Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-14

cago, fined the Standard Oil COM
pany $29,240,000, the extreme limit
of the penalty fixed for the acceptance
of illegal rebates under the conviction
of last April. This fine is by far the
largest ever assessed in any case in
the history of jurisprudence. 1t was
accompanied by a scathing criticism
of the oil trusts methods. Then the
judge instantly called for special
grand jury for August IA to follow up
the same violations of law from the
standpoint of conspiracy between the
Standard Oil, the Alton road and the
head officials of both. This charge, II
proved, may land some of the railroad
and oil officers in Jail.
Casablanca, on the Moroccan coast,
has been bombarded by French cruls-
ers, the Moors are reported to have
been shot down in large numbers and
the town is practically in the possess
sion of landing parties from French
and Spanish cruisers. The first shots
were fired by the Moors. The French
men responded with bayonet charge
and the bombardment of the native
quarter with melinite shells. The
Frenchmen had six men wounded, but
no one killed.
Rev. S. E. Smith, noted colored
preacher of the south, died suddenly
in Lexington, KY, from worry caused
by dissensions in the Baptist congre-
cation there, of which he was pastor.
New Orleans has established quar-
antine against Brownsville, Tex,
where 100 cases of dengue fever have
appeared
Eleven persons, including Prince
Alexander Begotoff of Russia, were
killed in railway wreck in Germany.
Cyclones struck Clear Lake, Lake
Mills and Hanlontown, Ia. causing
one death and great damage. Wi
mona, Mimi; Springfield ILL.,, and 9th
er places suffered severely from furi-
Gus wind and transforms.
John T. Hanrahan, of New York,
was in Appleton, Wis, looking over
the paper mills, with the object OF
forming a combine of all the mills in
the state that will not be declared a
trust.
Both the Review and the Herald, of
Decatur, ILL.,, suspended publication
temporarily as a result of strike of
printers.
Enraged mobs in New York beat,
kicked and tried to lynch several men
who had been accused of attacking
girls.
Four persons were killed and Is in
jured in railroad wreck on the Buff
falo & Allegheny division of the Penn
sylvania railroad at Kelly, about IS
miles from Pittsburg. The train was
sideswiped by runaway coal car.
The grand jury of Perry county,
Alabama, returned an indictment
against the Southern Railway COM
pany for doing business as a foreign
company without license. This &C
ton was taken as result of Secretary
of State Julians action in revoking
the charter of the company.
Rev. Edward Mcconnell, of Abse-
con, N. j., was drowned near Atlantic
City in vain attempt to save the life
of Claude Friendship, of Philadelphia.
William P. Taggart, formerly of
Reading, Pa, was arrested in Phila-
delphia, charged with obtaining $500
though Misrepresentation in the pro-
motion of coal manufacturing COM
pany.
Venezuela advised Belgium that in
recognition of the principle of arbitra-
ton she would pay the disputed claim
of Belgian creditors, amounting to
100000, in conformity with the deci-
sion of The Hague tribunal.
The Western Federation of Miners
dismissed Attorney Clarence Darrow
and retained Richardson & Hawkins.
Israel Munson Spelman, the last sur
viving member of the Harvard class
of 1886 and the oldest alumnus of the
college, died at his summer home at
Marblehead, Mass, aged 80 years.
A Mr.. and Mrs. Buckingham, who
came from New York, committed sui
eide by taking poison at Castellmare,
Italy, because they had sustained seri-
Gus gambling losses at Monte Carlo.
Ross Clarke, we'll known attorney
of st. Paul, Mimi, committed suicide
because of domestic troubles.
Pearl Frisby, an aeronaut, and his
wife were nearly burned to death
while their balloon was being inflated
at Fairview, Cal. Frisby was throwing
gasoline on the fire when his clothing
ignited.
Solomon Frank, business manager
of the st. Joseph (Mo.) Daily Volks-
blatt, and for many years business
manager Of the st. Joseph Gazette, is
dead at his home in that city, aged 50
years. He was native of Germany.
At a conference of representatives
of more than 40 silk mills in Scranton.
Pa, it was unanimously agreed that
it would be impossible to grant a
shorter work day to silk workers. s.
600 of whom are now on strike.
Russian editors have been ordered
by the project of police at st. Peters
burg not to mention the names of the
car or any of the royal family except
by special permission.
Michele Berardinelle of New York.
special agent Of the department of JUS
tice, has begun an investigation of
Italian peonage in st. Louis.
H. B. Krumholz of Atlanta, Ca,
shot and killed his wife, whom he
took for a burglar.
new combination of the manufac-
turers of laundry machinery has been
formed, being the first to come into
existence in months.