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

Maj. Dreyfus was the victim of a
cowardly attack in the Military club
where all the officers were assembled
to give a reception to the Thirteenth
regiment artillery, to which Dreyfus
and Commandant large, one of his
stanchest defenders, are attached.
The moment Dreyfus and his friend
presented themselves in the salon of
the Cercle Militaire a commandant,
whose name is still unknown, ap-
preached Dreyfus and slapped him
sQuarely in the face.
After securing every state in the
union for almost seven months the
police believe they at last have appre-
hended Frank J. Constantine, who
murdered Mrs. Arthur w. Gentry, a
bride of six months, in her apart
ments, at Chicago, on the morning of
January last. The suspect is in jail
at Poughkeepsie, N: Y.
AS the result of experiments with
mice, the superintendent of the i'm
perial cancer research fund labora-
tory at London announced at meet
ing of the subscribers to the fund
that the prospects of discovering the
mystery of the origin of cancer were
more hopeful than ever.
w. II. Williams, brother of G. H.
Williams, member of the Georgia
house of representatives from Laur-
ems county, was killed in ball game
at Soperton. He was catcher, and
pitched ball hit him in the breast.
The funeral Of former Judge James
B. Kicks, Of the Illinois supreme court,
was held at Tay1orville The present
members Of the supreme court were
present.
The navy department has called
upon Lieut.. H. Dunn for an explana-
ton of newspaper paragraph pub
lished concerning his conduct while
temporarily in command of the re-
ceiving ship Independence at Mare
Island.
The Cooperative Live Stock Commits
mission company, representing a large
part Of the sheep and cattle raising
industry Of the west, has started a
contest against the Kansas City live
stock exchange. Hostilities will begin
September l.
Every dollar of Russell Sages great
fortune is left to Mrs. Sage by a will
made in 1901 except an insignificant
bequest made to Mrs. Fannie Chaplin.
of Oneida, N. Y, an only sister, who
died two years ago.
A detachment OF constabularv.
Lieut.. Williams commanding, encoun-
tered a band Of 600 Pulajanes near
Buraen, on the island of Leyte. Lieut..
Worswick, IL privates and Civilian
Scout Mcbride were killed.
There is no foundation for the re-
pert that Count Leo Tolstoi is i'll.
No statement will be made by Mrs.
C.. j. Holman, mother of Mrs. Harry
K. Thaw, relative to the letters found
in the effects of Architect Stanford
White and alleged to have been writ
ten by Mrs. Holman to White before
the marriage of her daughter to
young Thaw.
Military investigation and a grand
Jury inquiry have been ordered into
the mystery surrounding the disap-
pearance Of nine wagon loads of H.
quors dispatched from the Moulder
depot warehouse to the Jefferson
Park hospital storeroom at San Fran.
CISCO. ~ ~ ,*%
Fire at Yokohama destroyed 1000
Japanese houses. < i: - / r.. &: 5S>l:as$
I. Claude Leppleman, aged 28 years,
who for nine years has been 4 clerk
In . drygoods5 store at Wichita, Kan,
has been notified that he has Inherited:
$4,000, 900 from the estate of j. @. II
kraham . capitalist of New York city.fI