Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-08-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

The state Of Illinois secured iudg-
ment against former State Treasurer
Henry Wulff and Floyd K. White
more, his bondsmen, for $6,532.4O. The
suit was filed by the state of Illinois
to recover fees held by former State
Treasurer Wulff.
The monthly statement of the di-
rector OF the mint shows that during
July the coinage executed at the minis
OF the United States amounted to S.
2O3, 164, as follows: Gold, $6,175,O0O;
silver, $12S,164. These amounts, how
ever, do not include 10000 pesos mint
ed for the Philippine government.
The navy department has been in
formed of the death of Medical Inspec-
tor William E. Taylor, retired, which
occurred at Honolulu, Hawaii.
In accordance with an order issued
by the emperor Of Russia the Ameri-
can syndicate represented by Baron
Loicq de Lobel of Paris is authorized
to begin work on the Trans-Siberian-
Alaska railroad project.
The final account Of the trustee of
the bankrupt estate of Frank G. Bige-
low, the defaulting Milwaukee bank
president, who is now serving a SEN
tence in Fort Leavenworth, has been
filed. The trustee says that. there is
sufficient money on hand to pay final
dividend OF 1922 per cent on ap-
proved claims, aggregating $3,242,255.
A stick of wood containing dyna-
mite caused an explosion in the home
OF Mrs. Carl Ostman at Toledo, O.,
and pieces of the wrecked stove struck
Mrs. Ostman and her daughter, seri.
ously injuring them.
Gov. Davidson, of Wisconsin. will
appoint a commission to Investigate
the Dietz situation at Cameron dam.
For the present, at least, there is no
intention on the part of the executive
to send troops to capture Dietz.
At Louisville, Ky., United States
Commissioner Cassin held J. M. Scott,
chief train dispatcher of the Louis
vile & Nashville Railroad company
in $500 bond for alleged violation Of
the Erdman arbitration law.
Rockland, little mining town in
Ontonagon county, Mich, was the
scene Of wild disorder when the strik.
ing trammers at the Michigan copper
mine attacked the miners who were
going to work under the protection of
Sheriff Mcfarland. One man was
killed and another MORALLY wounded.
Odessa police arrested SO employees
OF the custom house who were on
strike.
The gross amount Of insurance at
San Francisco involved by all compa-
MES was $222,836,307; the reinsurance,
$65.246,771; salvage, $33,S14,456, and
: actual loss, 1882, 823, O67.
" An anarchist threw a bomb into
shop at Odessa and wounded clerk.
Eugene Kraft, who was found dead
in Chicago, worked at Marshalltown.
-. Ia, as printer. It was stated that
:. he had high family connections in
Europe. He spent two years as q
monk in a monastery in Belgium. sS
John Lawrence Toole, the comedian,
died at Brighton, Eng, aged rs. John
Lawrence Toole started lite as a wine
merchants clerk at the age Of 20. He
was advised by Charles Dickens to
adopt the stage as q profession, which
he did, making his first appearance In
1858. &. :.s !. y ,<5* (: Il :-
The Armenian town of shusha was
the scene Of 2 renewal Of hostilities
between Armenians and Tartars.
.s y naval court-martial passed d sen.
fences II OF death Upon 81 seamen Who
were arrested for plicity ii the
5m . It of5 the lack - neet % No.
semher, 906.