Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-01-08

Judge John w. Barr, q distinguished
Kentucky jurist, died in Louisville Of
pneumonia ct the age Of 81.
In spite of the recent financial de-
preston, the port of New York COZ
lected $212,697,926 in duties during
1907, an increase Of $3,131,018 over
1906.
After long illness, Mrs. Charles
Gibson, IS years old, widow of Sir
Charles Gibson, died at her home in
st. Louis. Her husband died eight
years ago.
Wireless messages from Sitka,
Alaska, were received at Mare Island
and Point Iona, Cal.
Para, Brazil.
Mrs. A. B. Upton committed sui.
eide in Elgin, Ill, by drinking car.
bolic acid. Her husband, formerly
merchant Of Elgin, deserted her three
weeks ago.
The Herbert Baxter Adams prize
for the best essay on European his.
tory was awarded to William Spence
Roberts of Cleveland and Edward B.
Krehbiel of Chicago, by the American
Historical association at Madison,
Wis.
Prof. Thomas Day Seymour, senior
professor of Greek in Yale university,
died in New Haven, Conn.,, after
short illness of pneumonia.
The body of Thomas Charles bruce,
in Highgate cemetery, London, was
exhumed and the coffin was found to
contain the remains Of human body,
thus exploding the romantic tale told
by Robert C. Caldwell and others, who
swore during the recent hearing Of the
bruce perjury case that it contained
a roll of lead.
An alleged attempt was made to as
sassinate Father Volitas, pastor of st.
AIMS Catholic church at Spring Val
ley, Ill.,
Secretary Taft made three speeches
at Boston, in which he combatted the
ideas of the anti-imperialists as to the
Filipinos, argued in behalf of a power
full navy and upheld the policy of Pres
ident Roosevelt in relation to the
trusts.
A petition in voluntary bankruptcy
was filed by Henrietta Crosman, the
actress, and her husband, Maurice
Campbell, in the United States district
court in New York.
The New Jersey pardon board re-
fused to pardon Walter A. McAllister
and William Death, who were SEN
fenced to 80 years Imprisonment in
1901 for completely in the murder OF
Jennie Bosschcieter of Paterson.
Gov. Sparks of Nevada called an ex-
ira session of the legislature to con-
vene January IA, 1908, to take action
on the Goldfield troubles.
A severe earthquake, probably in
Central America, was recorded by
seismographs in America and Euro
pean cities.
The grand Jury in San Francisco re-
turned four indictments for alleged EN-.
bezzlement against officials of the Cali
fornia Safe Deposit and Trust COM
pany.
The Archaeological institute, in SEES.
sion in Chicago, was told of the dis
covery of a new saying of Christ that
belonged in the sixteenth chapter of
st. Mark. It was found by Charles
l.. Freer of Detroit in Egypt.
Viscount Aoki, the Japanese am
bassador, left Washington on his way
home to report. to the emperor.
Because Rev. Ernest Sweeton in a
sermon at Newburg, Ind, said that
any woman who danced was of ques-
tionable character, young men of New
burg attacked the minister with de-
cayed eggs and with clubs.
Andrew Carnegie donated $4,000
for public library for Fairbury, Neb.,
under the usual conditions dona-
ton of site and the appropriation of
$4,000 year for maintenance.
Receivers were appointed for the
Passaic Steel company of Paterson,
N. J.
Twenty three hundred barrels of
beer, valued at $17,500, was poured
into the sewers of Oklahoma City,
Okla, by United States Internal Rev.
enue Collector Charles Howard.
Judge r. E. Lewis Of the federal
court in Denver, COL, quashed all in.
dictments and sustained all the de-
murrers in coal land fraud cases,
thereby releasing about so prominent
defendants from prosecution.
Mrs. Mollie Desmond, of New York,
who attempted to commit suicide Is
months ago by swallowing a package
Of 144 needles, died after physicians
had made Is surgical operations.
DR.. Simon Flexner, head of the
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re-
search in New York, asserts that he
has discovered an antitoxin serum
with which he has fought successfully
so cases of cerebro-spinal meningitis.
Transatlantic passenger traffic dur.
ing 1907 was increased by nearly l.
100000 over 1906. A total of 1885,, 1928
was carried, according to figures given
out by the North German Lloyd COM
pany In New York.
The body Of Miss Emogene Kinner
of Penn Yam, N. Y, who disappeared
from Michigan City, Ind, on Deem
Der II, was found on the bank of
creek in a wild and unfrequented
place.
Kansas for Christ" is to be the
slogan in statewide evangelistic
campaign that is to be pushed stimuli.
taneously in every county of Kansas
all of 1908