Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-03-06

lost gems valued at 100000 lille.
standing in the post office. 4
BENJAMIN G. Wright confessed to
the Denver police that he poisoned
his wife and daughter. = II : .:5 81 y
The batthship Connecticut sailed
from Guantanamo for the north with
Sc cases Of typhoid on board. ',< ~ + -. l.
E. NJ. Fuller, a grocer of Augusta,
Ga, mistook a policeman for a burg.
lar and killed him. -
The chief of police and chief of de-
tectives of Salt Lake, City we're arrest.
ed for conspiracy to fleece travellers.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw
was elected president of the Carnegie
Trust company of New York. G>=- =
Attorney, General Hays, of Ken
lucky, took steps to have the Southern
Pacific Railway company pay $6,OOO,-
900 into the state, treasury for taxes.
President Roosevelt j. will address
the students of the Michigan Agricul-
tural college at Lansing May 81.
The reported theft Of $4,000 from
the Chicago subtreasury was sur,
with mystery. The officials
believed they knew the culprits.
The Texas senate Endorsed United
States Senator Bailey and discharged
its Investigating committee without a
report ..n
Prof. E. B. Lowell of Columbia uni
versity, testified before the coroner's
inquest that the New York Central
train wrecked at Harlem was running
too fast and was too heavy.
The Missouri house passed an
amended low fare bill and the senate
concurred.
The Kansas legislature must pro-
long its session in order to complete
its work.
The steam yacht NADIA was in dis
tress off the Jersey coast, with a
broken shaft.
Hickory Inn, at Hickory, N. c., one
of the largest hotels in the western
part of the state, was destroyed by
fire. Guests were forced to jump from
second and third-story windows, and
five were badly injured.
Col. j. E. Ewing, publisher of the
Financier, of New York, died sudden
~ two hours after he was stricken by
apoplexy while in the New York Life
Insurance building, Chicago.
During family quarrel in st. Louis
Gilbert Ashley, Is years old, shot and
killed his uncle, Edward Murphy.
Frank J. Hearne, president of the
Colorado Fuel & Iron company, died
at Denver.
Mrs. Belle Jones and Mrs. w. G.
Moore, of Lexington, KY, claim they
are descendants of Baron Springer. of
Sweden, and heirs to an $4,000, 200
estate in Delaware, including the site
of the city of Wilmington.
Ambassador Bryce was presented to
President Roosevelt by Secretary
Root.
Eleven persons were rescued from
the wrecked steamer Berlin, the life
savers being helped personally by the
prince tonsort of the Netherlands.
Two women and a child could not be
taken OIL.
The three last surviavqrs of the
wreck of the steamer Berlin at the
Hook OF Holland were rescued by the
gallant life-sayers. Fifteen were saved
out Of 14S aboard the vessel,
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, the poet,
who underwent an operation in Bos-
ton. had serious relapse.
Tho Miami If Tho III or D~ooocc oono
pany at Niagara Falls, N. Y, was
burned, the loss being 100000. H. s.
Fairchild was killed.
,Nicaraguans captured the Honduran
fortified town of San Marcos de Colon.
Antonio Villereal, the alleged Mex
lean revolutionist, escaped just after
he had been turned over to the immi-
grafton authorities at Ell Paso, Tex,
for deportation.
The Georgia Southern & Florida
passenger train for Jacksonville, Fla,
was wrecked about As miles south OF
Macon, Ca. The engineer was killed.
No passengers injured.
Guy Taunce of Waterbury, Conn,
lad of six years, found his grand
fathers pipe six weeks ago and took
to smoking it. The boy died of tobac-
co poison.
Prof. Matteucci of the Vesuvius OBJ
servatory denies that he prophesied
the possible destruction of. the world
by comet.
One man was ,probably5fatally burn
ed and many windows were broken
by an explosion of gas in the base
ment of the Bittner building. San.
dusky, o. ..-'.'
Archibald Clavering Gunthev, au.
thor, publisher and playwright, died
suddenly in New York. -
Property in the downtown district
Of Pittsburg, valued at $350,000, was
destroyed by fire. +.
= The supreme court of the United
States decided the case Of the Gulf,
Colorado & Santa Fe Railroad vs..
the railroad commission of Texas in
volving state freight rates, favorably
to the state. RI = %..~ =
1 John w. Lormor, an Iowa pioneer,
the owner Of so farms and rated as
a millionaire, died, ~ e.. =. ".
J. The Pennsylvania's 1s-hour train
west bound was derailed near Johns
town, Pa, and three cars were hurled
into shallow river. Many, passen-
gers were hurt but none killed. ss15 "
Patrick c.. Shechan, a lawyer of
.Conneautville, Pa, was stricken with
lapcplexy while carrying q lighted
lamp: and was burned to death.
President Zelaya, Of Nicaragua,
cabled that President Bonilla, ofs Hon,
durss Wa to blame for theawar and
that Nicaragua had won four vic