Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-18

Three sons ,off N. e. sCarmalsotF aicna;;
1a,. were drowned while skating.
Fire In Pawnee, Okla, destroyed ia
block of buildings, the loss being $780,
900.
Robbers broke into the First Ma
tional bank at Rothsay, Mimi, and Sc
cured $4,000 in currency.
Admission of Chinese into the
United States under less rigid regula-
lions is urged by Secretary of Com
MERGE and Labor Straus in his annual
report to President Roosevelt.
The fourth assistant postmaster gen.
eral makes an earnest plea for local
parcels-post service on rural routes in
his annual report.
Dinilulu, the Zulu king, has been
arrested charged with causing disturb.
ances in Natal.
The foreign postal-order business Of
the New York post Office for last
month was 100000 in excess of the
business of last year.
Miss Helen Gould has presented to
a number of sailors on the battleships
about to sail for the Pacific Bibles on
the fly leaf of which is her signature
and verse of scripture.
Oscar H., king of Sweden, died in
the palace of Stockholm, surrounded
by his family, while weeping thou
sands stood outside. The entire .coun-
try mourned the death of the beloved
sovereign. The crown prince sue
ceeded to the throne as Gustave w.,
took the oath of allegiance and issued
proclamation.
Three persons were burned to death
and another injured during a fire in
Boston The dead are: Mrs. Mary
Joubert, aged So; Charles Joubert,
aged nine, and Emile Joubert, aged
five.
William Stewart, proprietor of a
restaurant in East lola, Kan, was
brutally murdered by his partner, w.
H. Creviston, who said he was in love
with Mrs. Stewart.
Frank Click, of Nashville, Tenn,
killed his wife and fatally wounded
himself.
After shooting his wife in the head.
Harry Weber, 81 years old, harness
maker of Lisbon, O.. sent a bullet
into his own brain and died instantly.
One of Van Dykes great master
pieces, 'The Erection of the Cross, "
has been stolen from the church of
Notre Dame, at Courtrai, Belgium.
New Berlin, a town 18 miles east of
Jacksonville, ILL.,, was visited by a fire
early Sunday morning. The loss is
$4,000.
Marshal Brinson was killed at Mid
vile, Ca, by negro who had done
something for which the officer re-
proved him and summoned him to ap-
pear in court The murderer es-
scaped.
The law against Sunday amusement
was strictly enforced in New York.
The federal grand jury Investigating
land frauds in New Mexico, returned
indictments against r. B. Hobart, N.
S. Doorway, Edward w. T. Stewart, and
Robert B. Riell for alleged perjury.
Joseph H. Cultivate, former con-
gresham from Ohio, died at his home
in Columbus, o.
The steamer President Grant, with
Secretary Taft and the members Of
his party on board, left Cuxhaven for
New York. The party will visit Bou-
logne and Plymouth on the way
home.
]. Dalzell Brown, prominent ffnan-
cier of San Francisco and general
manager of the California Safe De-
post & Trust company, which closed
its doors early in November, was ar.
rested on a charge of felonious en-
bezzlement. A warrant also was is
sued for the arrest of w. J. Bartnett,
leading lawyer and a director of the
banking company.
A Dutch steamer and an English
bark collided near Folkestone and sew
en- of the formers crew were drowned.
Lillian Wulff, eight years old, was
kidnapped from in front of her home
in Chicago by a well-dressed woman,
whose motive is not known.
A daughter was born to Mrs. e,
Parmalee Prentice, daughter of John
D. Rockefeller.
Elihu Root, Jr., son of the secretary
of state, married Miss Aida Stryker
daughter of President Stryker, OF
Hamilton college, Clinton, N. Y.
Marcellus Hopkins, president of the
Chicago South Side Elevated road,
died of pneumonia.
Mrs. Louisa M. Taft, mother of the
secretary of war, died at her home in
Milbury, Mass.
Joseph and Floyd Randall, brothers,
aged ten and eight, and Ernest Dou.
telle, aged IL, were drowned at Flint
Mich, while crossing Flint river on
the ice.
Four hundred miners are known to
have been killed by an explosion of
black damp, or methane; in mines Nos.
6 and 8 of the Consolidation Coal com
pany of Baltimore at Monongah. w.
Va. Five men escaped, more dead
than alive, through air shafts.
Carvings restaurant in St. Paul was
partly destroyed by fire and woman
employe was burned to death.
The sentence of the three Amer1.
cans, Richardson, Mason and Hare,
who were to be shot at Chihuahua for
the murder of two other Americans
whose insurance they attempted to
collect, was committed to 20 years
imprisonment.
Mrs. Mary Stet of Altoona, Pa, was
murdered by a burglar.
The secretary of the treasury has &C.
cepted bids for the Panama canal
bonds to the amount of S25 600 600