Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-09-19

George Early, conductor Of the
Norfolk & Western work train, was
shot and fatally wounded by John
James, negro, near Pembroke, Va.
James had been discharged by Early.
The National Hoo-Hoo convention
adjourned at Oklahoma City to meet
next Year, at Atlantic City. Norfolk
and Little Rock were the other con.
testants for the next meeting.
Three men were killed by coming
in contact with a barbed wire fence
that had been charged with electricity
from the plant of the Indianapolis &
Cincinnati Traction company, at Rush
vile, Ind.
District Attorney Bell, of Philade ell
phia, stated that he had discovered
additional evidence of Segals peculiar
financial methods. Five issues OF
mortgage bonds were made by Segal
on properties known as the Standard
Iron & Steel company, the Champion
Iron & Separator company and the
American Swedish Crucible Iron com!
pany. The first mortgage for $250,000
was increased by four additional bond
issues to 100000, each succeeding
issue being made without the previous
mortgage having been cancelled.
The fear of an attack by the insur-
gents on Havana is spreading, and
there are rumors more or less anthem
tic from all directions of new upris-
ings in various quarters.
In one of the most severe wind
storms that ever swept that district,
damage amounting to several thou
sand dollars was done about the docks
and factories of Escanaba, Mich.
Scores of families will move from
Zion City, ILL.,, to a new colony to be
established in Butte county, South
Dakota, according to r. V. Iverson, OF
Zion City.
r. w. Arnett and William Jackson,
who escaped from Jail at Carthage,
Mo-, in June last, were captured at
Muskogee, I. T., after a struggle.
They are charged with forgery and
burglary.
Two hundred union plumbers went
on strike at Kansas City, Mo-, for an
increase of SO cents day in wages.
Building operations were hindered.
The excitement over the copper de-
posits discovered recently in the
Greenwater, CAL, district is on the in
crease. Hundreds of men have braved
the desert to get into Inyo county and
locate prospects in the new field, 60
miles south of Bullfrog.
Secretary Root and family, accom-
panied by American Minister Dudley
and the mayor of Lima, visited the
cathedral and other places of interest
At the central market the party re-
ceived an ovation. A group of women
strewed flowers on the staircase as
the party were descending.
Solomon Urbach, a diamond mer-
chant of New York city, reported to
the Baltimore police that he was rob.
bed of $4,000 worth of diamonds
while en- route to that city.
George William Maurer, retired,
died at Springfield, ILL.,, aged II years.
During the civil war he was lieuten-
ant and quartermaster in the One
Hundred and Fourteenth Illinois in
fantry, and was brigade quartermaster
for some time.
Judge 3. T. Haines ordered the re-
lease from Lansing, Kan, penitentiary
of AL Harpster, who is serving a life
sentence for the murder of John JUL
ian at Ponca City, Okla. The dying
confession of Byron Cole clears Harp
ster.
The approaching end of the danger
period for this season from yellow fe-
yer infection was indicated by the &C.
ton of the Louisiana state board of
health in partially letting down the
quarantine bars against some of the
Central American ports.
At Chook, /. T., James Martin, a
stockman, was shot and killed as he
was riding along the highway. 1t is
alleged that trouble with stockmen
was the cause of the trouble.
Congressman Charles E. Littlefield,
Republican, in the Second Maine dis.
trict was reelected by a greatly re.
duced plurality.
Gov. William T. Cobb, of Rockland,
Republican, standing on platform
devoted almost exclusively to a con-
tinuance of the prohibitory law of the
state, was reelected by a plurality OF
less than 5000, but with few excep-
tons the smallest margin OF votes
ever given Republican governor in
the state of Maine.
Cicero Davis, wealthy stockman,
was killed by an unknown assassin
four miles east of Forum, I. T., beinng
shot from ambush while going along
road near his home.
S. A. Huntley, of Omaha, Neb., car
ried of first prize for high total for
the amateurs in the two days shoot
of the Indianapolis Gun club. The
western man shattered 1862 out of a
possible 400.
A cold-blooded, premeditated
slaughter of Jews by soldiers surpass-
ing in atrocity anything yet seen in
the antf-Semite pogroms in Poland
took place at Siedlce, Russia. At
least 300 Jews have been killed and
1000 wounded. The artillery was used
against the helpless people, field
pieces being trained on the Jewish
quarters.
Count Ludwig Won Arnim, for the
past IL years chief steward of the
Waldorf-Astoria, New York, whose
grandfather was ambassador OF Ger
many to France, died at the Reception
hospital, Coney Island.