Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-05-16
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
Startling revelations of the Stand
ard Oil company's alleged bribery of
railroad employees in order to learn
secrets Of competitors shipments were
brought out before the interstate COM
MERGE commission at Chicago.
Courtiers and spectators, other than
members of the national parliament,
led the cheering, when the car deliv-
cred his speech, but the members were
ominously silent, expressing neither
approval nor disapproval. What
ranked most was the failure of the
emperor to mention amnesty.
boiler at Brown Brothers tile
factory, Charlottesville, Ia, exploded,
two workmen were killed and the
plant was wrecked.
During the voyage of the steamer
Faukla from India to Suva, Fiji
islands, 124 coolies were taken sick
with cholera and 81 died.
Officers of Wesleyan college, Mount
Pleasant, Ia, have been notified that
Andrew Carnegie will give $4,000 on
condition that $4,000 be raised.
Counsel for Mrs. Duke filed an ap-
peal at Trenton, N. J., carrying to
the court of errors and appeals the d.
v0rce granted to her husband, James
B. Duke.
A Lake Erie freight engine struck
and instantly killed Herbert, the r.
year. old son of Brad O. Bryant, of Al
exandria, Ind. The boy was trying
to catch ride.
Three hundred attended the opening
of the Southern Illinois Odd Fellows
Reunion association at Carbonate,
Ill.,, at which Grand Master William
r. Humphrey spoke.
BY an explosion in a rolling mill
of the Dupont Powder works at Will
mington, DEL, William McCrea was
instantly killed and James Camac was
SO badly hurt that his death is ex-
pected.
At the request of Acting Secretary
Newberry, under the direction of the
president, Rear Admiral Converse,
chief Of the bureau of navigation, who
D,
has consented to remain in that office.
Adjt. Gen. Scott has issued an order
accepting the resignation of Gen.
James b. Smith as brigadier general
commanding the Fourth brigade, Illi-
nois national guard. Col. Edward C.
Young succeeds him.
State Bank Examiner Peter G.
Cameron, who took charge of the Co.
lumbia Savings aud Trust bank at
Pittsburg, said that there was no
shortage or defalcation and that the
depositors would probably be paid
in full.
The Rev. Henry Sewell, for 50 con-
secutive years a Methodist preacher,
died at Evansville, Wis. He was %
years old.
jeremiah Murphy, aged SO years,
wealthy st. Louis pork packer, died at
his home from complication of dis
eases. Mr.. Murphy is survived by
widow and five sons:
The bank of Thornton, Iowa, owned
by ]. D. Barlow and G. L. Ehlers.
made an assignment for the benefit of
it's creditors.
D. H. Houston, inventor of the ko-
dak, died at Fargo, N. D. Besides in
venting the original of the modern
kodaks, he bred to high standard
what Is known as blue stew wheat.
winning prizes at Paris, st. Louis,
Portland and other expositions.
Smallpox has broken out in chill
dren's home near Sterling, ILL., Nearly
every inmate is said to be afflicted.
Charles L. Spier, confidential agent
and the only man who had the COM
plete confidence of Henry H. Rogers
the active head Of the Standard Oil
company, was killed almost instantly
in his home in New Brighton, Staten
Island, by shot from his own re-
yolver.
Thomas w. Lawson has decided to
dispose of his kennel of dogs and will
sell them at the Readville trottinR
track Tuesday, May ~.
The daughter Of H. o. Havemever
the sugar king, was fined $40 by a ,ew
Jersey justice for speeding her auto.
She borrowed money to pay the fine.
Thomas Brooks, aged rs, of White
hall, fell 80 feet from the Pere Mar
Quette, Mich, tunnel bridge. He
walked away with hardly limp.
Mrs. James G. Blaine, daughter of
Rear Admiral Hichborn, has LEFT
Washington for Sioux Falls, s. D.. to
remain for several months,
Fire caused loss Of $4,000 in the
shipping district of Yakima, Wash,
. The Northern Pacific freight depot and
tho Yakima Produce company's build
ings burned. - : 10. p ~. ~.
s Anthracite miners voted to accept
the original proposition Of operators
and return to work. 1| = u. --sl B, n