Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-01-10
joseph Stang, Of Menominee, Mich,

Joseph Stang, Of Menominee, Mich,
has received from Emperor William OF
Germany, a silver medal bearing the
emperor's likeness, in recognition of
an act of heroism in saving the lives
OF an old man and his daughter num-
Der of years ago when Stang was q SOL
der in Germany.
infatuated with Pearl Wheaton, who
refused to marry him, Matthew Styer
broke into her home in Caledonia,
Mimi, killed her and fatally wounded
her mother and sister. He then shot
himself, dying later.
The monthly statement of the public
debt shows that at the close Of bust
ness December 80, 1905, the total debt,
less cash in the treasury, amounted to
$994,869,718, which is a decrease as
compared with December 1, 1905 of
$4,8S3.113.
The issuance of temporary restrain
ing orders on ex parte statements,
which virtually results in government
by injunction, has been given severe
blow by Judge Joseph V. Quarles, Of
the United States district court for
the eastern district of Wisconsin, who
rules that hereafter he will issue no
such orders until both sides to the
controversies have been heard in court.
DR.. S. M. King, prominent physi-
clan Of Akron, O., committed suicide
while lying in bed by shooting himself
through the head.
Thousands are starving in north ia
pan on account of the famine there,
according to advices brought by the
steamer Empress of Japan.
BY the explosion of ten sticks of dy-
Mantle in the home of August w.
Schroeder, in Groves, near Menominee,
Mich, Gertrude, his two-year-old
daughter, was killed, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Schroeder seriously injured.
Capt. Sidney Bowers, of the fire de-
partmcnt, was killed, and Frank L.
Hines, a fireman. was seriously injured
in an incendiary fire which completely
destroyed the Highland Baptist church
at Springfield, Mass.
Alice Roosevelt divided honors with
the president at the New Years re-
ception at the White House. The affair
was the most brilliant ever known in
Washington. Over 5000 persons at
tended
There is a report that John A. Mccall
has resigned as president CT the New
York Life. The payment of the 1886, 900
Hamilton graft is rumored.
The grand jury at Baltimore, Md,
which has been investigating the af-
fairs of the Maryland Trust company
under the old regime, returned pre-
sentiments against three of the former
officials.
The appeal of Charles L. Tucker,
convicted nearly year ago of the
murder of Miss Mabel Page, at Wes-
ton, Mass, has been denied by the
Massachusetts, supreme judicial court.
Huntington Wilson, of Illinois, now
first secretary of the legation at To-
kio, has been decided upon as the sue
cessor to Mr.. PIERCE, third assistant
secretary of state.
After IL hours of steady snowfall
one Of the heaviest SHOWS for many
years covered the whole of New Mex
leo.
Gen. Francis Fessenden, aged &C.,
one of Names most distinguished SOL
diers of the civil war and a former
mayor Of Portland, Me-, is dead.
The American Institute of Archi-
tects will hold it's thirty-ninth annual
convention in Washington on January
s. 8. 10 and II.
An agreement to abolish rebating on
premiums has been entered into by
the New York Life Insurance COM
pany, the Equitable Life Assurance So
ciety and the Mutual Life Insurance
company. Grover Cleveland has been
appointed referee to decide all ques-
tons that may arise in such matters
and his salary will be $4,000 per an
mum.
Judge Thomas H. Paynter was NOM
mated for United States senator from
Kentucky to succeed J. c. S. Black
burn, in the joint caucus Of the demo-
Gratis of the state legislature. The
nomination is equivalent to an elec-
ton.
Charles T. Yerkes, street railway
magnate and financier, died at the
Waldorf-Astoria, in New York, leav.
ing his Fifth avenue mansion and its
treasures of art to that city. The mag
Mates wife, from whom he had been
estranged for years, was reconciled to
him on his deathbed.
The funeral of Charles T. Yerkes,
the late traction promoter, took place
from his home in New York city. The
services were conducted by a Quaker
minister. They were simple The
body was placed in the Yerkes mau-
soleum in Greenwood cemetery.
In fit of dependency Clarence
Barnum, farmer living near Roches-
ter, Mich, murdered his wife, son and
daughter with an AK, and blew out his
brains with shotgun.
Count Won Moltke, a nephew of the
great general, has been placed In CON-
mand of the German army.
The shipwrecked crew Of an Amer
lean ship was refused landing in
England through the alien 1mmigra.
ton act.
Former Gov. Odell received a crush
ing defeat in New York when young
Wadsworth, President Roosevelt's can
didate, was nominated by republicans
for speaker of the house.
Five cities in Austria were visited
by an earthquake, which damaged
buildings and scared the peQple.