Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-10-16

Wells, -. -. ~, married NJ tuo Cuapel
Royal, in London, Marion Leigh Dix
on, youngest daughter of Hugh Dix
on, of Sydney, Australia.
Fred Butt, of Columbus, O., shot
and killed his wife, after attempting
to force carbolic acid down her throat,
and then took acid himself, after
shooting himself in the head.
Receivers were appointed Wednes-
day on the application of Alexander
II. Robertson with the assent If Tho
company, for the Farmers Trust
Banking & Deposit company, of Phil
adelphia.
From statements culled from ledgers
and books found in the offices of the
Standard Oil company Frank B. Kel-
logg, counsel for the United States
government, succeeded in placing on
the record of the federal proceedings
against the oil combine the processes
and stages through which the COM
bine passed in it's changes from the
old Standard Oil trust to the present
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey
AS a result of it's investigation of
the so-called little black book" the
federal grand jury at Minneapolis re-
turned 10 indictments against we'll
known lumber men and officers of the
Northwestern Lumbermen's associa-
ton charging conspiracy to defraud
by the use of the mails.
The first test ride by army officers,
which was ordered by President
Roosevelt to determine the horseman-
ship of those of higher rank than cap
tain, was made by party of 10 who
made a good showing.
Chinese merchants of Shanghai
gave reception for Secretary of War
Taft in which Chinese women of aris-
tocratic families participated, thing
which never before took place in
China.
Notwithstanding the increased cost
of -four, the Winconsin Master Bakers
association at Milwaukee decided not
to increase the price of bread.
G. P. Gardner, of Harvard, won the
intercollegiate lawn tennis champion
ship in singles on the courts of the
Merton Cricket club at Haverford.
Samuel F.. Whitlow, a merchant of
lola, Kan. confessed that Miss May
Sapp of Moran, Kan, killed herself
because of her unrequited love for
him.
Gov. Buchtel and two bank presi-
tents of Denver received Internal ma
chimes that were mailed by Kemp v.
Bigelow to gain notoriety and reward
He confessed in time for the men to
be warned.
E. H. Hartman and his policies
were Endorsed in resolution passed
at the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Union Pacific Railroad
company in Salt Lake City.
Railway Commissioner Williams,
after an inspection of the Missouri
Pacific tracks in Nebraska, pro-
nounced the roadbed unsafe.
The Cubs of Chicago, champions
of the National league, and the
Tigers" of Detroit, American league
champions, played IL innings to tie
in the first of the worlds champion
ship games in Chicago The score
was to 3.
Policeman Anton Bachman of Gin
cinnatl was shot and killed by Peter
Clarity, plumber, who was intoxi-
Gated.
Jose Gutierrez, aged 70, died at
Yaleta, few miles below Ell Paso,
Tex. He drank whisky up to 20.
A tornado near Leeds, Ca, caused
the death of Is persons, who were
hit by falling trees and timbers. The
damage to property was enormous.
For the second time since the Ger
man bank of Buffalo, n Y, closed it's
doors, Eugene A. Georger, a former
president, was acquitted on criminal
charges in connection with the wreck
ing of the bank.
A storm of almost hurricane force
which swept over New York did
much damage and caused great in
convenience both on land and water.
West Springfield (Mass.) boarding
housekeepers formed boarding.
house union and decided to raise the
price of board from five to six dollars
a week.
Forty of the 43 defendants in the
governments suit to dissolve the So
called powder trust entered an ap-
pearance in the federal court at Will
mington, Del.
The Cuban labor organizations at a
meeting in Havana adopted a reso-
luton to order general strike, call
ing out all the unions in the island, if
the railways employ the strike-break-
ers from New York.
E. T. Osborne, bookkeeper for the
Green Canon Coal company, was shot
and instantly killed at Denver, Co..,
by E. L. Pierce, claim accountant
for the Denver & Rio Grande railroad.
The Lakes-to-the-Gulf Waterways
association began it's second annual
meeting in Memphis. President
Roosevelt addressed the gathering
and then departed for Lake Provi-
dence, La, for hunting trip.
President Roosevelt announced that
he would call a convention to be held
in Washington January next, to ad-
vocate the preservation and conserva-
ton of the natural resources of the
country, including coal, water.power,
oil, etc.
Gen. Nord Alexis, president of Hay
tt, was reported to be dangerously i'll.
Unionists in Odessa renewed their
anti-semitfc outrages, brutally beating
many Jews.
The British government accepted