Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-06-19
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Prof J. H Freeman resigned as su.
perintendent for the blind at Jackson.
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Taking Of testimony closed in the
trial of Mayor Schmitz, of San Fran.
cisco, after Abe Ruef swore he gave
the mayor half the money paid him by
the French restaurant keepers.
Four hundred members Of the
American Association of Nurserymen
convened at Detroit, President Orlan'
do Harrison presiding.
New Orleans business men and
wealthy Italians combined to put a
stop to BLACK Hand" outrages in that
city.
Los Angeles Japanese, who threat
ened to bring mandamus proceedings
against the county clerk to get the
right to vote, have abandoned the
attempt to become citizens.
The Japanese government has I'M
earthed an alleged immigration graft
by which 5000 laborers were import
ed to work on the Grand Trunk rail-
road at $1.25 day and were paid
only $1.10 by the emigration CON-
pany.
Robert jolly, aged As years, living
at 1011 North Senate avenue, Indian
apolis, killed his daughter Gladys,
aged nine years, by forcing carbolic
acid down her throat.
Word has been received from Tien-
tsin. China, that Chinese Boxers in
America fitted out an armed expedi-
ton and are on the way to the orient
in special steamer.
Jewels valued at $4,000 were re-
ported stolen from the yacht Adroit,
owned by Russell Hopkins, banker
of Atlanta, Ca, in New York harbor.
Fire destroyed ten business houses,
two dwellings and an apartment house
at Girard, o. The loss is estimated
at 100000.
Thomas Baldwin, slayer of four
persons and awaiting trial for murder
in Bloomington, ILL.,, was found dead
in his cell.
Enforcement of the Missouri law
imposing a Is cent tax on each
transaction in grain futures was en-
joined by United States District Judge
Mcpherson.
Six midshipmen and five seamen
from the battleship Minnesota are be-
lieved to have been drowned in Hamp-
ton Roads, the launch in which they
were returning to the vessel having
been run down by a steamer.
United States Senator John Tyler
Morgan of Alabama, for 80 years a
member of the upper house of con-
gress, chairman of the senate commit
tee on the interoceanic canals, and
prominent as brigadier general in
the confederate army, died at his
home in Washington of angina pee
tOris.
The second of a series of June cy-
clones predicted for Southern Illinois
swept over Duquoin and the surround
ing country doing great damage. 1t
was believed man and child were
killed.
The large electric swing at Electric
park, a new amusement resort in Kan
sas City, fell to the ground with a
crash, injuring eight persons, one seri-
ously.
A steamer whose identity has not
been conclusively established, went
ashore in the Strait of Bertheaume,
France. The boiler blew up and it is
feared that all hands were lost.
While King Edward and Queen
Alexandra were in attendance at a
gala performance of the opera, with
the king and queen of Denmark as
their guests, Maj. Gen. Sir Arthur E.
A. Ellis, extra equerry to the king,
died suddenly.
Two women were killed and three
other persons were seriously hurt in
Indianapolis when a traction car
struck and wrecked the automobile of
J. F. Hines.
Faustino Ablen, head chief of the
Pulajanes on the Island of Leyte, was
wounded and captured by Lieut., Jones
with detachment of eight infantry
men and Philippine scouts. Under
Chiefs Uldarice, Rota and Lucia were
also captured.
Nicaragua has begun war on Saliva
dor, Gen. Rivas, assisted by revolu-
tionists, having bombarded and CAP
tured the Salvadorean port of Aca-
Julia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Baumgartner
in
they had quarreled over an inheri-
lance of $4,000. It is not known
which fired the fatal shots.
The government prepared to file a
petition against the anthracite coal
roads accusing them of conspiring to
kill competition.
The Supreme court of Mississippi at
frmed the sentence of Mrs. Angie
Birdsong, slayer of DR.. Thomas But
Ter.
The Paris Matin publishes a dis
patch from Rome saying that two
wealthy American Catholics recently
Informed the pope that Catholicism
would make great strides in America
if Archbishop Ireland were made a
cardinal, and that they would at once
donate $1,000,000 to the church. The
pope, according to the correspondent,
was most indignant at the suggestion
Of such a bargain.
Acting Secretary of War Oliver has
warned the governors of states that
the militia must be reorgan1zed to con-
form to the organization of the regular
army by January 1, 1908.
The green bug is running the oats
crop in parts of Ohio.
Thomas Hehfner, Of sheepshead