Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-07-10

Gals have appealed to the interstat
commerce commission and the West
ern Passenger association men to ali
| the state in securing one cent a mil
rates for harvest hands from eastern
! points. -
Honduras, Guatemala and Salvado
have formed combination to oppos
the project of President Zelaya, o
Nicaragua, to unite the five Contra
American republics.
Damage of $150,000 was caused b,
fire In Minneapolis when the block il
Nicollet avenue, occupied by the W
X. Morrison hardware concern, wa
ruined. Spontaneous combustion o
fireworks is thought to have been tn
cause.
The city of Philadelphia came to tn
rescue of the Philadelphia Rapi'
Transit company, assuming all it
debts and giving up its rights to taxi
away the franchise.
OF the 498 sudden deaths reported
to the New York coroner's Office il
June 236 were due to violence or acci
dent, Is were killed by street railway
and three by autos.
Christopher Braas, a Jamaica q. l..
farmer, was robbed and murdered neal
Richmond Hill, while driving home
from market.
August Weber and Victoria Grippe
were crushed to death by huge
bowlder which fell from the wall o.
the Pennsylvania railroad tunnel I'm
der Second avenue near East Thirty
second street, New York.
Embezzlement of 100000 by Herr
Woelke, manager of the Marienbure
bank in Germany, is reported as one
of the factors in the failure of that
institution.
Mayor Mcclellan, of New York, per"
suaded the striking garbage collectors
to return to work by promising to
take up their grievances.
Cloudbursts in Cleveland and Pitts
burg did great damage to property.
There was fear of an Indian up
rising at Mcdowell agency, Ariz., be.
cause a white man killed an Apache.
officers of the Commercial Teleg-
raphers' union began active prepare
lions for extending the strike, pre-.
sumably to Kansas City, st. Louis and
Chicago.
The government decided to concen-
trate the main fighting strength of the
navy in the Pacific with base at Homo
lulu.
E. H. Hartman ordered that here
after full details of all accidents on
his railway lines shall be given
promptly to the press.
The observatory at Belen college,
Havana, reported a severe earthquake
about S51 miles to the south. The
oscillations lasted upwards of an hour
The Citizens bank of Eureka
Springs, Ark, suspended payment and
J. w. Digby was appointed receiver.
Jennie Rehle, daughter of John E.
Rehle. aged Is years, was assaulted
and murdered in strip Of woods near
her home at Wausau, Wis. Two men
were arrested on suspicion.
Nine Italians, two of them women,
were indicted for murder at New Or
leans in the Lamana kidnapping.
The corporation of Dublin decided
to confer the freedom of the city upon
Richard Croker, whose horse, Orby,
won the derby at EPSON and the Irish
derby.
The Prudential Insurance company
announced that, following the example
of a number of other life Insurance
companies, it would withdraw from
Texas.
J. A. Corey, travelling salesman for
wholesale harness establishment,
was shot and instantly killed by
Charles Gloe, liveryman of the town
of Hallam, Neb.
Mrs. French, wife of the salvation
army commandant of the Pacific
coast, has offered to go to the leper
island of Molokai for mission work
and has expressed a willingness to
consecrate her life to the cause.
Over tenantless grave in Fair
mount cemetery in Denver, Col, the
Woodmen of the World unveiled a
monument to the memory of the late
head consul, F. A. Falkenburg. Mrs.
Falkenburg Falls, daughter of the
dead man, objects to the use of her
fathers name on the monument.
During the year ended Saturday
$223, 100000 was collected in customs
duties at New York-$23, 200, 900 more
than in the preceding year.
The steamers Senlac and Rosalind
collided in Halifax harbor and the for
mer sank. No lives were lost.
The French government has pro-
hibited the annual pilgrimage to
Lourdes because of the agitation in
the south.
Mrs. Carrie c. Lomax, one of the
most noted women in Alabama, died
at Montgomery aged 81. She was the
widow of Col. Tennent Lomax, who
was killed at the battle of Seven
Pines.
-Four hundred journeymen plumbers
went on strike in St. Louis because
the master plumbers refused to &C.
cede to demand for an increase of
wages from IS to Sc day.
Dock Posey, a white man who con-
fessed to attacking his nine-year-old
stepdaughter, was taken from jail at
Dalton, Ca, and lynched by a mob.
A number of persons were killed
in the province of Valdivia, Chile, by
the formation of a lake of boiling
water due to eruptions of a new vol.
cano.
c. c. Clark, checker champion of
Ohio, and known all over the country