minister to
Roumania and Servia. -
Miss Mary McAtee shot and proba-
bly, fatally wounded her father, Rev.
John Quincy McAtee in Philadelphia
after he had attacked her mother.
w. Scotty Smith, one of the veal.
thiest farmers Of Woods county, Okla,
was called from hic hor,o nv, q M ~,
of unknown men, seized and bound,
with rope drawn around the throat,
and dragged by horse across freshly
plowed ground until life was extinct.
The water board OF the city OF
Omaha voted to rescind the action
Of the city council taken In 1903 pro-
viding for the purchase of the Omaha
Water ~company's plant, and named a
committee to procure plans and esti.
mates for q; new plant to- be built
by the city which it is believed will
cost about $4.000.000.
A. B. Hitchcock, Harry c. Moore
and J. H. Clark, milk dealers of Boone,
Iowa. who published an agreement to
put up the price of milk, were indicted
for conspiracy to combine and control
output and price contrary to the
statutes
Secretary Shaw decided to release
$20,000,000 from the United States
treasury to relieve financial strin.
gency; he will buy $10,0O0,000 bonds
and will accept savings bank securi-
ties for deposits. -
The annual report of Second Assist
ant Postmaster General Shallenbarger
says the cost of transporting the mails
of the United States during the last
fiscal year was $76,658,599 "
Two men were instantly killed when
struck by Rock Island special train
In front of the Thirty:frst street sta
ton, Chicago, and three persons stand
ing on the platform were knocked
down and bruised by the bodies of
the other two as they were hurled
through the air. -..~-... : =: :,
Eugene J. Leahy, believed to be the
last Of the crew OF the Monitor at the
time Of her memorable. battle with
the Merrimac, died at New London,
Conn, aged 63 years. E ~. :ss w. :. 4. X
!. Chester p. Gillette, convicted of the
murder Of his sweetheart, : Grace
Brown, was sentenced to- die I'm the
electric chair during the week begin.
ming January 28~ . se4s;s...t - 4" : II
Nearly 5000 employees of the wash.
inpfnn n Svv : ward vvfl1. rooo3vo J. a.,