Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-11-07

Ffty-three dead IS the latest oimlcial
! figure Of the vic tims In the Atlautit
City wreck, when 49, heavily load ed
electric train plunged into the water
way separating this city from the
mainland. 5,. 81 ! Il ". y , T. ~ T
The finding Of three bodies at. At
lantic City increased the oficial iden
tilted dead to 81, and the total mum
Der OF bodies recovered to 81. j.: u
The third and last car OF the Thor
oughfare wreck has been lifted from
the water. When placed on the mud
bank the car was. In such a condition
that 1t actually fell apart of it's own
weight. Chief of Police Maxwell and
squad OF officers made a diligens
search for any bodies that may have
been wedged in the car, but found
none.
Five persons were scalded to death
by a column OF escaping steam from
| broken boiler drum in sugar house
near Vacherie, La.
In a violent fit of coughing, shortly
before his death at Portland (Ore.)
hospital, H. L. Muller, an Oregon pio'
neer of 1876 and nephew of Gen. Rob
ert E. Lee, commander of the confed.
crate army, raised from his lungs a
buckshot that he had carried in his
body since the civil war, when, as a
member of the Fifteenth New York
engineer corps.
Three hundred shares of stock of
the First National bank OF Cincinnati,
whose present market value Is $76,500
was left by the will of Mrs. Charles
Cassidy. for "home and foreign mis-
sions."
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
William Woods Plankington, of Mil
waukee. The little fellow is the first
representative Of the fourth genera
ton Of the family. II he survives the
Milwaukee Hospital association will
not receive any of the entire Plankin-
ton wealth, estimated at several mil
lions, as was provided for in the event
of the death Of the daughter and
grandson.
Bishop G. M. Galloway, of the M. E.
church, south, was stricken with con-
gestion of the brain at Jackson, Miss.
Inferior grades of coffee put in
ships manifests as peas and beans
and shipped from this country to
Porto Rico and then reshipped from
there to other countries and, in s>me
instances back to the United States,
as high grade Porto Rican coffee,
have been the subject Of an investi-
cation by the department Of COM
merce and labor.
Walter E. Koch, fellow of the Geo
logical Society of London, and G. B.
Richardson OF the United States Geo.
logical Survey, in excavation at Ell
Paso, Tex, unearthed jawbones of two
tapirs, supposed to have existed here
$4,000 years ago and an elephants
tooth, from an animal which probably
lived about $4,000 years ago.
The soldier named Vlasoff and eight
OF his associates in the plot to blow
up the building where the court mar
tial trying the Cronsted mutineers was
sitting have been executed.
In addition to the gunboat Newport
and Paducah, which already have sail
ed for the United States, the flagship
Dixie and the gunboat Dubuque have
been ordered home from San Do
mingo.
Telephone advices from Dryford,
KY, are to the effect that the Brown
feud factions are arming themselves
and another outbreak is expected. .
Southern Pacific interests caused
a charter to be drawn up for a new
railroad in western Louisiana to be
known as the Lake Charles G. North
ern railroad.
Gus Strauss, one of the Oldest
clothiers in Lexington, KY, a turf
man, former banker and politician,
died suddenly Of heart trouble.
BY direction of President Roosevelt.
Mrs. j. Ellen Foster has been detailed
from the department of justice to in
vestigate the condition of woman and
child workers throughout the country.
Returns showing the unexpended
balances in the allowances for salaries
of clerks in city post Offices were re-
ceived by First Assistant Postmaster
General Hitchcock and in view Of the
amounts reported he is able to au-
thorize 279 promotions and SO addi-
tional clerkships.
Through their efforts to obtain la
Dor for work on the isthmian canal,
members of the canal commission
have found there is a dearth of labor
in practically all parts of the world.
The president is preparing to re-
deem his promise made to the Phil
ippfne people through Secretary Taft
that they shan have a parliament of
their own.
= Gov. Hogatt, Of Alaska, will not be
permitted to serve on a commission
which is to visit the various capitals
of Canadian provinces to interest
them in the Alaska Yukon exposition
to be held in Seattle in 1909.
The net result of the ordinary gov
eminent revenues and expenditures
for the fiscal year 1906 was surplus
of $780, 1872, as compared with
deficit of $23,0o4,22s for the preced-
ing year. -.
One man was fatally hurt, two seri-
ously and three others slightly in
jured at Pittsburg, Pa, when an auto
mobile in which they were riding
turned turtle. '",,, ~ NJ ii :'ss" ;.
Abe Attell won the decision from
Harry Baker after 20 rounds of fast
fighting before the Pacific Athletic