Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-02-20


Of the Savings Bank of New Britain
Conn, Of which institution the treas
urer, William F. Walker, mysteriously
dropped out of sight In New York.
More than half q million dollars
worth of securities were taken from
the vaults of the Savings bank OF
New Britain, Conn, by the missing
treasurer, William F. Walker, accord
ing to statement issued by the board
of directors.
At the wedding of Carl Clifford and
Lena Pence, at Russiaville, Ind, a
charivari party exploded 81 pounds OF
dynamite near the house. The build
ing was damaged and several guests
tainted.
Fire in Cramps shipyards at Phila-
delphia destroyed the patterns of a
number of battleships, and several
f1remen were injured.
The body of Willard D. Barr of
Lawrence county, ILL.,, an orchardist
whose mind became unbalanced when
his wife deserted him a month ago,
was found on the banks of the Wa
bash river after a search of three
weeks.
Prof. John A. Brashear of the Alle-
gheny observatory announced a dis
covery of one of the greatest sun
spots ever called to the attention of
astronomers.
Pulajanes attacked and burned two
towns in Occidental Negroes, P. l., and
killed six of the constabulary. Two
American teachers, w. K. Batchelder
and Walter J. 1se, are reported to be
missing.
The federal grand jury at Cleveland,
O., returned indictments against eight
contracting companies and firms on
the charge of violating the eight-hour
labor law in connection with govern
ment work.
Fire at Crary, N. D., destroyed
seven business houses, among them
Boe's opera house, and several resi-
dences, causing loss Of $4,000.
Edna May, the America actress, is
engaged to marry Oscar Lewiston,
son of Adolph Lewisohn, of New York.
Nine blocks of residences occupied
by employees of the Cotton Belt shops,
several storehouses, the Third Avenue
hotel and the Riverside Methodist
church at Pine Bluff, Ark, were de.
stroyed by fire.
Three persons were killed and sew
eral others injured by an explosion of
gas In Los Angeles.
Two men were killed and others in.
jured when a locomotive boiler blew
up on the Ontario & Western road at
Luzon, N. Y.
Rodolphe Julian, the noted art
teacher, is dead in Paris. He was 66
years old.
The St. Albert hotel, one of the
Oldest In Charleston, w. Va, was
ruined by fire. The loss will be $780,
900. ]. H. Grouse, of Baltimore, a
travelling salesman, leaped from a
window and was fatally injured.
Judge William B. Teasdale, of the
circuit court, died at his home in Kan
sas City, Mo-, of cancer, aged 81
years.
The safe in the Citizens bank at
Teddo, Ind, was blown open by five
men and $1,000 was secured.
Policemen James Wright and James
Barrett, of Middlesboro, KY, shot and
killed each other in raid on an al
legged gambling resort.
The Western Union Telegraph COM
pany announced an increase of ten
per cent. in the wages of its operators
at the principal Offices.
An epidemic OF meningitis has ap-
peared among the cattle of Morgan
county, Illinois.
Frank E. Grimes, ex-state treasurer
Of Kansas, who recently voluntarily
paid the state $4,000 to covered an al.
legged shortage found under his admin.
istration, stopped q movement to have
the legislature reimburse him.
Frank Wayland Higgins, former gov.
ernor Of New York, died at his home
In Olean, N. Y.
NJ. Pobiednostseff, former procura.
tor general of the holy synod, is seri.
ously i'll of influenza.
An Official bank messenger, while on
his way to Moscow bank, was beset
by ten armed men and robbed of $685.
600.
The new battleship Vermont, built
by the Fore River shipbuilding com.
pany, was formally turned over to the
government at the Charlestown navy
yard.
President stickney told Minnesota
Legislative committee that he sold wa
tered stock of the Chicago Great West
ern and intended to sell q lot more.
Warren Beckwith was granted a di
vorce at Mount Pleasant, Ia, from
Jessie Lincoln Beckwith, daughter OF
Robert T. Lincoln and q granddaugh
ter Of Abraham Lincoln.
The breaking of an ice gorge in the
Loup river near Columbus, Neb., caus.
ed a flood in which a family of four
drowned.
The last will of Count John A.
Creighton of Omaha is missing.
A severe earthquake shock was felt
at Albania, province Of Murcia, Spain
The Kansas senate passed a pure
food law already approved by the
house.
One man was killed and 40 persons
had perilous escapes in a fire in the
financial district of Philadelphia. Sew
eral were injured.
Charles TAFT, mayor of Kingston, ia
maica, died at the public hospital as
a result Of injuries sustained at the
time 0f fha earfhnuoha