Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-04-17

The Jury in the smathers case de-:
cided that Smathers had not con-
spired to drug Lou Dillon and should
retain the geld cup won by his horse.
Major Delmar. +: =, ~ Szz:s'
Puerto Cortez was taken by the
Nicaraguans without contest, the
Honduran5 troops having returned to
the plantations believing that, the
war was ended. American marines
were posted in Ceiba to pIotech prop.
erty and preserve order.7
Secretary of War Taft conferred
with conservative and liberal leaders
Of Cuba, advised that the national
election be postponed until after the
municipal and provincial elections,
and intimated that American occu-
patton would last at least another
year.
The sentences of death imposed
upon Mrs. Aggie Myers of Kansas
City and Frank Hoffman of Higgins
vile, Mo-, who were convicted of hav-
ing murdered the woman's husband,
Clarence Myers, in 1904, were COM
muted by Gov. Folk to Imprisonment
for life.
DR.. Samuel S. Guy, prominent
dentist of Far Rockaway and for a
number of years coroner of Queens
Borough, was under arrest charged
with the murder of his wife.
This directors of the State Bank OF
Goddard, Kan, whose cashier, w. H.
Dwight, committed suicide, announced,
that over $4,000 was missing from
the vault of the bank. The directors
decided to close up the affairs of the
bank.
Safe blowers robbed bank at Sem
mole, I. r., of 81 200 while confeder-
ates patrolled the street shooting at
citizens.
N. D. Hildman, night operator In
the Frisco station at Quapaw, I. t.,
was attacked by robbers, bound,
gagged, and robbed. At Baxter, Kan,
the robbers were captured after shoot
ing the officer through the hand. and
in the body.
Albert Williams, the last survivor
of the 16 delegates in the Under the
Oaks" convention at Jackson, Mich,
where the first Republican state tick
ct was placed in nomination, died at
Ionia, Mich, aged 80 years.
Mayor D. II. Leonard of Parkers-
burg, w. Va, died of the grip.
The Greek consul at Lowell, Mass,
was arrested on a charge Of conspiracy
in connection with the. importation OF
Greek laborers.
The car of Russia made NJ. Pichno,
notorious anti-semite, member of
the council of empire.
A. H. Weir, ex-mayor of Lincoln,
Neb., died suddenly.
A Southern Pacific passenger train
was ditched at Browns, New, the en-
glneer being killed and several pas
sengers hurt.
George G. Benedict, editor-in-chief
of the Burlington tVt) Free Press,
died of old age.
Naval coal barge No. I, adrift for
several days, was picked up, but her
crew of nine were not on board 1t
was thought passing schooner took
them of.
The king of Italy arrived at Athens
on visit to the king of Greece.
w. A. Brady leased the Auditorium
theater in Chicago for ten years, at
an annual rental of 100000.
The Union Pacific officially an
nounced the building of 100 miles of
new double tracking IN Wyoming, to
be finished during this year at cost
of $3,000,0O0.
Col. Francis E. Lacey, retired off,
Ger of the United States army, died
at Columbus, o. He served in the
civil and Spanish-American wars.
Rev. John Johnson, Charleston, S.
c., rector emeritus at Fort Sumter
during the siege of the sixties and
author of The Defense of Fort Sum-
ter" died at the age of IS years.
Ten persons. two OF whom were
women, were rescued from death by
life savers at the Nays Head On. c.
station when the four-masted schooner
AoUAo ooooo1C was D1O"A dSl1OlC
A gasoline launch containing two
men and two boys capsized in the
Illinois river at Ottawa, III. All four
We're drowned.
Three men were instantly killed at
Hillsville, Pa, by the explosion of a
ton of powder at the plant of the Bur.
ton Powder company.
Robert Scholze, GO years old, one Of
the leading business men of Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, died as the result of in
juries received in runaway.
Because he had been urging that
Enrique c. Creel, ambassador of Next
co to the United States, could not be
elected the constitutional governor of
the state of chihuahua, Silesvtre
Terrazas, editor of Ell Correo, daily
newspaper published in the city of
chihuahua, was put in Jail.
Judge Josiah Turner, for "a years
judge of the Seventh judicial circuit
in Michigan, died at his home in
Owosso. aged SO years.
The heaviest snow of the winter
fell in Plainfield, Wis.
Mrs. Helen Mcneil, of Denver, COL,
was burned to death in Columbus, o.
Theodore D. Bull, president of the
Bull Malleable Iron works of Detroit,
president Of the Detroit National
bank, and also of the firm of Parke.
Davis & Co., chemical and drug man
ufacturers, dropped dead on the street
near the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, New
York. Death was due to apoplexy.
A fire captain was killed and sew.