Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-22
BRIEF REVIEW Of:
A Weeks EVENTS
: RECORD OF THE MOST IMPoR.
TANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEM.
lied FORM.
HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS

Information Gathered from All Quar-
tiers OF the Civilized World and
Prepared for the PerusaI of the
Busy Man.
Abraham Ruef, former political boss
Of San Francisco, astounded that city
by pleading guilty to extortion. He
will be sent to prison. In remarka.
bic statement he barred his soul, tell
Ing of the political ring he created
and how, unwillingly, he says, it drew
him into maze of corruption.
The president plans criminal action
against E. H. Hartman for his railway
deals based on finding of special in.
vestigators.
Clashes between counsel during ex-
animation of jurors in Haywood trial
at Boise forced the court to interfere
and presages bitter contest.
Storms and frost in various locali-
ties caused damage, snowfall in the
northwest establishing a new record.
Judge Wood at st. Louis decided H.
Clay Pierce must be delivered to a
Texas sheriff, but he appealed and
was held in $4,000 bonds.
The Illinois senate passed resolu-
iion to adjourn to October Is without
taking action on the deep waterway
bills, and it becomes known that the
interests Of big Joliet power CON-
pany block legislation.
Secretary Wilson says that Chicago
packers are heartily cooperating in
enforcing the pure food law and that
their plants are models of sanitary
conditions.
Twenty-one persons are placed in
the roll of heroes by the Carnegie hero
fund commission at Pittsburg, which
awards medals to those who risked
their lives for others, or to relatives
of those who died in performing heroic
deeds.
Bad river, south of Ashland, Wis,
has overf1owed it's banks and is the
highest in years. The village Of
Odanah is flooded and one third of the
inhabitants have been forced from
their homes.
The village of Finch, Ont, has been
almost wiped out by fire. On Monday
night there was $4,000 blaze, which
started up again Tuesday night, caus.
ing additional damage of $4,000.
Fire at Mccain. N. D., destroyed the
St. Anthony and Dakota elevator, the
Imperial elevator, the Great Northern
depot, house ard barn and box car.
Loss, $4,000.
The sheriff destroyed $4,000 worth
Of liquor in the street at Independ-
ence, Kan. The liquor was seized some
time ago from saloons in the county.
The destruction was witnessed by an
immense crowd of people.
Oliver Dalrymple says the wheat
acreage of North Dakota is greatly re-
duced. owing to the backward season.
The total crop of the country will be
l00.000,O00 bushels short, he says.
Later returns from the Austrian
elections show enormous gains by the
socialists and anti-Semites.
The extensive forest fires which
have been raging in President and
Pine Grove townships, Venango coun-
ty. Pa, covering an area of ten square
miles, are believed to be under con-
troll. The timber loss is estimated at
$4,000.
President Roosevelt received Rear
Admiral Huet De Bacellar, command
ing the Brazilian feet now at Hamp-
ton roads, and the personal officers of
his fleet and his staff, who are the
guests of the United States govern
ment.
William Kenney, an employee of the
Walker distillery at Walkerville, Ont,
just across the Detroit river from De-
troit, was drowned in a vat of whisky
mash.
OF five Italians who came to Cranes
vile, near Amsterdam, N. Y, from
schenectady to seek work on the con-
struction Of the barge canal, three
were drowned by the capsizing of
boat in which they were rowing across
the Mohawk river.
On plea of guilty to charge of
murder in the second degree John
Stapp, Is years Of age, was sentenced
by Judge Williams in St. Louis to 80
years in the penitentiary.
Russian reactionists met and de-
manded stringent laws for the guard
ing Of public safety.
witnesses at the senate investiga-
ton of the Brownsville ARRAY at
Washington testified to seeing the
negro troops firing their guns during
the riot.
The supreme court of Kansas grant
ed a writ to GUST Peter Everhardy.
mayor Of Leavenworth, from, ONCE
Tor failure to enforce the laws against
saloons and other resorts. . '..@'.}E , :
Thieves stole q searchlight weigh
Ing 200 pounds from the top Of q
building in Chicago. -: @
Elias Hartz. famous "goosebone'
weather prophet, OF Reading, Pa,
whose predictions usually came true.
died at the age Of 80 years. = h
Two masked highwaymen held I'm a
station agent Of the Chicago Metropol-'
1tan elevated road and escaped with
$12. z:'@.
Abraham Hummel, the New York
b lawyer who was convicted of conspir-
acy in the Dodge Morse divorce case.
was sentenced to one year in state
prison and to pay fine OF $500.
8 Mrs. Michael Pendergast, Of Sterl-
+ inc, Ill, stepped on q match, set fire
70 her clothing and burned to death.
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