Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-10-23

basis price, of proof gallon of spirits
up to $1.35 per gallon, minus the reve-
nue. duty, the highest reached since
| the civil war.
Simon Won Vetsera, scion of a noble
Austrian family and notorious foot
pad at the time of his incarceration
in San Quentin prison, California, was
released on the ground that his SEN
tence had been too severe. He had
served seven years.
According to advices received by
the steamer Empress of China at Vic
toria, B. c., the Japanese government
will organize bureau of immigra-
ton and colonization.
The drubbing of Theodore Roose-
welt. Jr., in the Exeter.Harvard foot
ball game was deliberately admins
tered, say the college boys, to test the
presidents sons nerve.
At, St. Gregory's hospital in New
York, five stitches were taken in the
eyeball of Frank Post, an iron work
er, assilk thread split four times being
used.
An attempt to extort 100000 from
J. Grier, manager of the Homestake
gold mine, under threat of dynamiting
his home unless the money was placed
! in designated place was frustrated
at Lead, S. D., by the arrest of the al
legged blackmailers.
That the uniform bill of 1ading
which it is proposed to put into effect
on all the railroads of the country on
January / next by the interstate COM
merce commission is not satisfactory
two separate bills Of lading should be
adopted instead, was pointed out at a
hearing of these interests before the
interstate commerce commission.
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Lane announced that his inquiry in
San Francisco had disclosed the fact
| that the Southern Pacific had been
| paying rebates since the Hepburn rate
| law went into effect.
The state department designated
Algernon Sartoris, of the District of
Columbia, to be secretary of legation
| at Montevideo. Mr.. Sartoris is the
grandson of President Grant. Gustavus
L. Monroe, Jr., of Michigan, has been
| designated as secretary of legation at
La Paz, Bolivia.
The supreme court of Wisconsin de-
cided that fine-cut tobacco in a leaf
wrapper is not a cigarette and that the
sale of such product is not violation
of the anti-cigarette law.
Henry Nieland of Dane county, Wis
consin, committed suicide by hanging
himself in the toilet room on a Chi
cago & Northwestern train.
w. w. Ward, mayor of Paramount,
Mimi, disappeared and it was feared
he had met with foul play.
George White, aged IS years, shot
and mortally wounded his brother
Louis, aged 80, in Philadelphia, and
then attempted to end his own life
by sending bullet into his head.
Bion J. Arnold, for five years ad-
wiser of the city of Chicago in trans
portation matters, was appointed con-
sulting engineer for the subway sys-
TENS in New York city by the public
service commission.
A fall of slate in a coal mine at
Portview, Pa, crushed a man and a
young girl to death. The girls mother
was probably fatally injured.
Nineteen persons were killed and
many injured when a train left the
tracks and was wrecked near Shrews-
bury, England.
Standing on temporary platform,
where an Office desk served as a pull
pit, and with his back to the gray
stone of the old custom house, the
bishop of London preached the GOSPEL
in the open air of Wall street, New
York.
All the railroads entering Toledo
were served with notice from freight
handlers that ten days would be given
the roads to increase the wages of the
handlers
The heavy rumbling of an earth
quake was felt in Lowell, Mass, and
all suburban towns. The shock lasted
two or three seconds and was followed
by what appeared to be a sharp ex-
plosion.
The failure of the First National
bank of Dresden, o., was announced
by the comptroller of the currency in
Washington. Bank Examiner Robert
Lyons has been appointed temporary
receiver.
Five persons suspected of being
the parties who dynamited the Joplin
(Mo.) News-Herald plant on the night
of September 13 were arrested. They
are Minnie St. Clair, Charles Smith.
w. S. Martin, Bessie Bean and Hazel
Ray, alias Hazel Reed.
In the arrest near Matalbany, La.
of Mrs. Georgia Wren and her young
son Charles, the Tanginahoa parish
authorities allege that they have two
highway robbers who have been ter.
rorizing the people of that section of
the state.
Miss Ida H. Scott, 10 years old, sis.
ter of Mrs. Augusta Hartje of Pitts
burg, Pa, whose husband is suing for
divorce, has quit Miss Dana's Morris
town IN. j. seminary for girls, on &C.
count of unpleasant notoriety connect
ed with the case.
1t is declared in Paris that Philip
Coon, the young New Yorker who dis
appeared from q well-known hotel
there October IL, has eloped.
The Madrid government has decided
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ish commander at Casablanca. whose
differences with Gen. Drude have
caused endless frictions between the