Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-06-26

Thomas Trevor, Of Cincinnati, su,
perintendent OF the H. & S. Pogue Co,
and Alfred Trever, of the same COM
pany, were killed in an automobile &C
cident.
Nearly 1000 delegates from trans.
Missouri states gathered at the open.
ing of the public lands convention in
Denver.
Prof. Alexander Stewart Herschel,
the distinguished astronomer, died at
the observatory house, Slough, Bucks,
where his grandfather, Sir William
Herself, and Sir John Herschel made
most of their world famous discover
les.
Fire, which broke cut in MarshalIs
general store, Harlowton, Mont, from
a gasoline explosion, practically de.
stroyed the village. The loss is $685.
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Antoine Myer, IL years of age; Liz.
zie Myer, Ida Myer, sisters; Mrs
Myer, mother. and Mrs. John Herter
sister of Mrs. Myer, were drowned>a
Monahan, Wash.
Lieut.. William Stewart, of the Elev.
enth Pennsylvania infantry in the
civil war, was killed by sunstroke at
the soldiers home, Leavenworth, Kas.
The Brazilian government may de-
eide to call upon coffee planters to de-
stroy the entire crop of 1908, as San
Paulo has suggested.
George Hussey Earle, one of the
best known citizens of Philadelphia,
died, aged "a years. Mr.. Earle was a
personal friend of Abraham Lincoln.
Big Four passenger train No. 10,
one of the fastest on the New York
Central lines, was ditched by an open
switch at Columbus, O., and five per-
sons were badly injured.
Forest fires did great damage in the
upper peninsula of Michigan and in
northern Ontario.
The San Francisco board of super
visors adopted resolution declaring
Mayor Eugene Schmitz temporarily
unable to perform his official duties
and appointing Supervisor James L..
Gallagher acting mayor.
The bodies of three of the midship-
men drowned at Hampton roads were
found in Chesapeake bay. They were
those of P. A. Field, Virginia; w. H.
Stevenson, North Carolina, and F. P.
Holcomb, Delaware.
According to an agreement and an
order by Federal Judge Mcpherson at
Kansas City, Missouri's two-cent fare
law is to be given a three-months'
trial, after which the railways may
fight it if they find the rate is unre-
munerative.
Louis H. Van Ripper, a New York
broker, testified that Edwin H:
Holmes, Jr., supplied him and others
with advance information of the cot
ton crop bulletins and was given a
share of the profits, and later became
a regular partner with the brokers.
Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi,
it was said, was persuaded by Marquis
Ito and the elder statesmen to consent
to the recall of Ambassador Aoki. It
sent to Washington.
The crew of Russian torpedo boat
at Sebastopol fired blank torpedo at
a launch in which was Rear Admiral
Wren. The admiral narrowly es-
capped death.
Plans of the mutinous Black sea
feet to lombard Odessa and other
cities were foiled by the prompt &C.
ton of Admiral Tseftsinsky.
Capt Horace Fairfax = Moseby
Browne, of the British army, and his
fiancee, Miss Maud Vera Hanna,
daughter of the late Joseph H. Hanna,
of Cincinnati, were injured in an auto
mobile accident in Washington on the
eve of their wedding day.
Senator Foraker, of Ohio, gave
out a written statement summing up
the testimony taken by the senate
committee on military affairs in the
Brownsville inquiry and declaring
that it fails to show that any soldier
took part in the ARRAY.
Herbert G. Laing, prominent attor-
ney of Colorado Springs, was drowned
while bathing in the surf at Venice
Cal.
The entire business section of
Wayne City, a village near Mount Ver-
non, ILL.,, was destroyed by fire. It is
estimated that the loss will total $4O.-
900,
Gov. Conner, of Alabama, appointed
former Congressman J. H. Bankhead
senator to succeed the late John T.
Morgan.
Eighteen passengers were injured,
three fatally, in wreck of east-bound
passenger train No. on the Santa Fe.
near Earl, Col.
Benjamin T. Steinhardt, a member
of the recently dissolved firm of Howe
& Hummel, of New York, who was un-
der Indictment in connection with the
Morse-Dodge divorce case, died of To-
comotor ataxia
Masked robbers entered the home
of James Rush, a farmer near Niles,
o., and brutally assaulted Mrs. Rush.
After beating her severely one of the
men fired bullet into her arm.
Col. Alexander Hogeland, known as
the newsboys, FRIEND" was found
dead in bed in the Murray hotel
Omaha. His home was at Louisville,
Ky.
An automobile plunged over a high
at Sanbornvi1le, N. H.,
fatally injuring DR.. Ben Hicks Met
calf, head of Metcalf's hospital, Win
throp, Mass; Mrs. Metcalf and Miss
matron of the Metcalf hos
pital.
Mrs. Simon Dufriche of New Or.