Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-25

The Zeppelin airship and the hall
in which it was kept at Friedrich.
shafen, Germany, were seriously dam.
aged by hurricane
Virtually complete transformation
in the state railroad system Is about
to be introduced in Prussia. On all
except main trunk lines, automobile
cars, which run singly, will replace
locomotives drawing ordinary trains.
James and William Campbell and
the latter's wife were struck by ar
Illinois Central passenger train at a
crossing near Epworth, Ia, and killed
Frank Frankenberg, aged 60 years.
cashier of the Colonial Savings bank
of Columbus, O., dropped dead.
Fire destroyed the four-story build
ing of the Harmony Knitting mills at
Troy, N. Y. The loss is $4,000.
Miss Mary Elizabeth Lewis, who in
herited fortune of $1,500,000, has
been released from a New York in
sane asylum after Is years incarcera-
ton and will now be allowed to look
after her estate.
The geological survey is planning to
establish an experiment station in
Pittsburg for the study of mine dis
asters with view to abating the
dangers of underground explosions.
The permanent relief committee,
headed by Gov w. M. o. Dawson of
West Virginia, to provide for the
widows and orphans in distress
through the recent explosion at the
mines of the F'airmont Coal company
at Monongah, issued an appeal for
100000.
Louis B. Stenberg, grocer in Kan
sas City, Kan, was killed and his wife.
Mrs. Matte Sternberg, was MORALLY
injured by robbers.
The crown prince of Korea arrived
at Toxic and was greeted with much
ceremony.
Abraham Hummel, the lawyer, who
is serving sentence in Blackwell's
island penitentiary for conspiracy in
connection with the Dodge.Morse di.
vorce case, is near death from kidney
affection.
Playing that he was a cowboy and
his four-year-old companion was an
Indian, Ned H. Starmer, aged IL years,
shot and instantly killed George Blake
ly, four years old, at st. Joseph, Mo.
immigration to America during the
year ended June 80, 1907, was vastly
greater than in any previous year of
the history of the United States, the
number of aliens admitted being 1885,
$40.
Frank P. Glazier, state treasurer of
Michigan, was reported to be near
death.
Sunday closing laws were not gen.
orally obeyed in Omaha and Kansas
City.
Gen. Funston arrived in Goldfield
and announced that he would stay I'M.
til the danger of trouble was over and
that the troops probably would remain
there for some time.
The three band mills of the Chicago
Lumber company were destroyed by
fire at Manistique, Mich, and two men
were burned to death.
Seven firemen were injured in the
burning of the Saginaw Produce &
Cold Storage company's plant in West
Saginaw. Mich.
Otto Schmigler, Hungarian tailor,
shot and fatally wounded Mrs. Caro-
line Webster and seriously wounded
Miss Myrtle Spence, and then killed
himself at Columbus, o.
The pope received Archbishop Rior
dan OF San Francisco in private audi
ence, and the Catholic situation in the
United States in general and in the
diocese of San Francisco in particular
was discussed at length.
Rev. Thomas E. Judge, AZ years old,
pastor of st. Finbarr's Roman Catho.
lie church and editor in chief of the
New World, the organ of the Roman
Catholic archdiocese of Chicago, died
of heart failure, brought on by bron-
chial trouble.
COL G. T. Simonson, at one time
owner of the Mount Vernon (Ind.) Re-
publican, a prominent politician and
organizer of the Eightieth Indiana
regiment during the civil war, died at
the home of his son, w. A. Simonson,
of St. Louis.
To practice. his understanding o;
theosophy on the union of souls, Boris
Minoh, Bulgarian designer, attempt
ed to kill Jessie Schroeder, Is years
OF age, and then committed suicide at
Cleveland, o.
Leighton Coleman, Episcopal bishop
OF Delaware, was found dead in bed
at his home in Wilmington.
r. P. Easton, 48 years old, cashier
OF the state bank at Herscher, ILL.,,
shot himself to death in the bank. No
reason is given.
Prince Robert de Broglie announced
that he had remarked Estelle Alexan.
der under the French law.
Boris Sarafoff, the most famous of
all the leaders of the Bulgarian bands
in Macedonia, was shot dead at the
threshold OF his home by Macedo-
MAN.
Acting Gov. Sanchez of Chihuahua.
Mexico, committed the death sentences
of DR.. c. S. Harle, William Mitchell
and c. T. Richardson to 20 years in
the penitentlary.
The fleet of battleships at Hampton
roads was declared to be ready to start
on its cruise to the Pacific and to do
any service that might be required
of it.
The Bank of Aldrich, at Aldrich,
No., was robbed Of $4,000 by three
bandits.
In carrying out a mock lynching in
Memphis William Gordon 16-vear-