Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-03-20

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i the commander of the battleship;
Capt. Vertier, chief of stan of the Med
iterranean squadron, and from 20 to
so bluejackets were killed and Rear
! Admiral SManceron aud hundreds of
other men were injured: e.: T.
Trinity: college, a school for negroes,
located at Athens, Ala, and owned by
the Congregational Society of New
York. was destroyed by fire.
Roll calls show that the probable
number of deaths resulting from the
| explosion on the French battleship
lena at Toulon is 120.
Pat Egee, an insane farmer who
lived near Hill City, Kan, shot and
killed J. J. Plumb, neighbor, and
then forced another neighbor to hand
him some poison, with which he com.
| mitted suicide.
Mrs. S. n. Castle, an early mission.
airy in the Hawaiian islands, died at
| Honolulu. aged 80 years.
Harry H. Blake, well known Eng
lish actor who had been leading man
with Crane, Gillette and Nat Goodwin,
died at Colorado Springs, Col, OF
tuberculosis.
]. S. Nixon, president of whole
sale grocery firm and one of the most
prominent men in Augusta, Ca, was
arrested on a charge of violating the
bankruptcy laws by accepting more
than the ten per cent. that was due
him.
Engineer kellogg and his fireman
we're killed in wreck on the Chicago
| Great Western railroad at Dubuque.
Fifteen persons were crushed when
a Southern Pacific freight engine
crashed into Maple avenue street
car at a crossing near Ascot park in
Los Angeles. Cal.
The supreme court at Columbus. O.,
affirmed the decision of the Lucus
county circuit court. The law, which
is sustained by this decision, gives
local option to cities by petition in
stead of by election.
The government is investigating
land entries in Idaho which, it is said,
will disclose the greatest frauds ever
perpetrated in this country.
Horace G. Mcdowell, president of
the Farmers bank of Canton, O., shot
and killed himself.
Adolph Huntemann. who died in the
general hospital. in Kansas City, Mo-,
leaving an estate valued at 100000,
has no heirs, as far as the public ad-
| ministratOr can learn.
The big wall paper factory of Jane
way & Carpenter at New Brunswick,
y. j.. was badly damaged by fire.
Many of the women employed were
overcome by fright and were carried
from the building in fainting condi-
ton.
Two thousand persons were made
homeless by a fire that destroyed
most of the town of Borsano, Italy.
John Arbuckle's "P. o. ranch of
$4,000 acres and it's stock, near Chey-
enne, Wyo., were put on the market.
Secretary Taft has given orders to
the engineer officers of the war de-
partment to enforce to the letter the
language of the eight-hour law as ap-
piled to public works under their d.
rection.
The Union Pacific railroad an
nounced that work on the Athol Hill
cutoff near Cheyenne, Wyo., would
be discontinued because of adverse
legislation towards that road ending
in cut of rates.
Seven nephews and nieces of the
I'll
are planning to contest his will.
The British tramp steamer GOwan-
burn went ashore off Blue Point on
the south shore of Long Island.
Conditions in general in the Pana-
ma canal zone are declared to be ex-
tremely favorable for completion of
the canal within the eight years end
ing January 1, 1915, as estimated by
the engineers in charge of the work,
in the opinion of the committees from
commercial clubs in Boston, Chicago,
Cincinnati and St. Louis. who arrived
at Charleston, S. c., after visit to
the isthmus.
Three members of the board of pub
lie service of Columbus, O., two city
employees, the president of the Cleve-.
land-Trinidad Paving company and
two of its employees, and the Columbus
manager of the American Sewer Pipe
company were indicted by the grand
jury as the result of an investigation
of charges of bribery in connection
with the contract for paving East
Prno6 ho 70 10
residence street of the city.
=. Col. John Temple Graves, editor of
the Georgian, was assaulted in the
street at Atlanta, Ga, by j. H. Crutch-
field, who recently was tried for at
tempted assassination of Mrs. Crutch-
field.
Eight hundred boilermakers en-
ployed by the Chicago Shipbuilding
company in the South Chicago plant
voted to strike. The action will result
in complete tie-up of the plant, in
which are employed nearly 1900 work
men. -
The wireless station at Point Iona,
near San Diego, Cal, was In communi-
cation with Pensacola.t Washington,
and the batt1eship Connecticut at New
York. -. ~. RI ,--
Two indictments against the school
desk and furniture combine were re-.
turned by the federal grand jury sit
ting in Chicago: >8.. ssts .z5@-5 r.
/: The state militia was, called to Man.
chester, Ia, to guard two men arrest
ed for blowing up the bank at Mason.
vile March s, from mob violence
{ At the request Of President Roose-