Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-07-31

Augustus Rooney MacDOnOugR, EGn
of the late Commodore Thomas Mao.
Donough, of the United States navy
who was in charge of the United
States fleet in the battle of Lake
Champlain, September II, 1914, is
dead at his home in New York. He
was 81 years old.
A heavy passenger train from Chi
cago on the Wisconsin Central mar.
rowly escaped being hurled into the
river at Chippewa Falls, Wis.
More than a dozen persons were
injured in rear-end collision on the
Pennsylvania railroad. An express
train ran into a freight train in the
fog. Nine will die.
Frank Tilford of New York cele-
brated his birthday by giving an out
ing to 760 little mothers''-poor girls
who bear home burdens
Maj. Eugene Coffin, U. S. A., died
at Manila from blood poisoning, his
arm having been infected by handling
money as paymaster.
Gov. Folk granted respite of 80
days to Lord" Frederick Seymour
harrington, under sentence to be
hanged at Clayton, Mo-, on July rs
for the murder of James P. Mccain.
Charles Warner, a former merchant,
while insane shot and killed Miss Es-
telle Norling in New York store.
Tew1k Pasha, the Turkish foreign
minister, has pledged the American
minister at Constantinople that no re.
currence of the recent bomb explosion
will be permitted
Fourteen persons are in a serious
condition as the result Of eating
poisoned ice cream at a family gath
ering at Mayfeld, Ky.
James Wilson, colored, died of
fright in Cincinnati after being chased
by the police and an excited mob. He
was wanted for shooting a white man.
Trying to collect an alleged debt of
25 cents cost Frank Wolliver, a young
man of Knoxville, Tenn, his life. He
was killed by Amos Oglesby, who was
arrested.
Good crops in Delaware and Mary
land are having the effect of raising
the salaries of preachers.
Miss Helen Madigan, of New York,
died of injuries received in an auto
mobile accident in which her fiance,
DR.. E. J. Gallagher, was killed.
About 400 miners were killed by an
explosion in Japanese colliery.
Karl Hau, a brilliant young law pro-
fessor, of Washington, D. c., was con-
demned to death at Karlsruhe, Ger
many, after five days trial for the
murder of his wife's mother, Frau
Molitor, a wealthy resident of Baden
Baden, in that city November 6 last
1gnacio Campisciano, his wife, Mrs
Maria Campisciano, Couagaro Gen
dusa and Tony Costa, who were tried
at Hahnville, La, on the charge Of
numbering the kidnapped Lamana child,
were sentenced to serve life terms.
After brief illness, due to the ex-
cessive heat, Capt. Bart E. Linehan,
promoter and capitalist of Dubuque,
Ia, died at a Memphis, Tenn, hotel.
Mark Twain arrived at New York
from England, in good health and
spirits.
.Hoohanes Tavshanjian, a wealthy
American importer of New York, was
killed by fellow countryman because
he had refused to help finance a re-
volt against Turkey.
Premier Clemenceau and Gen. Pic
quart made an ascension in the
French army airship La Patrie
Lawrence Petrovitch and Mrs
George Wolf were killed by the heat
at Valparaiso, Ind.
The Knox Automobile company, Of
Springfield, Mass, made a voluntary
assignment for the benefit of cred
itors. Lack of immediate capital is
said to be the cause of the assign
ment.
The Chicago limited on the North.
western railway ran into the rear Of
a meat train two and half miles
west of Belle PLANE, a., killing an
Idaho stockman and injuring two
others.
After frustrating an attempted coup
d'etat by the deposed Korean emperor
and Selling the palace and govern
ment arsenals, the Japanese in Seoul
declared they had gained control of
the situation.
Henry Scutcheon, a farmer who
lived near Nunica, Mich, went in
sane, murdered his paralytic son, his
wife and his foster father-in-law with
an ak, attempted suicide and was shot
dead by neighbor whose life he
threatened.
The Southern Railway company was
fined 100000, and Thomas J. Green,
ticket agent of the company, fined five
dollars in the state court at Raleigh,
N. c., for selling railroad tickets at
rate in excess of that provided by the
recent state law for a uniform rate
of two and one-fourth cents a mile in
North Carolina.
In the United States district court
at Cheyenne, Wyo., E. M. Holbrook, a
millionaire, E. E. Lonabaugh, promi-
nent attorney, and Robert McPhil-
lamey, a we'll known business man of
Sheridan, were found guilty of con-
spiracy to defraud the United States
government of coal lands in Sheridan
county.
Fifteen thousand men employed by
the United States Steel corporation
and Independent mine owners on the
Vermilion and Mesaba ranges went
out on strike for a wage increase,
paralyzing the entire iron ore industry
of the upper Lake Superior region.
An uprising in Oriente, Cuba,
caused by foolish notion that the