Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-07-17

| Former Congressman John H. Bank.
head was nominated for United States
senator to fill the unexpired term OF
Senator Morgan, by the. Democratic
caucus of the Alabama legislature.
The Chinese authorities are on the
lookout for vessel which is said to
have left the north Pacific coast of
the United States with arms for the
Chinese revolutionists.
Hiram s. Jones, colored, former
steward of the Capitol club when
Grant was president, is dead at Red
Bark, N. Y. He invented" the Sara
toga chip.
Fire caused damage of $4,000 to
the factory of the Decatur CIll) Coffin
company and destroyed five nearby
dwellings,.
According to Engineer Dobson, of
the steamer st. Louis, the titled Eng
lishman who gave up his rights as
heir presumptive to a coronet and an
income of 100000 year to work for
living is Lord Francis Patrick Glenn
ents, the 22-year-old son of the earl of
Leitrim.
A movement has been started by
the women of Nelson county, Virginia,
to erect monument to Theodore
Estes, for whose killing ex-Judge Low
ing recently was acquitted by jury.
In the list of American Rhodes
scholarships given out at the Uni
versity of California appear the
names, among others, of Ben L. Tom
linson, of Champaign, ILL.,; Albert K.
Whallen, of Des Moines, a., and Law
renee c. HUT, Jr., of Ann Arbor,
Mich.
A series of dynamite outrages &C.
Cured at the mines near Johannes
burg in the Transvaal, where white
workmen are on strike. The Crown
hotel at Ecksburg was damaged and
several persons were injured.
J. w. Jungen, of the Southern
Pacific, announced that since the
American navy broke the rules in
sending coal to the Pacific in foreign
ships his road would do likewise.
The North German Lloyd steamer
Kronprinz Wilhelm, with Baron Speck
Won Sternburg, German ambassador to
the United States, on board, collided
with an iceberg four days out from
Bremen.
President Small, of the Commercial
Telegraphers' union, gave up peaceful
efforts to end the strike and prepared
to start for Chicago and the east to
extend it and make the fight more de-
cisive.
DR.. Winfield s. Chaplin, chancellor
of Washington university, st. Louis,
resigned, to take a long rest.
Judge Dunno, of San Francisco, re-
fused to admit Mayor Schmitz to bail,
and denied him the privilege of visit
ing his attorneys.
United States Senator A. o. Bacon,
of Georgia, was reelected for the full
term beginning March 4, 1907.
Clarence Mackay, president of the
Postal Telegraph & Gable company,
declared that "all this talk about the
Western Union Telegraph and the
Postal Telegraph & Cable company
working in harmony is nonsense" and
said the companies were fierce COM
petitors.
Samuel L. Clemens mark Twain
was entertained at dinner by the staff
of Punch, of London.
One man was killed, several per-
sons were injured and great prop
erty damage was done by tornado
in Louisville and nearby towns.
Six young men from Bangor, Me-,
Of a party of seven, were drowned in
Penobscot bay by the capsizing Of a
sloop.
The historic national banner of
Stars and Stripes which inspired
Francis Scott Key to compose THE
Star Spangled Banner and which
floated over Fort McHenry, Chesa-
peake bay, during it's bombardment
by the British on the night of Septem-
Der Is, 1914, has been placed on ex-
hibition at the Smithsonian Institution
in Washington.
Knights Templar opened their tri-
ennial conclave in Saratoga, N. Y,
by grand parade which was re-
viewed by the earle Euston, Gov.
Hughes and other notable persons.
Ellesley, the beautiful country home
of George c. Wallace, a capitalist, at
Arcadia, near Paducah, KY, burned.
The Iowa Grain Dealers association
in convention gave notice of war to a
finish on farmers cooperative eleva-
tor concerns throughout Iowa.
~ Col. B. M. Moulton, past grand COM
mander of the G. A. R., department of
Ohio, died suddenly at Lima from
heart trouble.
H. J. Wilson, the messenger of the
First National bank of New York, who
disappeared week ago after collect.
ing $35,700 in checks and cash, has
reported to the bank officials that the
money was stolen by a pickpocket
and he fled, fearing arrest. He will
not be arrested unless his story
proves false.
Vice President Fairbanks, while at
Yellowstone lake, Yellowstone park.
risked his own life to save that of
waitress who was in danger of drown
ing.
Prof. James McGranahan, the we'll
known hymn writer, formerly con-
nected with Moody and Sankey, the
evangelists, died at his home in
Kinsman, O.
King Edward has bought two of
Alfred G. Vanderbilt's prize-winning
state coach horses.
Gov. Beckham, of Kentucky, named
r. H. Blain, of Louisville, to be city