Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-09-04

for more than 20 years was not sue
cess. The rope broke with Carmine
Reno, aged As years and weighing
IT'S pounds. A second attempt sue
ceeded.
Rev. Edward Hurt Jewett, an aged
and well-known Episcopalian minis
ter, took his life at Manhattan Beach,
CAL, by cutting his throat with a
razor.
Miss Mary Mactier Latrobe, daugh-
ter of the late r. Stewart Latrobe of
Baltimore, was married in London to
COL Arthur P. D. Harris of the British
army.
1t is announced in the City of Mex
leo that peace in Central America is
assured through the intervention of
the United States and Mexico.
Col. Ivanhoff, governor of Viborg
prison and vicious foe to the terror
lists, was assassinated by the explosion
of bomb while walking along one of
the streets of St. Petersburg. The as
sassin was arrested.
Alton B. Parker, president of the
AuOl1CoA Dbl dS0OC1oI1Ou, 0NuA OOoAA3
the opening session of that body's
thirtieth annual convention in Port
land, Me-, discussed swollen fortunes
and control of corporations, limited
that those who urged federal control
are inclined to 60 beyond constitu-
tional limits in opposition to states
rights and said much of the work of
state legislatures as to railroads and
other concerns had been ill-advised,
hasty crude and unsatisfactory.
A decree creating a national depart
ment of sanitation for Cuba has been
signed by Gov. Magoon, and is to be-
come effective upon the perfection of
the organization. The personnel Of the
department will consist of one chief
and a national board of five members
holding office for four years. This
board will have full control of the SAM
tation of Cuba, supplanting all local
boards.
The Pacific Mail Steamship COM
pany's steamer Acapulco, Capt. D. c.
Prask, turned turtle and sank at the
company's docks in San Francisco. All
the passengers and crew escaped.
Marriage with a deceased wife's Sis
ter finally has become legalized in
Great Britain, the house of lords hav
ing passed the bill sanctioning such
unions by SO to 81 votes.
Two persons were killed and several
others injured when motor car on
the Chicago, Milwaukee Electric rail-
way crashed into an ice wagon in
Glencoe, a Chicago suburb.
Little nine-year-old Ella Schrader,
daughter of John Schrader, a railroad
construction worker of Gary, Ind, was
brutally murdered and the whole town
sought in vain for her slayer.
Five New York firemen were poi
soned by smoke from burning analine
salts and may die.
The explosion of boiler in the Rob-
bins & Spencer -four and feed mills at
Scranton, Pa, resulted in the serious
injury of four persons and was re-
sponsible for fire which destroyed
the plant and that of Armour & Co.,
adjoining.
Miss linda Ethel Blaine, 25 years old,
was shot and killed in the Saratoga
hotel, Chicago, by Charles E. Andrews.
40 years old, formerly a restaurant
keeper in Elkhart, Ind, with whom
she had eloped. Andrews then CON-
mitted suicide.
Twenty-one persons were hurt when
the New York and Augusta express
on the Southern railway was thrown
from the track by a broken rail at
Red Hill, Va. The private car of Bird
M. Robinson, president of the Mobile,
Jackson & Kansas City railway, was
wrecked, but the party aboard escap-
ed uninjured.
Arrangements have been completed
for the organization of $4,000, 900
American syndicate, which plans to
develop several million acres of oil
lands in Mexico. 1t is purposed not
only to supply the Mexican market,
but to ship the product in COMPETE
ton with the Standard Oil company
Tornadoes near Ladysmith and
Whitehall, Wis, and in southern Ohio
caused several deaths and destroyed
much property.
The tug Gerry of Wilmington, DEL,
vas sunk in collision with the Brit
ish steamer Barnstable in the Pataps-
co river, Maryland, off Sporrows Point.
Five men are believed to have lost
their lives.
Charles Blondin, the once famous
tight-wire walker, who once crossed
Niagara falls on a rope, reported to
have died ten years ago, is said to be
living hermit life in West Cheshire,
Conn. Under the name of Michael
Todd he is working as jobbing car
peEter.
Four hundred union steamfitters,
bricklayers, carpenters and other
craftsmen working on the National
Bank of Commences new building in
Kansas City for the Fuller Construc-
ton company struck because the firm
employing timers on the job conducts
an open shop.
The Japanese seaport city of Hako-
date was practically destroyed by fire.
Loris Higgins, who murdered w. L..
Copple, farmer, and his wife, near
Resale, Neb., May II, was lynched at
Boucroft.
European governments are trying
vainly to purchase in America large
quantities of coal for their augmented
navies.
A crowded passenger train on the
Mohawk and Malone division of the