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

Mrs. Mary G. Baker Eddy, founder
and head Of the First Church Of Christ,
Scientist, left her home, Pleasant
View. in Concord. N. H., and by q
circuitous route in a special train went
to Chestnut Hill. Brookline, Mass, to
q house recently purchased by the
Christian Science denomination, where
she will reside permanently.
The earl of Yarmouth notified the
Thaw family that he will require set,
Element before consenting to be di.
vorced by the countess, formerly Miss
Alice Thaw. It is said he will demand
100000.
Miss Louise de la Rance, better
known by her pen name of Outla, died
in the home of her faithful maid,
1olina Cervelli, near Florence. Her
death was due to old age.
Burglars entered the jewelry store
of F. R. Darcy in Kalamazoo, Mich,
and took goods valued at $4,000.
Three men were killed instantly and
five others seriously injured by pre-
mature explosion of dynamite in the
Bergen Hill section of the Pennsyl
vania tunnel at Homestead, N. J.
The Illinois Central Railroad COM
pany entered suit against the town of
Herrin, ILL.,, for 100000 on the
grounds Of interfering with traffic. A
Herrfn police magistrate recently as
sessed fine against the railroad for
shipping into the place beer and
whisky after the territory had become
anti-saloon.
Fire in Clinton, a.. caused $780,
900 damage to Fish Brothers wagon
works.
Nearly a million dollars damage
was done by fire in the wholesale
district of Portland. Me.
T. Tchigorin, the noted chess mas.
ter. died in St. Petersburg. He was
born in 1850.
r. H. Rogers was taken from his
home near Hopkinsville, KY, and Sc.
verely whipped by night riders.
Secretary Taft submitted a report
on conditions in the Philippines in
which he took a very optimistic view
of the future of the islands.
Rev. Father Maria Bernado of the
Capuchin order, who was sent by the
pope In July last to Adds Adeba with
decoration for King Menelik, is re.
turning with an autograph letter from
Menelik and two lions as present for
the pontiff.
Mrs. Mary Frances Kelley, who said
she refused to marry Abraham Lin.
coin in 1889, died at Sioux City, 1a.,
aged SO.
Thieves in New Orleans held up q
United States mail wagon and were
reported to have secured about $4,000.
George L. Thomas, a freight broker
Of New York city, and L. 3. Taggart.
his clerk, pleaded guilty in the United
States district court at Kansas City,
to the charge of conspiring to pay
rebates to shippers. Judge Smith
Mcpherson then fined Thomas $1,000
and Taggart $4,000.
The Central hotel at Pontiac, ILL.,,
was destroyed by fire, the guests es.
Gaping in their night clothes.
The greater part of two business
blocks in Madison. Ill.,, was burned,
the loss being over 100000.
The Haytian revolution has been
suppressed. Jean Juneau, the leader
Of the movement. was captured at
Dessalines, and was at once shot to
death by the government troops.
Gonaives has been occupied by a gov.
eminent force.
The Minnesota board of pardons
committed to life imprisonment the
sentence of Merton S. Mum, who
was to have been hanged at Bemidji
on February Z for the murder of Au.
gust Franklin.
Believing that a restoration Of the
old passenger rate law in North Caro-
lima will prevent the reduction ex
pected in their salaries, the EN-.
ployes of the combined railroads OF
the state will petition the legislature
to repeal the present 2115 cent pei
mile law.
Capt. Charles F. Brown, aged a.
civil war veteran and we'll known min
eralogist, died in a St. Louis hos.
pital pauper.
A fire which caused a property dam
age of $1,000,000 destroyed the city
hall and police buildings in Portland
Me-, and endangered the lives of more
than 700 persons.
Andrew Jackson Detsch, who was
charged with numbering Harry Ferree
in a boarding house in Philadelphia
was acquitted on his plea that he
thought Ferree was burglar. The
police asserted Detsch had discovered
an intrigue between his wife and Fer.
rec, but he denied this.
Emily Yznaga, mother of the dow
ager duchess Of Manchester and OF
Lady Lister-Kaye of England, died at
Natchez. Miss.
After administering a huge dose OF
laudanum to her young son Kenneth,
Mrs. George Stetson of Burlington,
Wis.,. drank the remainder of the vial
In an attempt at suicide Friday. The
boy, aged nine, is dead.
w. Leo Bockemohle. cashier of the
suspended Bank of Ellinwood at Ellin.
wood, Kan, under arrest for making q
false statement of the banks condi.
ton in December, shot and killed him.
self when his bondsmen surrendered
him. Il.
The Mine Owners association OF
Goldfeld, New, abolished the card sys.
TEN and declared open shop In the