Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-28

A mill which was in course Of con-
struction collapsed at Lille, France,
and ten men were killed.
William Newton Wyand, 20 years
old, who says he is a son of Robert
N. Wyand, the millionaire president of
the Wyand Turbine company of Jer-
sey City, N. j., was arrested in Wash
ington charged with the forgery of a
$500 check
A girl baby was born to Gov. and
Mrs. Charles E. Hughes at Albany, it
being their fourth child
Robert w. Taylor, for IA years
financial secretary of Tuskegee insti-
tute, will open up brokerage Office In
Wall street for negro patronage.
Daniel F. Cobb, president of the
Daniel F. Cobb Land company of
Kansas City, formerly general south
western agent of the Equitable Life
insurance company, fell down an ele-
vator shaft and was instantly killed.
Gov. Hughes appointed Matthew c..
Flemming of New York to make an
investigation of the state insurance
department.
The Arabs delivered another attack
upon the French force under Gen.
Drude, encamped outside Casablanca,
but they were routed with very heavy
losses. A general uprising of the ma
tives is expected. The European resi-
dents of the coast towns, as well as
those who live at Fee, Morocco City
and other places in the interior are
leaving their homes and seeking safe
ty in their flight.
According to a statement of Senator
Plat, president of the United States
Express company, the company's net
earnings for the fiscal year ended
June 80 were only $137,007, as COM
pared with $372,061 last year.
Miss Catherine Root, niece, will
inherit 100000 left by Charles j..
Root, the manufacturer, who was
killed in an auto accident near Great
Darlington, Mass.
Stock watering is prohibited by a
new rule adopted by the public serv-
ice commission of New York.
A significant legal action was begun
in the supreme court of the District of
Columbia by James w. Van Cleave,
president of the National Association
of Manufacturers, to enjoin Samuel
Gompers, John Mitchell and other Of
ficers of the American Federation of
Labor, and several of it's subsidiary
organizations, from using the boycott
and so-called unfair list
Conditions on the Panama canal
have reached state of gravity due to
the fact that construction work is de-
veloping faster than was contemplated
when the estimates for expenditures
during the fiscal year 1908 were made
nearly year ago.
The accidental explosion Of three
19-pound shells in the ordnance store
house of Fort Totten at Willets Point,
L. l., severely injured three artillery
men who were unloading shells.
The police of Jersey City arrested a
man for the murder of Mrs. Sophie
Kehrer, the wife of a Buffalo man,
who was strangled with cravat in a
room in West Twenty-second street,
New York, on July 20. The man is
known to the police as Guiseppi
Capuzzo and Charles Davis.
Two thieves took $1,000 worth OF
diamonds from Henry Ramps jewelry
store at Appleton, Wis, while two
clerks and several customers were in
the place.
Great damage was done and many
persons injured by severe electrical
and wind storm that swept over Min
nesota and Wisconsin.
Two Japanese were discovered in
the rear of Fort Mcpherson, at At
lanta, Ca, taking views and sketches
of the buildings and grounds.
An agreement has been reached on
the price to be paid by the United
States government to the owners for
three islands in Panama bay and for
the improvements now there. The land
IS wanted for canal purposes.
James Chapman, one of the best
known passenger engineers on the
Union Pacific railroad, was killed by
a bear near Evanston, Wyo.
Prof. E. E. Bogue, head of the de-
partment of forestry at the Michigan
Agricultural college, died after lin
gering illness. He had a national rep
utation as forestry expert.
Twenty persons were injured in the
wreck of a Milwaukee & St. Paul pas
senger train at keystone, Ia.
Moors made a fierce attack on the
French camp at Casablanca and were
repulsed with heavy loss.
John A. Benson and DR.. Edward B
Perrin were convicted in the United
States court at San Francisco of con-
spiracy to defraud the government
out of $4,000 acres of land in Cali
fornia.
Dr. James Walkley Sweet, one of
the well-known family of natural
bone setters," died at New Haven,
Conn.
Obadiah Lum Sypher, pioneer dealer
in antiquities in this country, is dead
at his home in East Orange, N. J., in
his 74th year.
Jarvis and John Woods, two broth.
ers who became estranged 40 years
ago on account of woman, have made
up at East Brookf1eld, Mass.
Three men had narrow escapes
from death when an automobile driven
by Edward Lawrence of Joliet, ILL.,,
crashed through a bridge over a
branch OF the Desplaines river at