Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-09-05

The Real Estate Trust company, III
second largest concern of it's kind IL
Philadelphia suspended business be
cause of inability to, meet obligation.
to the amount of $7,000,000. There
are reports Of gross misuses Of the
institutions millions and crimina
prosecutions are possible. The bank
is the depository for more than $1,000,
600 Of the. funds of the Presbyterian
church, $3S0,000 in tax receipts of the
city of Philadelphia. and $175,000 OF
cash of the state of Pennsylvania. .
John H. Converse, a director of the
Real Estate Trust company of Phila
delphia and one of the foremost Pres
byterian laymen in the country, upon
whose petition the receiver was ap
pointed, said he was satisfied that the
securities of the various Presbyterian
church boards are safe.
William Buck Dwight, professor OF
geology and mineralogy at Vassar
college, died suddenly of apoplexy at
Cottage City, Mass. Prof. Dwight was
born in Constantinople May %, 1888.
At a meeting of the window glass
manufacturers, it was decided to keep
all plants closed down until October
Ia, because Of the large stocks Of win
dow glass now on hand.
Prof Mansfield Merriman, of the
department of civil engineering of Le-
high university, posted notices that
hereafter Carnegie spelling would be
used in all quizzes.
M. Laptew, the Russian consul at
Tien-Tsin, who was shot by Russian
contractor named Levinsky, is dead.
Miss Meane, an actress playing at a
summer theater at Williamsport, Pa,
fell down an elevator shalt at the
Park hotel and was killed.
Sir Daniel Morris, imperial commits
sioner of agriculture for the West
Indies, said the cotton area under cul-
tivation there would be doubled next
year.
For the fourteenth time the legisla-
tive council of Victoria rejected the
proposal to confer the right of SUI
frage on women.
The monthly statement of the col
lections of internal revenue shows
that the total receipts for July, 1906,
were $23,399,867, an increase over
July, 1905, Of $2,6o9,420.
One man was killed and three in
jured, one of whom will die, when the
engine of a sawmill on the farm of
Jacob Stalker, near Duncan's Falls,
o., blew up.
A sweeping decision against all Ia
Dor organizations of Racine, and one
which, if sustained by the higher
courts, will affect all labor organiza-
tons in the country, was rendered by
Chester Fowler, of Portage, Wis,
Judge of the Eighteenth judicial dis
trjct.
NJ. F. Elliott, general counsel for the
Standard Oil company, said THE
Standard Oil company has no interest
In buying up distilleries or in the
of denatured alcohol.
There have been no negotiations to
that end and no talk of any"
Walter Wellman has decided not to
attempt voyage northward this year
On account OF defects in the mechani-
cal equipment of his airship. Accord
ing to the announcement made last
winter in anticipation of such posi-
bilities the expedition will continue
next year.
An interesting feature of the Sea
Girt shoot was the excellent marks
OF Mrs. Elizabeth Topper
vain, of San Antonio, Tex, who quail
fled for enrolment as member of
the National Marksman's reserve by
scoring SO out of possible Is in five
shots each at 200, 800 and 500 yards.
The prisoners in the Valparaiso
(Chili) Jail, except such as are known
TO be dangerous and those who are
serving second terms, have been set
to work on the improvement of the
port.
Otis Eddy, the Oldest living Master
Mason in the world, celebrated the
one hundred and second anniversary
If his birth at Rockford, ILL.,
Hon. Henry Lyndhurst Bruce, eldest
son and heir of Lord Aberdare, au-
thorizes the announcement of his en-
5agement to Miss Camille Clifford, an
American actress.
John Finn was killed and four
Worknen were seriously injured while
engaged on the Wabash railway at
Brewster, O. A charge of dynamite
failed to go off as expected.
Gen. Rennenkampf has been ap-
pointed successor of Gen. Skallon, gov
ernor of Warsaw.
Secret service operatives at Phila-
1elph1a arrested Herman Hanau,
travelling agent in Pennsylvania and
New England for the Royal Havana
lottery. Hanau's home was searched
BY secret service agents, who secured
tickets to the value Of 100000.
In spite of the threats OF the revo-
utionists the transfer of the body of
Gen. Min from Peterhof to St. Peters,
burg for interment in the regimental
chapel of the Seminovsky regiment
,ook place without incident, though
With imposing military ceremonial.
Dewitt Adams, aged q years, and
Miss Carroll Jones, aged II, while
returning from church near Fredonia,
Kan, were drowned in attempting to
ord the Fall river.
A call for the ninth annual session
# the American mining congress, to
20 held in Denver, October 16 to 10
lext, was issued by ]. H. Richards,
and James F. Galbreath,
IT.. secretary.
While attempting to enter the har-
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