Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-06-26

Serious rioting took pace IN several
| cities Of southern France the mobs
fighting with the troops and endeavor.
ing to release prisoners. M. .Ferroul
one of the leaders of the wine-growers,
was arrested.
Harry Leaphart, of the class of '09
at Annapolis, died at his home in
Brook6eld, Mo-
James Bullock, of Belleville, ILL.,,
killed himself and Cora Miller. They
left joint note saying that as their
love was hopeless they had agreed to
die together.
w. F. Bechtel, former president of
the Northwestern National Life Insur-
a1ce company of Minneapolis, was
found guilty of grand larceny by 4
jury.
Robert Nicely, aged IS, and head of
family, shot Maude Winter, at Day
ton, O., and then turned the weapon
against himself. Both will die. Miss
Winter was to be married soon.
After a hot debate the Democratic
state convention in Oklahoma turned
down proposition for making the
new state a prohibition one.
A New York jury has awarded q
verdict of $4,000 against the American
Hatters' and Furriers'. association of
Danbury, Conn.,, in favor of Matilda
Civetti, who lost her hair by having
it caught in machinery at it's factory.
John D. Rockefeller has closed his
park at Tarrytown, N. Y, to the pub
lie because automobiles have disre-
| garded signs and thus endangered the
safety of his family.
Oliver M. bennett, the New York
broker who was arrested in connec
ton with the theft of more than
| 100000 in bonds from the Trust Com
pany IF America, pleaded guilty to
charge Of criminally receiving stolen
goods.
An enormous school of f1nback
whales trailed the Atlas liner Virginia
from the West Indies to point near
| the capes of the Delaware.
Dispatches from Berlin declared
that the big steamship companies
will divert immigration away from
New Orleans.
Senator Beveridge of Indiana sailed
for Europe and while in Germany will
study the inheritance tax system with
view of introducing a bill at the
next session of congress.
Thomas E. Reese, secretary and
treasurer of the Westminster (Md)
Savings bank, committed suicide by
shooting himself Ill health was given
as the cause.
Col. Thomas Sncll,~ millionaire
banker and land owner, died at his
home in Bloomington, Ill.
The naval board of inquiry decided
the launch of the battleship Minnesota
was sunk by fouling the steel hawser
of the tug Crisfield, which was towing
barge.
The public lands convention opened
in Denver with nearly 1000 delegates
present. DR.. J. M. Wilson, of Wyo-
ming, was made permanent chairman.
A mob of men and women at AS
sumption, ILL.,, seized Alfred Bouland
intent upon hanging him because he
had been charged with bigamy, but
the timely arrival of officers saved
his life. Three alleged mob leaders
have been arrested.
John Looney, politician, newspaper
owner and lawyer, of Rock Island,
ILL.,, was arrested on "a indictments
containing charges of criminal libel,
extortion, bribery and conspiracy to
extort and to indict.
A battalion of sappers at Kiev,
Russia, mutinied, killed an officer and
fought with loyal troops. Nearly 200
of them escaped.
Orange ]. Salisbury, chairman of
the Republican state committee of
Utah, died at St. Luke's hospital in
New York of heart disease.
George w. Berrill, cashier of the
Kinsman National bank and one of
the most prominent citizens of kins-
man, o., was shot and killed by AL
fred Kinsman, brother of State Sen
ator Thomas Kinsman.
Mrs. Julia Melody, aged 81 years,
an inmate of the Northern Indiana
Hospital for the Insane at Logans-
port, set fire to her clothing and was
burned to death.
Roger Bresnahan, catcher for the
New York Nationals, was hit by a
pitched ball in game with Cincin-
natl, and badly injured.
Enraged because some schoolboys
had tumbled her over while she was
playing street piano in New York,
Philomena Casino, a young Syrian
girl, drew stiletto and fatally
stabbed Charles Mccarthy in the
breast.
Sidney Hollis, nine-year-old COL
ored boy, was convicted of man.
slaughter in Baltimore. Sentence
was suspended
Six persons were injured, three of
them seriously, while on a sightsee-
ing trip in Royal George park, COL,
being. thrown from vehicle after the
driver had lost control of the team.
A gold cup, presented by King Ed
ward for one of the races at Ascot
and valued at more than $1,000 was
stolen.
Seven men were killed outright and
two others seriously injured in two
explosions of mine gas In the Johnson
No. 1 mine at Priceburg, Pa.
Walter Goff, a member of a promi-
nent family of st. Joseph, Mo-, was
drowned at Kansas City, by the sink
ing of tow boat
The town of Covilha, Portugal, was