Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-25

the general manager OF the Hartman
lines in the Pacific northwest, died at
Portland, Ore.,I aged 76 years.
An attempt was made to hold UP the
west-bound; Northern Pacific train IL
miles east Of Spokane. Three men at
tempted to flag the train, but the en-
gineer refused to stop. One man was
arrested by posse.
The hundredth anniversary of the
birth of John Greenleaf Whittier was
celebrated by largely attended meet
ings at Amesbury and Haverhill,
Mass, and other places.
A rough count of the census of
Cuba was cabled to the war depart
ment by Gov. Magoon, showing the
total population of the island to be
2,02S,2Sa.
Leslie M. Shaw said he had been
asked to assume the presidency of the
Kansas City National Bank Of Com
merce, in process of reorganization.
The Republican state committee Of
Missouri Endorsed Taft for the presi-
dency.
William R. Coyne. a st. Louis poll
tician, was convicted; OF perjury and
sentenced to two years in prison.
William Bayard, M. D., LII. D., one
Of the Oldest pract1cing physicians in
the world, and the oldest graduate of
Edinburgh university, died at his home
in st, John, N. B., aged g. :
A package of diamond jewelry val
ued at more than $4,000 was stolen
from a wagon OF the United States
Express company in New York.
On behalf of the nation the Persian
parliament has issued manifesto to
the world explaining the present con-
stitutional crisis and appealing for as
sistance
The Smelter City bank of Durango,
COL, state institution, closed it's
doors.
Mrs. Nellie G. Cochran of Chicago,
SO years old, was shot and probably
fatally wounded by M. L. Dillon, a
salesman, who then killed himself.
The British torpedo boat destroyer
| Tartar broke all records in fast
| steaming in her final trials over the
official course. attaining a speed of
37.037 knots.
Daniel Rodgers, a colored man, said
to be 100 years old, was arrested in
Joliet, Ill. He was applying for an
| increase in pension and it was dis
covered that he had violated a prison
| parole in 1898.
Sixteen hundred Polish schools have
been closed by an order issued by
Gen. Skallon. The funds, $15O,OOO,
have been sent abroad to avoid con-
fiscation.
AS result of a remarkable surgical
operation Bertha Stublow, five years
old, of Sumner, Wash, has been sup
piled with an upper lip and palate.
Col. w. F. Cody's son-in-law, Lieut..
Clarence A. Stott of the Twelfth cav
airy, is dead. He was serving with
his troop in South Dakota in connec-
ton with the Indian troubles.
An explosion occurred in coal
mine at Yolande, Ala, and about 60
men were believed to have persisted
Shoots in Pennington, Big Falls and
New Ulm, Mimi, were closed because
of the prevalence of diphtheria and
scarlet fever.
The licenses of the Commonwealth
Fire Insurance company of Texas and
German Fire Insurance company of
Indiana were revoked by State Super
intendent of Insurance Barnes, of
Kansas, by telegraph.
Upon recommendation by Adjt. Gen.
Johnston, Gov. Wilson, of Kentucky,
ordered company H, of the First Ken.
lucky militia, to leave Louisville for
Hopkinsville
The rumor to the effect that James
Bryce, the British ambassador to the
United States, is to leave the Wash.
ingtOn embassy is declared absolutely
untrue in London.
Mrs. Alexander Gilmour, formerly
Miss Ethel Watterson, and the young
est daughter of Col. Henry Watterson,
died at Louisville, Ky.
The payment of gold and silver in
any amounts to those who desire it
was formally resumed by Portland
banks.
President Gompers, of the American
Federation of Labor, speaking at the
banquet of the National Civic Fedora
ton in New York, warned employers
that the working men would fight to
the utmost against any reduction of
wages at the present time.
Bernard E. Wallace killed Elsie Ker-
hiYnco1f In
in Brooklyn.
A deliberately planned and sensa-
tional duel occurred on the main
street of Laurel, Miss, in which Ed
ward Bragg was killed, and B. w.
Scarborough, former state senator,
was wounded.
Six hundred quarts of nitroglycerin
In the Dupont Powder works, two and
half miles from Bowling Green, O.,
| exploded. It is not believed there was
loss of life.
BENJAMIN Hadley. of East somer-
vile, Mass, worth $1,50O,O00 and
known as the champion miser, died,
aged 80 years.
Striking masons in Havana, Cuba,
started a serious riot in which sew
eral men were shot.
A naval hospital is to be one of the
features OF the naval training station
on the Great Lakes Plans have been
prepared for structure to cost about
$3.50, 900.
Popular agitation in Teheran, Per-
| STA, against the delav in the execution