Willmar tribune., 1907-01-23

Plans prepared by a Chicago syndt
cate Of IS men, which has purchased
lake front property of New Buffalo,
Ind, show a hotel structure of 500
rooms, to cost 100000, and other i'm
provements up to $1,000,000.
G. A. Carlson, of Des Moines, 1a.,
driver of the worlds championship
hose team, was killed in collision
with a street car. Three other fire.
men were injured.
F. G. Fairbanks, son of the vice
president, was indicted at Steuben'
vile, o., for perjury in connection
with his recent marriage.
Ernst Stiller, a prominent banker
and politician of Lubbock, Germany,
was shot by woman, who then killed
herself.
The United Mine Workers of Amer
lea opened their annual convention in
Indianapolis and heard President
Mitchells report.
The suit of the state of Illinois
against the Illinois Central railroad
for the collection of several million
dollars which the state alleges has
been withheld from the states share
of the gross earnings of the railroad
was filed in the state supreme court
at Springfield by Attorney General
Stead.
A grand jury at F1ndlay O., re-
f,,rnnd 900 TO oroircf tho
Standard Oil company, subsidiary
companies, the Rockefellers and
others, for conspiracy against trade.
President J. J. Hill Of the Great
Northern railway, wrote a long letter
to Gov. Johnson on the railway situa-
ton, declaring the only solution was
the building of a vast amount more
trackage
The lower house in Nebraska tabled
the resolution to investigate Norris
Brown, candidate for the United
States senate, and the Colorado SEN
ate did the same for Simon Guggen-
helm, who will be the new senator
from that state.
L. T. Moore of Benton Harbor shot
his wife and Deputy Sheriff Pearl and
attempted suicide.
A severe blizzard was general over
the greater part of Kansas and large
section of the state was covered with
sleet and fine snow.
The British ship Pengwern, from
Taltal, Chile, for Falmouth with
cargo of saltpeter, grounded at Schar
porn. Twentyfour men were drowned.
Two deaths from beri-beri and three
in a serious condition is the report
made by Capt. Larsen of the Norwe-
gian bark Gulfport that arrived at
Mobile from Sekoude on the Gold
coast.
Andrew Carnegie will be the heav.
lest personal taxpayer in New York If
the list of assessments made public
by the assessors is not amended The
value of his personal property is
fixed at $5,O0O,000 and that of John
D. Rockefeller at $2,50O,000.
Rock Island passenger train No. 26,
from st. Joseph to Kansas City, COL
lided with freight train at Waldron,
Mo-, killing three trainmen and injur-
ing number of trainmen and passen-
gers.
Members of the Ashtabula, o.,
Plumbers association pleaded guilty
to indictments charging them with
violating the Valentine antitrust law,
and were fined.
Chief of Police James Daily and
Officer John Peterson of Red Wing,
MINI, were shot and probably fatally
wounded by August Bloom, a barber,
whom they were endeavoring to ar
rest
Henry Richardson was declared the
Republican nominee for the United
States senate, on the ninth ballot in
the caucus of the 36 members of the
lower branch of the Delaware legisla-
ture.
Violation of the Sherman act pre-
venting combinations in restraint of
trade is charged in suit against
several steamship companies and
their New York agents brought in the
United States circuit court by Thomas
& Co., of New York, exporters.
c. w. Thomas, Toledo, O., may die,
John Olinger of Toledo was seriously
hurt and five other persons were in
jured in rear-end collision between
Monon passenger train and a Wa
| bash train at the 18th street cross
ing, Chicago.
Rudolph Koradi consul for the
Swiss government in Philadelphia, is
dead at the age of 81 years. Mr.. Kor.
adj who was made consul at that port
in 1856, was said to be the oldest con-
sui in the world in point of years and
service
Peters pence, collected in the Rom
an Catholic churches of the archdio-
cese of Chicago, which will be deliv-
cred to the pope in Rome by Arch.
bishop Quigley, will amount to $685.
900.
Malik Mansour Mira, the second
son of the late shah of Persia, made
an unsuccessful attempt to commit
suicide by taking opium.
Oliver Dyer, who is said to have in.
troduced' stenography into this coun-
try and was the first shorthand re-.
porter in the United States senate,
died in Boston, aged SO years.
Henry Squires, at one time Amerl-
cas- leading tenor, died in Burlington,
Iowa, aged 80 years.
Students attending the American
college in Rome were presented to the
pope, who talked to them about the
church troubles in France and told of
his appreciation of Americas support.