Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-08-29

| fees of the 'Tabasco- Chiapas Trading
& Transportation company and the
Lu-Me-Ha Mills company.
The Republican Eighteenth congress
sional district convention of Ohio Is
deadlocked, after casting IS ballots.
BY the explosion Of a 300-horsepow-
er boiler the plant of the Marion co.,
Railway & Light company was
wrecked and five persons were in
jured.
The earl of Leven and Melville, lord
high commissioner of the general as
sembly of the Church of Scotland, and
keeper Of the privy council, is dead.
He was born in 1885.
M. J. Sage & Co., brokers of No. l
Montgomery street, Jersey City, and
No. 81 Broadway, New York, posted
a notice at their Jersey City Office
that they had discontinued business.
Capt. Ross, chief of the revenue
cutter service of the treasury depart
ment, reported to Acting Secretary
Murray of the department of COM
MERGE and labor, that he had received
advices that the Canadian cruiser
Vigilant was destroying the nets OF
American fishermen in Lake Erie.
Jay c. Morse, at one time president
of the Illinois Steel company and
brother-in-law of the late Senator M.
A. Hanna, died at Cleveland of COM
plication of diseases.
The Japanese government notified
the foreign governments that Tairen
(the new Japanese name for Port
Dalny) will be a free port from Sep
TENDER l.
J. G. .Lapre, balloonist, was seri.
ously injured by fall from a para
chute at Wichita, Kan.
During religious revival in Magof-
fin county, KY, Boyd Sturgeon shot
and instantly killed John England, his
rival for the affections of a young
woman.
Rev. G. w. S. Bell, rs years old, a
Baptist preacher, was bored to death
by bull on his farm at Centralia, Ill.
His sou Frank was seriously injured
by the same animal a week before
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, wife OF
Congressman Longworth and daugh.
ter of President Roosevelt. accepted
an invitation to unveil the monument
statue to William Mckinley at Co
lumbus, O., September IA.
Worthan Brothers company, dry
goods dealers at Rockford, ILL.,, was
placed in the hands of receiver. AS
sets, $4,000; liabilities, 100000 The
failure is attributed to the injudicious
report of commercial agency.
Illinois Democrats in state conven-
ton at Peoria by vote of LOTT to 581
tabled resolutions asking for Roger
G. Sullivan's resignation as national
committeeman and Endorsed Bryan.
Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tain
many Hall, said he had not observed
any sentiment in Tar,many for the
nomination of District Attorney Will
liam Travers Jerome for governor by
the Democratic state convention, but
there was, he said, plenty of senti-
ment for w. r. Hearst.
Miss Margaret Wells, a patient at
the Central hospital at Jacksonville,
ILL.,, committed suicide by hanging,
using bed clothes for a rope. She
was from Havana, Ill.
Expert marksmen, rifemen and
shorpshooters are rapidly multiplying
in the army as the result of the re-
cent: act of congress authorizing an
increase of pay to those who show
themselves unusually proficient.
The presidential boom of Speaker
Joseph 6. Cannon, for 1908, which
was launched recently by his OWE con-
gressional district, was given an en-
thusiastic Endorsement by Illinois Re
publicans. The mention of Cannon's
name brought the convention to it's
feet and there was enthusiastic cheer.
ing.
A shooting ARRAY occurred at the
gold camp of Ramsey, about Is miles
from Virginia City, New. Tom Ram
sey, millionaire mine owner of Gold
field, shot and fatally injured a man
named Brown, who had, it is alleged,
jumped one of his claims.
The large kitchen at the national
soldiers home near Hampton, Va,
was completely destroyed by fire.
Gen. Adolph Meyer was renomi.
mated by the Democrats of the First
Louisiana congressional district.
Broussard, in the Third; Watkins, in
the Fourth; Ransdell in the Fifth, and
Pu5o, in the Seventh, will also b
nominated.
Floods in Arizona and southern
parts of California, a. result Of
cloudbursts completely tied up the
trans-Continental lines of the Santa
Fe and Southern Pacific.
1t is announced that the Santa Fe
railway has voluntarily granted it's l.,
900 telegraph operators, Chicago to
81 Paso, an increase of wages averag
Ing about four dollars a man.
A call has been issued for the
Wyoming Democratic state conven
ton for the nomination of state Off
GERS and congressman to meet al
Cheyenne on September Is.
A string of cars escaped from the
Cheyenne freight yards and was
struck by north-bound freight train
from Denver. The engine and nine
OF the cars were demolished. Engin.
eer Alex. Messick, was scalded to
death.
At the Republican primary election
held In the Twelfth Pennsylvania
congressional district, former Con.
gress man Charles N. Brum defeated
former United States Subtreasurcr
w. S. Leib for nomination.