Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-09-11

Japan is going to establish coaling
station for warships on the island of
Pratas, which is only 120 miles from
the Philippines. II
Edward ]. Wallis, of Philadelphia,
vice president of the Dalton Cigar
company, died in hospital from in
juries received in mysterious man.
ner.
The president has approved the SEN
tence Of the court martial of First
Lieut.. Charles E. Mccullough, Thir-
teenth cavalry, recently convicted in
Cuba of giving worthless checks and
desertion.
The police of Paris sent to an in
Urinary woman who says she is Miss
Amy Root, of Rochester, N. Y. and
who claims to be a cousin of Elihu
Root. Her mind was unbalanced and
she would climb on restaurant tables
and sing and dance.
Guests of the Palmer house in Chi
cago, more than 900 in number, be-
came panic stricken and left their
rooms in spectacular flight at night,
when fire started in the basement of
one of the shops in the building.
AS the result of an appeal in behalf
of eight children in need Of the care
of mother, President Roosevelt has
granted a Communication Of sentence in
the case of Mrs. Alkaline Rose, of
Jackson county, KY, convicted of
making and selling whisky in viola
ton of law.
At the annual meeting of the Que
bee Bridge company the fact was
brought out that a defect in the
structural work had been discovered
previous to the day of the accident
which cost IS lives
Capt Henry Brown, a veteran of
the Mexican and civil wars, and in
ventor of the bell buoy as now used
at American ports, died at Charleston,
S. C.
Five passenger cars of special
Canadian Pacific passenger train from
Markdale to Toronto went into the
ditch near Caledon, Ont Six persons
were killed and the seriously injured
numbered more than a score.
E. E. Chester, a large land owner
and for years trustee of the Uni
versity of Illinois, died at his home in
Champaign, Ill.
Alfred H. Smith, vice president and
general manager of the New York
Central railroad, must stand trial on
a charge of manslaughter in the sec
ond degree, growing out of the wreck
of an electric train on the Harlem rail
road at Woodlawn on February 16
last, according to a decision handed
down by Supreme Justice Giegerich,
of New York
Joel w. Deweese solicitor of the
Burlington Railroad company for the
lines west of the Missouri, died at his
home in Lincoln, Neb.
Mrs William Brayon, a widow, was
shot and killed at Worthington, Mimi,
by William Walsh because she re-
fused to marry him. Walsh then blew
out his own brains.
The immensely wealthy and influ-
entail Tazzi brothers, who are blamed
for the ruin of the Moorish empire,
were assassinated at Fee. The French
again defeated the tribesmen near
Casablanca.
Congressman Theodore E. Burton
consented to accept the Republican
nomination for mayor of Cleveland, o.
Gen. Horace Porter, of the Ameri-
can delegation to the peace conference
at The Hague, led his proposal for the
collection of contractural debts to
practically unanimous approval by the
committee of examination, and at the
conclusion of the meeting he was the
recipient of many congratulations
upon the success of his efforts.
New York police are convinced that
Henry Hoffman, who was killed while
robbing fiat, was the murderer of
Sophy Heckler and Mrs. Lena Schum,
and that he was second Johann
Hoch.
Policeman Edward Mccartney was
shot and killed in San Francisco while
trying to suppress riotous union Ia
borers.
Practically all of Kentucky, except
the portion directly adjacent to the
Ohio river, is threatened with a coal
famine. Shortage of cars to haul the
coal is given as the cause.
An explosion in the Austin Powder
company's mill near Cleveland, O., re-
suited in the death of one man and
fatal injury to another.
British Vice-Consul Thomas Erskine
of Chicago and Deputy Attorney Gen.
eral H. E. Chase of Lansing, have be-
gun at St. Joseph, Mich, an investiga-
ton into the charges of Withholding
money and immoral conduct made
against Benjamin Purnell's House of
David colony by Harry Cleveland,
British subject.
Gov. Deneen in a Labor day ad-
dress at Alton, ILL.,, promised to name
a special state commission to study at
home and abroad and frame up laws
to remedy evil working conditions in
factories.
Martin Boar, &c years old, sacri-
feed his life in an endeavor to save
Jacob Lieber, fellow-workman, who
had succumbed to naphtha fumes in a
tank in manufacturing plant in New
ark, N. J..
Announcement that Japanese explor-
ers from Formosa have raised their
national flag over a small island imme-
diately adjoining the Philippines has
attracted much attention in official cir
cles.