Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-01
BRIEF REVIEW Of
A Weeks EVENTS
RECORD OF THE MOST lMPOR-
TANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEM
lied FORM.
HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS

Information Gathered from All Quar-
tiers of the Civilized World and
Prepared for the Perusal Of the
Busy Man.
Thaddeus Stevens Ross, of Oil City,
Pa, was shot and killed few hours
before the time set for his wedding,
by Miss Belle Stroup, his former
sweetheart, who then committed sui
eide.
A treaty of peace was signed at
Amapala by the representatives OF
Nicaragua and Salvador. Another
revolution in Honduras in favor of
Manuel Bonilla was started.
The fishing letter Searchlight of
Harbor Beach. Mich. was believed to
have sunk in Lake Huron with her
crew Of six men.
Gov. Cummins, of Iowa. in letter
to an editor said he thought it was
President Roosevelt's duty to yieldito
the popular demand and run for the
presidency again.
Fire in Allegheny, Pa, destroyed
the plant of the Zoeller Packing COM
pany, the loss being about 100000.
Ed Tate. safe-blower. who was held
In Peoria, Ill.,. on the charge of blow
ing the school board safe and Destroy
ing the y. c. Dougherty script. es-
capped from the ST. Francis hospital.
Sherwood hall, frame dormitory
connected with Park college, Park
vile, Mo, and onestory frame build
ing used as dining hall were des-
troyed by fire The dormitory was
occupied by 80 girls.
1hree-story brick building, occu-
pied as pattern shop and storehouse
at the navy yard at kittery, Me-, was
ruined by fire.
Spectators at the sportsmen's show
in Duquesne gardens. Pittsburg, were
thrown into panic by the bursting
of huge tank containing 100000 gal
ions of water.
Theodore Schmitt, one of the best
known architects in Ohio, was thrown
from an automobile in Cleveland and
probably fatally injured.
Three thousand people in mass
meeting at Albuquerque united in
protest against the resignation of
Gov. II. J. Hagernan of New Mexico,
which was requested by President
Roosevelt.
Former Gov. Jennings Of Florida
and President Lincoln HUXLEY, of Stet.
son university at DeLand, came to
blows in a Tallahassee hotel lobby
over movement in the legislature to
secure an amendment in the univer.
sity's charter to prevent the board of
trustees perpetuating itself
Wolfram c. Fuchs. an X-ray expert
of international reputation and one of
the original opponents Of its use in
this country. died at his residence in
Chicago Of carcinoma. induced by
burns received two years ago during
his scientific researches.
One man was killed, two seriously
burned and the American Insulating
Material Manufacturing company's
plant damaged to the extent Of $4,000
by an explosion Of a large blast fur
mace at Alexandria, Ind.
Capt. \. T. Smith, the veteran
treasurer Of the Southern Pacific
Railway company. died at his home
1t San Carlos. San Mateo county,
alysis, caused death.
Gifts to Kemper hall, Kenosha
Wis, to the amount of $4,000 were
announced to clear away outstanding
debts of the school and to provide for
improvements during the coming
summer
Jasper Maxwell and Mrs. Maude
Maxwell were drowned in the Big
Sandy river, Kentucky, while fording
the stream on horseback. They were
married only three days.
New York harbor firemen had a
hard fight with fire which destroyed
the freight steamer Pioneer, causing
loss of $4,000
The pulp mill of the Lake Superior
corporation located in the Canadian
500, across the river from Sault Ste.
Marie, Mich, burned The loss is
100000.
The drought conditions in Cuba are
growing worse and the Santiago wa
ter supply is cut off.
Antonio 1nfante died near Santiago,
aged $50. He was born 10 years be.
fore the American revolution began.
1t has been discovered that the for
tune left by John Porterfleld, the AL
]egheny banker, is nearer $1,000, 900
than $4,000, as he supposed.
Several thousand skilled workmen
who had been discharged from the ar
senal at Woolwich, England, marched
to London and protested to the pre-
mier and war secretary.
Samuel Conkle was arrested at
Chester, w. Va, charged with selling
tickets of Mexican lottery.
Secretary of War Taft and party re-
turned to Washington from their Car
ibbean trip.
William T. Davidge, an actor who
tried to kill Miss Rosalie D. Wilbert,
a trained nurse when she refused to
marry him, was sentenced in New
York to one-year in Jail.
Serious disorders have occurred
in Cairo, Egypt, as result of strike
of the cab drivers and tramway en-
ployes of the city. British troops are
patrolling the chief thoroughfares to
preserve order.
Four children of John H. Green
were burned to death at Fulton, Ky.