Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-08-01

den, ILL.,, kept Gus Albright up a tree
for several hours, killed a horse and
by besieging tactics kept the family
Of Louis Blume imprisoned at home
Finally the bovine mike" was shot
dead.
An explosion, presumably of naph.
tina tank, wrecked the saddlery and
leather plant of M. Caffrey & Sons, at
Newark, N. J. One man was fatally
injured, three were burned seriously
and three others slightly. The fire
which followed practically destroyed
the plant.
The body of Brig. Gen. Edmund
Rice, a gallant soldier of the civil
war, who died at Wakefield, Mass,
was buried in Arlington national Gem.
etery, Washington.
Arthur Spaugh, convicted of second
degree murder for the killing of the
sheriff of Iron county, Missouri, was
sentenced to IS years in the peniten-
tiary.
The mistake of Alonzo Kimberlin,
bell boy at the Terminal hotel in
Union station, St. Louis, in giving a
suit case containing $150,0o0 in cash
and negotiable securities to the wrong
man, caused William Bender, Jr., Of
Mankato, Mimi, Is hours of anxiety
| which ended when the suit case was
| returned intact.
Serious forest fires are raging
northwest of Marquette, Mich. The
town of Birch, the scene of the ex-
tensive operations of the Northern
Lumber company, is in grave danger.
Declaring his nomination for trus-
tee of the Mutual Life Insurance COM
pany on the administration ticket was
but sop thrown to the policyholders,
who had right to elect the whole
board, Col. A. M. Shook, of Nashville,
Tenn, went to New York to consult
counsel as to what should be his atti-
tude in the matter.
Fines instead of Imprisonment will
be the punishment asked by the Unit
ed States government for those found
guilty of lawbreaking in connection
with the oil industry. Proceedings
soon to be instituted in Chicago in
connection with the federal inquiry
will class the offenses as misdemean-
ors instead Of felonies.
In brief and brilliant fight of or
atory, William J. Bryan carried to VIC
tory before the international council
of the interparliamentary union at
London his rider to the model arbi-
tration treaty.
One man was instantly killed and
another fatally wounded in a shoot
ing ARRAY at Edwards, Ill. Lige
Wages, coal miner, fred the fatal
shot, in a fit of jealous rage.
Paper-makers in the 80 mills of the
international Paper company in the
United States and Canada have given
notice that they will go on strike on
August 6 unless their working hours
are reduced to eight hours a day,
without reduction of wages.
Peonage in vicious form is
charged against the officers of the
Jackson Lumber company at Lock
hart, Ala. If the allegations are true
about 100 immigrants, mostly Ger
mans, are held in the lumber camps
of that company virtually as slaves.
transcripts and bills of exceptions
were filed in the United States cir
cult court Of appeals at st. Louis by
Armour Packing company, Swift &
Co., Morris & Co., and the Cudahy
Packing company, which were con-
victed in the United States district
court at Kansas City on charges of
accepting rebates.
Alex Fairgrove, president Of the
Montana State Federation of Labor
has been expelled from membership
in Helena miners union. Charges
were made that he used his position
as president of the State Federation
of Labor to fight the Western Fedora
ton of Miners.
The funeral services over the BODY
of the late Russell Sage were held in
the First Presbyterian church at Far
Rockaway, Long Island.
John Dauron, aged go years, a we'll
known farmer, was shot and killed at
Cherokee, Kan, by his wife, who is
IS years old. Dauron and his wife
had many quarrels.
Thomas Neylon was found guilty
of the killing in Lincoln, Ill.,, of
Thomas Brown, and sentenced to ii
years In prison. Neylon shot and
killed Brown in quarrel over board
bill.
Larry Westcott, Fl years old, was
drowned in the Minnesota river near
Fort Smelling by the upsetting of a
boat in which he and a companion
were fishing.
w. H. Pickard, while working many
feet beneath the Mississippi river at
st. Louis in Divers suit, lost his life
through the breaking of his life line.
While driving across the tracks In
Grand View avenue, west of Column
bus, O., William Zimm, farmer, aged
70, and his wife Elizabeth, aged IS,
were struck by the Twentieth Century
Limited and instantly killed.
John D. Rockefeller will not be ar
rested when he lands in New York.
Attorney Troup, Of Bowling Green,
representing both Mr.. Rockefeller
and the Standard OIL company, en-
tered an appearance at Findlay, O., |
before Judge Banker in the criminal
case charging the oil king and his |
company with violation of the Ohio |
antitrust laws.
Impressive services were held at |
simla In honor of Lady Curzon, wife |
Of the former Vceroy Of India, wife |
earl Of Mimic, viceroy of India, the