Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-01

Frank~H. Butler, deckhand on the
steamer John P. Wilson, was arrest.
ed, charged with the murder of little
Horace Marvin of Dover, Del.
The Kansas supreme court appoint
ed Judge S. H. Allen, G. H. Whit
comb and Judge T. F. Carver, all of
Topeka, receivers for the property in
Kansas, said to be worth $25O,O00, of
nine foreign brewing companies.
The chief of the political prison at
Odessa was killed by four terrorists,
one of whom committed suicide and
another was captured.
The British steamer Thornhill was
burned at sea, the crew reaching Bar
BADGES safely.
Pittsburg was alarmed by another
virulent outbreak of cerebrO-spinal
meningitis.
In letter addressed to Honore
Jaxon of Chicago, chairman of the
Cook county Moyer-Haywood confer
ence," President Roosevelt replied to
the criticisms of his recent letter in
which he referred to Meyer and Hay
wood, officials of the Western Fedora
ton of Miners. He turned the tables
on his critics by deploring their at
tempts to influence the course of JUS
tice, and reiterated his condemnation
of such bad citizens as Meyer and
Haywood, Debs and Hartman.
Charles C. King, former president
of the First National bank of Scot
| land S. D., alleged wrecker of the in
| stitution and accused of having en-
bezzled $4,000, was arrested in Chi
cagO.
Miss Anne T. Jeanes, an aged Quak-
eress OF Philadelphia, gave 100000
| for the establishment of fund for
rudimentary schools for southern ne
groes, and named Booker T. Washing
ton and Hollis Burke Frissell as trus-
tees.
The joint assembly of Rhode Island
adjourned without breaking the dead
lock in the contest for United States
senator, after 81 ballots had been
taken.
James Bartlett Hammond, inventor
Of the typewriter bearing his name
and president of the Hammond Type
writer company, was committed to the
psychopathic ward at Bellevue hospi,
tai, New York, his mind having been
wrecked by drugs and liquor.
DR.. John Watson Clan MacLaren),
who arrived at Mt. Pleasant, Ia, to
address the students of Wesleyan uni
versity, was taken seriously i'll with
tonsilitis and was removed to hos
pital.
Mrs. Charles F. Crisp, widow of
Speaker Crisp of the national house
of representatives, died at her home,
in Americas, Ca, aged SO.
Mrs. Lawson Sheldon, mother of
George L. Sheldon, of Nebraska, died
at her home at Nehawka.
The Indianapolis Frog & Switch
company, a large manufacturing con-
Germ owned by Vice President Fair
banks, was destroyed by fire, the loss
being $350,O0O.
The carbarns of the Cincinnati,
Georgetown & Portsmouth railroad, in
Cincinnati, were totally destroyed by
fire, the loss being $4,000, fully COW
cred by insurance.
Miss Lora Bryant, the Ypsilanti
(Alich.) normal school student whose
mysterious disappearance caused a
sensation in the Wolverine state, was
found at Helena, Mont, unable to ex-
plain her departure from Ypsilanti.
Unless demands for an eight-hour
day and a minimum wage scale of
1913 day are granted by the first of
May, a strike of all iron molders along
the Pacific coast is expected. About
$500 men are affected
Frederick W. Gardner, justice of the
peace. and wealthy resident of
Ridgewood, N. j., killed himself with
pistol. Mrs. Gardner followed her
husband to the door Of an apartment
occupied by young woman. When
Gardner saw his wife he killed him.
self.
The Port Blakeley Mill company's
lumber mill at Port Blakeley, Wash,
one of the largest in the world, was
destroyed by fire. The loss is $780,
000
John Hathaway, an aged farmer liv.
ing near Danville, Ill.,, found his
empty money chest in the woods near
his home. 1t had held $4,000, the saw
ings of a lifetime.
John Gheres, aged 80 years, died at
his home in Mahantonga, Pa. He ia
survived by widow, II children, 100
grandchildren and Is great-grand-
children.
The collector of customs at Manila
has asked that suit be brought against
the Standard Oil company for 1925
contested duties.
A letter received in London from an
official of standing at Peking states
that the Chinese revolt is growing
more serious, and that the promises
of granting reforms have not been
kept by the court.
Two sailors stole tugboat worth
$4,000 in New York harbor and were
chased by other tugs up the East riv-
er for several miles before they were
captured.
Fire in the arsenal at Toulon,
France, destroyed five large buildings,
badly damaged several others, ruined
many workmen's cottages and in
jured 80 persons.
All iron molders on the Pacific
coast are expected to strike May 1.
The business portion of Anderson,
I. T., was destroyed by fire.
The h0dy of Peter I Kennedy a