Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-01-08

The Colonial Arms, the largest
summer hotel on the north shore Of
Massachusetts, was burned with
nearly all its furnishings. The loss is
estimated at 100000.
Agnes Peterson, aged about 25,
and Otto Huglin, aged 26, were
drowned, breaking through the ice
while skating at Ford Slip, Mich.
The case Of the members of the
first Russian duma who were con.
victed for signing the Viborg mani.
festo and sentenced to three months
imprisonment will be carried before
the senate, the highest tribunal in
Russia.
Robert Weston, colored, who "shot
up" . passenger train near Baton
Rouge, La, killing A. K. Wridert, was
sentenced to death after trial last
ing 80 minutes.
Rev: Edward Twitchell Ware was
installed as president of the Atlanta
(Ga.) university, which his father
founded.
In the Tombs at New York, await.
ing trial for murder, is Henry Ship
man, aged So, who shot and killed
Mrs. Josephine Mason in that city
about 20 years ago. Shipman was
adjudged insane and sent to Mat.
teawan, and was discharged recently.
DR.. Mary Merritt, prepossessing
young woman, has begun work in
prooLlvn oc m oroh,,1o - m c,,roaon
Comptroller Metz, in a review Of
the growth of New York in the ten
years since consolidation, said that
the assessed valuations of real estate
owned by the people had advanced
from $685., 416,819 in 1898 to $6,240,.
4S0,602 in 1907.
Charles Francklyn Reglid, former
| actor, more recently wealthy whip
and automobilist, who came into
prominence about ten years ago, when
at the age of 80 he married Mrs. Adele
Ronalds, then 20, and widow of Thorn.
as A. Ronalds, New York society
leader, died at his country mansion
at New Rochelle.
Lieut.. F. p Lahm, U. S. A., returned
from Europe, where he won the inter-
| national balloon contest in France, de-
clared that dirigible airships would
henceforth be an important part of
the equipment of modern armies.
The trial of the 1859 members of the
first Russian duma, who signed the
Viborg manifesto was concluded in St.
Petersburg. One hundred and sixty
seven of them were convicted and
sentenced to three months imprison-
ment, while two were acquitted on
the ground that they had signed under
misapprehension. The sentence car
ries with it the loss of all political
rights.
The systematic campaign for lower
rents by thousands of tenants on the
lower East side in New York began
to show material results when many
landlords announced that they were
ready to make reductions.
The Temple of Neptune, in Rome,
built by Hadrian, and standing in the
center of the Forum of Agrippa, now
occupied by the stock exchange, was
the scene of tremendous explosion,
presumably of gas, in which 20 per-
sons were injured. The city was
thrown into wild excitement.
Capt. Won Goeben, a distinguished
officer in the artillery branch of the
German army, caused sensation in
military circles by confessing that he
was the author of the mysterious MUIR
der of Maj. Won Schoenbeck, a brother
officer, who was shot dead on Christ
mas by a man he caught leaving his
wife's room.
Judge Charles l. Thomson died in
Denver of asthma. He was a member
of the Colorado court of appeals for
IL years.
Gov. Sheldon of Nebraska wanted
to give the lieutenant governor $1OO
of his salary for serving as governor
several days. but found the law for.
babe it.
Mrs A. Mosher of Lincoln, Neb..
while smoking pipe in bed set her
coverlet afire and was burned to
DEATH
M. De Troos, premier and minister
of the interior of Belgium, died at
Brussels.
Mrs. Arson Jones, widow of DR.. C.
Arson Jones. the last president of the
republic of Texas, died in Houston.
A bill was filed in the United States
circuit court at Atlanta asking that
the Georgia prohibition law be de-
clared unconstitutional.
Nine miners were killed and several
injured by an explosion in mine at
Carthage, N. NJ.
Edward Richie and William Hay
were appointed receivers for the Wi
borg.Hanna Lumber company, one of
the largest lumber firms in Cincin-
natl.
Capt. N. B. Thistlewood of Cairo,
ILL.,, was nominated on the Republican
ticket for the seat from the Twenty
fifth congressional district made va
cant by the death of Representative
George w. Smith.
Mine Inspector James Martin of
Plains, Pa, died suddenly of hem
orrhage Of the lungs, aged Sc years.
In September, 1897, while sheriff of
Luzerne county, he led the deputies
who fired upon several hundred strik-
ing miners at Lattimer, and IL were
killed.
Jean Francois Edmond Guyot-Des-
saigne, the French minister of JUS.
tice, dropped dead of apoplexy during
a session of the senate.