Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-10-09

900 persons from all parts of the coun-
try. President Roosevelt was the
orator of the day.
Mae Catherine Wood, the former
government clerk who has been suing
United States Senator Thomas c..
Platt for several years, brought action
in the New York supreme court for
absolute divorce from the senator, al
leging that she had been married to
him in the Fifth Avenue hotel, New
York. in 1901.
Politicians from all parts of Illinois
gathered at Springfield for their an
nual love feast" in conjunction with
the state fair.
Samuel Bolin, social favorite OF
New Rochelle, N. Y. who was arrest
ed for burglary forfeited his bonds.
His wife admitted he was bartender
and the police said he was an ex-con-
vict.
James A. Moffett, president of the
Standard Oil company of Indiana, ar
rived in Chicago in response to SUBJ
poena ordered by Judge Lands for the
purpose of placing before the special
federal grand jury an explanation OF
his charges that practically every
other shipper in the Chicago-Whiting
district is guilty of accepting unlawful
concessions from the railroads.
Secretary of State Root and party
were warmly welcomed to Mexico City
and were housed in the castle OF
Chapultepec.
John O'Grady, a South Dakota pio-
neer, was mysteriOusly murdered near
Sioux Falls and his widow was held
under restraint.
Lieut.. John M. Furze, of the battle
ship Illinois, was killed during storm
by being thrown against hatch.
1t was announced in Stockholm that
the Swedish Yacht club would issue
a challenge for the Americas cup.
Leonard J. Clarkson, manager OF
the Norwich university football team,
died at Hanover, N. H., as the result
of an injury received in a football
game.
Booker T. Washington bought Gov.
Corners two plantations in Alabama
to establish colonies of negroes.
John Miller shot and killed Mrs.
Rose Pier, of Pittsburg, Pa, said to
have been his sweetheart, and then
committed suicide in Walnut Grove, a
suburb of Johnstown, Pa.
A combination has been made be-
tween two powerful American-Cana
dian and British groups Of capitalists
for the construction and operation Of
electric lighting, traction and power
systems in Mexico, which. will repre-
sent an initial investment of fully $751;
100000.
Joseph Crews, a farmer, shot and
MORALLY wounded Mrs. Sallie Suther-
land and then committed suicide at
Glasgow, Mo.
Two mail clerks were injured and
two locomotives demolished in a head.
end collision near Anaconda, Mo-, be-
tween a south-bound passenger train
and freight train.
The De Beers Diamond company,
commonly called the trust, and it's
pl4uNApo1 4AOOpVANOAC NOAApOLAtOAS, Az
Guiding the Premier company, have
formed a pool, according to cable ad-
vices received by New York dealers.
Funeral services for Caroline May
Sappa at Moran, Kan, were halted by
the authorities, who declared they
had startling information" bearing on
the alleged murder Of the girl by an
unknown assailant.
Five hundred longshoremen and
transfers went on strike at New Or
leans, and the strike is expected to
involve 5000 men along the water
front.
One man, an ambulance attendant.
was killed and three, including Bob
by Walthour, the American rider,
were seriously injured during a race
on the Spandau bicycle track at Ber-
lin.
John Smith, the centenarian of St..
Croix county, and the second settler
in northern Wisconsin, is dead at the
age of 1O3.
Frederick Dahringer, engineer at
the Sharon (Pa.) plant of the Ameri-
can Steel Foundry company, was MUIR
dered by being shot in the head with
a rifle.
Bishop Satterlee laid the founda-
tion of the Episcopal cathedral Of
Saints Peter and Paul in Washington.
President Roosevelt spoke and the
bishop of London delivered the salu-
tation.
Eight men were killed and score
injured, four fatally, when the Chica~
go & Wheeling express on the Balti-
more &, Ohio railroad crashed into q
freight train at siding near Bel.
laire, o.
The summer camp of the Oklahoma
National guard at Fort Reno was de.
stroyed by prairie fire.
With hands tied behind him and
clothes weighted with stones, the
body of an unidentified man was
found floating in the Chicago river
near it's mouth
Captains of several American fish
ing vessels reported that their papers
were seized by Russian gunboat in
the Okhotsk sea.
Gov. Deneen appointed commits
sion to revise the school laws of ILL.,
nOis.
Herr Woelflng, formerly Archduke
Leopold Salvatore of Austria, is en-
gagged to marry Maria Ritter, the
daughter of humble Siberian.
Japanese pirates looted an Alaskan
village on Southwest Kodiak island.
Matt McGrath, representative! Of
the New York Athletic club, in Kan