Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-07-03

! Albert Woltemade, cashier Of the
| Alton {nl.) branch Of the Anheueer
Busch Brewing association, who had
been missing for eight days, returned
home after having travelled $500
miles with his mind blank. #
The formal opening of the first com.
pleted tract of irrigated land finished
by the reclamation service of the ma
tional government took place at
Billings, Mont.
1t is rumored in court circles in
Copenhagen that Princess Thyra, Sec
ond daughter of King Frederick, is
betrothed to- Prince Adelbert, third
son of the kaiser.
Bees swarmed on the handle of a
switch in Sioux City, Ia, and delayed
traffic on four railroads for a time.
Attorneys for the eight principal
Missouri railways and Attorney Gen
eral Hadley for the state have prac-
tically agreed to take the matter of
jurisdiction in the enforcement of the
Missouri two-cent law to the United
States supreme court.
Terrorists threw bomb into Fri
van square, Titlis, killing and injuring
many persons, and then robbed a
wagon of $125,000 belonging to the
government treasury.
Four men were killed and five in
jured by the fall of scaffold in San
Francisco.
Chief Justice w. F. Frear, of
Hawaii, has accepted the governor
ship of the islands.
John Chandler, t07 years old, was
killed near Quincy, ILL.,, by being
thrown from buggy.
| The executive committee of the
Commercial Telegraphers' union ad-
| dressed a letter to General Manager
Nally, of the Postal Telegraph COM
| pany, suggesting that the grievances
| of the operators be, heard and con-
sidered by representatives of the COM
pany.
The formation of an $8,000,000 CON-
bination of nine Independent brew
cries in st. Louis, East st. Louis, Ill.,,
and Granite City, Ill, was announced
in st. Louis.
The possibility of serious trouble in
Central America growing out of the
disturbed conditions existing there in
cident to the alleged ambition of Pres
ident Zelaya, of Nicaragua, to form a
union Of Central American states, has
caused the administration to dispatch
the fine new cruiser Milwaukee to that
locality.
Henry Harness, wealthy farmer
who was in jail in Kankakee, Ill.,, for
shooting his wife with intent to kill
her, committed suicide by hanging
himself with a towel and necktie.
Samuel Hill and John Hilbure were
drowned in Conderay lake near Chip
pewa Falls, Wis, as the result of the
explosion of a gasoline tank aboard a
launch.
Elizabeth Loving testified at the
trial of her father at Houston, Va,
for numbering Theodore Estes, telling
the jury the same story she told her
father, of how Estes had drugged and
assaulted her.
Charles R. Richardson was con-
victed in Pittsburg, Pa, of conspiring
with Harvey P. Bostaph, Joseph Flah-
erty and J. H. Milholland to attempt
to bride councilmen to pass the Pitts
burg & Tube City railroad franchise
ordinance.
Sir John Hall, former premier of
New Zealand, is dead at Yelling, New
Zealand.
Overcome with grief and humilia-
ton at the action of the bar asso-
citation in recommending that he be
impeached for gross intemperance if
he did not Immediately resign, Supe-
rior Judge K. c. Hebbard, of San Fran
cisco, tried to shoot himself. The re-
volver was knocked from his hand.
Andrew Feline, of Milwaukee, killed
his sweetheart, Elsie Volkmann, her
father and himself as a result of a
lovers quarrel.
Crown Prince George of sorvia,
while rowing on the river, approached
the Hungarian shore and was fred
upon by customs officials.
Reports from China say the rebels
there are advancing upon Canton, and
refugees from the surrounding coun-
try are fleeing to Hongkong to escape
from the brutality which the insur-
gents have displayed.
The gradual abandonment of Fort
Assinniboine, Montana, as an army
post is contemplated by the war de-
partment.
The plant of the Utica Drop Forge
& Tool company, of Utica, N. Y, was
destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of
| 100000.
A plot to steal $50,000,O00 from the
Russian government at Tschita, where
the money was kept for enterprises in
Siberia, has been discovered and 30
Russians arrested. They had made a
tunnel 12O yards long from hotel to
the safe.
Earl Chism has confessed at Gin
ton, a., to robbing the banks and post
offices at Reynolds and Taylor Ridge,
Ill.
AS protest against the department
officials in laying of some of their
fellow workers, $50 employees of the
STRENGTHENING department in Manhat-
tan and Bronx boroughs, N. Y, went
on strike.
President Roosevelt, through the in
terstate commerce commission, award.
ed railroad life saving medals to
Charles Arms, Of GAINESVILLE, Tenn,
and Edgar E. George, of Parsons, Pa.