Willmar tribune., 1907-12-04

After being out "a hours the Jurors
in the Steve Adams murder trial at
Rathdrum, Idaho, reported Sunday
night they could not agree and were
discharged. They stood eight for ac-
quittal and four for conviction.
Democrats at French Lick, Ind, de-
cided to hold their national conven.
tion next year before that of the Re-
publicans.
Investment buying in small lots of
railroad and industrial securities in
Wall street continues in unprecedent-
ed volume, and stock transfer officers
are overwhelmed with work transfer
ring the names of new security hold
ers.
Theodore Betram, the celebrated
opera singer, committed suicide at
Batruth, Germany. He had been mel.
ancholy and respondent since the
death of his wife, who was drowned
on February 21 last, in the wreck of
the steamship Berlin off the Hook Of
Holland.
Sir William Crookes was designated
for the Nobel prize for chemistry and
Rudyard Kipling that for literature.
The steamer Monohansset burned
to the waters edge on Thunder bay,
Lake Huron. The crew were rescued
by the Thunder Bay island life savers
At Brentwood, Tenn, Garfield Hill,
20 years old, was stabbed through the
heart and instantly killed by Nat
Dixon.
Former President Grover Cleveland
is again seriously i'll at his home in
Princeton. He is said to have suffered
relapse of the old intestinal trouble
which attacked him last June.
E. r. Baker, assistant cashier of the
Union Bank and Trust company of
Lexington, KY, confessed to defalca-
tion of $19,277.90. The amount has
been made good by the directors.
The katy" passenger depot dining
hall and division headquarters office
building at Smithville, Tex, caught
fire and burned to the ground. E. B.
Kenney of st. Louis, who was en-
ployed as cook, perished in the flames.
Charles w. Wiley, cashier in the
Minneapolis Office of the Wells-Fargo
Express company, is being sought for
by the police of the Twin cities and
secret agents of the express company
on charge of embezzlement of 81 900
of the company's funds.
With the completion of enumeration
of the population of Cuba there has
been accomplished the first step in the
direction Of the termination of the
American intervention and the rees-
tablishment of the Cuban republic. An
estimate by one Of the most accom-
plished statisticians in the service of
the provisional government places the
population of the island at 100000.
John Hartley, a Britisher who went
to Japan in 1864, has brought suit
against the Japanese government for
100000 yen damages for having i'm
pounded opium imports by him in
1875, while allowing Dutch firms and
other foreigners to import the drug.
Attorneys on both sides in the
Harry Thaw case agreed to another
postponement of the trial.
M. Chotchglovitoff, Russian minis
ter of justice, has renewed his old
tactics in instituting legal proceed
ings on slim pretexts against opposi-
tion members of the duma in order to
them from participation in
legislation.
A. C. Smith, general manager and
secretary of the Schmidt Bros. Trunk
company of Oshkosh, Wis, and presi-
dent of the National Trunk Manufac-
turers' association of the United
States, died of pneumonia.
Mrs. Michael Kerpen, of Chicago,
shot and killed Matthew Heres,
mistaking him for a burg
lar.
With her infant in her arms and her
three other small children tied to her
with ropes, Mrs. Margaret Deters, aged
% years, jumped into the river Des
Peres at St. Louis. A policeman RES
cued them all.
Mrs. Nicholas M. Smith, Jr., of New
Rochelle, N. Y, while insane killed
her husband and herself.
Lieut.. John w. Crawford, secretary
of Admiral Dewey, disappeared and it
is believed he committed suicide.
Railway Commissioner Joseph A.
William and H. G. Powell, rate expert
in the Office of the Nebraska commits
sion, were seriously injured while
an inspection of the Missouri
Pacific tracks.
physically wrecked through ex-
cesses, George P. Miller, aged 4S
years, once brilliant law graduate
and private secretary to Samual ].
Randall of Pennsylvania, committed
suicide in st. Louis.
The jury in the case Of Edward u:
Lewis of st. Louis, who was charged
with having used the mails fraudulent
ly in organizing and establishing the
Peoples United States bank, dis
agreed.
Louis M. Dyke, president of the
former Atella (Ala.) National bank,
charged with misappropriation of
funds of national bank, entered a
plea of guilty and was sentenced to
five years in the penitentiary.
Patrolman George Gusrang was
murdered at Burlington, N. j., by an
unknown man, evidently an Italian,
who then shot himself, inflicting a
fatal wound. The shooting was the
direct result of the assassination of
E. S. Jefferson, a grocer: 1t is
thought both crimes may have been
committed by the same person. .,.<.
. Mrs. Mary Hall dropped dead at her.
home in Springfield. Ill. while sit