Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-06
BRIEF REVIEW Of
A WEEKS EVENTS
RECORD OF THE MOST IMPOR.
TANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEM.
lied FORM.
HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS
Information Gathered from All Quar-
tiers Of the. Civilized World and
Prepared for the Perusal Of the
Busy Man.


again. The need Of currency to move
the cotton crop developed in the south
and committee from New Orleans
conferred with Secretary Cortelyou.
The California Safe Deposit & Trust
company's bank in San Francisco
closed but was believed to be solvent.
Bankers in the state of Washington
ignored the holiday proclaimed by the
governor.
The tobacco situation in Kentucky
became serious. Burley growers
agreed to cut out next years crop. Ell
forts were made to pool this years
crop and to induce buyers.to leave the
fields. Opposition at Henderson and
elsewhere gave promise of trouble.
The mutinous crew of the Russian
torpedo boat destroyer at Vladivostok
fought with four other warships and
fort and was subdued only after a
number of men had been killed or
wounded.
The little town of Karatagh, in the
Hussar district of Bokhara, was over
whelmed and completely destroyed by
a landslide that followed the earth
quake of October 81. 1t was believed
$500 persons persisted.
Commissioner General Sargent of
the bureau of immigration denied the
appeal of confessed clipping couple
from Berlin, Germany, for admission
to the United States.
T. E. Mcdonald, superintendent of
the United States Express company at
Milwaukee, announced that the
amount of money stolen from his COM
pany at the night depot Office in that
city the night of October % was $751;
500.
Charging that football is prize fight
ing, Attorney S. R. Moore, of Kanka-
kee, ILL.,, filed bill in the circuit court
for an injunction restraining high
school students from playing the
game.
The grand jury indicted John J.
Stanley, vice president and general
manager of the Cleveland Electric
Railway company, charging him with
endeavoring to influence a witness.
The Friend Paper company, of West
Carrolton, suburb of Dayton, o., was
placed in the hands of a receiver on
application of its president, J. Howard
Friend
Raymond Hitchcock, indicted in
New York for alleged misconduct with
three little girls, disappeared and the
district attorneys men say that he
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mitted suicide. His wife, known on
the stage as Flora Zabelle, says she
thinks he has been murdered.
E. H. Slower, sheriff of Coles coun-
ty, Illinois, arrested Judge Peter s.
Grosscup of the United States circuit
court on a charge of manslaughter,
contained in indictments returned at
Charleston, ILL.,, as result of the fatal
wreck last summer on the Charleston
Nation interurban line, of which
Judge Grosscup is director.
The steamer Cormorant, of the Ed
caught fire and burned to the waters
edge near Superior, Wis.
Receivers were appointed for the
South Baltimore Steel Car & Foundry
company. It's liabilities were nearly
100000 and it's assets much greater.
William D. Everett, president of the
Williams & Everett company, picture
and fine arts dealers, of Boston, COM
mitted suicide by inhaling gas. No
cause for the act is known.
Hawaii's sugar crop for 1907 is the
largest in the history of the islands.
1t amounts to 100000 tons. Next
years crop promises to reach $4,000
tons.
The pope communicated Father
Tyrell and other critics of his en-
cyclical on modernism.
Nearly 5000 Chinese arrived at the
port of Salina Cruise, Mex, on their
way to the United States, where they
are under the impression they will be
allowed to remain.
Gov. Warner of Michigan and his
stan, in full uniform, accompanied by
members of their families, were re-
dent Roosevelt on their homeward
journey from the Jamestown exposi-
ton.
/ President Roosevelt passed his
forty-ninth birthday without special
celebration Of any sort.
The historic home of the late Gen.
Don Carlos Buel at Airdrie, KY, on
the Green river, was destroyed by fire.
Fire at Nome, Alaska, caused prop
erty loss of about 100000. =,
Skeleton railway tickets valued at
$4,000, with the stamps, punches and
ink-pads to make them out, were
stolen at Santa Monica, Cal. - ..'' I
A monument to the memory of the
late Brig. Gen. John M. Thayer, erect
ed by the state of Nebraska, was dedi.
Gated at Lincoln.
John Welborn, member of the fifty
ninth congress from the Seventh Mis-
souri, district, died at his home in
Lexington, Mo. q qa@ r
Miss Loa Mather, of @Steuben, g.,
confessed that she set fire to her own
house three times to obtain the tnsur.
ance.
T. N. Moorehouse, a travelling sales
man of Chicago, was killed by the
wreck of the Roseburg-Myrtle Point
stage on Monties hill in Oregon. ! :
Capt. Harry B. Weaver, one of the
best.known and most popular sea cap.
tains On the Pacific coast, died in Seat
tie, Wash, from typhoid fever.