Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-09-18

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| Five street car men were severely
injured in a labor riot in San Fran.
| cisco.
| Officials of railroads operating in
! Kansas held meeting in Chicago and
decided to ignore the state railroad
commissions order that fiat two
cent passenger fare be put into effect
October 5. They based their stand on
the fact that, during the session of the
last legislature they offered important
concessions, in return for which two
| cent fare was not to be passed.
| Judges Wilson and Audendried OF
the common pleas court In Philadel-
phia declared unconstitutional the
two-cent railroad fare law passed by
last legislature they offered important
| case upon which the decision was rem
dered will be taken to the supreme
| court
With the formal welcome of Gov.
Charles E. Hughes of New York state.
the forty-first national Grand Army Of
the Republic encampment was opened
in the convention hall at Saratoga.
Mrs. Carrie Sparklin. of St. Louis.
| national president Of the Women's Re-
lief Corps, presented to the Grand
Army the silver jubilee offering, which
was raised by the relief corps in COM
| memoration of the twenty-fifth ami
| versary of the organization.
A combined Chinese and Japanese
organization of Vancouver made over
lures to the Hindns to join them in an
| Columbian coast The l1indus refused.
| The Japanese government had assur-
| ances that Canada would make amends
| for the Vancouver riots.
John N. Hazlett, city editor Of the
Pittsburg Leader for the past 40 years,
resigned from the position and retired
from active newspaper work.
Anti-Semitic rioting broke out again
in Kishinev and 80 Jews were report
ed to have been killed. Their quarter
of the city was looted and they fed
by thousands.
Gov. Swanson of Virginia offered a
reward of 5000 for the capture of the
murderer of Mrs Roschach, wife Of
Lieut. Frank Roschach, U. S. NJ. who
was slain by burglar in her home in
Portsmouth, Va.
Five negroes who were sitting on
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad tracks
near Newburg, w. Va, engaged in
shooting craps, were run down and
killed by train.
Edgar A. Davis, of Detroit, Mich,
AZ years old, committed suicide at the
home of his sister, Mrs. E. F. Taylor,
of Hartford, Conn, by inhaling gas
Crazed by jealousy over attention
paid to his wife by another man, Lee
Leedy. proprietor of the City hotel at
Weatherford. Okla, fired three shots
at Mrs. Leedy, killing her instantly
Two hours later Leedy was shot and
killed by posse of citizens.
The committee of the peace confer
ence at The Hague to which the ques
ton was submitted approved, by a
vote of 26 to 2, the project providing
for the establishment of a supreme
tribunal to deal with prizes captured
at sea.
The failure of Miss Lucia S. Thomp-
son Of Boston to explore the "Purga.
tory cave near Worcester, Mass, has
aroused the interest of scientists.
Miss Thompson found the cavern ice.
bound a short distance from it's
mouth.
Three persons were slightly hurt
when the Los Angeles limited train on
the Salt Lake road was ditched near
Cottonwood, Cal.
Judge Sands at Scranton. Pa. set
aside the will of Jerome Lillibridge. a
wealthy coal man. which gave an es.
tate of 100000 to the widow. Two
sisters, who contested the will, assert
ed the testator had been unduly inf1u-
enced
The Countess Montignoso, formerly
Princess Louise Of Saxony, divorced
wife OF the present king OF Saxony
was married in London to Sig. Toselli,
an Italian singer.
Gus Ormsby. fisherman. while
lifting his nets of Van Zaren point on
Lake Erie discovered the wreck of the
Dean Richmond, loaded with lead and
copper ore and valued at 100000 by
the underwriters.
John Rhodes, a negro bootblack.
was arrested at Phoenix, Ariz.. sus.
pected of being Jesse Coe, who killed
Policeman Charles Russell in Indian.
apolis in 1906.
Masked robbers broke into and blew
open the safe in the Royal Savings
bank at Chippewa, Ont Officials say
that the safe blowers were frightened
away before they got into the safe
deposit box, where the most of the
banks money was kept.
Elsie Reed. who says she is a Chi
cago girl, applied to Waukesha (Wis)
citizens for aid, declaring that she had
been held a prisoner by the "holv
Jumpers" and compelled to do mental
work.
Nellie Wolkswitz, a Russian girl.
was arrested in New York, charged
with the theft of a brooch from Mrs,
bourke Cochran. The jewel contained
a religious miniature which awakened
the girls reverence and it is alleged
she possessed herself Of it to satisfy
this passion.
Commander Simon Cook, u. S. NJ,
retired, is dead at st. Louis. He was
native of Illinois and served in the
Spanish-American war.
Charles M. Daniels, of the New York
Athletic club, in race at Manchester,
England, lowered the worlds 10O-yard
swimming record two seconds, going