Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-01-02


New York for Colon, for the purpose
tf making a f1ve-day inspection of the
,sthmus of Panama and learning for
themselves the existing condition rel
alive to the digging of the canal
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mrs. Susan Kelly, aged so years,
was burned to death and her husband
barely escaped with his life in fire
which destroyed their apartments in
West Sixtieth street, New York.
Just as he presented a Christmas
gift to his wife, Thomas Cardin, of
Philadelphia, dropped dead of heart
disease.
Rev. T. K. Crowley, of st. Patrick's
church, Denison, Tex, while putting
on his vestments to celebrate high
mass, dropped dead.
Three men were killed and four
wounded in battle between guards
employed by the West Kentucky Coal
company at Sturgis, Union county,
KY, and the striking miners at that
place.
Edward H. Judson, DR.. Emanuel l..
Hess, Thomas Cochran and DR.. L. w.
Babcock, all prominent pioneer resi-
dents Of st. Paul, Mimi, died.
Announcement is made of gift of
$4,000 to defray the expense Of the
construction and equipment of new
home for Marquette college, Milwau-
kee, the donors being Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert A. Johnston, in conjunction
with their son, Rev. Robert Story
Johnston, S. j., of Florissant, Mo.
The touring car of Joseph Letter, in
which were riding Mr.. Letter, Mrs.
Levi z. Letter and Mr.. and Mrs.
Franklin Remington, of New York,
ran down and instantly killed Samuel
West, 14-year.old negro boy, in
Washington.
Manager ESQ Abe, of Waseda univer-
sity, Japan, has accepted the challenge
of Stanford university for an interna-
tional baseball contest to be played in
Toxic some time In May.
David c. Webb, president of a big
mercantile company in Kansas City,
Mo-, died aged 70 years.
Sailors from the United States
cruiser Cleveland caused panic in a
public park in Cienfuegos, Cuba,
where concert was going on, by en-
gaging in a fight and firing many
shots. The police arrested several of
the sailors.
Otto Yogieslsky, contracting
plumber, shot and instantly killed his
wife and then committed suicide in
New York
Mrs. Gertrude Rose, wife of Henry
M. Rose, assistant secretary of the
United States senate, died at the home
of her sister, Mrs. B. F. McReynolds,
in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr., formerly
Miss Martha Hichborn, who secured
a divorce in South Dakota several
days ago, announced that she would
soon be married to Paul 8. Pearsall,
OF New York, lieutenant in the regi.
ment of rough riders during the war
with Spain.
Neil Florence, an actor IS years old,
was found dead in his room at a New
York boarding house. The apartment
was filled with Illuminating gas which
was escaping from two open Jets.
Rose Bros department store at
ManistiQue, Mich, was destroyed by
fire, the loss being $4,000.
E. L. Larrimo1e of Atlanta; Ca, &C.
cidentally shot and killed his niece,
Miss Tymena r. Freeman.
In q head7on-collision at Brookville.
Ind, between two Big Four freight
trains, Fireman Frank Morris of Num-
Gle, Ind, and Bert Day, a farmer of
Cedar Grove, Ind, who was riding on
one OF the engines. were killed, and H.
Beesley, another farmer, was fatally
injured.
The French governments new re-
ligious measure was passed by the
chamber of deputies with the over
whelming majority Of l13 to 166.
Richards, Comstock, Jameson and
Triplett, of the Nebraska Land and
Feeding company, were convicted Of
fraud at Omaha.
neuly 6lester1elQ, a retired busl-
ness man of Elgin, ILL.,, was killed in
the woods near that city while cut
ting down trees. A tree fell on him
and crushed him.
President Roosevelt asked e. H.
Hartman to close the break in Colo.
RADIO river causing the Salton sea.
Ten terrorists were executed at
Riga, Russia. They belonged to a
band guilty of a series of robberies.
bomb outrages and murders extending
over months, and also were concerned
in a plot to kill Baron Moeller-Sako-
melsky, governor general of the Baltic
provinces.
Mrs. Frank Mills, so years old, was
burned to death and 60 persons were
made homeless by fire at Butler, Pa.
which caused loss Of $4,000.
: The shipment of coffee from Rio
Janeiro ts at 9 standstill owing to the
fact that the stevedQTes have gone
nut on strike.