Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-01-09

Gen. Hiram Schofield, Of Washing.
ton, Ia., died at the residence Ut his
Mrs. Charles Patterson. in
Seattle, at the age Of n.
Announcement was made in Paris
that a rich man, impressed by reading
Paul and Virginia." bequeathed $1O,-
900 for statue of Bernardin de Saint
Pierre. The commission was given to
Sculptor Holwock, whose cast has
been made.
Judge Walter Evans in the federal
court at Louisville, KY, declared the
liability act unconstitu-
tional.
Rev. DR.. Joshua Allan Lippincott,
widely known in the east and middle
west, both as divine and as an ed
ucator, died in Los Angeles, Cal.
Gen. William Booth, commander-in-
chief of the Salvation Army, has
opened a bureau in the headquarter.
OF the army in London with the avowed
object of checking the spread of sui
eide
William Grant was killed and half
dozen other passengers on a New Or
leans street car were injured in a COL
l1slon between the car and wagon
loaded with poles.
Three men were blown to pieces and
three mortally wounded by the explo-
sion near Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico,
OF two boxes of dynamite.
John D. Rockefeller gave the Uni
versity OF Chicago $2,917 900 for a New
Years present.
1t is declared that knighthood will
be offered to James Bryce,
the newly appointed British ambassa-
dor at Washington.
Rev. E. D. Eaton, pastor of the
North Congregational church of St..
Johnsbury, VT, announced that he had
decided to accept the invitation to
return to Beloit college (Wisconsln)
to resume the presidency of that insti.
tuition.
The American Association for the
of Science elected Prof.
E. L. Nichols, of Cornell university,
president, and selected Chicago as its
next meeting place.
A Chinese imperial edict has been
issued raising Confucius to the same
rank as Heaven and earth which are
Worshiped by the emperor alone.
Samuel W. Martin, proprietor of a
well known all-night Broadway, New
York, restaurant, died suddenly from
heart disease.
A print paper mill syndicate, CAPT.
talized at several million dollars and
including every newspaper mill in
Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota
is in process of formation, according
to a semi-oficial report.
Thirty-eight persons were killed
and more than so injured, several of
them fatally, when a passenger train
was telescoped by a train of empty
cars at Terra Gotta, three miles from
Washington, on the Baltimore & Ohio
railway.
Sidney Kaufman shot and killed
Mrs. Eva Totten, of Staten Island, and
probably fatally wounded himself in
the Hotel Knickerbocker, New York
city.
One man was killed and 80 persons
were injured when street car in Gin
ran away, struck telegraph
pole and turned turtle.
Two persons were killed in wreck
on the Southern railway near Dan
vile, Va.
Willard Zibbell won a verdict of
100000 damages against the South
ern Pacific railway at Fresno, CAL, for
personal injuries.
King Edward approved the appoint
ment of James Bryce as ambassador
to the United States.
John G. Price confessed that he
murdered Mrs. Maurice Lewis in Phil.
adelphia September 10.
First Assistant Postmaster General
Hitchcock said the salaries of postal
employees must be raised to maintain
the efficiency of the service.
Former United States Senator Don.
elson Gallery of Louisiana, and
Thomas Bowen of Colorado, died.
Thomas Farming, aged 80 years, a
wealthy property owner of Kansas
City, was murdered.
Mrs. Henry Anderson, wife of re-
tired farmer Of Cambridge, ILL.,, was
shot dead in her bed by an unidenti
fed person.
Judge George B. Young, former
member of the Minnesota supreme
court and prominently identified in
the Northern Securities merger cases.
died at his home in st. Paul, MINI.
after a brief illness.
Honolulu and vicinity experienced
the severest electrical storm in many
years. The schooner Lavinia and
hundreds of canoes were wrecked.
The French government intends, as
mark of appreciation of Ambassa
dor McCormick's services in further
ing the cordial relations between
France and the United States, to con
fer on him the Grand Gordon of the
Legion Of Honor. "a
Alexander William Black, member
Of parliament from Banffshire, who
was injured in the railroad accident
near Arbroath, Scotland, died.
Rev. DR.. Charles F. Aked of Penn
broke Chapel, Liverpool, has accepted
a call to the Fifth avenue Baptist
church of New York.
Recorder Golf in New York reaf
firmed the decision of the lower court
in the case of Enrico Caruso, Crane
opera tenor, who was fined for annoy
ing woman in Central park.