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

Col. Charles Trowbridge, formerly
lieutenant colonel Of the Thirty.third
United States South Carolina volun.
teers, United States infantry, and for
many years custodian of the Mime
sofa state capitol, died in st. Paul.
Sister Theresa, a nurse at st. Mary'a
hospital In Milwaukee, was shot and
killed by Gustav Wirth. aged 81, who
is supposed to be insane.
Christian w. Stengel, president OF
the Feigenspan Brewery interests in
Newark, N. j., died in Philadelphia
less than IL hours after he had been
married to Mrs. Marie Louise Feigen.
span, widow of the man who once EN-.
ployed him.
Saloonkeepers Of Chattanooga.
Tenn, voluntarily closed their places
all day Christmas.
Hudson o., voted out saloons to get
a 100000 gift of ]. w. Ellsworth, a
coal magnate, made on condition that
the town 60 dry
John Erickson was killed in the
power house of the Chicago sanitary
district by a current of $4,000 volts Of
electricity.
Mayor Price of Elgin, ILL.,, was fined
three dollars and costs for assaultfng
a newspaper reporter.
A receiver was appointed for the
Memphis Savings bank and the insti-
tuition was closed; but the directors
said it was solvent and It's creditors
would lose nothing.
More than 700 survivors Of the In
dian mutiny celebrated the golden
jubilee of that struggle by q banquet
in Albert hall, London, at which Lord
Roberts presided.
]. Frank Carpenter, secretary of the
Carpenter Paper company, one of the
largest paper houses in the west. COM
mitted suicide at his home in Omaha
by shooting.
John H. Paley, editor of the Jewish
Daily News, was found dead in his
home in Brooklyn, asphyxiated by gas
which was escaping from an open
burner.
St. Louis university football
athletes made heroes of them
selves near Brocket Station, Wash,
on the Canadian Pacific, where they
helped to rescue trainmen from dis
astrous freight wreck.
Benjamin Northway, fireman on
the United States battleship Missouri,
IN ~ tn
ing from peritonitis, died.
NJ. GUIDE. formerly minister of Nor
way and Sweden to Denmark, has been
appointed to succeed the late H. G.
Hauge as minister of Norway to the
United States.
Chatham, Mass, was struck by a de-
structive hurricane that lasted only
five minutes.
Methodist pastors of Cincinnati
scored labor unions that try to enforce
eight hours pay for six hours work.
The Kentucky association of New
York gave banquet in honor of Su.
preme Court Justice Harlan.
After burying under a thunderous
avalanche of noes" a resolution de-
claring against pledged delegations
from any state at present, the Repub-
lican club of New York by an over
whelming vote, Endorsed Gov. Hughes
for president.
Five persons were killed by an ex-
plosion of compressed air in the un-
completed metropolitan subway tun-
mel under the River Seine at Paris.
Ex-Gov. Horn, of Togoland, was SEN
fenced in Berlin to a fine of SIS and
costs and to be transferred to another
post for the ill-treatment of native
in Togoland in 1903.
S. w. Welsh and T. w. Clyburn
were killed and Berry Mobley fatally
wounded in a duel at Kershaw, S. c.
For the fifth time in two years fire
broke out in the southern section of
the arsenal at Toulon, France, COM
pletely destroying the naval spirit
stores, despite the efforts of the fire.
men and troops, many of whom were
injured.
During the rehearsal of a play on
the school ground at Chippewa Falls.
Wis.,, Charles Vance, nine years old,
was killed by the accidental use of a
loaded cartridge in place of the blank
cartridge that had been provided.
Chairman Thomas Taggart, of the
Democratic national committee, is.
sued a formal announcement of the
action of the committee in selecting
the time and place for holding the next
national convention.
Telegraphic communication in all di.
rections from Chicago was demoralized
by severe sleet storm.
DR.. David Marshall, "a years old, a
physician of Florence, KY, died at the
Pasteur institute in Chicago as a re.
suit of being bitten by dog.
A cut of wages in the National
Watch works at Elgin, ILL.,, to take ef
feet January has been announced
Those to be most affected are the ex'
perts doing piece work.
w. H. Williams, member of the
board of review of Columbus, o., died
of a stroke of paralysis. He was one
of the best-known Democratic politi
clans in Ohio.
DR.. Hubbard M. Smith, one of the
Oldest practicing physicians in Indi
ana, died at Vincennes as the result OF
fall.
The paper mill of the Falls Manu-
featuring company at Oconto Falls
Wis, burned with a probable loss OF
100000, fully covered by insurance
Henry Hertzwig, the engineer, lost hit
life in the blaze.