Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-04-10

traction ordinances were approved
by majority of 1926.
Albert E. Thornton, president of
the Atlanta (Ga.) National bank, and
we'll known throughout the south,
died, aged IS.
The Arctic brotherhood has raised
$4,000 to send the crack Nome (Alas-
ka) basketball team on tour of the
United States.
John O'Keefe, 10S years old, died
suddenly while repairing fence at
his home in Brooklyn.
CHINA Fischelto Caraggio and her
six-year-old daughter were burned to
death in Milwaukee boarding house.
The island of st. Michaers. in the
Azores, was violently shaken by
earthquakes.
Capt. William Swift, who was in
command of the battleship Connecti-
cut when it grounded near Culebra
on January Is. was found guilty of in
attention and neglect of duty by the
court martial which tried him at Nor
folk and sentenced to suspension for
nine months and the loss of three
numbers.
Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, founder
of Christian Science, through her
counsel. put her entire estate in the
hands of three trustees, to foil the
relatives who began suit.
E. H. Hartman replying to the
presidents denial that he had ap-
pealed to Hartman for campaign
funds, refused to withdraw the charge
but admitted the fund to which he
contributed was for New York.
J. ]. Hill resigned as president of
the Great Northern and will be chair
Hill, his son, is now president.
Four hundred motormen and con-
ductors of the Michigan United States
Railway company of Kalamazoo and
Battle Creek on the Battle Creek &
Jackson and Michigan Traction Inter-
urban lines, the latter about Is miles
long, voted to 60 on strike.
Maj H. W. Salmon, of Warsaw,
Mo-, convicted of illegal banking, was
refused new trial and sentenced to
three years in the penitentiary.
The Irish Presbyterian church has
agreed to invite Rev. William J. Nc
Caughan, pastor of the Third Presby
terrain church of Chicago, to become
pastor of the May street congregation
at Belfast.
William H. Proctor, the soap manu-
facturer who committed suicide in
Cincinnati, left his entire estate of
$1O,OOO,00O to his five children.
Only four persons were killed by
the earthquake at Bitlis, Armenia,
but the survivors are suffering
greatly.
A plot against the life of King
Charles OF Roumania was discovered
in Bucharest
Congressman Rainey, of Illinois, re-
turning from the isthmus, declared
there was graft in the commissary
department, but that otherwise the
work on the canal was progressing
very we'll.
Stephen S. Sharpe. pioneer rail-
way builder, died at Kansas City,
Kan, aged II.
Mgr. Nocedal, whose nomination as
archbishop of Valencia, Spain,
aroused such opposition in political
and social circles, is dead. He was
formerly in the Philippines and went
to Spain on the conclusion of the war
The long drouth which has caused
so much loss to wheat and corn crops
of Spain was broken by a torrential
rain which fell throughout the coun-
try.
Baltimore & Ohio west-bound pas
senger train No. from Washington
to Chicago was derailed at Dillon
Falls, O., while rounding a curve. The
dining car and two rear passenger
coaches left the track.
The supervisors of McHenry coun-
ty have offered a reward of $1,000 for
the arrest and conviction of the muir
derer of Deputy Game Warden Earle
who was found dead in the
woods near Richmond, ILL.,, February
&c.
The Shamokin (Pa) wagon works,
an adjoining planning mill and seven
small dwellings were destroyed by
fire. The loss is estimated at 5000.
Prof. Belar, of Laibach observatory,
says sun spots are indicative of
further earthquake disturbances.
Miss Mabel Davidson, daughter of
the governor of Wisconsin,, was mar
ried to F. G. 1mbusch, of Milwaukee.
A. B. Jacquith, q grain commission
man of Omaha, Neb., killed himself.
Rendered insaneN jealous at the
sight of his sweetheart in company
with another man, Roscoe James, son
of the superintendent of the Oregon
penitentiary, shot and killed Miss
Grace N. Disney, of Warren. Ore, and
then shot himself in the head He
will die.
George B. Boswell, aged 50, a mil
licnaire, art connoisseur and retired
business man, committed suicide in
the East Liberty station of the Penn
sylvania railroad, Pittsburg, by shoot
ing himself.
Thrilling experiences in storm at
sea, in which four men lost their
lives and the Italian steamship Indus
tria Jared badly, are told by two mem
bers of the crew who have arrived at
Plymouth, England.
Two Kansas City men and their
wives were killed when train hit the
carriage in which they were riding.
Mrs. Otto Drifting of Milbrook, N. J.,
Gren.