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

Eighty or more men were entombed
in the Stuart coal mine near Fayette
vile, w. Va, by . terrific explosion
Rescuers could not enter the shaft
and it was believed not one Of the
miners would be taken out alive.
Late estimates of the dead In the
Stuart mine disaster placed the mum
Der at go.
Mrs. Nancy White, q negress, LOG
years old, the oldest woman in west
ern Pennsylvania, is dead at her
home in New Haven, Pa. Up to three
years ago she worked as a washerwo'
man.
The grand jury of Allegheny coun.
ty, Pa, returned six true bills against
the Pullman Palace Car company, al
leging the sale of impure milk and
cream to it's patrons.
It was reported from the Vatican
that the offerings Of. Peters pence
this year are smaller than usual.
Martial law was declared in Valen-
cia, Spain, following the food-tax riots
and strike of workmen- Serious
trouble is feared.
Mai. Austin Cushman, who was pr1'
vate secretary to President Fillmore,
died while attending q Masonic cele-
bration in Boston. He was so years
old and a prominent g. A. r. man.
Dudley Chase, ex-chaplain of the
United States army, is dead in Phila-
delphia, aged 81. He was q son Of
DR.. Philander Chase, an early bishop
of Illinois.
M. Guidema, governor Of the politi-
cal prison ON Vasili Ostrov, suburb
Of st. Petersburg, was shot in the
main street Of the island and died al
most Immediately. The assassin es-
capped.
Five men were killed and II were
hurt by an explosion Of powder in the
Johnson City and Big Muddy coal
mine at Johnson City, Ill.
The mine disaster at Saarbruecken,
Prussia, resulted in 148 deaths, &C
cording to an official report.
Fire, which started with An explo-
sion in the paint shop, destroyed one
entire section of the big Baldwin Lo-
connective Works at Philadelphia, en-.
failing a loss Of 100000.
Gov. Swettenham of Kingston for
mally withdrew his offensive letter to
Rear Admiral Davis and expressed re-
greet for having written it. Residents
Of Kingston passed resolutions con
demning the governors conduct.
w. K. Oliver, to whom the Panama
canal contract is to be awarded, form
ed partnership with F. c. Stevens
president of bank in Washington and
state superintendent of public works
of New York.
Hundreds of cars Of fuel and grocer.
les for the people of the northwest
were stalled in snow drifts.
The Kansas legislature passed bill
abolishing capital punishment.
The Maritime express train, from
Montreal to Halifax. was wrecked
near Windsor Junction, on the Inter.
colonial railroad, but no one was
killed.
Mayor Erickson Of Bennington, ILL.,,
who was missing, returned after a
trip to New York.
The photographic Office at New Or
leans announced that the Gulf stream
had made important changes in its
course.
Gen. Rylke, president of the st.
Petersburg court martial, was given
the post of military procurator which
had been vacant since the assassina
ton Jan. 9 of Gen. Pavloff.
Henry J. Allen, of Ottawa, Kan.
bought from Harry J.. Hagney the
Wichita Daily Beacon.
McKinley's birthday was appropri
ately celebrated in Washington and
other cities.
Harry Allen, who was prominent in
the movement to make Kansas a free
state, died suddenly at the National
Soldiers home at Lansing, Kan.
Reports that Count Leo Tolstoi was
dying were contradicted by his son.
Two men were killed by an explo
sion that destroyed a powder mill
near Fontainet, Ind.
Eight. persons were injured, two
fatally, by a railway collision at Crow
der City, I. T.
Charles Behrens was indicted for
embezzling $4,000 of the funds of a
bank at Huntingburg, Ind.
The Portland (Me.) poorhousee is
caring for Mrs. Steele, formerly Miss
Jessamy Bret Harte, daughter of the
author, Bret Harte. Mrs. Steele is
said to be without means and is ill.
Many Dutch officials have been
killed or wounded by revolving natives
on the Island of Java.
Jacob Gerbovitz, "a years old, fred
four shots at his wife, Emma Gerbo
Wiz, and then turned the revolver up.
on himself, inflicting a wound from
which he is expected to die, at Keno
sha, Wis.
Seven thousand naphtha workers
went on strike at Baku, Transcaucasia
In collision between an express
train and an extra freight on the
Fitchburg division of the Boston &
Maine railroad at South River, Mass.
five employees of the railroad were
killed.
Tony Sain committed suicide a,
Uniontown Pa. by jumping into 8
coke oven.
It is renorted that Miss E01a a Fol