Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-07-01
GENERAL NEWS,

Grover Cleveland, twice president OF
the United States, died at his home,
"Westland," in Princeton, n. J. His
death, which was due to heart trouble
with complications, was unexpected.
Expressions of sorrow and of sympa-
thy for Mrs. Cleveland came from
prominent men all over the country.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt an
nounced they would attend the funeral,
and the president ordered that the
army and navy and every branch of
the government should pay the usual
marks of respect to the memory of
the dead ex-president.
Fighting was renewed in Teheran,
the Cossacks storming and looting the
residences of grandees. The shah de-
clared the city in a state of siege.
Over 100000 barrels of oil consumed
by fire, three valuable oil refineries
destroyed and an estimated loss Of
about 100000, were the results of
electric storms which passed over
western and northern Pennsylvania.
The Spanish steamer La Rache went
on the rocks near Muros, Spain, and
was sunk 1t was believed a number
of lives were lost.
The schoolship Nautilus, the first
Spanish naval vessel to enter Cuban
port since the REIMBURSEMENT of Span
ish sovereignty over the island, ar
rived in the harbor of Havana, and
was hailed with delight by the entire
SIaniSh colony Of the citv
II. d. Everett, government for
ester, T. r. Wakely, teacher, and
four Filipinos were killed by hill
tribesmen on the Island of Negroes.
William Mulholland of Springfield,
No, killed his brotherin-law, NJ. c.
Sappington, and shot Mrs. Sappington
because his wife had left him and was
with them.
One person was killed and many in
iured in tornado near Mountain
Lake, MINI.
Two sets of twins and set of trip
lets were born in the neighbOrhOod
of President Roosevelt's country place
in Albemarle county, Virginia.
Representative James s. Sherman
was nominated for vice-president on
the first ballot by the Republican ma
tional convention. The convention
then adjourned and a subcommittee
OF the national committee went to Gin
cinnati to consult Mr. Taft as to his
choice for national chairman.
1t was announced that both Presi.
dent Roosevelt and Secretary Taft
would see the Yale-Harvard boat race
on the Thames at New London, Conn.
The natives of Portuguese Guiana
are in revolt.
Serious damage was done in Wis
consin, Minnesota and Southern Mich.
gan by violent storms of rain, hail
and wind.
Dr.. G. w. Jones, member of the
louisiana house of representatives.
was killed in a train wreck at Baton
Rouge.
George Willoughby of Milwaukee
pleaded guilty to charge of wife
murder and was given a life sentence.
The train bearing Secretary Taft
from Cincinnati to attend the Yale
commencement exercises narrowly es-
capped being wrecked by the breaking
of piston rod.
Three stevedores were killed and
others injured at Philadelphia by the
explosion of what is believed to have
been bomb in the hold of the Ham
burg-American steamship Arcadia.
Miss Helen Gould was sued for s2O,.
600 damages by a former servant on
the ground OF SANDER.
Forest fires in northern Michigan
destroyed three small villages and
swept over thousands of acres of tim
Der land.
The marriage banns Of Nine. Anns
Gould, formerly the countess de Cas-
tellaIe, aa5 Prince Helie de Saga1
were posed in Paris.