Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-10-02


! urging vigorous exclusion of Asiatics.
Gen. Frederick D. Grant has or.
dered all field officers above the rank
of captain to report at one of three
! places on given dates to take the
Craftsmanship test recently called for
by President Roosevelt.
| Paul Meliege, a miner at Chisholm,
Mimi, was rescued alive after being
buried 265 feet below the surface by
a depression of lis feet.
Mrs. Lucy Kelly, aged ~, went to
q morgue in Columbus, O., and, throw
ing herself upon the body of Howard
Rhodes, swallowed dose of carbolic
acid and died in a few minutes.
The reappointment Of WI Ting
Fang to his former post as minister
of China at Washington was gazetted
at Picking.
| Judge Lands administered an i'm
munity bath. to the Alton road and
then summoned President Moffett OF
the Standard Oil company of Indiana
before the federal grand jury at Chi
cago to substantiate charges emanat-
ing from the company, that rebating
has been general in the Whiting dis
trict.
Gov Folk of Missouri, was the guest
of honor at Nashville, Tenn, on home
comer's day.
The strike Of the Antwerp dock
laborers which has been going on
since last June, came to an end with
a sweeping victory for the Federation
of Ship Owners. At meeting of the
strike leaders, it was decided that the
men should return to work uncondi-
tionally, at the terms of the employ
| ers.
| Gov. Folk lost his suit against the
city of st. Louis for back pay as cir
cult attorney.
The plant OF the Sterling Oil refin-
cry at Marietta, O., was destroyed by
fire, resulting in loss of many thou
sand dollars.
William E. Burch, of Glendale, O.,
federal prisoner en- route to Gin
cinnati, plunged from a fast flying
train near Dayton and was killed.
! George w. Beavers, who was SEN
fenced to Imprisonment in connec-
ton with the postal frauds several
years ago, was released from the peni-
Tertiary at Moundsville, w. Va.
| Mrs. John Routh, aged 40, a deaf
mute, was burned to death at Koko-
mo, Ind, when she tried to start a fire
with kerosene.
m <h1 vohf vn%h -
Quakeress, who gave $1,0O0,O00 last
April for the education of negroes in
| the south, died at the Friends Board
| ing home in Philadelphia, aged IS
| years.
Count Ferdinand Zeppelin, the Ger
man aeronaut, made the most success
| full voyage hitherto achieved in any
| dirigible balloon. He spent four hours
| and II minutes in the air, completely
circumnavigating Lake Constance and
| passing over five different states. The
| speed of the airship is estimated to
have been at least SO miles an hour.
Attorney General Davidson, of
Texas, instituted suit against the Pull
| man company and the Western Union
Telegraph company to prevent them
from doing business in Texas and
asking for permit fees of $1,000 from
each company.
A Chicago jury found Amasa c.
Campbell of Amigo, Wis, guilty Of
manslaughter for killing DR.. B. H.
Harris, and asked the state board of
pardons to keep him in the peniten-
tiary for not more than one year.
In fire at 1925 Morgan street, St.
Louis, Miss Grace Slocum attempted
to lower her sister Nellie from a SEC
ond story window with blanket, but
Nellie lost her grip and fell headlong
to the pavement, fracturing her skull.
Grace jumped from the window and
fractured both ankles.
In an interview published in New
York, William Randolph Hearst de.
MES that he is candidate for the
presidency.
DR.. Raymond L. Dittmers of the
New York Geological park is suffer.
ing from tuberculosis contracted, it is
believed, from monkeys.
A census bureau bulletin shows that
American factories in the year ending
Aug. 81, bought 5,296,73S bales of cot
ton, against 4,820,99O bales the year
before.
Trinity Episcopal cathedral al
Cleveland, O., was dedicated with
elaborate ceremonies. The edifice cost
100000 and has been under con
struction five years.
| Margaret Griffin, rs years old, was
arrested in a rooming house in Chi
cago in connection with the murder OF
Justice Richardson, who was robbed
and killed by two men and woman
in Cincinnati.
Mrs. Helena Vicich, wife of a Joliet
ILL.,, man, was deported by emigrant
officials at New York when she return
ed from Austria whittier she went to
have her eyes treated.
| Mrs. Bertha Mund of Buffalo went
insane and strangled her three chill
dren.
| Four men lost their lives by the ex
plosion of a gasoline tank on a yacht
at Gallipolis, o.
Oscar Kondert, formerly cashier OF
the First National bank of Baton
Rouge, La, is missing, while United
States officers are searching for him
with a warrant charging him with q
defalcation of 100000.
The Gulf Compress company was
declared an Illegal trust by Chancel.
lor R. s. Hicks, of the Mississippi dis.
trict court. He gave the company