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

fatally stabbed during a saloon braWl
by Private Howard of Troop K, Thir-
teenth cavalry, at Fort Sill, Okla.
The coal house of the Northwestern
railroad at Pierre, 8. D., with all rail-
! road coal On hand, was totally des-
troyed by fire.
The Roman Catholic church at Of
! sego, Mich, was burned following
Christmas celebration.
The Mississippi race war has broken
out afresh at Scooba and troops have
been sent there. Already the deaths
there and at Wahalak number proba-
bly, a dozen. e..
Leading citizens of New York adj
| dressed letter to Secretary of State
Root on the conditions in the Congo
Free State, asking that the moral sup
| port of the United States be given to
correct the abuses there.
A sergeant of the Ninth cavalry,
| colored, killed a corporal in a fight
about woman at Fort Sheridan, Ill.
A petition has been presented to the
| Belgian parliament asking that every
motor vehicle in the country be
burned in one great bonfire before
1908, and the resultant scrap metal
sold for the benefit of those who have
been MANNED or crushed by automo.
| biles.
Rear Admiral Nebogatoff and three
other officers were sentenced to death
for surrendering to the Japanese in
the battle of the Sea Of Japan, but the
court martial will ask the car to COM
mute the sentences to ten years i'm
prisonment.
Negroes Of Wahalak, Miss, threat
ened the rs white residents of the
town and state troops were sent from
Meridian to protect them.
| Governor MagoOn signed the decree
appointing commission to revise the
laws of Cuba. -.
A sail boat with Is persons on board
was overturned near Montego bay, ia
maica, and 16 of the passengers were
| drowned.
The Standard Oil company won a
victory in common pleas court at
Findlay, O., when Judge w. S. Dun
can decided that the probate court
had no jurisdiction in the suit brought
against it in the probate court, and
threw out the recent verdict of guilty
against the company.
Secretary Taft has appointed a
board of officers to meet January Is
at the Springfield armory, Springfield,
Mass, for the purpose OF ascertaining
a design of automatic pistol or re-
volver best adapted to fulfill the re-
quirements of the military service.
The state department was officially
advised in dispatch from Guayaquil
Of the election by the national assem-
bly, OF Eloy Alfaro to be constitutional
president of Ecuador.
J. E. Woodward & Co., Omaha coal
dealers, operating mine at Dietz,
Wyo., brought suit for $4,000 against
the Burlington Railway company for
coal alleged to have been confiscated
Frank Hair, for 13 years in charge
OF the musical department of the
Baker university at Baldwin, Kan,
and composer of choir music used all
over the country, died suddenly at Ex-
celsior Springs, Mo.
General Superintendent Kimball, of
the life saving service, shows in his
annual report that the number of ma
rine disasters was $40 in the waters
of the United States. In these, 40
vessels and 20 lives were lost and 81
persons were succored at the various
stations. The total vaue of property
saved was $780, 100, while that lost
was $2,775,400. In the disasters $500
lives were imperiled.
Three men were killed and a dozen
seriously injured in a wreck on the
Sugar Pine branch of the Sierra rail-
road near Stockton, Cal.
| Two masked men held up II occu-
pants of the lobby barroom of the Co.
lumbia hotel at Goldf1eld, New, and Sc
cured 1925 from the gambling games,
but overlooked $4,000 which was in
the safe.
Colonel J. E. Pepper, the distiller
of Kentucky, died in New York.
| Gordon Mcdonald shot and killed
Coley Cheney and Perchel Burns at
Cochran, Ca, as result of a quar-
rel.
Mrs. A. q. Popolaski, woman of
Polish birth, aged 104 years, died at
Fairmont, MINI.
Clyde King, aged Is, shot and killed
Ellis Jobes, his brother-in.law, at Osseo,
a town few miles from Minneapolis.
H. eastman, Charles Slaight and
Dan slaight drove into an air-hole in
the Missouri river opposite Fort Ran
dali. 8. D., and were drowned.
Commander Alfred B. Canaga. in
charge Of the steam engineering de.
partment of the Charlestown navy
yard, died suddenly of apoplexy at
Boston.
Henry Watterson and Mrs. Waiter.
son. Of Louisville, KY, are at BARGE.
Iona, Spain, whence they will go to
Egypt.
Col. Obrowchehf, commander of the
Eighty-first Russian infantry, has been
killed on his estate near Lukow, Po-
land, by an unknown man.
Two women and two children were
burned to death at Morris Neck, Va,
and two women and an infant were
suffocated in dre at Steubenville, O.
Harlan Cleveland, one of the lead.
ing lawyers Of the Cincinnati bar, died
from Bright's disease.