Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-04-17
: Gen. Lawrence 8. Baker, who was
. well-k1own confederate commander,

of FRANCE, died Of appendicitis. Is
Following his indictment on the
charge of using the mails to defraud,
returned by the federal grand jury, H.
H. Tucker, Jr, of vCherryvale,. Kan,
secretary and promoter of the Uncle
Sam Oil company, who was arrested
in Kansas City, was arraigned in the
United States district court at Topeka
and held in $4,000 bail.
Secretary Taft planned a compro-
mise between the conservatives and
liberals in Cuba whereby the island
should be turned over to the Cubans
again July 4, 1908.
Dunbar hall at Philips-Exeter aca-
denny, Exeter, N. H., was destroyed by
fire and a number of students had
narrow escapes.
Fire destroyed building in Chica-
go occupied by Hollister Bros, print
ers, and others, the loss being about
$4,000.
The answer of the Standard Oil
company of New Jersey, John d.
Rockefeller, Henry H. Rogers and
other individual defendants and about
40 of the defendant corporations to
the governments custer suit was filed
at St. Louis. 1t consisted of a gen.
eral denial of all the charges.
According to decision reached by
the interstate commerce commission
E. H. Hartman will be made to ap-
pear in a United States circuit court
in the state of New York in answer to
proceedings to be instituted to COM
pei him to reply to certain questions
which he refused to answer when he
was on the stand at the recent hear
ing by the commission in New York
A sneak thief took $1,000 from the
paving teller's cage in the State Ma
tional bank. St. Louis, and escaped.
Broken-hearted, as he said, over
losses following the recent slump in
Wall street, Samuel B. Van Siclen,
New York curb broker, shot and
killed himself.
Both branches of the Texas legisla-
ture passed law absolutely prohibit
ing the operation of bucket-shops, cot
ton exchanges or any dealings in fu-
lures in Texas.
The Minnesota house of represen-
tatives with rising vote, which the
speaker announced was nearly unani-
NOUS passed concurrent resolutions
indOrsing President Roosevelt for q
third term.
The Union of Russian Pcople
planned an attack on the Jews at Rus
sian Easter time, April %, and thou
sands of Jewish families left the coun-
try. =
President Roosevelt ended a long
contest by appointing Oscar P. Humid
ley United States Judge for the North
ern district of Alabama.
Commander Peary will start on an
other attempt to reach the pole in
June.
The Memphis Jockey club was in
dicted for permitting betting at it's
track
The Kalamazoo strike ended by the
companys yielding to all the demands
of the men except recognition of the
union.
Dr.. Simon Flexner, head of the
Rockefeller institute, New York, has
discovered a meningitis serum, but he
declines to discuss it till he has en-
perimented on human beings.
The freight steamer Sycamore, ply
ing between Oyster Bay, L. l., and
Port Chester, N. Y, went ashore on
the rocks near tho entrance of Port
Chester harbor. The crew of ten was
saved.
The Oil Paper company of Toxic
ordered $1,OO0.00O worth of machinery
from the General Electric company of
New Yozk.
The plant of the Amsterdam On.
~ Broom company, the largest indie
pendent brush and broom concern in
the country, was completely des-
troyed by fire, causing loss of $780,
OOO. William Sullivan, fireman, was
killed by falling wall.
Mrs. T. H. Ismay, widow of the
founder of the White Star Steamship
line and mother of Joseph Bruce Is-
may, president of the international
Mercantile Marine company, died in
London,
The discovery of new counterfeit
$40 (Buffalo) United States note is
announced by the United States Sc
cret service. A new counterfeit $40
national bank note has also been dis
covered, on the First National bank
OF Hereford, Texas.
Ore of the large buildings in the
League Island navy yard, Philadel-
phia, containing the saw mill, joiner
shop and pattern shop, was almost
entirely destroyed by fire. Officers at
the yard estimated the loss at be-
tween $4,000 at 100000.
Willie Sell, who has served 20 years
for the murder of his father, mother.
brother and sister in Kansas, was
pardoned by Gov. Hoch on condition
that he should not exhibit himself for
the purpose of making money.
The plant of the Columbus Dispatch
and an adjoining building were al
most destroyed by fire.
D. II. Kochersperger, formerly
treasurer of Cook count, Illinois, and
prominent in Chicago politics, is dead.
The United States supreme court
decided that the Isle of Pines is Gu
ban territory, not American.
The executive council of the Ma.
tional Civic federation decided on Chi
cago as the place, and May 2s. 20, 80
and 81 as the date for holding the ma
tional conference on combinations and
trusts. -, , H.