Willmar tribune., 1907-11-27


Midland hotel in Kansas City. leaving
no message to explain his action.
There was no evidence that the af-
fairs of the Bank of Albany were in
volved in the tragedy.
Secretary Cortelyou made the IN:
nouncement that as a means Of af-
fording relief to the financial situation
the treasury would issue $50, ,000, 900 of
Panama bonds, and $100,000,000 GER
t1dcates of Indebtedness, or so much
thereof as may be necessary. The
certificates will run for one year and
will bear three per cent interest.
President Roosevelt was commend.
ed and congratulated generally on the
wisdom and success of the financial
relief measures launched by the ad-
ministration. Speaking in Lafayette,
Ind, w. J. Bryan said the Wall street
gamblers, and not the president, were
responsible for the financial strin-
gency.
Floods have done great damage at
Lockhart and other points in southern
Texas. Fourteen inches of rain fell,
sending the rivers out of their banks:
Mrs. Lottie Hitchcock, half-crazed
by jealousy, shot and killed her hus-
band as he lay asleep in New York
and then inflicted several wounds on
herself.
The Canadian patrol boat Vigilant
fired on and captured four American
fishermen near Old Hen island.
| Nohroc1yo RI hoc of
firmed the five-year sentence imposed
on H. H. Hendee, a former Judge, who
was convicted of embezzlement.
c. E. Bennett, for many years one
OF the best known grain dealers in the
northwest, died at La Crosse, Wis,
aged 65 years.
Unprecedented scenes were enacted
in the senate chamber of the capitol
of Alabama when the statutory pro-
hibition bill was passed. Women and
children thronged the corridor and
gallery giving vent to their enthusi
asm by shouts and cheers. Senators
who opposed the bill we're Kissed
down when they arose to speak.
An attempt to assassinate Emperor
Nicholas was made, but it failed be-
cause the woman selected by the ter
rorists to accomplish the fatal mis-
sion lost her courage and drank
poison almost on the threshold of the
dying, but confessed to the police be-
| fore passing away.
The resignation of Railroad Com
missioner Andrew M. Wilson was re-
ceived and accepted by Gov. Gillette,
of California. Wilson was a member
of notorious doodle" board of super.
| visors of San Francisco and confessed
| several times under oath that he had
| accepted bribes.
The grand jury at Findlay, O., re-
turned an indictment against ex-Sena-
tor Thomas McConica for alleged
bribery in connection with the Stand
ard Oil trial.
Seventeen persons were injured.
none fatally, in a head-on collision be-
tween Southern railway passenger
trains at the entrance to the new
terminal tunnel in Washington.
Mrs. A. Rosner, OF Goodhue, Minn.,
has given birth to her sixth pair of
twins born since 1898. She is the
mother of Is children.
The Missouri supreme court de-
cided that it was not a violation of
the law for person to give friend
drink of whisky in local option
counties.
]. w. Cabaniss, president. and G.. NJ
Orr, cashier of the defunct Exchange
bank, of Macon, Ga, were indicted
on charges of embezzlement, felony
and misdemeanor.
A receiver was appointed for the
effects of Mrs. Leslie Carter Payne,
the actress. on petition Of her
creditors.
w. ]. Bryan heads the Lincoln.
Neb.. delegation to the national con.
vention OF the Y. M. C. A. in Wash
ington.
Auditors and members of the jury
were moved to tears by the testimony
of Mrs. Annie M. Bradley at her trial
for the murder OF former Senator
Arthur Brown.
Martha Zimmerman, OF Fisk, Wis.,,
fatally shot her divorced husband and
herself.
Miss Anna Johnson, a student in the
University of South Dakota, was seri.
ously injured while attempting to es-
cape from a third-story room in
which she had been locked by seniors
to prevent her from attending
junior-freshman reception.
Seven armed robbers entered the
quarters of 80 Greek laborers in the
Rock Island yards in Kansas City,
Kan, and secured 500 in cash.
In the United States court at Grand
Rapids, Mich. the Union bank OF
Richland and the Bowman bank of
Kalamazoo, both private concerns.
were adjudged bankrupt and the Kala-
mazoo Trust company was appointed
receiver in each case.
Under the direction. of the National
Civic Federation investigators are to
be sent from New York through the
mills and factories of the southern
states the LIST of January to gather
detailed Information concerning the
pay of employees, the conditions which
surround them in working hours and
their mode OF life.
Storm Bull. professor OF steam en-.
&gineering In the Wisconsin State uni
versity, died after an illness OF SIX
weeks from cancer Of the stomach.
He was nephew of Ole Bull, the ia.