Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-13
MISCELLANEOUS,

Henry E. Warner OF Boston, was ap-
pointed receiver of the Arnold Print
works Of North Adams, Mass, one OF
the largest textile concerns in the
country, by the United States circuit
court at Boston.
A fire in the Sioux City Ua.) Journal
building caused a loss estimated at
between 5000 and $4,000, with $751;
600 insurance. The editorial rooms
and business Office were saved.
F. J. Tygard, president OF the Bates
National bank of Butler, Mo-, when it
failed September 20, 1906, was SEN
fenced to five years in the penitentiary
by Judge Mcpherson In the federal
court at Kansas City.
The commercial telegraphers' unions
in Chicago, New York and other cities
called of the strike.
An insane woman, nursing fancied
grievance, deliberately fired the Kane
county almshouse at Batavia, ILL.,, and
40 demented patients narrowly es-
capped a horrible death.
Albert Nerzlinger, on trial in St..
Louis for binding Mrs Lena Wunsch
by throwing sulphuric acid in her face,
was found guilty by jury and SEN
fenced to 20 years in the penitentiary,
the maximum sentence.
An estate Of approximately $4,000
600 was disposed of in the will of the
late J. S. Polk, capitalist and steel
railway promoter of Des Moines, Ia
The large property was equally divid-
ed among the widow and four chill
dren.
By the explosion of a dinky engine
boiler at the La Belle Iron works at
Steubenville, O.. five men were killed.
The threatened general railway
strike in Great Britain was averted by
an agreement between the railways
and the union
The Royal society of Great Britain
awarded the Copley medal to Prof.
Albert A. Nicholson, of the University
of Chicago, for optical investigation,
and the Davy medal to Prof. E. w.
Morley, of West Hartford, Conn.
Guy Condit, cashier of the First Ma
tional bank of Kingfsher, Okla, at
tempted to kill himself by slashing his
throat. He will recover Anxiety
over financial matters preyed upon his
mind.
The boilers of the German school
ship Butcher exploded and it was re-.
ported that eight men were killed and
many injured.
Raymond Hitchcock, the indicted
comedian, who had been missing, ap-
peared in court in New York, pleaded
not guilty and was released on bail.
Gray Gables, formerly the summer
home Of Grover Cleveland at Buz.
Yards Bay, has been sold, according to
reports at Fall River, Mass, to George
Flynn, a brewer.
Daniel F. Mcmahon, a former lead.
or Of Tammany Hall, died in Atlantic
City.
Albert Trostel, among the best
known tanners of the United States.
died in Milwaukee.
William H. Higgie, who was for
many years a lake captain, with q
residence in Chicago, died at the
Mercy hospital there after undergo.
ing amputation of limb.
Lieut.. Gov. Jared Y. Sanders. of
louisiana, having refused to fight q
duel with him, ,Donelson Caherey Of
that state. son of the late Senator
Ca6erey, covered the billboards of
New Orleans with huge posters in
which he calls Sanders "a common
liar and poltroon."
John Mitchell, president Of the
United Mine Workers of America,
was reported to be in a critical condi.
ton in the hospital at La Sale, Ill:
The main Office building of the
Nelson Morris packing plant at East
St: Louis, ILL.,, was destroyed by fire,
the loss being 100000. -. =:
Two Catholic papers in Brussels
asserted that King Leopold had given
100000 to- Baroness Vaughan.
The. president has decided to- ap
point Roswell p, Bishop. Of Michigan
formerly q congressman, from that
state, to the vacant place IN the Span
ish treaty claims commission.