Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-04-22

any part Of the Boston metropolitan
district in ten years devastated the
manufacturing tenement and retail
sections of Chelsea. burning over one
square mile Of territory and leveling
many Of the city's best structures.
Three persons lost their lives and
about SO were injured. The fire start
ed at 1O:4O a. m. and was not under
control until nine o'clock in the even.
ing. notwithstanding that half of the
Boston fire departments strength and
steamers from . dozen other cities and
towns went to the aid of the Chelsea
brigade. The loss was estimated at
fully 100000. About 1900 families
are homeless. Among the structures
destroyed were 13 churches, two hos
pitfalls. the public library, city hall.
nve schoolhouses. 20 business blocks.
nearly score of factories and up
wards of 300 tenements and dwelling
houses.
Prompt measures were taken in
Boston for the relief of the Chelsea
fire sufferers. The loss was estimated
at $5,575,000, with $3.500,000 insur-
ance.
Many persons were hurt at Chester,
Pa, when striking street car men at
tackled the state police.
The remains Of three more victims
of the fire in Chelsea, Mass, were
found, making death list of six.
Five thousand men from the battle
ship fleet paraded in San Diego and
gold key and sword for Admiral
Evans were presented to Admiral
Thomas.
Robert N. Harper, president of the
Washington chamber of commerce,
drug manufacturer, and one of the
best-known business men in Washing
ton, was sentenced by Judge Kimball
in the police court to pay a fine of $500
for violating the pure food law.
The ministers of the 1900 Presby-
terrain churches throughout the
United States were requested by the
department of church and labor to OBJ
serve labor Sunday, May 10.
The city of Danville, Va, voted
against licensing saloons.
The home of the late President Nc
klnley in Canton, O., was sold to Mrs.
Rose C. Klorer of Canton, the price
being $4,000.
President Roosevelt will again
nominate John w. Jackson to be post
master at Columbia, Tenn, the post
master general having recommended
that the nomination, which was with
drawn from the senate on March 30,
be again sent to that body.
Clifford Vernon, the ten-year-old son
OF Thompson Vernon, hanged himself
self in his fathers barn near Mount
Vernon, o.
Five distinct shocks of earthquake
were felt at Milford, Utah.
The battleship fleet arrived at San
Diego, was welcomed by Gov. Gillett
and city officials and four days of en-
tertainment began.
Despondent over business troubles,
Charles F. Leland, formerly president
of the Commercial bank of Duluth,
Mimi, shot and killed himself.
Hauser lake dam across the Mis-
souri, river, Is miles below Helena,
gave way with great crash and pre-
cipitated from Is to 30 feet of water
over the dismembered structure.
Three serious prairie fires destroyed
much farm property in South Dakota.
The Delaware state Democratic con.
vention instructed it's delegates to the
national convention for George Gray,
despite his refusal to have his name
presented.
Bryanites were defeated in the
New York state convention, the com.
mittee on resolutions adopting a reso.
luton for an uninstructed delegation.
Joseph M. Giordani, an agent of the
F1rmln reVolutionists, in the United
States, was sentenced to six months
at hard labor in Sing Sing prison for
having counterfeit Haytiea money in
his possession.
Jean Rull and three of his accom-
plices have been found guilty of at
tempts to assassinate King Alfonso.
Rull was sentenced to death and the
others to Imprisonment
The historic garrison church in the
Neue Friedrichstrasse, Berlin, dating
from l7O3, was completely burned out.
together with numerous ancient req
mental shot-torn flags carried in vari-
Gus wars.
The old Van Wart mansion at
Youngs Corners, N. Y, was destroyed
by fire. 1t contained many revolu-
tionary relics.
About 1000 persons persisted in
floods at Hankow. China.
Mrs. Kate Pelter was found strangled
to death and Vito Debello with his
throat cut, in New York fiat. Charles
Berger, who was stabbed seriously.
was put under arrest.
Under the direction of William F.
Hazen, former chief of the secret serv-
ice, concerted movement was started
to rid the country of alien criminals
and anarchists.
Windows were smashed and houses
for a distance of ten miles were
shaken when 400 pounds of nitro
glycerin exploded and scattered the
splinters of separator mill of the
Aetna Powder company at Aetna, Ind.
over a quarter of a mile.
Massachusetts Republicans elected
an uninstructed delegation to the ma
tional convention. but q plank in the
platform admitted Taft was the choice
of majority in the state convention.