Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-07-25

William M. Akin, Jr., twice elected
mayor OF Evansville Ind, and presi-
dent of the Akin Manufacturing COM
pany, died of bronchitis. He was 81
years old.
At Lancaster, Mass, Lancaster Inn
was burned; loss $4,000.
Miss Grace Howe Mckinley, niece
OF the late President Mckinley, and
at one time prominent in White House
social life, was married at Fort Des
Moines to Capt. Grayson Willard
Heidi Of the Eleventh cavalry.
That the properties of the Devlin es-
tate will be closed out completely by
the first of the next year, is the an
nouncement made by Cyrus Leland,
one Of the trustees Of the estate.
Suit was entered against the five
cottonseed mills of Little Rock, Ark,
by Attorney General Rogers and Pros
ecuting Attorney Rohoton, charging
them with being members of a COM
bine in violation of the antitrust law
and alleging restraint Of trade. The
suits ask judgment in the sum OF
$4,000 per day, aggregating $4,000
against each company and asking also
the revocation Of their charters.
Socorro, N. NJ, has been badly dam
aged by an earthquake. Fifty-two
shocks were felt. The courthouse is
of mines are cracked and nearly
every residence in the city is cracked
or wrecked.
The joint scale committee, repre-
senting the Hooking Valley operators
and miners met at Columbus, O., and
settled two minor points remaining in
dispute and signed the revised scale,
which will be in effect for two years.
The navy department has received
cablegram from Para, Brazil, an
nouncing the safe arrival of Secretary
Root and his party at that city on the
United States cruiser Charleston.
Baron Speck Won Sternburg, Ger
man ambassador to the United States,
was overcome by heat at the South
station in Boston as he was about
to take train for New York.
The British cabinet has decided to
rescind it's action cutting down the
naval estimates and to build two bat
tleships of the Dreadnought class.
Congressman Frank B. Keeper, Of
Kingston, was renominated for con-
gress by the Republicans of the Third
Missouri district.
Two men were instantly killed and
a third Is believed to have been fatal
ly injured as result of the derail-
ment of a switch engine in the Hous-
ton & Texas Central railway yards in
Houston, Tex.
One man was killed and four seri-
ously injured by a log roll in Bige-
lows lumber camp near Alpena, Mich.
The fourth annual meeting of the
Young Peoples Union of the Indiana
district of the German Evangelical
synod of North America, convened at
Mount Vernon, Ind.
Lee fletcher and Joe Robinson,
both colored, were hanged In the Jail
at Fayette, Miss, for the murder of
Lamb Anderson in January, 1904, over
game Of craps.
A number of minor chiefs of the
Guatemalan revolution who made an
invasion of the northern portion of
that republic say all movements of
the revolutionists in Guatemala are
brought to a standstill awaiting nego-
tiations for peace.
Over 100 cases Of typhoid fever have
already been reported about Ipswich,
S. D., as the result of drinking lem
onade which was served at a celebra-
ton at Evarts, 8. D. The water was
taken from an old well.
Judge Henry Melvin, Of Oakland,
CAL, was unanimously elected grand
exalted ruler Of the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks.
Practically the entire business Sec
tion of Wentzville, Mo-, was destroyed
by fire, the loss being estimated at
$4,000.
The state of Wisconsin is to have
a new capitol building in the shape of
st. Andrews cross.
The jury in the Hargis-C Callahan
trial at Beattyville, KY, returned a
verdict of not guilty. The men were
charged with the murder of ]. B.
Marcum.
The bureau of statistics of the de-
partment of agriculture has so extend
ed the scope Of its work that it's re-
ports will hereafter cover far larger
number of agricultural products than
in the past.
Judge Henry W. Holt, In the case
OF Virginia versus the Baltimore &
Ohio railway, declared the two-cent
mile rate bill to be in violation of
the fourteenth amendment to the con-
stitution.
Mr.. Brown, the American secretary
and charge in Salvador, will commune
cate with Commander Mulligan, Of the
Marblehead, and that officer will place
his ship at the disposal of the Ameri.
can legation, so that Mr.. Brown will
be in position to carry out the in
structions to proffer to the govern
ment of Salvador and Guatemala the
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place of meeting for the peace COM
missioners.
The hearing of the suit brought by
the state Of Minnesota against the Du-
luth board Of trade to secure disso-
luton OF that corporation and sell it's
property was begun In the st. Louis
county district court at Duluth. The
action was brought against the board
at the instance of the Minnesota
Farmers exchange.