Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-05
MISCELLANEOUS,

MISCELLANEOUS.
During the last quarter of 1907 the
net earnings of the United States
Steel corporation were $32,553,995.
1t seems likely that prosecutions
may follow the coroner's inquest into
the Rhoades opera house disaster at
Boyertown, Pa, which cost 1859 lives.
In the testimony there were strong
hints of graft as we'll as admissions Of
gross negligence.
Ambridge, little town of II miles
northwest of Pittsburg, was the scene
of an extraordinary double tragedy in
which two lovers killed each other in
a quarrel.
Fire in the heart of Chicago's down.
town district did about $1,7O0, 900, the
heaviest losers being Alfred Peats &
Co., wall paper; Edison Keith & Co.,
wholesale millinery, and John A.
Colby & Son, furniture.
The Coburn warehouses in Indianap-
oils were burned, the loss being
100000.
Flames destroyed a part of Nelson
Morris & Co.'s packing plant in Kan
sas City, half million dollars dam
age being done. :.
The Partisan laundry building in
Detroit was Quilted by fire, the loss
being estimated at over 100000.
Gen. John Coburn, lawyer and for
mer congressman, died suddenly in
indianapolis from an attack of heart
failure. His age was SO.
The Alva Bank of Commerce of
Enid, Okla. with $4,000 capital stock.
was closed and Cashier Lou Westfall
with $4,000 is missing.
Heavy winds and great rainfall
have done much damage to the Porto
Rican roads and to the new railroad
to Caguas. The tobacco crop was
badly damaged.
Francois Marie Benjamin Richard,
cardinal and archbishop of Paris, died
of congestion of the lungs after a
short illness. He was born in 1919.
George Barlow, 30 years old, was
killed and two others probably fatally
hurt when an Iowa & Illinois train
struck their buggy at Princeton, la.
Four cars of fast New Orleans &
Northeastern passenger train toppled
off a low trstle near Hattiesburg,
Miss, and rolled down an embank-
ment without killing or fatally injur-
ing a person.
Robert S. Hewey was appointed re.
ceiver for the Montana Grand Lodge
of Ancient Order of United Workmen.
The Croker heirs gave a block on
Mob Hill, San Francisco, as site for
an Episcopal cathedral.
The Michigan constitutional conven-
ton rejected the public utilities com.
mission plan.
United States Lighthouse Inspector
Olin N. Wexel of Chicago was killed
by switch engine while he was walk.
ing on the railroad tracks at Muske-
gon. Mich.
An address to congress, remonstrat-
ing against further increase in the
navy, was adopted by the board of
directors of the American Peace So
ciety at a meeting held in Boston.
Because portion of his congrega-
ton objected to his breeding dogs,
Rev. L. Moore Smith, pastor of the
Scotch Plains IN. J.) Baptist church,
resigned his charge.
An old Roman coin has been dug up
at Springfield, Mass, which Is discov.
cred to be worth $500.
Gilman Milton was burned to death
near Kewanee, III.
A fierce blizzard swept the Atlantic
coast, eDdangering and delaying ship.
ping, and doing great damage in
numerous towns. In New York heavy
snow fell and the storm caused four
deaths.
s. r. Hamill of Terre Haute, Ind,
associate counsel for John r. Walsh,
died in Chicago of pneumonia.
A drastic prohibition proposal was
unanimously and favorably reported
In the Michigan constitutional conven.
ton by the committee on liquor at.
fairs.
Margaret Fulton, aged sc, and Jane
Fulton, aged 81, sisters, were burned
to death in their home near st. Glars
vile, o.
Hooking, 1a., small mining town,
was partly burned. The powder house
of the mines exploded and started the
fire.
All the missing passengers and crew
of the steamer Amsterdam were taken
into port at Hook of Holland by the
Norwegian steamer Songa.
Fire at Deer River, MIMI, destroyed
Q block and half of the business
portion Of the town, causing loss e.
dmated at 100000.