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

Commander Peary's steamer Roose.
welt has arrived at New York.
The Illinois supreme court entered;
an order disbarring John Stirlen, of;
Chicago, and Arthur Keithley, of Pc
oria,. for unprofessional conduct.
Frank J. Russell, private secretary
to John M. Dubois, the millionaire lum-
herman of Dubois, Pa, committed sui
eide because of financial trouble.
A check for $75,43020 was sent to
State Treasurer William N. Berry In
full payment of the claim of the state
Of Pennsylvania against the Farmers
and Drovers' National bank of
Waynesburg, Pa, which was ra~ently
closed.
Nine men were killed and 81 badly
injured in collision between a pas
senger train and freight at Enderlin,
N. D.
L. B. Hicks, the miner who was en-
tombed by cave-in at Bakersfield,
CAL, was rescued after Is days, little
the worse for his experience.
The steamer Strathcona was burned
60 miles from Halifax, N. S., but the
engineers and firemen stuck to their
posts until she could be beached and
the $50 passengers were saved
Count Alexis 1ngatieff, a member of
the council Of the empire and ex7gov-
ernor general Of Kev, Volhynia and
Podolia, was shot and killed by an un-
known man at Tver, Russia.
Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr., who is a
daughter of Rear Admiral Hichborn,
retired, obtained decree of divorce
from her husband on the grounds of
desertion and non-support.
President Roosevelt issued a proc
lamation calling on the people Of the
United States to contribute funds for
the relief Of millions of famine suffer-
ers in China, who are on the verge of
starvation.
Resolutions denouncing President
Roosevelt's message to congress on
the Japanese situation in San Fran
cisco, resenting his interference in the
domestic affairs of the state, and ex-
pressing want of confidence in Secre-
tary Metcalf were adopted at a mass
meeting in San Francisco.
Four persons were burned, three ia
tally, early Sunday as the result Of a
natural gas explosion in the home Of
John Carvel, at Washington, Pa.
The Fraser House at Bay City,
Mich, was burned and John O'Neil,
hotel fireman, was killed.
The lack of copper cent cost two
lives when William Woodrich, Chi
cago, shot and killed his wife, Ellen,
and then committed suicide because
the woman had but four cents in her
possession when he demanded a
nickel
Horace B. Moors, g years old, Sec
rotary and treasurer OF the Duluth
board of trade, mayor of Duluth in
1885 and customs officer for Duluth
during Cleveland's first term, dropped
dead.
A strike Of locomotive f1remen went
into effect on the lines Of the Southern
Pacific company in Texas and Louisi-
ana. About 300 or 400 men are in
volved.
Bishop Henry Cosgrove, of the Cath
olic diocese of Davenport, Ia, died
after long illness from cancer of the
kidneys.
James Bryce, who is to be British
ambassador to Washington, has de-
clined a peerage.
Az result of a fight at a country
dance on Cane Creek, Breathitt coun.
ty, Kentucky, Thomas Gullett was
shot through the body and instantly
killed; Walker Cole was shot through
the arm, shattering the bone and ne
cessitating amputation, and Bill Little
was shot through the back.
One miner is known to have been
killed, five others are believed to be
dead and another was seriously in
jured by the dropping of the cage in
the shaft of the Breese-T renton Coal
Mining company, about ten miles west
Of Carlyle, Ill.
Mrs. Alice McWhirter and her chill
dren, Helen, six years old, and Eliz-
abeth, four years old, were burned to
death In a fire that destroyed their
home at Pompton Lakes, N. ].
The Corn Products Refining COM
pany will begin work in April on a
monster $4,000. 600 plant to be located
at Summit on the Chicago drainage
canal. -;
John Wilkie, wealthy farmer of
Abba, Ia, drank carbolic acid in mis-
take for whisky and died.
1t is reported in London that Lord
Kitchener is to wed Mrs. Samuel
Sloane Chauncey, of New York.
An agreement to arbitrate the diff.
ferences averted the threatened strike
In the New York railway yards.
Capt. Edgar B. Macklin, of company
G, Twenty-fifth United States infantry,
was shot twice and dangerously
wounded at Fort Reno, Okla, by a
negro, and belief is expressed that II
was one of the2members Of the troop
discharged by President Roosevelt for
participating in the Brownsville riots.
Frederick Elerbrock, disappointed
litigant, tried to shoot Judge c. s. Cut.
ting in the criminal court building at
Chicago.
A mob of young men broke into the
Annapolis jail and lynched a negro
who had confessed to having assaulted
white woman.
Mrs. Blanche Horeon Boardman Lin.
coin, one Of the best known child edu'
Gators in the country, is dead at he1
home in New York.