Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-10-09
BRIEF REVIEW Of
A WEEKS EVENTS
RECORD OF THE MOST IMPOR.
TANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEM
lied FORM.
HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS
Information Gathered from All Quar-
tiers Of the Civilized World and
Prepared for the Perusal Of the
Busy Man.


Prepared for the Perusal Of tho
Busy Man.
President Roosevelt in speech at
St. Louis declared it the nations duty
to restore the Mississippi river to its
proper place as great artery of COM
MERGE, and termed the proposed a.
foot channel from the lakes to the
gulf national task" He warned
against plans which might entail
reckless extravaganza or be tainted
with jobbery," but urged liberal
waterway policy.
President Roosevelt delivered a
characteristic speech at Keokuk, Ia,
before a large assemblage in which
were governors of dozen states and
many members of congress. He then
started on his steamer trip down the
Mississippi.
United States Senator William E..
Borah was acquitted of the charge of
conspiracy to defraud the government
out of valuable Idaho timber lands.
The people of Boise celebrated the
verdict with band concerts, parades,
bell ringing and speech-making.
A tramp who was refused food by
Mrs. John Hathaway of Oquawka, ILL.,,
beat the woman, tied her little son to
tree and burned him to death.
The forty-fifth triennial general con-
vention of the Protestant Episcopal
church in the United States opened
in Richmond, Va. with many foreign
church dignitaries present
Secretary of War Taft was granted
a private audience and entertained at
luncheon by the emperor of Japan and
then left Toxic for Kobe
The Cunard Steamship company
accepted the offer of Charles F'rohman
to give theatrical performances on the
big liners by regular players, who, for
the time being, may be travelling to
and from the United States and Eng
land
The police of Warsaw took into GUS
tody almost all the members, together
with 50 chiefs of different local
branches, of the society known as the
'Buddists of Holland"
The National Association of ANA
teur Billiard Players decided that the
amateur national billiard champion
ship tourney should be held in the
Chicago Athletic association next
March.
The annual statement of the Stand
ard Oil company of New Jersey, made
public for the first time, shows the
concern has surplus of 1921, 200, 900
Layton Hines (colored), arrested on
suspicion of being connected with the
murder of Anna Markowitz of Coving-
ton, KY, and Abe Cohen of Indianap-
oils, Ind, in Dayton, O., made a full
confession, according to Sheriff Boes.
Three men were killed and two
were fatally injured by the collapse of
a new building in Spickard, Mo.
The steamer Raymond H. was
burned in Flint river, at Jones Land
ing, Ga. Two negroes jumped into
the river and were drowned
With roar like that of cannon, a
big meteor fell in the mountains back
of Elizabethville, Pa setting fire to
the forest and frightening hundreds of
people.
A sleeping car attached to a Big
Four train caught fire at Cleveland,
causing panic among the passengers
and the serious injury of Station Mas
ter Miller.
A political sensation was caused in
Cincinnati by the announcement that
nine of the 81 candidates named at
democratic municipal convention had
decided to refuse the places given
them on the ticket
Three celebrated German aeronauts,
Oscar Erbalon, Hans Heideman and
Capt. A. D. Hildebrandt, arrived in
America to take part in the interna.
ti0nal aeronautic cup race from St.
Louis.
Ten alienists in the H. X. Thaw
trial Lave presented their bills aggre-
eating over $4,000 to the city of New
York.
Mrs. Susan E. Wallace, widow of
Gen. Lew Wallace, the author of Ben
Hur," Gied at Charlottesville, Ind.
The memory of the late Gen. Baron
Kodama, who was chief of staff of
Field Marshal Oyama during the war
with Russia, and who died at Toxic
July %, 1906, was honored by the JAP
anese emperor, who invested the
baron's heir with the title of count.
Floods In southern France and in
Malaga caused great loss of life and
property.
The Spanish government, alarmed
by the exodus of laborers, has pre-
pared drastic law to keep them
from emigrating, especially to the
Panama canal.
Sir John Charles Bell, ex-sheriff of
London and head of brewery COM
pany, was elected lord mayor of Lon
don,
Col. Leopold Markbreit, a prominent
German editor, was nominated for
mayor of Cincinnati by the Repub-
.lcans.
Grand Duke Frederick of Baden
died at Constance of intestinal inflam.
nation.
Clayton F: McMichael, secretary of
the board of trustees of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, died at a hos
pital in Philadelphia, following an op-
GRAFTON for appendicitis.
The armored cruisers West Vir-
gfnia, Colorado, Maryland and Penn
sylvania arrived at San Francisco
from the Philippines. s> z 4