Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-10-23
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HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS
Information Gathered from All Quar-
tiers Of the Civilized World and
Prepared for the Perusai Of tho
Busy Man.
The town of Fontanet, Ind, was
practically destroyed by the explosion
of the plant of the Dupont Powder
company The dead number from Is
and every building in the town was
wholly or partially leveled with the
ground. Seven mills blew up, one
after another, and when the great
magazine exploded the shock was felt
for many miles,
Thirty-eight lives snuffed out, 800
injured, of which number so were
seriously hurt, and property loss OF
approximately $75O,O00 was the latest
estimate Of the destruction wrought
by the explosion at the Dupont Pow
der mills at Fontanet, Ind.
The Illinois house and senate adopt
ed two joint resolutions, one providing
for submission to the people in the
general election next fall of a proposal
for constitutional amendment to al
low a $2O,000,000 bond issue for funds
to proceed for the deep waterways
work, and the other providing for d
deep waterway commission to submit
report on the subject in time to in
form the people so they may vote in
t..lligently on the proposed amend
ment
Marguerite Magill testified at Deca-
tur in behalf of her father and step
mother, on trial for the death of Ma
gill'N former wife, and her story
strongly supported the suicide theory.
1t was mistaken by cross-examination
Sergio Osmena, nationalist, who for
merly was governor of the island of
Cebu, was chosen president of the
Philippine assembly,
Secretary of State Root returned
from his Mexican visit, pleased with
the trip and bearing many gifts.
The Heinze corner in United Cop
per collapsed in New York and prices,
especially of copper stocks, declined
violently. The stock exchange firm of
Grous & Kleeberg suspended.
Marx Bros, Paris, antiQuaries, who
sold the statue of St. Catherine to the
metropolitan Museum of Art in New
York last May, while unable to &C.
count for the exact origin of the
statue, are quite certain that it is not
a product of the recent church rob-
berries in France
The wooden steamer Case of the
Gilchrist feet was sunk in collision
with the Pittsburg Steamship COM
pany's steel steamer Mariska opposite
Amherstburg, Ont, in the Lime Kilns
Crossing.
President Andrews of the University
Va A>SOA ooAo Ill q OpOCCu at w
ton advocated hanging for muck
rakers who maliciously misrepresent
the acts of public or prominent men.
Five men were drowned and 20
others narrowly escaped like death
by the capsizing of small boat in the
Illinois and Michigan canal about ten
miles from Joliet.
Fire which started in the opera
house at Plant City, Fla, destroyed
20 business houses and residences.
The loss is estimated at $4,000.
Hospital physicians having declared
both Rev. Maxwell Walenta. pastor of
St. Lucas German Evangelical Luth-
eran church of Williams burg, and Mrs.
Dora Bauer, his affinity" insane, the
couple was discharged in police court
in New York.
Burglars butchered Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Seifred, an aged couple, near
Franklin, La
DR.. c. W. Hotchkiss was arrested
in his home in East Springfield, Pa,
on charge of arson. He is accused
of having burned his home and Office
to secure the insurance of $500 on
the contents.
George H. Kuhl, of Chicago, secre-
tary of the National Racing associa-
ton and one of the best-known race
horse men in the United States, died
In Pueblo, COL. from intestinal tuber-
culosis.
The Cargill company's branch house
in Columbus, O., has closed. It was
q racehOrse investment concern which
paid from three to five per cent. per
week. The general Offices are in New
York.
Five political prisoners were shot in
Hayti according to dispatch received
at the state department in Washing
ton
The Oceanic Steamship company's
steamer Mariposa, which was adrift
without fuel 20 miles OF Monterey.
was towed into port by the tugs
Dauntless and Relief.
Chicago Nationals won the worlds
championship by defeating Detroit
Americans for the fourth time.
The emperor Of Austria was de.
clared to be considerably worse and
his physicians feared an attack of
lobular pneumonia.
Rev. DR.: Willard Scott, pastor Of
Piedmont church, Worcester. Mass.
for nine years, resigned to devote all
his time to golf. -,
The Clover Leaf grain elevator and
$4,000 bushels of grain burned in
Madison, ILL.,, the loss being 100000.