Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-01-01


nounced he would remove the board
of water commissioners for incom.
potency and misconduct.
Flour shipments from Minneapolis
for 1907 will fall short of the TOTALS
shipped during 1906 by nearly . mil
lion barrels.
A decree was issued fixing the date
of the elections in Portugal as April s.
Surgeon General Rixey issued state
ment reviewing the controversy in the
navy ove7 the command of hospital
ships.
New York, Chicago and the country
generally celebrated Christmas In q
way that showed no effects OF the re-
cent financial stringency.
DR.. H. E. Bolton has discovered in
Mexico II of the 81 documents taken
from Lieut. Zebulon M. Pike by Span.
ish soldiers in 1906.
President Roosevelt went to Pine
Knot. Va, for a week.
Martin Diller of Sterling, Ill.,, mem
Der Of the Sixth regiment, I. N. G.,
who was officially reported dead two
months ago, returned home, refusing
to make explanations.
Miss Olive Mcdowell, Fl years old.
daughter Of Bishop William F.. Nc
Dowell. Methodist Episcopal bishop of
Chicago, died at Camden, N. C.
Judge Rosalsky in New York sus-
pended sentence in the case of Hugo
c. Voecks, who pleaded guilty to
Matchmaking Raymond Hitchcock, the
comedian.
Col. Benjamin G. Lockwood, COM
handing the Twenty-ninth regiment
of infantry, has been placed on the re-
tired list Of the army, as brigadier
general, on his own application, after
more than 43 years. service.
John Looney, politician, lawyer and
newspaper owner of Rock Island, ILL.,,
has been indicated on each of "a
counts of criminal libel, bribery, ex-
tQrtion and conspiracy contained in
indictments against him which were
found by the grand jury last June.
An attempt was made to blow up
the new steel bridge of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad company in course of
construction over the Erie railroad
tracks at Newark, N. J.
Railroad construction in the United
States has progressed during the past
year on almost as large a scale as
during the year 1906, according to
statistics gathered by the Railway
Age.
At Carmi, ILL.,, crowd of men and
boys held up and robbed Big Four
coal train of more than 200 bushels of
coal.
Violent gales prevailed for "a hours
in Colorado. Near Boulder two
coaches of train were blown into
the ditch, one man being killed and
five badly injured.
An employee in the post office at
Erie, Pa, found a Christmas gift pack
age containing an Internal machine.
Search is being made in Kansas and
Missouri for Gentle Cave-Browne
Cave, believed to be the heir to the
title and estates of Sir Mylles Cave.
Browne Cave, an English baron re-
Gently deceased.
A sudden cold snap at the head
waters of: the Allegheny river averted
a flood which threatened to work
great damage at Pittsburg.
Gen. Skallen, governor of Warsaw,
who recently closed 1000 Polish
schools and disbanded a number OF
labor unions, has ordered all the Jew.
ish clubs in Poland to close.
James Garden, colored, was lynched
at Henriette, Okla, for the murder of
white man. 49,
AS result of the reorganization of
the Pere Marquette Railroad company
the office force of the road will be
moved from Cincinnati to Detroit.
A talking machine and discs. bear
ing records of the voices of the great
est singers of the present were buried
for 100 years in Paris.
Rev. Frank S. Hatch, general secre-
tary of the Christian Endeavor move
ment in India, Burmah and Ceylon for
several years, died at his home in
Brookline, Mass.
The United Hebrew Charities of
New York, the largest Jewish charit-
able organization in the United
States, which has annually extended
aid to- over 5000 families, closed it's
doors for the first time in it's history
for lack of funds.
James Renslow, 81 years old, in
ventor of the spoon oar and maker of
oars for most of the prominent boat
clubs of the country, committed sui
eide by shooting himself in the head
at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
At Conway, Ark, Mrs. Emma Hear.
ness, widow, was shot and killed by
James Hall after a quarrel over two
dogs which Hall had killed.
Christmas in Pittsburg and vicinity
was made doubly joyful by the an
nouncement that by January all of
the thousands of wheels of industry in
the mills of McKeesport, Glassport,
Duquesne and allied plants in the
Monongahela valley would be in op.
Grafton. Over 10000 men who have
been idle for several weeks will return
to work.
Milton B. Owen, 10 years of age,
was arrested upon the charge of at.
tempting to kill the entire family of
his employer, Richard Owens, of the
town of Algoma, Wis, by poisoning.
Gov. Hanly of Indiana pardoned
Samuel Harmon and Joseph Osborn,
serving life sentences for murder.