Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-10-23

Their, A. D. Branden, Jr., proprietor of
saloon and hotel, in Granite City,
Ill.
Robert L. Carson, a prominent
f1nancier and street railway magnate.
died suddenly while watching play
in Philadelphia theater.
Upon motion of the district attor-
ney Judge Langan, at Goldfield, New,
dismissed the cases against Vincent
st. John and other members of the
Western Federation of Miners &C.
cused of conspiracy to murder Silvet,
the restaurant keeper.
Hampton G. .Westcott, vice presi
dent of the Standard OIL Company Of
Kentucky, testified in the hearing Of
the federal suit against the oil COM
bine. that in several of the southern
pedient to sell much of its products
through companies which the public
believed to be independent, but which
really were owned by the combine.
Drunken men headed a mob that at
tackled a Japanese laundry in San
Francisco. Two Japanese were badly
injured and many of the rioters were
dubbed by the police.
The emperor of Austria was de-
clared by his physicians to be out of
immediate danger and his chances of
recovery were considered good.
Four persons were killed and one
probably fatally injured when Phila-
delphia & Reading train struck an
automobile on a grade crossing in
Pottstown, Pa.
One man was killed, five others
were probably fatally hurt and six or
eight were badly injured when II cars
Of work train crashed through a
trestle on the new Erie & Jersey rail-
way at Stony Ford. N. Y.
Jack Simpkins, the Miners Fedora.
ton man who was reported dead, was
seen and interviewed in Spokane,
Wash.
The ferryboat running between
Point Pleasant, W. Va, and Kanau-
gam, O., sank in deep water. The
crew were saved with life belts and
life preservers.
Capt. John L. Wells, formerly Amer
lean consul to Madagascar, and asso-
ciate editor Of the Yonkers Standard,
died at his home in Yonkers, N. Y.
The Dixon Qll.) high school build
ing was burned. All the 400 pupils
escaped without injury.
The Is trunks of Mrs. Henry But
tiers, of Piedmont, Cal, containing in
part the trousseau of Miss Marie But
tiers, who is soon to marry Victor H.
Metcalf, Jr., son of the secretary of
the navy, were held by Collector STRAIT
ton at San Francisco for adjustment
of the duties
Nelson A. Randall, editor of the
Western Horseman, died in Indianap-
oils.
A son was born in London to ].
Austen Chamberlain, eldest son of
Joseph Chamberlain. Mr.. Chamber
lain was married year ago last July
to Miss Ivy M. Dundas, of Datchet,
Buckinghamshire.
twenty-five persons were seriously
injured in trolley collision at Erie,
Pa.
The schooner Martha Tuft is report
ed in Seattle, Wash, to have foun-
dered October at the mouth of the
Katalla river, the crew being rescued
from the rigging.
The Central Federated union at
New York has received an appeal from
President Gompers, of the American
Federation of Labor, which has been
sent to all the affiliated unions asking
them to request all political :candi-
dates in the present campaign to COM
nit themselves openly as to govern
ment by injunction.
The Canadian secretary of state re-
ceived telegram from Dr. Munro
the immigration agent at Vancouver,
stating that the number of Japanese
arriving at Vancouver with passports
since January l, was $1,000 About
three-fourths of these came from Hon
olulu or were destined for the United
States.
The insular government of Porto
Rico refused to honor United States
Marshal Hubbards requisiti0n for
funds to pay the expenses of the fed
eral court, because of the marshals
failure to conform to the provisions
of the recent law changing the former
methods of disbursements of funds of
the island.
Commercial telegraph operators
throughout the chief cities in Ameri-
ca rejected the suggestion advanced
by President S. J. Small of the ma
tjonal union that the time had come
when the strike against the Western
Union and Postal companies should
be declared off. In every city where a
vote was taken the executive head of
the keymen's body was excoriated
without mercy. Charges of treachery
were frequent and demands for his
resignation were many.
The bodies of 10 members of the
crew of the steamer Cyprus, which
foundered in Lake Superior off Deer
Park, have been recovered.
One man was killed and the steel
steamer John w. Moore was sunk In
collision between the Moore and the
Queen City in the Detroit river.
The widow and four children of Mel
son Morris, the packer, agreed out of
court to break his will, which pro-
vided for a long trusteeship, and d.
vided the $30,000,000 estate in equal
shares.
:, Norfolk & Western passenger train
No. and an extra coal train side
swiped In cut near" Montvale, Va,
resulting in the death of one man
and the injury of a dozen messengers.