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

Maj. Charles L. McCawley,: OF the
United States marine corps, and Mrs.
John Davis, daughter of late Secretary
of State Freylinghuysen; were married
at Providence hospital, Washington,
where Maj. McCawley is convalescing
from an attack of typhoid fever.
The Phoenix Royal Insurance COM
pany Of Vienna, which carried about
$780, 900 insurance, has decided not
to pay losses growing out of the San
Francisco conflagration. The COM
pany's policies carried an earthquake
clause.
Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tam
many Hall, said it was possible that
Tammany Hall would support William
R. Hearst for the Democratic nomina.
ton for governor in the next state
convention.
BY impersonating Mrs. Theresa
Bornero, wealthy Italian widow, Pa
liceman Carpenter, of St. Louis, cap
tured man giving his name as Jo-
ham Hoppe, who is held on a charge
Of sending threatening letter to Mrs.
Bornero.
The state of Michigan gained an
important point in it's last of the
great railway cases by a decision of
the supreme court in the case of the
state against the Michigan Central
railroad to collect 100000 in back.
taxes. claimed to be due the state
under an original charter of the cor
poration and covering the years from
1856 to 1893.
OF the S89 samples of food products
examined by the Indiana board of
health, 500 were pure and of standard
quality, and 389 adulterated or below
43.7 per cent. Of rs samples of drugs
analysed, 46 were pure and up to
pharmacopeia standard and 20 were
adulterated.
Charles A. Sectors, vaudeville
actor 56 years Of age, well known un-
der the stage name Of Albert Christal.
was found dead in his room at
Omaha. Heart failure was the cause.
The commission composed of
Messrs. John w. Yerkes, I. R. Hit,
Jr., and c. A. Champion, of the United
States internal revenue, appointed to
Investigate the decentralization of al.
cohol, has arrived at Berlin to study
the German alcohol fuel and lighting
industry.
The Harvard university crew which
defeated Yale at New London will sail
for England and will, on September 1,
row a race with the Cambridge eight,
which beat Oxford last spring.
The Pan-American congress held it's
first session in the St. Louis pavilion.
Rio Janeiro. The delegates were en-
Enthusiastically cheered by great crowds
of people. Joaquin Nabuco, ambassa-
dor of Brazil to the United States, was
chosen permanent president of the
congress.
Quartermaster Sergeant Dodds, OF
company e, Twenty-second infantry,
committed suicide. He left note to
his captain saying he was tired of his
job
The fourteenth conference of the in
union was opened in
the royal gallery of the palace at Lon
don. Adherents of international peace
from all the parliaments of Europe,
as well as several of those of the
western hemisphere, were present. :.
Mrs. Gus Berndt and two daughters,
Ella and Ida, aged seven and nine
years, were run down on a trestle
by Rock Island train near White, N.
D., and killed. The bodies were
thrown so feet into the water and
were recovered by travelling man on
the train.
At an adjourned meeting of the
East st. Louis city council an ordin-
ance was adopted ousting George O.
Purdy as chief Of police, and appoint
ing Lieut.. Michael Doyle as his sue
cessor.
Russell Sage died suddenly at his
country home, "Cedercroft," at Law
renee, L. I. The immediate cause of
death was heart failure, resulting
from complication of diseases Incl
dent to old age. The veteran finan-
cier would have celebrated his nine
tieth birthday on August 4.
Just before a ball game between a
local team and Plymouth, Wis, nine
1t Manitowoc, Wis, fierce electrical
storm swept over the city and a bolt
IT lightning hit the grandstand, where
he spectators and players had sought
shelter. Five persons were killed out
right and score or two injured by
The shock.
The executive council Of the Ameri-
IAN Federation of Labor made good
is declaration OF several months ago
% enter the field of politics in the in
crest OF trade union movement and
% exhort all members and friends of
organized labor to work for the elec-
ion to political Office of men known
% be favorable to labor's cause.
At South birmingham, Mass, the |
ront OF a partially constructed three
story brick and cement building col |
apsed and more than a score of |
Vorkmen were carried down in the |
wreck. Only nine men were taken
tut alive, and some of these were
'adly injured. Eight bodies were re-
covered. l.
The value of canned meats export |
ID from the United States in June,
-so6, was $4e1,1oo, against $7e7,127
n June, 1905, and in the fiscal year
-906, $9,233,410, against. $9,577,045 in
-905. The figures for the fiscal year
900 include canned beef, $6,430,446;
:anned pork, $1,215,857, and other