Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-10-02

the safe demolished with dynamite.
The robbers got a large quantity Of
valuable jewelry.
In an opinion by the United States
circuit court Of appeals sitting in Den
YER, the judgment of the district court
for Minnesota against the Great
Northern railroad in the rebate cases
was practically affirmed.
In an official communication to
Capt. Emil Francke, who was COM
mander of the Inflated steamship Da-
kota, wrecked on Kiukone reef, cost
of Japan. March last, George Uhler,
supervising inspector general of the
steamboat inspection service, severe
ly censures him on account of the loss
of the ship.
Declaring that he intended to stay
in Glace Bay, N. S., until wireless
communication with Europe had been
placed on commercial basis, Gugliel-
mo Marconi said: 1--WE have finally
overcome all obstacles, and in about
mercial transatlantic wireless serv-
ice."
The delegates of three important
tribes of Moors accepted the terms of
peace offered by the French and hos
tilities ceased.
Seven workmen and two girls were
executed at Lodz, Russia, by shooting,
without trial, for participating in the
murder of Marcus Silberstein, owner
of a cotton mill, who was killed by
his employees because he refused to
pay them for the time they were out
on strike.
The Hotel Ampersand at Saranac
Lake. N. Y, burned down, the loss be-
ing $270,O0O.
The sultan of Turkey ordered the
exemption of the import duty on
wheat.
Former Gov. Frank Steunenberg, Of
Idaho, of whose assassination the
Western Federation of Labor leaders
were accused, was declared to have
been the John Doe named in the in
dictment against Senator William E.
Borah and IL others, on the charge Of
land frauds in Idaho.
Miss Marion Grey, the youthful mat
rimonial agent who was arrested in
Elgin, ILL.,, where she had been con-
Quoting an affinity exchange" waived
examination in Chicago before United
States Commissioner Foote, who held
her to the federal grand jury in bonds
of $1,000.
James Dossett, his wife and baby
were burned to death near Oakland
City, Ind.
The city council of Chicago voted to
demand settlement of the telegra-
piers strike and to send a copy Of It's
demand to President Roosevelt.
John R. Rodgers, a well-to-do Eng
lishman, committed suicide by jump
ing from the deck of the steamship
Minneapolis in midocean.
The rector of the church of the I'm
maculate Conception at Allentown,
Pa, forbade girls of HID parish to en-
terrain Lehigh university students.
In accordance with arrangements
previously made by telegraph between
Washington and Mexico, President
Roosevelt and President Diaz stimuli
taneously addressed invitations to the
chief executives of the five Central
American republics, inviting them to
send delegates to conference to be
held in Washington in November to
agree upon plan for the peaceful
settlement of all future disputes be-
tween those countries.
twenty-five nurses of the training
school at the city hospital, St. Paul,
Mimi, resigned in body because DR..
Ancker, the superintendent, would not
reinstate one of the nurses who was
discharged for insubordination.
The body of F. A. Tyron, of Chica-
go, who was lost off the sloop Volant
in cruise along the east shore July
21, was found at Stevensville, seven
miles south of St. Joseph, Mich, by
two boys.
Samuel Sloan, for many years presi-
dent Of the Lackawanna railroad and
one of the best-known railroad men
in the country, died at his home at
Garrison on the Hudson. aged 80
years.
The steamer Alexander Nimmick
was wrecked on a reef on the south
shore of Lake Superior and the cap
tain and six men were drowned.
Eleven men escaped death.
]. N. c.. Shumway, former state
senator and president of the National
Building and Loan association, died
of a paralytic stroke at his home in
Taylorville, Ill. He was 81 years
old.
Thlrty-tw0 passengers were injured,
none of them seriously, on the Chatta-
nooga & Washington limited train
on the Southern railway, just north
of Ryan's Siding.
Negotiations for the cessation Of
hostilities having failed, Gen. Drude
resumed the offensive and burned the
Moorish camps at Sidi Brahim, south
of Casablanca, and dispersed the
tribesmen, who offered but little re-
sistance.
A message was received at the
treasury department from Capt. Mum
ger, commanding the Bering sea fleet
of revenue cutters, stating that the
cutter McCulloch had rescued 243 per-
sons from the ship John Currier,
which was wrecked on August 9 in
Nelson's lagoon, Unimak island,
Bering sea.
Col. Robert E. Withers died at his
home at Wytheville, Va, aged IS
years. He was at one time United
States senator from Virginia. and had