Willmar tribune., 1909-01-20

ment, as their choice as president of
the college to succeed President
Charles w. Eliot.
! In a fire that completely burned the
residence of Samuel Higgins, general
manager of the New York, New
Haven & Hartford railroad at New
Haven, Conn.,, yesterday his mother,
Mrs. Higgins, lost her life.
Gov. Dawson of West Virginia in
his regular biennial message to the
legislature devoted considerable space
10 the matter Of revenue for the state.
w. H. Ray, former special deputy
sheriff, was shot and instantly killed
from ambush at Arcadia mines near
Birmingham, Ala.
Thirty persons were injured, four
seriously, when the flyer on the Mis-
souri,. Kansas & Texas railroad went
into the ditch at Hamburg, Mo.
Binding, gagging and assaulting
solomon Loughner, 80 years old, near
Plttsburg, Pa, and his two sisters, both
OF whom are about so years old, six
masked robbers secured about $1,5OO
In cash, ate their supper, and then
disappeared.
A Chinese imperial edict directs
that the sum of $4,000 taels ($35, ,000)
be paid as contribution to the earth
| quake sufferers.
The inauguration of Gov.-elect B. F.
carroll took place at Des Moines, la.
Rev. John H. Carmichael, who in the
little Methodist church at Rattle
Hun, Mich, killed Gideon Browning.
the village carpenter, and then
burned the body in the stove, commit.
ted suicide at Carthage, Ill.,, by cut
tlng his throat with a pocket knife.
he left long written confession in
which he said Browning had hypo-
tized him and attacked him with
knives and that he killed him in self
defense.
More than 100 lives were snuffed out
by an explosion in the mines of the
Lick Branch colliery, near Bluefield,
W. Va. Just two weeks before, so
miners were killed in the same mines
by similar explosion.
Magistrate Moss of New York found
5. S. Carvalho, Bradford Merrill and
Edward S. Clark guilty of criminally
llbelling John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and
technically committed them to the
Tombs prison. They are officers of
the company that publishes Hearst's
| New York American.
Beryl Benjamin Laska, a young at
torney of Denver, was declared not
guilty in Federal Judge Lewis court
OF using the hypnotic eye" for exer-
cising powers of clairvoyancy to inf1u-
ence jurors to hand down verdicts ia
vorable to his clients.
The Turkish government accented
the eAustro-Hungarian offer of G2,5OO.-
900 Turkish ($1O,SOO,OOO) indemnity
for the annexation of Bosnia and
Herzegovina, thus removing every DOS
sibility of war.
Joseph Cross, alias Rogers, 3S years
old, who has been in prison most of
the time since he was II years old,
committed suicide by hanging in his
cell at Joliet, Ill.
Fire practically destroyed the Peeks-
kill Military academy at Peekskill. N.
Y, causing loss of $4,000. The $50
students in the place escaped in
safety.
The entire western coast of Mexico
was shaken by an earthquake.
Spencer, Moore & Co., of Duluth,
Mimi, one of the oldest and best
known grain firms at the head of the
lakes, became insolvent.
At Litchfield, ILL.,, fire destroyed the
department store of l.. V. Cline & Co.
and other buildings, causing a loss of
S15O,000.
Lorin Farr, pioneer of Utah, among
the first converts to Mormonism, first
mayor of Ogden, husband of seven
wives and ancestor of 800 children,
grandchildren and great-grandchildren
was drowned at Utah Hot Springs.
Frank A.. Vanderlip succeeded
James Stillman as president of the
National City bank, and F. l.. Hine
succeeded George F. Baker as presi-
dent of the First National bank, both
of New York
John V. Duffy, confidential clerk to
Martin J. Condor, president of the
American Snuff Company, was arrest
ed in New York charged with forging
his employers name to IL checks az
gregating $3,sOO.
About $1,O00,OOO which has laid un.
claimed in Massachusetts savings
banks for more than 30 years will be
paid to the treasurer of the common
wealth, through decision of the su.
prcme judicial court.
Of 28 workmen in the mine owned
by Joseph Letter, 26 were killed by
the explosion, according to official in.
formation given out at the mining
Office. All Of the bodies were recov-
cred Monday.
Gen. Stoessel, Rear Admiral Neboga,
toff and several other of the officers
OF high rank now in the fortress of St.
Peter and S.. Paul, have applied for
pardon or communication of their sen.
tences.
The visit of the emperor of Korea.
accompanied by Prince Ito. to Fusan.
about 200 miles from the capital has
created the impression that Ito is en-.
deavoring to smuggle the emperor
aboard warship and have him taken
to Japan.
James York, quarry worker. cut
the throats of four of his children
near Mankato. Mimi, and then COM
mitted suicide by hanging himself.