Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-07

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liam l.. Shulmen of Company K,
Twenty-second infantry, at Angle Is
land, CAL, and ended his own life with
bullet from the same revolver.
Paradise, the painter of Trieste, has
found two hitherto unknown pictures
by Titan in church in the village
of TRACT, Dalmatia.
Cortlandt Parker, aged 80, nestor of
the New Jersey bar, died at his home
in Newark.
The federal government has let a
contract to the United States Steel
corporation for transmission towers
which are to be utilized for wireless
telegraph service in Alaska. The
towers will be IFS feet high.
The engagement of Miss Edith Root,
only daughter of the secretary of
state and Mrs. Elihu Root, to Lieut..
Ulysses S. Grant Ill.,, U. S. A., son of
Maj. Gen. Frederick Dent Grant, has
been announced.
Fire destroyed three business blocks
in the village of Moravia, N. Y, en-
failing loss of $4,000.
George Tipler and his 14-year-old
son were drowned in a we'll on a farm
near Luther, la.
The foundation stone of the Andrew
Carnegie palace of peace was laid at
Zorgvliet, near The Hague
Within half an hour after his son,
Henry, made an unsuccessful attempt
to commit suicide, Maj. Henry A.
Huntington, retired American sol.
der, died at his home in Versailles,
France. He never regained conscious
ness after a brief interview with his
estranged son, which was followed by
the shooting down of the veterans
two sons and two daughters by their
brother
The striking ore handlers at Du-
luth proposed arbitration of the trou-
bles but the employers were expected
to reject the offer.
The murder charge against Fred
Magill and his wife, of Clinton, ILL.,,
were taken up by special grand jury.
An ineffectual attempt was made
on the life of Grand Duke Peter Mich
olaievitch, cousin of the car, a petard
being exploded under his train.
Eight soldiers were executed for
plotting against the president of Ecua-
dor and seven more were condemned
to death.
Miss Laura Matthews, of Chicago,
was found dead at Colorado Springs,
COL. and was believed to have COM
mitted suicide because wealthy
automobile dealer of Chicago had not
kept a promise to marry her.
Thomas W. Lawson, of Boston, has
purchased the plant of the Arizona
Smelling company. The deal involves
$17,000,000 and carries control Of
many mines in that section
Father Martogessian and five other
York as a result of the investigation
of the blackmailing operations against
wealthy Armenians
Enormous numbers of boil weevil
grubs have been baked to death by
the scorching sun in Louisiana, &C.
cording to the state crop pest COM
missioners' report.
Charles B. Hogge, alias Benton,
pleaded guilty at Canyon City, COL,
to forging a check on a bank at Flor
ence, Col, and was sentenced to the
penitentiary for ten to ii years.
Gen. William Booth, the head Of
the Salvation Army, who is engaged
in a motor tour of Great Britain, an
ncunced at Blackburn that the same
electric fash that carried the news of
his death would publish the name Of
the new general for the army
Two jealous husbands in Indian
Territory, Edgar Ball, at Wapanucka.
and J. D. Stackhouse, at Tulsa, killed
their wives and themselves.
Barney Oldfeld opened the Fargo,
S. D., interstate fair by breaking two
worlds automobile records on a half
mile track, going the first mile of a
three-mile race in 1:157e and the
three miles in 1851.
William R. Kenyon, twice mayor of
Butte, Mont, and formerly business
partner of Senator W. A. Clark, died
suddenly at his country home near
Amsterdam, n. Y, aged 81. He was
a native of Oswego, N. Y.
Walter T. Wilcox of New York
ditched his automobile and injured
his wife and a number of guests in
order to avoid running down two
children.
Thomas Black, a prominent lawyer
and former mayor of Kenton, O., &C.
knowledged the forgery of papers in
volving $4,000 and surrendered to
the police.
A socialist parade was broken up
by policemen at Hancock, Mich, be-
cause many of the marchers carried
red flags, in defiance of a recently en-
acted city ordinance.
A heavy rain choked up the Branch
street sewer and the huge drainage
artery burst in North St. Louis, food
ing an area occupied by six city
blocks.
United States Senator E. w. Pettus,
of Alabama, died Of apoplexy at Hot
Springs, N. c., aged &c years. His
successor will be former Gov. Joseph
r. Johnston, of Birmingham.
In the early morning fire at Mem
ph1s, Tenn, originating on the elev-
enth floor of the Memphis Cold Stor-
age company's building, which was in
the course of erection, one fireman
lost his life and 100000 damage was
done.
Fourteen persons were killed and
many injured by an explosion and fire
that destroyed tenement house in
New York.