Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-08-09

strike because 81 : difference <over
wages. =s.sZ
Former Congressman John Dough
erty, is dead ct his home at Liberty
Mo-, aged IS years.
Secretary Taft and party sailed on the
Manchuria from Nagasah, their last
port In Japan, closing q tour marked BY
many demonstrations. :.5 .. =.s @ S z
s Secretary Of Agriculture Wilson after
an interview with President Roosevelt
at Oyster Bay declared he had no inten-.
ton Of resigning. 1nthe future crop sta
tistics will be made up by four scien-I
lists. ". :zS w.: 4. q J.: l.>. a. -. It'll !
Attorney General Mayer, of New York,
filed suit against all the officers and di-:
rectors of the Equitable Life Assurance
society, asking that restitution of oil
spoils and the dismissal of grafters be
ordered and that the huge surplus of the
society be given to the policy holders.
District Attorney Jerome at New
York announced that he will run as an
Independent candidate for: reelectionif
1000 persons sign his petition. ....c...
Leo Stevens made successful flight
in the California Arrow in New York,
steering his airship around the Brighton
Beach hotel. ~. 1T: *>'~
Armed and masked bandits shot at and
held up Chicago auto party on Sheri,
dan road near Winnetka, and escaped
with jewels and money. !
Aaron Gilhams, aged 50, stacked his
wheat at Goshen, Ind, for the f1fty-sec-
Ond consecutive season. =.
Eleven negroes, prisoners, under SEN
tence to the chain gang for various
terms, escaped from Jail atLumberton,
N. C. ~-~'
While unloading dirt cars at high
fill on the Topeka & Northwestern rail-
way, six miles south of Onarga, Kan,
two men were killed and three injured.
The trestle gave way.
, The legal period of 30 days having
elapsed since the death of Secretary
Hay. the mourning stationery upon
which all the Official business of the state
department has been written was with
drawn.
The report is current at Tangier, Mo-
rocco, that the government troops have
met serious defeat near Ujda.
Secretary Taft and party were Official
ly welcomed by the governor and other
officials at Nagasaki, Japan.
Presence of mind on the part of Mrs.
G. M. Segerstrom saved nine persons
who were sleeping in building at Elk
celsior, Lake Minnetonka, Mimi, from
burning to death.
A sudden rise of 25 feet of water in the
Usage river through Miller county, Mo-,
caused much alarm among river farmers
and tiemen. The lowlands were sub
merged to depth of three to five feet,
and the growing corn crops on these
lands, roughly estimated at a value of
$3.50, 1000, will be total loss.
The hamlet of St. Henry, Celina, O.,
was almost destroyed by fire, starting
by spontaneous combustion of new hay
in the livery barn of Frank Burns.
Burns family narrowly escaped with
their lives.
O. B. Dahle, wealthy pioneer, died
at his home in Mount Horeb, near Mad
ison, Wis.,, aged 81. The deceased man
was the father of former Congressman
H. B. Dahle.
A Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
freight train. north-bound, struck a
buggy west of Freeport, ILL.,, killing three
women. = =. ~: Z. : t".:s
Edward Lyman Short, general solicit
tor of the Mutual Life Insurance COM
pany since 1895, is dead at his home in
New York city from heart failure. Mr..
Short was widely known in the, legal
world as specialist in railway litiga-
ton, insurance law, taxation and cor
poration law, and was the author of nu-
merous pamphlets on these subjects.
The San Jose scale has invaded Sec
ton of Virginia for the first time, and
fruit trees are suffering. Peach and
plum trees particularly are affected, and
In some instances the fruit on these
trees is not falling of, but the trees
themselves are dying. =,
Sixteen-year.old Estel Payton, while
catching in baseball game between two
amateur teams at Nasty Corners. Ia,
was struck over the heart by foul tip.
He threw the ball back to the pitcher and
dropped dead.
Frank Soleveld, celery grower and
man employed on his farm, were killed
at crossing by a Michigan Central
west-bound passenger train, = which
struck the wagon in which the men were
driving. -" -. !. -,
The president has ordered a new
investigation of the department of
agriculture as result of the nitro
culture charges preceding the Moore
resignation r'~% - :. =,
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson de-
clares he will not resign, but will re-
main to cleanse the department of
evildoers. H., IL II -. ~~'.
Dell Stewart, ex.mayor Of Osceola,
L., and formerly district Judge of
Iowa, died at hospital in Portland,
Ore, as the result of an operation.
Death was sudden and unexpected. II
:" One person was killed and 40 were in
jured in fight between police and strik-
ing longshoremen at San JUAN
Attorney General Moody, at Oyster
Bay, declared lax federal laws probably
will prevent punishment of many graft
ers. y. ~. " .'+~ f-'-~ =
Thomas Percy, a Chicago saloonkeep-
er, was stabbed and killed by an uniden-
tilted man. after leaving a. car to go to
his home. ~ .,ss :.
r Chicago finds herslf overrun by an
army of outlaws as q result of ! tha
teamsters' strike, which called the po-
lice on patrol duty, and; the daily mid.
summer crime calendar Is as long az
It it in the winter season. .@@>