Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-07-31

He was estimated to be worth $780,
900.
The Elks' committee on awards has
announced that the Cincinnati lodge
won the first prize Of $3.50 for regis
tering the greatest number of women
at the reunion in Philadelphia Brook
Ign was second and Buffalo third.
A flood of printed and illustrated
postal cards is reaching President
Roosevelt daily urging him to become
candidate for third term.
Recent murders and depredations
committed by the sypsies may cause
Hungary to take drastic steps against
the $4,000 nomads in the country.
Less than 20 per cent. of persons
who filed claims in the recent Huntley
| (Mont) land drawing have registered
their claims.
The president of Santo Domingo
has had his salary raised from $6,4O0
to $4,000 a year, Washington is in
formed. Good times prevail in the
republic.
| George B. Ross, well-known hotel
man of Chicago, committed suicide
| by shooting in room in the Chicago
Athletic club.
The post Office at Marengo, Ind,
was robbed of $1,000 in money and
stamps.
William Cricket, mayor of Oska-
loosa, Ia, died suddenly of heart dis
ease.
The unwilling of monument to
Oliver P. Morton, Indianas war gov
ernon, in indianapolis, was the occas-
ion of a large gathering of veterans
of the civil war. Among those at
tending were Vice President Charles
W. Fairbanks and Gen. R. B. Brown,
commander-in-chief of the G. A. R.
! William ]. Semonin, retiring county
clerk, was arrested at Louisville, Ky,
on a charge of embeZzlement, it be-
| ing alleged that he is short in his ac-
counts as clerk of Jefferson county in
sum approximating from $4,000 to
$4,000. The arrest was made at the
instance of Mayor Bingham and
caused a great sensation.
A syndicate of Kentuckians bought
about 100000 bushels of Kentucky
blue grass seed, practically all there
is in the country
One private was killed and three
other soldiers injured at Fort Terry,
Plum Island, N. Y, by the premature
explosion of blank charge during a
sham battle.
James B. Duke, president of the
American Tobacco company, was
married to Mrs. Nanaline Holt Inman
in Brooklyn.
The New York authorities were in
formed that H. S. Tavshanjian, the
rug merchant who was murdered, was
one of ten wealthy Armenians who
had been marked for slaughter if they
failed to give up $4,000 each to
blackmailing band of their country
men.
Col. Will Hays of Louisville, a noted
song writer and newspaper man, died
as a result of paralytic stroke sus-
tanned in the Iroquois theater fire in
Chicago.
Attorney General Jackson of Kan
sas filed criminal proceedings against
the International Harvester company,
alleging eight distinct violations of
the antitrust law.
Short in his accounts and pressed
by his employers to make a settle
ment, George H. Berkey, city sales
man for the wholesale grocery firm of
Tolerton & Warfeld, of Sioux City,
Ia, shot himself and died instantly.
Hudson Maxim, the inventor, of
Brooklyn, who has but one arm.
plunged into Lake Hopatcong and
brought two drowning young women
ashore.
Fire in Victoria, B. c., destroyed
five blocks and many detached build
ings, involving loss of quarter of a
million dollars
The musicians union of Columbus,
o., has petitioned Secretary Taft to
stop free band concerts at the federal
barracks, the argument being that
the concerts compete with resorts
where union bands are employed.
Several scores of persons were
drowned when the steamer Columbia
sank in Shelter Cove off the California
coast, after colliding with the steam
schooner San Pedro. The victims
came from many states of the union.
Sixteen more survivors of the Col
umbia-San Pedro collision landed at
Shelter Cove in boat Ninety-seven
persons were still unaccounted for.
Miss Florence Gray, 20 years old,
shot and killed her sweetheart, Frank
Brown, in her house at Michigan City,
Ind. The shooting was the result of
jealous quarrel.
Bishop John H. Vincent in a speech
at Coffeyville, Kan, attacked REVEALS.
He said the sensational methods used
often did more harm than good.
The Paris Figaro announces the
engagement Of Count Giulio Semi
and Mary T. Gayley of New York,
daughter of the vice president of the
United States Steel corporation.
Following a quarrel Mrs. Alice
Bruce, aged Is years, a bride Of sew
eral weeks, was shot and killed at her
home in Camden, N. j., by her hus-
band, Frederick Bruce, who then
turned the revolver upon himself and
inflicted probably fatal injuries.
With full military honors, Midship-
man James F. Cruise, one of the vic
tins of the explosion on the battle
ship Georgia, was buried at the Ar.
Hngton national cemetery.
DR.. Edward J. Gallagher, a New
York physician, was burned to death