Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-09-11
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was arrested on the charge Of killing
her husband, the warrant accusing her
of murder in the second degree.
Attorney General Bonaparte said he
had instructed District Attorney Sims
to fulfill the pledge of immunity to the
Alton road and ficials and that he did
not know the newly learned facts that
caused Mr.. Sims to have the case post
poned.
Judge A. K. Skeen, of the United
States court at Bristol, Va, appointed
Col. L. O. Petit, of Big Stone Gap, re-
ceiver of the Union Iron and Steel
corporation of New York, owning fur
naces in Virginia, Ohio, Michigan and
New Jersey The concern was or
ganized by Edward l.. Harper, who
served a term for wrecking the Fidel-
ity bank of Cincinnati.
The striking dock laborers of Ant
werp burned big lumber yard and
ing 100000.
Niagara falls was Illuminated by
Sc great colored search lights, the
electricity being generated by the
falls themselves.
Thanh Thai, the deposed king of
AMMAN, abdicated in favor of his
eight-year-old son, who now rules An
nam with the aid of the regency con-
sisting Of the council of ministers.
Louis Glass, vice president of the
Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph
company, convicted of having bribed
Supervisor Lonergan, was sentenced
by Judge Lawler at San Francisco to
five years Imprisonment at San
Quentin.
The president authorized the secre-
tary of the interior to appoint Sub
Chief Metz Tiger, Of the Creek In
dians, to succeed Gen. Pleasant Por-
ter as chief of the tribe
An indictment returned last April
by the federal grand jury at Boise,
Idaho, against Senator William E.
Borah and other prominent men,
charging conspiracy to defraud the
United States government, was
served on the defendants.
Fire which it is thought was of in
cendiary. origin Quilted the Normandie
hotel in Columbus. o., occupied by so
families. All the occupants made their
escape, although many got out only
by the narrowest margin.
Edward Grieg, the famous COM
poser, died at Bergen. Norway.
The Kansas board of railroad COM
missioners ordered that the railroads
OF Kansas put in a fiat two-cent fare
rate, beginning October l.
Lieut. Col. Elijah w. Halford, pay
department, U. S. A., was retired, hav-
ing reached the statutory age of 81
years. Col. Halford is attached to
headquarters of the department of
California at San Francisco He was
private secretary to President Har-
rison
Over 10 iron molders went on
strike at Evansville, Ind, because of
an order issued at the five stove
foundries preventing the drinking of
beer on the premises during the noon
hour
The new directory of New York
shows that there are 100000 people
in Manhattan and the Bronx
The Central of Georgia railway has
ordered all improvements stopped be:
cause of the cut in passenger rates
and money market conditions
King Alfonso, it is reported, has
been lectured by his ministers be-
cause of his reckless automobile driv-
ing and his secret trips into France
Florence T. Sullivan, popularity
known as big Florrie' Sullivan, one
Of the Tammany leaders, went stark
mad while returning from Europe on
the kronprinz Wilhelm
Frank P. Van Horn, late superin-
tendent OF carriers in the Jackson
(Mich.) post Office, but who was under
arrest on charge of stealing from the
mails and at liberty on $1,000 bail,
committed suicide by hanging.
A scientific hunt for the germ of
infantile paralysis has been begun by
the physicians of New York city.
An exploding tank of gasoline in the
cellar of burning building in Have
meyer street, Brooklyn, N. Y, serious
ly injured five firemen. Two probably
will die.
The plant of w. D. Young & Co.,
manufacturers of hardwood maple
flooring at Bay City, Mich, was de.
stroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000.
E. R. Coffin, vice president of the
Electrical Securities corporation of
New York, and a prominent fnancier,
died at the Omaha General hospital
Ringing Bros. bought the control
ling interest in the Barnum & Bailey
circus and Buffalo Bills Wild West
from Mrs. James A. Bailey
John J. Jackson, of Parkersburg.
w. Va, former United States Judge,
dropped dead at Atlantic City. He
was SO years old.
John J. Phillips. a prominent coal
operator, was shot and killed by a
burglar in his home in Cleveland, O.
Secretary of the Interior Garfield,
in an interview given out at Cleve-
land, o., declared that the administra-
ton in its war on trusts would next
take up the case of the lumber trust.
TIE steamship Noordland, with $50
! passengers aboard, was disabled in
midocean and drifted for nine hours.
: The Illinois board of live stock
commissioners elected DR.. J. M.
Wright, of Chicago, delegate to the
congress of state sanitary boards in
jamestown. Va. September 16 and II.