Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-01-09
SUMMARY OF A
WEEKS EVENTS
MOST IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS
AT HOME TOLD IN CON-
DENSED FORM.
LATE FOREIGN DISPATCHES
Interesting Items Of News Gathered
from All Parts of the Globe and
Outlined in the Briefest Manner
Possible.

Interstate commerce commissioners
report that the recent car shortage
and consequent fuel famine were
caused by the abundant west-bound
traffic at the head of the lakes.
Charges of fraud were filed with
Postmaster General Cortelyou against
the officials and members of the New
York Cotton Exchange by Representa-
tive Livingston, of Georgia, and Harvie
Jordan, president of the Southern Cot
ton association Of Atlanta, and an or
der asked barring them from the use
of the mails
Two white Americans, negro train
porter and about 80 Mexican labOrers
lost their lives and SIS persons We're
injured when two passenger trains on
the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
railroad collided head on four miles
west of Volland, Kan.
James H. Wilcox, So years of age,
former president of the Second Ma
tlonal bank of Pittsburg, Pa, and a d.
rector in over two score OF corpora
tons died after an extended illness.
Joseph K. McCammon, once assist
ant attorney general of the United
States, United States commissioner OF
railroads during President Hayes ad-
ministraation and prominent as law
yer and clubman in Washington, died
of heart trouble.
The employees of the state railroads
of Bulgaria have gone out on strike
because of the refusal of their de-
mands for increased wages.
Miss Rose We'll, disappointed liti-
CANT, fired at Judge ]. A. Mcdonald
with a revolver in st. Louis court
room, but missed him.
Gov. Hughes urged the New York
legislature to order a recount of
the votes cast for mayor of New
York in 1905 when Hearst was de-
feated.
The Armour company plans to build
car shops in Minneapolis to cost
$2,000,O0O
Charles NJ. Floyd, Republican, was
elected governor of New Hampshire
by the legislature.
While Gen. A. A. Chaffee and the
in Los Angeles an unknown man
gained entrance to the upper story
of their home and stole $1,000 worth
of jewelry.
Depressed over his defeat for re-
election as registrar of deeds, a posi-
tlon which he had filled for Is consecu-
tive years, Thomas Temple took his
own life at his home in Neponset,
Mass, by inhaling Illuminating gas.
President McCrea, of Pittsburg, first
vice president of the Pennsylvania
lines west of Pittsburg, was elected
president of the Pennsylvania railroad
company, to succeed the late A. J. Cas-
satt.
The London Daily Mail quotes a
friend of the late Lady Burdett-
Coutts as saying that the bulk of her
great fortune will go to her husband,
and that it is unlikely that her will
contains large requests to charity.
Counsel for the estate of the late A..
J. Cassatt issued a statement to the
effect that Mr.. Cassatt by his will left
his entire estate to Mrs. Cassatt and,
in equal shares, to his children.
Two terrorists shot and killed two
gendarmes in Warsaw, Poland, and
fed. Soldiers opened fire on them
and wounded four pedestrians.
Brig. Gen. George A. Bell, U. S. A.,
retired, died at his residence in Wash
ington. He was nataive of Maryland
and was graduated from the military
academy in July, 1853.
Fred Zimmerman, accused of shoot
ing Mrs. Guam in Owatonna, Mich,
committed suicide by hanging himself
in his cell in the Jail.
Tremendous rains fell In Arkansas,
doing much damage in Hot Springs
and causing a general suspension of
railway traffic.
Conrad Rausch, a baker in Downey,
CAL, accused his wife of unfaithfulness
and killed her and himself.
Joe Cans and Jimmie Britt were
matched to fight at Tonopah, New, for
purse of $4,000.
President Roosevelt shook the hands
of thousands OF persons at his New
Years reception.
Joe Cans easily whipped kid" Her
man at Tonopah, New, knocking him
out in the eighth round.
The shah of Persia and the crown
prince signed the constitution.
Martin Quinn, former Chicago 20.
lice lieutenant and one of the heroes
of the Haymarket riot, was shot and
dangerously wounded in a battle with
three thugs who invaded his real es.
tate Office.
Bert Holman, 13-years old, has con.
fessed to killing Mrs. Sarah Ayres,
who had adopted him, near st. Helen,
Ore.
Mrs. Caroline Parker, colored, who
said she had seen every president OF
the United States, died in Chicago,
aged ITO years.
An Erie railroad ferry collided with
freight lighter in the Hudson river
and sank, but all aboard were saved
Alexander J. Cassatt, president OF
the Pennsylvania Railroad company
and one of the leading financiers OF
America, died suddenly in his resi-
dence in Philadelphia of heart disease
Gen. Litvinoff, governor of the prov
tnce of Akmolinsk, Asiatic Russia
was assassinated in the streets by two
unknown men.
The Spanish fishing steamer Pri