Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-07-10
MISCELLANEOUS,

A man giving the name of G. U.
Hall and claiming to be from st. Jo-
seph, Mo-, but recently practicing
physician at Lennox, Ia, was arrested
at Albuquerque, N. NJ, while in the
very act, 1t is charged, of making
counterfeit money.
Philip K. Green, instructor of Eng
fish and mathematics, and Prof. David
A. Durward, assistant in the agricul-
tural department at the Mount Her
mon school for boys, were drowned
while canoeing in the Connecticut
river
Hiram J.. Ayres, inventor of giant
powder, died at Akron, O., aged "a
years.
Two carloads of giant powder stand
Ing on side track of the Oregon
Short Line at Beck's Hot Springs, five
miles from Salt Lake City, caught fire
from burning grass and exploded,
Earring heavy buildings and breaking
windows for miles around
The First National bank of Hicks
Vile, O., has been closed by direction
of the comptroller of the currency, up
on the report of an examination show
ing the bank to be insolvent.
President Small, of the Commercial
photographers union, ordered the op-
orators strike extended to another
city, but would not say what one.
A four-story business block on Main
street, Cincinnati, collapsed and
scores of men had miraculous escapes
from death. Ten were injured, none
fatally
Mrs. Kindra Howrsto, of Dunmore,
Pa, confessed to the police of Scran-
ton that she burned her husband to
death that she might be free to marry
her former lover, Ignatz Hutro, who,
she said, suggested the crime
The town of Rochester, Tex, was
nearly destroyed by tornado, and
much damage was done in other
places.
Miss Evelyn Sears, of Boston, won
the women's singles lawn tennis cham
pionship of the United States for 1907
by defeating Miss Carrie B. Nicely, of
Cincinnati
The police of Marseilles, France, ar
rested Boghos Farkain, the young
Armenian charged with the murder in
New York last May of Father Kasper
Vartarian, an Armenian priest.
Mayor Eugene Schmitz, of San
Francisco, who is awaiting sentence
under conviction of extortion, an
nounced that he will be candidate
for reelection to fourth term and
that he has already begun the pre-
liminary work of his campaign.
New York suburbanites have boy
cotted the New York Central & Hud-
son river railroad because it increased
it's rates to commuters.
Prof. Thomas B. Evans, of the Uni
versity of Cincinnati, who had just
been granted a years leave of alb
sence for the benefit of his health.
died at his home.
Fire In Birmingham, Ala, destroyed
the Chalifoux Office building, with a
loss of 100000.
Robert Simpson, of the Omaha
country club, won the western open
golf championship at Hinsdale, ILL.,,
with total of 307 strokes for the y
holes.
A federal jury at Fort Dodge, a.,
decided that grain deals on the Chi.
cago board of trade were gambling.
Augustana college, Illinois, is Of
fered $4,000 for an endowment fund
by Andrew Carnegie on condition that
$4,000 additional be raised.
* Fire at Baraga, Mich, destroyed the
big sawnnill of the Nester Estate COM
pany, causing a loss Of $65, 900 and
throwing 300 men out of work.
Russia is massing troops on the Ar
menian frontier. fearing new Turkish
massacres. 4. .S.I I. &. b.
DIR. Elmore F. Elliott escaped pun
y ishment for an assault In New York
/ BY making the novel plea Of spyschic
epilepsy &, 81 which sis epilepsy without
exterpal manif fiesta ions.