Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-15
The Illinois house passed the new
Chicago charter bill and the local

The Illinois house passed the new
Chicago charter bill and the local
'1 ssyea Il Ions on urhlsh troops,
about 600 mSn, werss practically an
initiated m . battle With rebels in the
province ot Yemen, Tur kish Arabia.
Gen. Juan Estrada, of the Nicarag-
uan army, was appointed commandant
of Peurto Cortez, in place of the Hon
duran commandant. =. .:......-... -. III.
+ Three thousand operatives of tex
tile mills in the state of 3Orizaba. Me1-
leo, went on strike and only a large
/ force sofs@rurales %kepts them from io-s
lence.,, b.. .,ss,z4w ....,s.s. .u....
| priest McPherson, aged 2s, sonsSof :
prominent cotton manufacturer Of On
tario, Canada, was drowned in the
plunge at Gregson Springs, Mont.
George w. Sheppard, probably the
largest man in the central states,
weighing 535 pounds, died at Jack
sonville, ILL.,. Of paralysis. He was 81
years old. .,.
Counsel for William Haywood, at
Boise, Idaho, argued for a bill of par
ticulars that would disclose the states
case, and were opposed by Senator
Borah for the prosecution.
A storm of wind and rain which was
general throughout a considerable
area In northern Texas and which at
some places assumed the proportions
of tornado, resulted in the loss of
at 1oocf fhron %h4 irS, ~
many other persons and great damage
to property and crops. Several vii
lagos were wiped out.
A strike of $50 laborers in the Have
meyer Sugar Refining company's plant
in Brooklyn was attended with some
disturbance which the police reserves
were called upon to quel.
A sanguinary quarrel between
band of Kabyles and a number of
phosphate miners from the Methouia
mine in Algeria resulted in the killing
of Is men and the wounding of many
more.
Six men, ALLEGED to be the leaders
of the mob that lynched a negro at
Sterrett, l. IT,, on March 81, Were ar
rested at Durant and Sterrett by the
United States marshal and held for
the grand jury without bail on the
charge of murder.
James Leftwich, wealthy cattle
man of Loco, I. T., and candidate for
state senator on the Democratic ticket,
shot and killed T.. J. Clark, also a
wealthy cattleman, as the result Of
feud.
Allie Beeson, is years old, daughter
of a farmer living near Cassville, Mo-,
was rendered unconscious by falling
hail, and may die.
Rev. Henry Bryant, colored
preacher of Bridgeport, O., was killed
in Grand Rapids, Mich, by folding
bed closing and breaking his neck.
The street car motormen and con-
ductors of San Francisco struck for an
eight-hour day and fiat wage of three
dollars. The company announced that
1t would operate its cars with non
union crews, calling on the authorities
for protection if necessary.
Max Francis Keeper, artist and
illustrator, died at his home at Flat
bush, N. Y. He was an animal painter
Of note, 46 years old.
Miss Harriet r. Haskell, for 40
years head of Monticello seminary for
young ladies at Godfrey, ILL.,, died of
heart trouble, aged 70.
DR.. George Collins, young physi-e
clan of Cincinnati, on his way to that
city to be married, died in a Pullman
car of north-bound train at Mont
gomery, Ala.
A dispatch from klamath Falls,
Ore, says Count Otto Won Walderstein,
CAL, is alive and we'll at klamath
Falls.
Three children named Dominique
were burned to death in Blind River,
Mich.
Fire in the printing plant Of the
Blanchard Press New York, did $685..
600 damage.
The trial of three former employees
of the Shelby Steel Tube company,
charged with conspiracy to defraud
the government by supplying defec-
tive boiler tubes for war vessels, was
begun in Pittsburg. One of the de-
PENDANTS pleaded guilty and turned
states evidence.
Theodore Nemoyer . brought suit
against the Chicago-New York Electric
Air Line Railway company in Chicago,
to enjoin it from doing business in
Illinois. and asking an accounting and
the appointment of receiver.
More than 100 Italians in Buffalo,
N. Y, attacked a motorman who ran
his car through parade, and were
routed by a score of police after a
bloody battle.
Ten persons were injured when a
Santa Fe passenger train was derailed
at Norborne. Mo. Il
In letter read before the Central
Federated Union Of New York, Presi-
dent Roosevelt stated that if evidence
is submitted to him showing that
there has been a miscarriage of
Justice for or against Meyer and Hay
wood, awaiting trial at Boise, Idaho,
charged with the murder of former
Gov: Steuenberg, he will bring such
evidence to the. attention. of the at.
torney general for such action, If any,
as it may be- in the power Of the fed
eral authorities to take. The COM
munication was the formal reply of
the president to the committee of the
union which called upon the presi-
dent in Washington Il T.. >:.,5.4..s.s :. :,
George B. Butler, portrait painter,