Willmar tribune., 1897-08-24
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

FOE the week End1nX August ~.
The National Temperance association
opened it's eleventh annual session at
Saratoga, N. Y.
At Bluff Point, N. Y, Mrs. Mckinley
presented the Twenty-frst regiment
with new flag.
In quarrel near Hyden, Ky, Mrs.
Minerva Young killed Mrs. Jane Young,
her .sister-in-law.
Nine business buildings at Ortonville,
Minn., were destroyed by fire, the to-
tai loss being $250,0OO.
DR.. James B. Angel. the new United
States minister to Turkey, arrived in
Constantinople Thursday.
A number of exiled Spanish anar-
chists, who recently arrived in England,
left London for America.
Constantinople was in a panic over
three bomb explosions which were at
tributed to the Armenians.
Democrats opened the campaign in
Iowa by holding II meetings., one in
each congressional district.
Freight trains on the Louisville Il
Nashville road collided near Dahlgren,
ILL.,, and six men were killed.
Capt. Gen. Weyler, of Cuba, denies
that he has resigned or that he has any
present intention of resigning.
It has been discovered that in the last
month or two five Cuban filibustering
expeditions have left Atlantic City,
N. j.
At the Crystal palace in London Platts
Belts covered a mile On bicycle in
1887 3-5, beating McDutfee's worlds
record.
At Syracuse, N. Y, Cresceus trotted
mile in 2:17A, breaking the worlds
record for three-year-olds on a half
mile track.
Samuel r. Galloway was elected pres
ident of the Lake Shore & Michigan
Southern railway to succeed the late
ID. w. Caldwell.
Fritz Lane was killed by Jesse Brad
ley in a quarrel at Wicklitfe, Ind, and
Bradley was fatally wounded. They
fought with knives.
It is reported that Steinway & Sons,
piano manufacturers in New York,
have sold their business to an English
syndicate for $6,O00,OO0.
Another suicidal wave seems to have
reached Chicago. During the first 1s
days of August "a cases of suicide have
been reported to the coroner.
Gen. James G. Longstreet is engaged
to wed Miss Ellen Dortch, of Atlanta,
Ca, assistant state librarian. The gen.
eral is 76 years old and his fancee %.
w. S. Brand, superintendent of the
Georgia railway, has been indicted by
the grand jury of DeKalb county, Ga.
for violation of the law against running
freight trains on Sunday.
Strikes of gold rivaling those on tn,
Klondike have been made on Stewar
river and Henderson creek, Tributaries
of the Yukon, several hundred miles
above the Klondike river.
Harvey Deberry (colored) was hangee
in the Jail yard at Memphis, Tenn, fo1
attempting to rape aseven-year-old gir
on October 8, 1896. This is the frs
legal hanging for this crime in Tennes
see.
Lena Collinsworth, of Claiborne coun
ty Tenn, is dead from the effects of :
5oday fast. She quarreled with he,
husband, they separated, and she vowed
that she would fast until he returned t,
her
Col. John o. Hodges, ex-representa
tive in the Legislature, and for man,
years well-known politician and edi
ter, died at Lexington, Ky. He owned
the Lexington Observer, democratic
weekly.
Capt. C. P. Woodruff, for 10 year
medical examiner of the pension bu
reau at Washington, was notified tha
he had been reinsta ted in his old place
from which he had been removed b,
President Cleveland in 1887.