Willmar tribune., 1907-11-27

Representative Bartholdt OF Mis-
souri, will introduce in the next con-
gress bills for a $500.000,000 bond is
sue for great waterway improvement
and to give legal status to the inland
waterways commission.
After being chased for several
blocks by Count Szechenyi, fiance OF
Miss Gladys Vanderbilt. and Munson
Morris, a wealthy clubman, F. G. Per-
rett. photographer, was arrested and
given small fine for annoying the
count and party of women by at
tempting to take flashlight pictures.
Ex-Congressman William Lathrop of
Rockford, ILL.,, was run down by q
horse and died of his injuries.
OF three prisoners who escaped from
jail at Carson City. New, two were
captured after a chase and a revolver
duel and the other committed suicide.
Kaiser Wilhelm left $4,000 to be
divided up among the servants at
Windsor castle as tips before he de-
parted for Highcliffe castle.
In collision on the Vandalia line
between two fast trains near Vevay
Park, ILL.,, Engineer Joseph McCleenen
of the east-bound train was killed.
An expedition of scientists headed
by Director w. w. Campbell of Lick
observatory will sail from San Fran
cisco for Flint island, in the southern
Pacific, where they plan to witness
the eclipse of the sun January 3.
Frank H. Warner was convicted in
New York of murder in the second de-
gree for the killing of Esther G. Nor
ling on July 23 last.
In head-on collision between a
freight train and an engine running
light on the Wheeling & Lake Erie
railroad, just south of Steubenville, O.,
Engineer Martin Gilday was killed,
two trainmen perhaps fatally injured
and two others seriously hurt.
Murder in the second degree with
a recommendation for the minimum
sentence of ten years Imprisonment
was the verdict returned by the jury
at Boulder, COL, in the case of J. w.
Reeve, a railroad brakeman, who set
the fire in the Colorado & Southern
railway yards which caused the explo-
sion of a carload of dynamite, killing
three men.
Worry over the financial situation
caused Oscar Nelson, a wealthy busi-
ness man of Rockford, ILL.,, to commit
suicide by inhaling Illuminating gas.
Mrs. Alfred Steckler, wife of form
er Supreme Court Justice. Steckler, of
New York, died from injuries received
in an automobile accident.
Commodore H. D. Buckman. an
American and naval adviser to the
sultan, has been promoted to the rank
of rear admiral in the Turkish navy
with the title of pasha.
Fire in Peoria, Ill.,, destroyed several
large business buildings, the loss be-
ing 100000.
A threatened strike of Lackawanna
switchmen was checked by a tenn
porary injunction issued by Federal
Judge Hazel at Buffalo, N. Y
Inhabitants of the province Of
Calabria, Italy, were again driven
from the towns by earthquake shocks.
William Bayles, of Columbus, O.,
killed his wife and shot himself, CIV
ing jealousy as the reason.
It was discovered in France that
photographs of the body furnish GER
tain test of death.
The presidential boom of Senator
Robert M. La Toilette, of Wisconsin,
received its Minnesota launching at
a banquet given at the Commercial
club of St. Paul under the auspices Of
the Minnesota Shippers and Receiv-
ers' association.
Senator J. H. Bankhead. of Fayette,
Ala, was reported dangerously i'll Of
typhoid pneumonia.
The City National bank of Freder-
ick. Okla, with $4,000 capital, was
unable to open for business because
OF failure to realize on its securities
sent cast.
Six inches Of snow fell over west
ern Nebraska.
A resolution petitioning the national
government to retain the motto In
God We Trust" on gold coins was
adopted by the members of the Pres
byterian Ministers association of
New York city.
Levi c. Lincoln, president of the
Woonsocket Electric Light & Power
company of Providence, r. l., who had
confessed to the eembezzlement of funds,
was sentenced on two charges, to
serve a term OF two years imprison-
ment Oh each charge.
The supreme court OF the United
States, in the suit over the consolida-
tiOn Of the cities of Pittsburg and Al.
legheuy. declared the act valid.
The Marconi wireless station at
Siasconset. Mass. was destroyed by
fire.
Prince Charles of Bourbon was mar
rfed to Princess Louise of France at
Wood Norton, England, in the pres
ence Of about 40 members of royal
families.
Charles H. Seitz. formerly general
manager of the Michigan Telephone
company at Detroit, died in Chicago
from pneumonia.
John c. Jeans, a day laborer of
Ludington, Mich. has been bequeathed
$1,O0O,000 by his aunt, Anna T. Jeans
Of Philadelphia.
The fiscal year for the state Of
Ohio closed with a cash balance in
the treasury Of $5,08l, ,850.95. an in.
crease of $1.335.S17 compared with the
previous year. which was a record.
breaker for revenues.