Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-07-24

The grand lodge session and re-
union of Elks opened in Philadelphia,
which was beautifully decorated =! in
honor of the event.
Count Leo Tolstoi is in excellent
health, instead of being dead, as was
reported.
William Drew, alias w. A. Johnson,
charged with having shot and killed
three white men and one negro at a
grading camp near Benton, ILL.,, last
September, was arrested in Denver,
COL
A. w. Lee, president of the Lee syn
dictate of newspapers, including the
Ottumwa Courier, Davenport Times,
Muscatine Journal, La Crosse Tribune
and Hannibal Courier Post, died at
Nottingham, England.
| Charged with having fraudulently
acquired valuable coal lands in Gun
nison county, COL, by means of dummy
entries, the Utah Fuel company,
owned by the Denver & Rio Grande
Railway company, and it's officers,
were made defendants to suit filed
in the federal court at Denver, COL,
by United States District Attorney
Earl M. Cranston, seeking the recov.
cry of the land and reasonable price
for all coal mined in it.
Four persons were fatally hurt and
a number of other passengers badly
injured when an Erie passenger train
jumped the track near Foraker, O.,
the entire train turning over in the
ditch.
Thomas J. Clark, of Chicago, died
of injuries sustained when his auto
mobile, entered in the Glidden tour,
turned somersault.
| What promises to be a gigantic gen.
eral strike throughout the northeast
of Spain was begun with the declara.
ton of a strike at meeting of sew
eral thousand miners at Bilbao
| At Dalehart, Tex, eight convicts
sawed through the Jail ceiling and es-
capped, making ropes of their blankets.
It was reported in St. Petersburg
that Count Leo Tolstoi was dead.
| President Winchell, of the Rock
| Island railway, said that company was
out of politics and would do away
with all it's Hobbies.
1t was announced in Berlin that the
wedding of Senator Beverage, of In
diana, and Miss Katherine Eddy, of
Chicago, would take place August at
the American embassy there.
Ex-Judge Alton B. Parker had mar
row escape from death while riding
| on train between Norfolk and Rich
| mond, Va. A bullet fired through the
window imbedded itself in the wood
work of the car opposite where he
| Was sitting.
The case against Princess Ludn,illa
Won Wrede, charged with thefts of
| silverware from various hotels and
| private residences in Berlin, Paris and
Munich in the years 1906, was dis
missed at Guestrow, Mecklenburg A
commission of medical experts found
! that the princess was kleptomaniac.
A severe drought is causing starva-
ton among people in Jamaica.
The American barkentine S. N.
Castle, arrived at San Francisco, re-
ported that she had been boarded by
Russians off Siberia, who confiscated
her papers and warned her not to fish
within 80 miles Of the coast.
The attorney generals Office in
Washington, after investigation, has
exonerated Judge Humphrey, of In
dian Territory, of charges rejecting
on his integrity.
Mrs. Margaret Mcmahon, who
weighed 500 pounds, died at Newark,
N. J. 1t was necessary to cut through
the wall of her home in order to per-
nit IL pallbearers to carry her body
to dray, hearse not serving the
purpose.
Justice Wright, of the supreme
court of the District of Columbia, ad
mitted Mrs. Annie NJ. Bradley, under
indictment on the charge of murder
ing ex-senator Brown, of Utah, to bail
in the sum of $4,000.
Sigmund Rothschild millionaire
tobacco merchant of Detroit, Mich,
and head Of the firm of Rothschild &
Sons, died suddenly in the Hotel
Savoy in New York.
A horde of dogs, marooned on Nc
Pike island in the Mississippi river
above St. Louis, rendered ferocious
through starvation, has made danger
Gus the landing of river craft. The
Humane society planned to rescue
them
The national fete of France was
marred by dastardly attempt On the
life of President Fallieres by Leon
Maille, naval reservist of Havre,
who, it is believed, is suffering from
the mania of persecution. Maille fired
two shots at the president but did not
hit him. He was at once placed under
arrest
F. H. Magill, former banker of Clin
ton, ILL.,, accused of numbering his first
wife, will be brought back from San
Diego with his second wife for trial.
That E. H. Hartman is practically
the absolute dictator of the railroad
situation in the western half of the
United States is shown by the report
| of the interstate commerce commits.
sion.
The Japanese minister of war de.
MED that Japan had any army officers
acting as spies in America.
Sir William Henry Perkin died at
his home in London. He founded the
coal tar color industry by the discov-
cry of the mauve dye in 1856, and it's
subsequent production on a large
scale.
Heavy transforms in eastern Ne.
braska put the railroads out of bust