Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-02-27
Gen. w. L. Cabell, commander of tho
rams Mississipni department. United

Gen. w. L. Cabell, commander of the
trans-Mississippi department, United
Confederate Veterans, was placed un-
der bond of $4,000 in connection with
the Honduras lottery matter.
More than hundred miners, mostly
Japanese, were killed in disaster at
Las Esperanzas, Mexico.
The plant of the Alpena (Mich.)
Portland Cement company was burned,
the loss being 100000.
The Mississippi railroad commission
ordered the railroads of the state to
adopt two-cent passenger rate on
the interchangeable mileage basis.
G. N. Anderson of Atlanta, Ca, was
fined $1,000 for bucket-shopping.
Charles Barnard, the well-known
boat builder, died at Madison, Wis, at
the age of IS.
w. A. Henry, for q years dean of
the University of Wisconsin college of
Agriculture, resigned because Of poe.
health and . desire to devote himseil
to literary work.
Mrs. Bertha Bauduy, well-known in
st. Louis, committed suicide in New
York because of the death of a dear
friend.
The Wisconsin state railway COM
mission handed down a decision in the
two-cent railroad fare question, order.
ing that the railways in the state give
fiat two and one-half cent passenger
fare.
The will of Count John A. Creighton
contained several large requests to
educational and benevolent institu.
tons.
A. L. Brannon, saloonkeeper at
Maiden, Mo-, shot and killed Attorney
D. r. Cox and DR.. J. w. Beall, and
was shot and killed himself a few
hours later while being removed from
the jail to Kennett for safe-keeping.
A Houston, Texas, jewelry company
was robbed of between $4,000 and
100000 worth of loose diamonds.
Two men were killed, two fatally in
jured and several others hurt as a re-
suit of an explosion of a boiler at q
sawmill plant at State Line, Ark.
Maj. c. w. Pierce, of Lincoln, one
Of the trainers of the Nebraska con-
stitution and pioneer lawmaker, died
suddenly at Hastings, Florida, where
he had gone for his health.
Chalmers Vestal, president of the
Caney Fork Lumber & Tie company,
and one of the best known lumbermen
of the upper Cumberland region, fatal
ly shot himself at Baxter, Tenn, by
accident.
An appeal to the governor of North
Dakota and to the interstate COM
merce commission was sent by the
business men of Kathryn, N. D., for
action looking toward resumption of
freight traffic.
The New York police heard that
William F. Walker, the missing treas.
urer of the New Britain, Conn, saw
ings bank, lost more than $350,O00 Of
the banks funds to wire tappers.
E. H. Hartman, the railway mag
nate, was subpoenaed to appear be-
fore the interstate commerce commits
sion in New York Monday, February
Is.
Six seamen lost their lives when
the Philadelphia &, Reading Coal COM
pany's barges, Girard and Alaska,
went ashore and broke up off High
land Light, Mass.
Many persons were made homeless
by flood of the Missouri river near
Vermilion, S. D.
Nineteen persons were frozen to
death at various places in East and
West Prussia.
Secretary of War Taft accepted an
invitation to deliver the commences
ment address at the University Of
Minnesota June 10.
Count Van Bylandt the well-known
sportsman of The Hague, was killed
during races on the famous toboggan
course at st. Moritz, Switzerland.
Ethel Levy, actress, obtained di.
vorce from George Cohan, actor and
playwright
Fire at the Pullman plant, Chicago,
destroyed 100000 feet of valuable
tropical woods.
Several persons were badly burned
and number were otherwise injured
in tenement house fire at Avenue B
and Clinton street, New York.
Five men were killed at Hazelpatch,
KY, by the explosion of 100 sticks Of
dynamite, which they were thawing
around fire.
Nora Turner of Harrisburg, ILL.,, shot
Robert Kennedy at Marion because he
wouldn't marry her, and then shot her.
self.
The next northwestern triennial
saengerfest was set for July 1926,
1908. at La Crosse Wis.
The Raddis Lumber and Veneer
company's plant at Marshfield, Wis,
burned, the loss being $4,000.
The British steamer Heliopolis COL
lided with the British steamer ORR
anda, near Cardiff, Wales. ORR
anda sank and IA persons including
her captain, were drowned.
A fire in Allegheny destroyed FIVE
business buildings and three dwelling
houses, causing an estimated loss of
100000. A number of fremen had
narrow escapes.
Fri Baker Hubert, dean of the Uni
versity of Chicago Divinity school and
head of the department Of church his
tory, died Of gall stones, complicated
by pneumonia.
John Hilbert, Ralph Schertner and
Lauren Nye, boys, broke through the
Ice and were drowned in Rock river, at
Dixon, Ill.
The special committee annointod nv