Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-06-19

Illinois railroad representatives in
session in Chicago to consider recent
twocent fare legislation voted to-
withdraw all special rates heretofore
offered to convention delegates, cler--
gymen, agents of charitable institu-
lions, and attendants at merchants
conventions.
Justice Brewer, of the supreme
court of the United States, denied an
application for writ of habeas cor
pus in the contempt case of H. H.
Tucker, Jr., former secretary OF the
Uncle Sam Oil company of Kansas, on
the ground that the case should have
gone to the court of appeals on a writ
of error.
Gustave A. Gerard, who was for
merly employed in the cashiers depart
ment of the firm of G. M. Minzesheim-
er & Co., of 30 Broad street, New
York, was arrested on bench war
rant charging him with grand larceny.
1t is alleged that Gerard stole $4,000
worth of bonds belonging to the firm.
The Catholic Church of the Sacred
Heart at Ottawa, Ont, was destroyed
by fire. The church cost about $780,
900.
Count Boni de Castellane's appeal
from the verdict of divorce obtained
by the countess, formerly Anna Gould,
of New York, has been granted by the
French courts and the case will go be-
fore higher tribunal.
Acting on instructions from Wash
ington, United States District Attor-
ney Thompson, at Philadelphia, will
move against the so-called umbrella
trust.
Clifford Kirkpatrick committed sui
eide in Detroit because Mrs. David
Walters, whom he loved, was killed by
her husband.
Thousands of dollars are being
raised by the Japanese of the Pacific
coast to carry out the compact they
have entered into with the progressive
party of Japan for the overthrow of
the Saionji ministry, the annulment
of the exclusion clause in the immigra-
ton bill, and the guarantee of the
naturalization rights Of the Japanese
subjects residing in this country.
In a motor car accident at Edge
Hill, near Banbury, England, Mr..
Johnston of California was killed and
Mr.. Blake of Philadelphia was NOR
tally injured. Mrs. Johnston and Mrs.
Blake, who were of the party, sus-
tanned grave injuries.
Georgia day at the jamestown ex-
position was made notable by the Sec
ond visit of President Roosevelt, who
delivered two addresses.
Mayors and councils of many French
towns resigned and announced a civil
strike to aid the cause of the wine
growers.
A stray torpedo struck and badly
damaged the German coasting steamer
August while she was passing the
practice range at Kiel, Germany.
Six thousand dollars was demanded
as ransom for eight-year-old Walter
Lamana, son of well-to-do Italian
undertaken of New Orleans, who was
kidnapped.
Nearly 20 persons were injured in
the wreck of Texas Pacific passen-
ger train near Edgewood, Tex.
Six Slav miners were frightfully
burned, three perhaps fatally, as the
result of an explosion that took place
in boarding house at Greenwich mine
No. 2 near Barnesboro, Pa.
Frank Hagerman, of Kansas City,
representing IS railroads, served no.
tice on Herbert S. Hadley, attorney
general of Missouri, that he will ask
the federal court to enjoin the en-
forcement of the two-cent fare law.
A premature explosion of dynamite
took place at Pedro Miguel, on the
line of the Panama canal, and resulted
in the instant death of seven men and
the wounding of several others.
Rocco Laquino, II years old, was
killed in Buffalo by an elephant he
tormented in street parade of a cir
GUS
Frank Cook, the oldest jeweler in
Wisconsin, is dead from injuries re-
ceived in an automobile accident
Application was made for receivers
for Milliken Bros. of New York, large
steel manufacturers and contractors,
and petition in bankruptcy was filed
by the firms creditors.
The grave of Michael Pasha, Turk
ish admiral, who died last January,
has been desecrated by thieves, who
stole the body. They expected to find
jewels in the tomb.
Investigation of the International
Harvester company, a corporation
the aggregate at $100,000,000, will en-
gage the attention of the federal grand
jury in Chicago.
The famous Princess Anne hotel at
Virginia Beach, Va, built Is years ago
and one of the handsomest summer
resort hotels along the middle At
lantic seaboard, was destroyed by
fire and one guest was believed to
have persisted.
Viscount TAM, leader of the oppo-
sition in the Japanese house of peers,
demanded war with America if d.
plomacy fails to secure reparation for
the San Francisco attacks. The JAP
anese of the Pacific coast and the
progressives, political party Of
Japan, have entered into an alliance
with the overthrow of the present
ministry in Japan and the annulment
of the clause in the immigration bill
excluding Japanese coolie labor from
continental United States as the ulti-
mate objects.
The government is about to sue