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

Prince Wilhelm of Sweden, while
stopping at the Hotel Aston in New
York proved generous with tips, Civ
ing waiter 500 and a chambermaid
$50.
Mrs. Louisa Hill Carabajal and sew
en- children drowned in a flood in
Sierra county, New Mexico.
Many suspected professional thieves
have been arrested in New York under
the new law which makes possible
the capture of thief convicted more
than once found lettering in public
places.
Labor day riots occurred in Steuben-
vile, O., San Francisco and Louis
vile, several persons being injured.
The day was celebrated with parades
and picnics in many cities.
Prince Wilhelm ended his strenuous
visit in New York city and went to
Niagara Falls.
Richard Mansfield was buried at
New London, Conn.,, the funeral sery-
ices being extremely simple.
The nation is in danger of being
drugged by politics and stands in need
of more commercialism, according to
Vice President Fairbanks, who ad-
dressed the national irrigation con-
gress at it's opening session in Sacra-
mento. Continued prosperity is as
sured, the speaker declared, unless the
public is led astray by false doctrines.
The National Letter Carriers asso-
citation began it's convention in Can
ton, o., by giant parade. The eighth
annual convention of the United Postal
Clerks of the United States opened in
Peoria, Ill.
A distinct earthquake shock, indicat-
ing a very severe seismic disturbance
at far distant point, was recorded
on the weather bureau instruments in
Washington. The shock lasted an hour
and half.
Elliott F. Shepard, of New York,
while speeding over the fifth circuit
in an automobile race at Brescia, Italy,
plunged into the river at Monte CHAR,
broke his collar bone and slightly in
jured other parts of his body.
w. B. Felker, a wealthy Denver
man, and E. V. Dasey were killed in a
50-mile auto race at Overland park,
Denver.
DR.. John B. Denote, well-known
lecturer along scientific lines, died of
heart trouble at his home in Green
castle, Ind.
Seven persons were killed and II
injured in the wreck of Chesapeake
& Ohio train near Charleston, w. Va.
City Attorney C. E. Abbott, Chief of
Police Peterson and Street Commits
sioner Fletcher of Fremont, Neb., were
arrested upon warrants sworn out by
Union Pacific officials for using vio-
lence on laborers who were laying a
track !.
1t was Enthusiastically reported in
Shanghai that Sir Robert Hart, di-
rector general of Chinese customs, is
about to tender his resignation on &C.
count of i'll health.
Quicksand in the Illinois river
caused the drowning of Charles McEn-
lee, Keeling Wilson and William
Singer, of Lacon, ILL.,
Flames licked up half million dol
lars worth of property in Houston,
Tex, and reduced three squares of the
business and residence section to
ashes. The biggest loss was to the
plant Of the Standard Milling COM
pany, valued at 100000.
President Roosevelt caused to be
given out statement highly compli~
menting Public Printer Stillings and
denying rumors that his removal was
contemplated.
The coroner's jury, which investi-
gated the wreck on the Central Illi-
nois Traction company's line, near
Charleston, Ill.,, which resulted in the
death of IA persons and the serious
injury to scores of others, returned a
verdict holding the road, it's officials
and the motormen of the two trains
which collided responsible for the
crash.
When trolley car ran into a car
riage belonging to Olcott C. Colt in
New York, Mrs. Colt was perhaps ia
tally injured and her husband badly
bruised.
The American farmers earnings are
81 00,O00,000 greater this year than
last, according to a preliminary re-
port on crops which will be published
in the next issue of the American Ag-
riculturist. This big gain will be en-
tirely due to the increased prices of
farm products, as the production in
general will be fully ten per cent. less
in quantity than in 1906.
BY decision rendered by Judge
Cochran at Clinton, ILL.,, Mrs. Warner,
widow of John Warner, millionaire,
gains fortune of $3.50, 900 to be paid
Immediately, an annual income of $780,
900 a year, dover rights, and the fam
lily homestead, worth 100000. With
her two daughters, Mrs. Mettler and
Mrs. Bell, Chicago society women, she
is also freed by the judgment from the
stigma of having negro blood in her
veins, which Vespasian Warner, Unit
ed States commissioner of pensions
and former congressman, endeavored,
in his capacity as executor of his IA.
TIERS will, to establish in order to de.
feat her suit.
For the second time since Red
Sunday (January %, 1905) Emperor
Nicholas entered St. Petersburg to at
tend the conservation of a church to
his grandfather, Alexander H., who
was assassinated in March, 1881, on
the spot where the edifice was raised.