Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-07-31
MISCELLANEOUS,

Citizens of Hibbing. Mimi, bitterly
opposed the strike of iron miners and
protected men who desired to work.
The Western Federation of Miners
was denounced at mass meeting.
A violent wind. rain and thunder
storm did great damage in Pittsburg
and vicinity and Wheeling, w. Va, had
a cloudburst.
In head-on collision between two
traction cars on the Cleveland &
Southwestern line at Elyria, O., three
persons were probably fatally injured
and a score OF others received in
juries of a minor nature.
Every adult male in the town of
Kerisova, Hungary. emigrated to the
United States and the municipal
Offices are filled by women, in viola
ton of the law of the country.
Two men were killed and five others
seriously injured by the falling of a
scaffoldlng at the Pittsburg and Con
neaut dock at COnneaut, O.
The story told by Avanza Amedea
and Guiborzi Olindo, Italians, who
said they had been held in slavery
for % months on Mississippi planta-
ton and had just escaped, caused
United States District Attorney Blod-
gett at st. Louis to institute an in
vestigation into the alleged peonage.
A committee of citizens of Ottawa,
Ont, compelled the removal of some
American flags that had been used
in decorating the city hall for a car
nival.
Trunk line representative decided
to continue the policy of granting ex-
cursion rates for special occasions in
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
Three young women, of Helena,
Mont, the Misses Bertha and Fred
rika Volker and Miss Kenton Kepner,
have been appraised that after three
years litigation in German courts
they have been recognized as the heir
esses to the estate of their grand
father, valued at $40,O000OO.
DR.. ]. T. Killebrew, prominent
young physician of Mobile, Ala, was
killed in an automobile accident
twenty-five hundred people were
thrown into fatal panic at the Litch-
held-Hillsboro Chautauqua grounds
when furious electrical storm &C.
CURED. Mrs. William Risk, of Hills
boro, was killed by lightning and seven
were seriously hurt.
Acting Secretary Newberry accept
ed the bid of c. E. Boudrow, of San
francisco, who offered $4,000 for the
old wooden sloop-of-war Marion.
Gov. Conner of Alabama signed the
antishipping bill, which prevents
shipments of liquor into prohibition
territory, and the house passed the
early closing" bill.
The st. Petersburg police arrested a
man and woman who had plans of sew
eral palaces and fortresses and it ia
believed another plot to kill the car
was frustrated.
Another victim of the wreck on the
Pere Marquette near Salem, Mich.
died, making the total 80.
A. Lansing Baird, a New York law
yer who was wanted by the police for
passing worthless checks, committed
suicide in Central park.
The North German Lloyd steam.
ship Kaiser Wilhelm H., while coal
ing at Bremenhaven, listed, parity
filled with water, careened and sank
The sloop Volant was capsized in
Lake Michigan off Chicago and F. A.
Tryon was drowned.
The stables on John Wanamaker's
estate, Lyndenhurst, near Jenkin-
town, suburb of Philadelphia, were
destroyed by fire, entailing a loss es-
timated at 100000.
Thirty-one persons were killed and
100 injured when an excursion train
from 1onia, Mich, collided with a
freight train near Salem, Mich.
Mrs. Hazen S. Pingree, widow of
one OF Michigan's most celebrated
governors. died at her residence in
Detroit, aged 81 years.