Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-02-06

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Rev. Cornelius Hill, oldest Of the
Oneida chiefs. is dead on the reserve
ton near Green Bay, Wis, aged Is
years. 3 b /
Otis Eddy, aged 102 years, died at
his home in Rockford, Ill. He was be-
lieved to be the oldest Mason in this
country in years of membership, hav-
ing been initiated into the order May
20, 1926.
Mail reports from American con-
sular officers in China confirm the
worst stories Of the famine.
More than 100 Chinese were
drowned when severe windstorm
swept Hong Kong harbor.
Fire in garage in New York de-
stroyed 100 automobiles, the loss be-
ing $750.000.
J. J. Hill, E. H. Hartman and the
Republican policy OF protection were
assailed in the minority adverse report
on the Littauer compromise ship sub
sidy bill, which was fled In the house,
signed by four Democratic members
OF the committee on merchant marine.
Charles w. Schultz, aged 6, a cap
italist and banker Of Memphis, Tenn,
committed suicide at the Battle Greek
sanitarium. where he was being treat
ed for q nervous trouble.
Mrs. August Ringing, mother Of the
Ringing brothers, died in Baraboo.
Wis.
James H. Beatty, for 16 years judge
of the United States district court for
the district Of Idaho, rendered his res
ignation to President Roosevelt.
Col. Richard w. Blue, formerly .
well-known Kansas politician and at
torney, died suddenly of heart disease
at his home in Bartlesville, I. r., aged
IS years.
Casper Kubiczoi of Jersey City, N.
j., deliberately placed his head on q
rail at Allegheny, Pa, and a train
severed it. He was insane.
The plant of the Phelps Publishing
company, Springfield, Mass, was de-
stroyed by fire. The loss is estimated
at nearly 100000.
Walter L. Lane, publisher Of the
Muscatine Qowa) Journal, died Of
heart trouble.
Albert Houck found the body of his
wife lying on table of her room,
burned to a crisp, in Pittsburg, when
he returned from work
The lifeless bodies of Jacob We'll.
the proprietor of Brooklyn restaur-
ant, and of his wife, Rosa We'll, were
found in their apartments. Both had
been asphyxiated by gas.
H. L. F. Lagercrantz has been ap-
pointed minister of Sweden to the
United States.
Mrs. Emma Randall and Miss Del
la hide of Geneva, Iowa, saved an
Iowa Central passenger train from be-
ing wrecked. They discovered a brok-
en- rail, and with a shawl tagged the
train.
The first international exposition Of
safety devices and industrial hygiene
was opened in New York.
The levee broke at Luxora, Ark,
and the town was flooded.
Thirty thousand people passed by
the bier of the late Senator Alger,
whose body lay in state in the Detroit
city hall.
Senator Alger was buried at De-
troit with full military honors.
Three f1remen were killed and many
injured by falling walls when the Sen
eca building in Buffalo. N. Y, was
destroyed by fire.
Five men were killed, two fatally
hurt and 20 injured by the explosion
| OF an ammonia tank in Armour &
Co.'s plant at the Chicago stockyards.
Reed Knox, son Of Senator Knox
of Pennsylvania, was married to Miss
Elizabeth McCook of Washington.
John T. Williams, 40 years old, pay
ing teller of the Lincoln National
bank of New York, was found dead in
Bronx park with an empty bottle that
had contained poison lying at his side.
Gen. Thomas l.. James. president Of
the bank, said the dead mans &C.
counts were straight.
Sigmond Weinstein, cashier of the
Galveston agency of the North Ger
man Lloyd Steamship company, shot
| and killed himself in the reading room
Of the Elks club.
Rev. DR.. Henry Martin Field, for a.
years editor Of the Evangelist, of New
York, and brother of Cyrus w., David
D., and Stephen J. Field, died, aged
IS years.
The French steamer st. German,
bringing 200 laborers for the canal
from West Indian ports, arrived at
Colon and was at once placed under
quarantine on account Of smallpox on
board.
The necessity for the restoration Of
the canteen in the American army was
strongly set forth in a letter from Dr..
Anita Newcomb MCGEE to Capt. j.
Walter Mitchell of the Spanish-Ameri-
can War Veterans association.
Mrs. Patrick Rice rescued her r.
year-old son from her burning home
in Chicago and then was fatally
burned in vain effort to save another
son, aged eight.
Alton Cameron, aged % years. a
brotherin-law of Judge William F..
Connolly, of the Detroit recorders
court, was shot and instantly killed
In saloon by Joseph Schultz, the bar
tender. after quarrel.
Rev. Alexander Gilchrist, D. D., Sec