Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-01-30

The Colorado senate ordered an IN
vestigation Of Senator Morgan's charge
that he was bribed two years ago by q
railway.
The Arkansas house of representa-
tives refused to indorse President
Roosevelt's action in the Brownsville
affair.
H. M. Berger, private banker of
Viola, Wis, was admitted to bank
ruptcy.
w. M. Robertson, a well known Ne
braska politician, died at Norfolk,
Neb.
At least % persons were killed and
exploded at Sanford, Ind, just as a
Big Four passenger train was passing.
The train was blown to pieces and the
passengers shockingly mutilated.
Revised lists give the dead in the
Big Four wreck at Sanford, Ind, as
%, and the injured as 80.
In a head-on collision at Fowler,
Ind, on the Big -Four, 13 persons were
killed and many injured.
Deep snow covered North Dakota
and most of the northwest and put
complete stop to railway traffic.
Senator Tillman made fun of the
senate, was sharply rebuked by Sen
ators Spooner and Carmack, and apo.
logized.
Gov. John S. Little of Arkansas suf-
fered a physical collapse and will be
confined to his home for several
weeks.
The Wabash river levee at Terre
Haute broke and the suburb of Taylor
vile was flooded, hundreds of people
being driven from their homes.
Indianapolis was selected as the
next meeting place of the convention
of the United Mine Workers in Janu-
airy, 1908. Thomas Burke, of Illinois,
and Patrick Gilday, Of Pennsylvania,
were elected delegates to the interna-
tional congress, which will be held
next summer in Salzburg, Austria.
The long and costly Shea labor con-
spiracy trial in Chicago came to an
unsatisfactory end with the $4,000
jury unable to agree on verdict.
Josiah Flynt Willard, whose expert
ences as tramp, author, vagabond and
sociologist under the name of Josiah
Flynt,' gave him worldwide reputa-
ton, died in Chicago.
The Merchants and Farmers bank
of Fairmont, Mimi, suspended.
The report of the legislative COM
mittee, finding nothing in the charges
against Senator Gamble which reflects
upon his personal or official integrity,
was adopted by large majorities in
both houses of the South Dakota
legislature.
Republican legislators of New Jer-
sey renominated Senator Dryden, and
in Iowa Senator Dolliver was renomi-
mated.
A large steamer, believed to be the
English steamer Arcola, $500 tons,
grounded on the rocks close to MORO
castle, while trying to enter Havana
harbor.
Paul Fourier and George Cyr, of
Quiring, Mimi, were arrested on
charges Of killing of N. O. Dahl and
his daughter, Aagot, near During in
April, 1904.
Fire of unknown origin at Utica,
Licking county, Ohio, destroyed the
Mckittrick business block and the c.
w. Jewel hardware store, entailing
loss of $4,000.
A midwinter tornado visited Black
well, Okla, totally demolishing a num-
Der of buildings and injuring several
people.
John Leheman and his wife were
found dead near Appleton, Wis, pre-
sumably having been chloroformed by
burglars
DR.. Thomas F. Mayham, aged II
years, one of the best known pioneers
of Wisconsin and ex-mayor of Fond
du Lac, died in his office.
Charges of graft by D. E. Potter,
former sheriff, and members of the
board OF supervisors, which, it is pre-
dicted, will rival the Dougherty ex-
pose Is months ago. are being investi-
gated by a grand jury at Peoria, III.
1t is declared that revelations will be
made of dishonesty and theft that
will involve many county officials.
Rev. W. p McClaufin of Minneapo-
lis, was elected general superintend-
ent of the Universalist church, the
highest position in the denomination.
Robert Hall, the young farmer who
was charged with having murdered
Miss Mary Glass, school teacher, at
whitewater, Kan, died without max
ing a confession.
Colder weather and gale of wind
increased the suffering of those thou
sands who had been made homeless
by the food in Ohio, and number of
buildings that had been weakened by
the water went down before the wind.
Nicholas Sandstone, q years old,
a tanner of North Woburn, Mass, was
burned to death, and Otto Mietzner
was probably fatally burned in a fire
that destroyed the boathouse of the
Medford Boat club.
Joseph N. Good, motorman, was
killed and Willard Bradhurst, conduc-
tor, was severely injured at Bryan, O.:
when a passenger car on the Toledo
and Indiana Traction line ran into
box car.
BY the explosion of the boiler of
Reading engine attached to one of
the Atlantic City flyers at Blue An
Choir, N. j., the engineer, Edward Nc
Conaghy, the fireman, Frederick Ar
thur, and an extra fireman named
Clark were instantly killed.