Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20
Signor Alfani, director of the Flor

which is IL times the size of the
earth, will about the middle of No
vember cause storms, earthquakes and
eruptions throughout the country.
Mrs. Emma Packard, wife of S. B.
Packard, former governor of Louisi
ana, died at Marshalltown, a., sud
denly of apoplexy.
Russian officials at Vladivostok re-
port raids on the seal rookeries OF
the Copper islands by armed Japan.
csc sealing schooners.
The supreme court Of Mexico has
affirmed the sentence of death against
G. T. Richardson, William Mason and
DR.. G. S. Harle, charged with con-
spiracy to murder in connection with
insurance frauds, and the men are to
be shot December at Chihuahua.
Rev. H. Allen Upper of the Fiji
teenth Street Baptist church in Brook
Ign announced to his congregation
that he would serve in future without
pay.
New York lawyers, acting for the
duke of Portland, are gathering evil
dence in this country regarding the
affairs of Robert Caldwell, who testi
fed in the bruce case at London.
Five persons, at least, lost their
lives as result Of fire in the Hotel
Garde at New Haven, Conn, and sew
eral others were injured.
Forty men, women. and children
were injured, 26 of them seriously, in
a street car accident at Seattle, when
two speeding cars crashed into each
other in a dense fog.
President Gompers, addressing the
American Federation of Labor at
jamestown, said organized labor, like
Admiral Evans fleet, was ready for
peace, frolic or war.
Burglars broke into the residence of
Mrs. Stella Mauthner, an aged woman
in the town of Perinton, N. Y, and
subjected her to terrible tortures in
an effort to force her to reveal her
savings.
Albert Bates was sentenced at Chip
pewa Falls, Wis, to serve one year in
the penitentiary for bigamy. He &C.
knowledged that he had been married
often, but thought he had always wait
ed long enough for the preceding wife
to get divorce before he married the
next one.
The entire business portion of Wor-
land, Wyo., was destroyed by fire.
Catherine Vosbaugh, who for nearly
hospital in Trinidad, COL, at the age
of S3 years.
c. D. Wyman, member of the
Stone-Webster company's executive
committee and an official of the Bos-
ton Street Railway corporation, died
suddenly in q railway train in Mon
tana.
William Jennings Bryan was the
guest of honor at a banquet of the
Jefferson club of Milwaukee and gave
his views on trusts, railroads and the
tariff
Henry c. Wilder, aged IS years, a
well-known printer of Lowell, Mass,
was married to Mrs. Esther Craw-
ford, resident of Evanston, ILL.,, aged
80 years.
Rev. DR.. Sam F. Breckenridge, "a
years old, professor of exegetical theol-
ogy in the Wittenberg Theological
seminary and one of the most widely
known theologians in the Lutheran
church, died at Springfield, ILL.,, OF
heart trouble.
Dexter M. Ferry, head of one Of the
greatest seed firms in the United
States, which bore his name, and
prominent in local business enter
prises, was found dead in bed at his
home in Detroit, Mich.
The New York building code COM
mission has adopted regulations which
practically prevent the erection of any
more skyscrapers in that city. The
height of buildings is limited to ESQ
feet
The federal supreme court decided
the controversy between Samuel H.
Leathe and Edward L. Thomas, grow:
ing out of the construction in 1870 of
the Belleville city railway, connecting
Belleville, ILL.,, with East St. Louis, in
favor of Thomas.
J. Pierpont Morgan, it is said, will
part with his collection of high-bred
dogs, because his wife is annoyed by
the kennels at their Highland Falls
IN. W estate
After blowing open the outer doors
of a safe in the Offices of the Jefferson
Ice company in Chicago, robbers mis-
took large sack, containing about
$40 in silver, for one that was locked
in another compartment and was said
to have contained $4,000.
Max Duffolk, of Munich, Germany,
performed the difficult feat of walking
on his hands from the top landing in
the Washington monument to the
ground, a perpendicular distance of
500 feet, which extended to near S25
feet by the stairway.
Bats Cunningham, Overton Decker
and Salvan Pearson, members of the
Baptist church choir at Hazleton, Ind,
were arrested on affidavits filed by
Rev. Samuel Belts, charged with dis
turbing religious services by chewing
gum while seated in the choir
The series of crimes in Berlin re-
sembling the Jack the Ripper" MUIR
ders in London in 1888-1S89, only that
the victims were little girls instead OF
women, has been cleared up through
the confession of an epileptic printer
apprentice named Paul Minow.
In answer to appeals for help from
the town of Ob1ong, Crawford county
ILL.,, the state board of health may es
tablish shotgun quarantine by rea