Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-10-16

IN the Roman CaCnO1C Ia1tn IN the
hospital of the Ohio penitentiary.
A dispatch from Berlin asserts AS.
sistant Secretary of State Bacon Is
the probable successor to United
States Ambassador to Germany Tower.
The thirteenth triennial council OF
the Congregational church convened
in Cleveland, o.
Testimony that railroads purchased
their lubricating oils from the Stand
ard Oil company at prices that were
higher than those of its competitors
was heard in the federal suit for the
dissolution of the so-called oil trust.
With delegates present representing
every phase Of the cotton industry and
including representatives of many for
eign countries, the international con-
ference of cotton spinners and grow
ers met in Atlanta.
Claiming that they have letters
which passed between Thomas Ma
dine, coachman, and Mrs. Mary Scott
Hartje, which will result in complete
reversal of affairs, counsel for August.
us Hartje appeared before the Penn
sylvania superior court to argue a
petition for reopening the sensational
suit for divorce which he brought
against his wife.
Secretary Wilson, of the department
OF agriculture, authorized Maj Henry
B. Hersey, chief inspector of the gov
eminent meteorological service, to
represent the government in the in
ternational aeronautic cup race from
st. Louis.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railroad company announced an in
crease in the wages of all telegraph
operators on the system.
A large band of Ecuadorian rebels
has been defeated by a detachment of
Peruvian police.
The entire Anglo-American project
providing for obligatory arbitration
was approved by the committee on
arbitration at The Hague conference
by 81 votes to 8.
The Pacific mail steamer San Jose,
from Panama and way stations, arriv-
ing in San Francisco, brought word of
the capture of the Port of Acajutla in
the latter part of September by the
Honduran land forces after a battle
with the army of Salvador. Assistant
Secretary of State Adee said the re-
port was an absurd canard
In a test case Attorney General
Bonaparte ruled that Louisiana had
violated the immigration law by solicit
ing immigration in foreign countries
and paying the passage money of
those who came.
Alvah H. Martin, elected by the
board of directors to succeed J. M.
Barr as director general of the James,
town exposition, assumed the duties
of executive head of the ter-centennial
Operators at the Marconi wireless
station at Port Morien, Cape Breton.
picked up a message from Manila, 49,.
900 miles away.
Ed Turner, on trial in Chattanooga,
Tenn, for the murder of his child
wife, Lilly Turner, confessed his guilt.
At Camden, N. j., Joseph Wood,
aged Is years, confessed that he muir.
dered nine-year-old Ethel Nevins.
Fossils of a remarkable animal that
existed supposedly about 100000
years ago have been received by the
American Museum of Natural History
in New York from Egypt
The bank at Church's Ferry, N. D..
was robbed of $4,000, besides valuable
papers. The safe was dynamited.
1t is understood that Secretary Taft
will ask congress for an appropriation
of $5,500,000 for military clothing ma.
terial needed during the next fiscal
year. This was the estimate made by
the quartermaster general.
The body of man was found near
the Big Four crossing of the Carthage
pike, on the outskirts of Cincinnati,
with two holes in his left temple and
other indications of murder and rob-
berry.
F. ]. Cannon, once United States
senator from Utah and son of G. @.
Cannon, once leader in the Mormon
church, is reported from Washington
as having become the head of agita-
ton to break the political power of
the Mormons.
William Burns (colored), who fatal.
ly shot Policeman August Banter at
Cumberland, Nd, was taken from the
Jail by a mob and shot and kicked to
death.
Peter Mathieson, on trial for killing
John Johansen near Tenstrike, Mimi,
was found guilty Of murder in the first
degree at Bemidji, MINI. Judge Nc
Clenahan tainted when about to pro
nounce sentence.
George E. Robinson, prosecuting at
torney of Wayne county, Michigan
and one of the most widely-known at
torneys in the state, died suddenly
from heart disease at Detroit.
William Egler, of Traverse City
Mich, was drowned in Lake Michigan
despite heroic efforts of an 1S-year7old
brother, who swan with the victim to
the shore through icy water almost
mile.
After passing resolutions indorsing
the ship channel project and calling
upon congress for an appropriation
sufficient to secure a 14-foot canal
from the lakes to the Gulf of Mexico
through the route already selected by
army engineers, the deep waterway
convention at Memphis adjourned
The next meeting of the association
will be held in Chicago.