Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-09-25
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the navy, and already has made heavy
purchases of oil in Texas and Europe
and will develop the Nigeria fields.
Joseph Harrison, convicted of alb
duction in North Carolina and denied
a new trial, committed suicide in
Norfolk, Va, as the police were about
to arrest him.
Droga Seigel, an heiress. 20 years of
age, and daughter of a colonel in the
Austrian army. now dead, was fatally
shot in New York by Julius Hoffman.
married man and formerly lieu
tenant of Co.. Siegels regiment The
tragedy was the outcome of jealousy
on the part of Hoffman. who, after
shooting Miss Seigel. tried to shoot
himself but was prevented by the dy-
ing girl.
The hearing in New York in the fed
eral suit against the oil trust revealed
the large earnings of the subsidiary
companies of the Standard. The
Standard of Indiana made more than
1000 per cent. profits in 1903 and
1906.
The ongexpccted arrests of those
held to he responsible for the frauds
committed in the furnishing and dec
Grating of Pennsylvania's $13,OOO,OOO
capitol were made in Harrisburg, the
attorney general causing warrants to
be issued for IA of the Is persons and
firms named by the capitol investiga-
tiOn commission as being involved in
the scandal.
The governor general of the Philip
pines has issued formal proclama-
ton converting the national assembly
on October 16. Plans have been made
to render the inaugural session of the
assembly a brilliant function.
Forty thousand dollars, mainly in
large bills, is declared to have been
secured by the robbers who held up
the Great Northern train near Rex
ford, Mont, September ~.
Directors of copper companies con-
trolled by the Amalgamated ordered
the output reduced so per cent.
The Shipbnilders' Federation of
England announced that between 49,
900 and $4,000 members of the Boiler
makers society would be locked out
Motive power officials of the Harri-
man railway lines recommended the
installation and use of steel passen-
ger coaches on the Pacific coast
Three men were imprisoned in
burning mine at Sparta. Mimi.
Alvah w. Trowbridge, former presi-
dent OF the American Bankers associ-
alton. died at his home in Hacken-
sack, N. J.
Edward Richards, of Dayton, an
aeronaut. dropped 1000 feet to death
at the Miami county fair grounds at
Troy O.
At a meeting of the directors Of the
Illinois Central railroad the charges
recently made against President J. r.
Harahan and Vice President J G. Hack
staff by Stuyvesant Fish were dropped
upon the recommendation of COM
mittee of investigations
The decision Of the belgian govern
ment to oppose obligatory arbitration
is attributed to the command of King
Leopold, who is fearful that his claims
In the Congo might he effected in the
event of the adoption of the proposal.
The kings action in this connection
is regarded at The Hague as being in
the nature of scandal.
Japan claims the right to occupy
Pratas island, near the Philippines,
because it is mo mans land" having
hitherto been unclaimed.
Trouble has arisen over the extra
dition of W. H. Adsell. accused of
murder at Hongkong He took refuge
on the American warship Galveston ut
Chefoo and the American authorities
Insist on trying him themselves.
Nurse, bride and widow all within
few hours was the experience ut
Mrs. Adler of New York. Her fiance.
a glove manufacturer. was stricken
with typhoid fever. She n,lrsed him
in hospital, at his request they were
married as he lay dying and three
hours after he was dead.
A Japanese steamer, the Tattoo
Maru, has been burned three miles
OH Ching Kiang, on the right hank Of
the Yangtsekiang As miles from Nam
king. 1t is reported that 100 lives
were lost
Charles Garner, Il mine boss at
Creweberg, Kan, and his sister, Mrs.
George Rexford. were waylaid on a
lonely road while returning home nv
number of Italians and shot and
fatally wounded. Garner returned the
fire and shot and killed two Italians.
names unknown
DR.. Henry l.. Colt. of Newark, N. J..
president of the American Association
of Medical Milk Commissions. strong.
1y opposed, in an address at the inter-
national milk congress at Brussels.
the compulsory pasteurization of milk
as means Of effectively improving
the supply of milk.
Three young hunters were killed in
dynamite explosion near Cheboygan.
Mich, when they mistook dynamite
storehouse in the woods for deserted
hut and used it for a target
E. M. Crumb, diamond broker. of
Chicago, was lured to a fiat and beat
en- and robbed of $1,000 of gems.
Mathew B. Hudson. whose strange
disappearance in San Francisco near
ly caused two deaths in the Hudson
home in Chicago, has been found in a
hospital in San Francisco in a serious
condition. brought on by blows struck
by sailors who robbed him of his
watch and money. !. E +