Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20


They declared that the suggestions
made from several western sources
that they were not meeting legitimate
demands for currency from the west
were entirely unfounded and that
they were, on the contrary, taking
every practicable measure to aid the
west and south.
The first direct reports from the
scene of the great earthquake at Kara
tagh, Russian Turkestan, say the VIC
Tins number about $4,000; the city
and many villages were destroyed.
The Peoples bank of Portsmouth,
Va, went into the hands of receiver
on petition of the directors, who save
out statement that the bank has
been made insolvent through defalca-
tons of the cashier.
Photographs and official data rep
resenting a summers work of the in
ternational boundary commission in
Alaska were lost when canoe cap
sized in the Bradf1eld river.
1t was proposed in the Michigan
state constitutional convention to in
sert an article making voting obliga-
tory, with a fine and prison sentence
as penalties.
State Senator Haines' bank of For
est Grove, Ore, did not open it's doors
for business because it could not OBJ
tain it's balances from the Merchants
National Bank of Portland, which sus-
pended payment.
The total equalized assessment of
personal property, lands, and lots in
Illinois for the year 1907 aggregates
$1,13S, 622,398, according to reports by
committees of the state board of
equalization.
Checks and currency to the amount
of $4,000, intended to pay the wages
of the Carbon Coal & Coke company's
miners at Cokedale, COL, were lost
or stolen while in transit in a stage.
Former Gov. James E. Campbell, of
Ohio, said that he is a receptive can
didate for United States senator to
succeed Senator J. B. Foraker.
At Kansas City, Mo-, the grand jury
returned 149 additional indictments
against persons charged with violat-
ing the state law which forbids labor
on Sunday.
A boiler at the ginhouse on the
Trulock plantation, near Pine Bluff,
Ark, exploded killing the owner, J. B.
Trulock and five negroes.
The confession of Steve Adams,
made in the Office of the warden of
the Idaho state penitentiary February
q, 1906, was introduced in evidence
at the trial of Adams for the murder
of Fred Tyler. It told of the murder
of Tyler and Boule and involved
Meyer, Haywood and Pettibone.
The engine and tender of a Balti-
more & Ohio train to which was at
tached private car bearing Vice
President Fairbanks and party re-
turning from the funeral of Judge
McComas was derailed at Weverton
Junction, Md.
Immediately following the closing
of the Peoples bank of California, Pa,
by State Examiner Bynns, Oliver P.
Piper, the cashier, and William L.
Lenhart, a business man who lives in
Brownsville, Pa, were arrested,
charged with conspiracy to defraud
the bank.
A report reached Durango, COL, that
battle occurred at McElmo canyon,
between Ute Indians and United
States troops, in which six Indians
were killed. No soldiers were killed
or wounded.
A boiler in the basement of the new
Eastman dormitory at East Green
witch Or. H. academy exploded and
partly wrecked the structure. Three
young women students were severely
but not seriously injured.
In the historic hall of St. George at
Windsor Castle, King Edward and
Queen Alexandra gave state banquet
in honor of the emperor and empress
Of Germany and their suite.
A state convention of Democrats at
Nashville, Tenn, started movement
for the nomination of a southern man
as Democratic candidate for the pres
idency in 1908
Ray Bricker fell lis feet down
mine near Boone, a., landed on his
feet and was unhurt
Asserting that the cold weather has
caused untold suffering on account of
the scarcity of coal, the residents of
Somerset, Neb., appealed to the state
railway commission for relief.
Charles Howard, 60 years old, con-
vict in the Joliet penitentiary, made
his escape while working in the stone
quarry.
Six persons were injured when the
18-hour train from Chicago to New
York on the Pennsylvania railroad
ran into a stationary freight train in
the yards at Larimer, near Green's
burg, Pa.
All work Of all kinds on the Bur-
lington railroad was stopped for five
minutes while the body of it's former
president, G. E. Perkins, was being
lowered into the grave.
The peace proposition of General
Manager Orr for the settlement of the
railway strike in Havana, Cuba, was
rejected at meeting of the strikers.
A terrific earthquake occurred at
Unalaska and Mccullough peak, which
was. created by an earthquake nearly
a year ago, and extended over 3,400
feet above the sea, has dwindled to al
most nothing as result Of submarine
disturbances. =,
, AS the result Of a quarrel over an
election bet. William Hopkins and