Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-08
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TANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEM
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Three men were killed, four were Sc
verely burned and four others en-
tombed and probably dead as result
Of an explosion in the Whipple mine,
in the Leap Creek district, West Vlr-
ginia. Fifty-three other miners mar
roEly escaped death.
Gen. Baron Kuroki, accompanied by
representative party of Japanese
military men, arrived at Victoria, B.
c., on board the steamer Aka Maru, on
their way to the Jamestown exposi-
ton.
Arthur McEwen, chief editorial
writer of the New York American and
we'll known throughout the west in
journalistic circles, died suddenly at
Hamilton, Bermuda, Of heart failure.
The Mexican government learns
from a prominent person who has just
returned from Guatemala that in his
opinion, unless all signs fail, Estrada
Cabrera will be unseated as president
of the republic or will have to fight
TO retain his office.
Capt c. Def. Chandler, United
States signal service. and j. c. Mccoy,
of New York, failed to break the long
distance balloon record and to win
the Lahm cup. The balloon, which
left st. Louis landed five miles north
Of Golconda. ILL.,, $50 miles from the
starting point.
Forty persons, mostly women, were
injured in fire at 255 Wabash ave-
nue., Chicago. The victims We're pa
irons and employees Of a lunch club
and jumped or fell from the second
story.
John Kells Ingram. the political
economist, is dead at Dublin. He WAS
born in 1923 and was an ex-president
of the Royal Irish Academy.
Miss Mabelle Gilman, who arrived
at New York from Paris, said she and
William E. Cory, president of the
United States Steel corporation, would
be married in New York on May 49,
Near Pabianice, Russian Poland,
bandits attacked a carriage contain
ing FIVE Hebrew merchants, whom
they shot and killed. The robbers
took all the money and valuables of
the dead men.
After an inspection of the Russian
training squadron at Libau, Minister
OF Marine Rikoff decided to abandon
the idea Of sending ships to the
Jamestown exposition.
Bitter feeling as a result of an as
sault on Mrs. Soften. an aged woman,
caused race riot at Greensburg, Ind
Six colored men were badly beaten
one of whom may die.
May day brought strikes of iron
workers in San Francisco, teamsters
in Los Angeles, machinists in Pitts
burg, and various labor organizations
in Canada. In Paris there were scenes
Of violence and disorder and the po-
lice had several desperate conflicts
with the mobs. In Warsaw a general
strike resulted in complete tie-up of
business.
A verdict of not guilty was returned
by jury in the United States court
in the case of Athole B. Reader, who
had been on trial in New York on a
charge of perjury.
The planning mill and lumber yard
OF ]. A. Holinger at Chambersburg.
Pa, was burned, entailing a loss of
100000.
Prince Edward of Wales, eldest son
of the prince of Wales, joined the
royal naval college at Osborne, Isle OF
Wight, as cadet. He will be treat
ed exactly the same as the 400 other
cadets.
John l.. Morgan, formerly of Chi
cago, starved to death on the desert
in Death valley, according to the story
brought to San Bernardino, CAL, by
Walter Adams, Morgan's partner.
John Enjeck, while working in a
ncorice factory in Newark, N. j., fell
into a vat of the boiling llcorice.
The judicial convention at Decatur,
ILL.,, selected Frank K. Dunn, of
Charlestown, as supreme court JUS
tice, on the one hundred and forty
second ballot.
The blockade in the harbor at Su.
perior, Wis, is estimated to have cost
vessel owners a quarter of million
dollars.
Twenty persons were injured when
a Baltimore & Ohio passenger train
was wrecked at Pleasantview, w. Va.
Attorney General Stead filed the
long expected suit of the state against
the Illinois Central railroad in the cir.
cult court of LaSal]e county.
Secretary of War Taft laid the cor.
ner stone of the new Y. NJ. c. A. build
Ing at Dayton, o., and delivered the
principal address.
The volcano on the Island of Strom-
boil was in violent eruption, damaging
vineyards and terrifying the peas
ants.
Mayor Schmitz made a partial con.
fession concerning graft in San Fran.
cisco, in the hope of securing lenient
treatment
President Cipriano Castro, of Ven
ezuela, according to information re-
ceived in New York from two indie.
pendent sources, is planning to retire
from Office on May %. The reason is
his continued i'll health. He will seek
recuperation in the mountains OF
Switzerland. -"
While fishing in Fox river, near Ell.
gin, ILL.,, Stephen Boras hooked q
bundle of clothing which he pulled
/ ashore and found to contain the bodies