Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-21

len men were injured, TOUR serious.
~, when gas, which escaped from .
pressure main connecting with large
tank, exploded in one-story brick
building used by the Peoples Gas
Light & Coke company in South Chi
cago.
Fifty-nine counter atfidavits have
been filed at Clinton, ILL.,, opposing a
change of venue for Fred H. Magill
and his wife, indicted for the murder
Of Magill's first wife. The list in.
cludes men of almost every profession
and trade.
Averill Hartman, son of e. H. Har'
riman, the railroad magnate, was
Frustrated by heat in Omaha.
The state department in Washing
ton announces that no developments
are expected regarding the conclusion
of the new reciprocity agreement with
France until the fall, if then.
Sergt. Wesley Merritt of the United
States hospital corps is dead with
yellow fever at Havana.
District Attorney Jerome and New
York police declare the ringleaders OF
the Hunchakist secret society have
been arrested and have confessed
crimes, including the murder OF
Father Kasper Vastasian and the rug
merchant Tavshananiar
A large portion of the business sec.
ton of Princess Anne, the county
seat of Somerset county, Maryland,
was destroyed by fire.
Mobs in Belfast made vicious at
tacks on troops that were sent to dis
perse them and the soldiers fired into
the crowds, killing man and woman
and wounding many others.
United States District Attorney
Stimson filed in the United States cir
cult court in New York petition that
E. H. Hartman and Otto H. Kahn, the
latter of the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.,
be summoned into court to show cause
why they should not answer certain
questions relating to the control Of the
Chicago & Alton railroad.
Forty men are believed to have been
drowned by the sinking of the British
freight steamer Nicaraguan, from
which no word has been received since
it passed the Virginia capes June 8.
John D. Rockefeller prophesied that
financial disaster and chaos would
be the result of the administrators
antitrust campaign.
Caid Sir Harry MacLean was hand
ed over by his captor, the bandit, Rails
uli, to the Elkmes tribe, who in their
turn set him at liberty.
Fire in Memphis, Tenn, Quilted the
retail millinery store of J. S. Summer
field and the retail jewelry store of
the Burns-Barry company. Loss on
stock and building $4,000, partly COW
cred by insurance.
President Roosevelt issued an exec
utive order making Labor day, Sep
TENDER 2, holiday for government
employees and laborers who are en-
ployed by the day.
The city of Mazagan was surround
ed by wild Arab tribes who threatened
to destroy it unless they were given
money.
Lieut. Graetz of the Prussian army
has essayed to cross the continent of
Africa in an especially bAilt automo.
bile.
Louis c. Bath, an insane patient
who escaped from the asylum at Mid
dletown, N. Y, has been captured
through clews from souvenir postal
cards he mailed.
The Wyoming land board has
thrown open $4,000 acres of irrigated
land in the Eden valley in Sweetwater
and Fremont counties
One hundred independent bakeries
In st. Louis will be taken over by
the General Biscuit company, a new
$3O,000,000 corporation formed in that
city as rival to the National Biscuit
company.
The three-masted schooner Myron-
cas-, bound from Rockland for New
York with a load of granite, was sunk
In the middle of Long Island sound
in a collision with the Neptune line
steamer Tennessee. Four members Of
the Myroneas' crew were drowned.
A census just completed shows that
there are $4,000 persons in the Pana-
ma canal zone, only 20 per cent. of
whom are white.
N. Sture Mattson, son of ex-Gov.
Mattson of Minnesota, after squander-
ing an inheritance of 100000
turned tramp for years, but is now
earning an honest living with steam
shovel gang in New York.
Counsel for Karl Hau, formerly OF
Washington, D. c., under sentence of
death at Karlsruhe, Germany, for the
murder of his mother-in-law, Frau
Molitor, have entered a motion to
prosecute Olga Molitor, the deceased
woman's daughter, for perjury.
Through the quick wit and prompt
action OF a woman in tagging the
Santa Fe's california Limited" at
Hart, Mo-, as the heavy train was
about to plunge through a damaged
trestle, the lives of over a hundred
passengers were saved.
Another blow to the Standard Oil
company was given when part two of
the report on the petroleum industry,
by Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner
of corporations, was made public. This
report deals with determinations in
prices and reveals the unfair manner
in which the Standard is said to treat
the consumer.
J. F. Gaynor, convicted with Greene
of completely in the Savannah harbor
frauds, is critically i'll in Jail.
Gov. Patterson, of Tennessee, issued
a call for conference of textile man.