Willmar tribune., 1908-12-30

ance was over, but through the cool
ness and bravery of the actors and en-
ployes the audience was got out with
out knowing of it's peril
/ Leonard Smith, son of Chief OF Po-
lice Smith, Charlie Moore and his
brother, Virgil Moore, were killed ,and
Policeman Cain Walters fatally wound
ed in a four-cornered pistol battle
fought in Ocilla, Ca.
| Federal authorities began an investi-
cation of the packing industry in Chi
| cago
Dora Fair, 16 years Old, and Lewis
Rogers, % years old, Cherokee Indians
who eloped from Chouteau, Okla, were
arrested in Kansas City, Mo. i
Six severe earthquake shocks threw
the people of Virginia City into a
panic. IT,.
Elbert Hubbard, author and lecturer,
was badly crushed by falling tree
near East Aurora, N. Y. SIS
The increase in the alien population
of the United States in the year end
ing September 30 last, was only 6,29S.
Mrs. Helene E. Annis took the stand
in the trial of Thornton J. Hams at
Flushing, N. Y, and gave a long and
dramatic account Of the staying of her
husband, w. E. Annis, by Capt. Peter
c. Hains, Jr., brother of the defendant.
Acting President Gomez of Vene-
zuela ousted all the members Of Cas-.
tro's cabinet and formed a new min
istry.
| The actual manufacture of steel was
begun in the new town Of Gary, Ind.
On charges of bribery and con-
spiracy, President William Brand Of
the common council of Pittsburg, Pa,
six members of the finance committees
of the common and select councils,
and w. M. Ramsey president, and A.
| A. Vilsack, cashier, of the German Ma
tional, one of Pittsburg's leading
banks, were arrested.
Mrs. Emily Crane ChadbOurne of
| Chicago completed the payment of
$152,S2O to the government and has
possession of the valuable tapestries
and art works seized by customs Of
ficials when they were imported from
England last July.
| A. B. Stfckney, president and one
OF the receivers of the Chicago Great
Western railway, resigned his receiver
ship of that road and II. c. Burt was
appointed to the place.
| Seized with a sinking spell while
driving an electric automobile, Mrs.
Clara Courtwright, aged 60 years, of
| Waterloo, Ia, fell from the machine
and was run over by it and killed.
| The Frankfurter Zeitung learns from
a reliable source that Austria. Hungary
is prepared to grant Turkey $20,000,-
900 as compensation for the annexa-
tion of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Citizens of Havelock. Neb., enraged
because the Lincoln Traction Company
refused to reduce the fare to Lincoln,
tore up the tracks and tried to burn
the company's barns.
Harry K. Thaw, the slayer of Stan
ford White and now confined in the
state hospital for the criminal insane
at Matteawan, N. Y, cannot be taken
to Pittsburg to testify in bankruptcy
proceedings, according to decision
handed down by the United States cir
cult court of appeals in Philadelphia
! The new municipal council of Lis
bon, Spain, has unearthed a $7,0O0,O00
Doodle scandal.
The jury in the case of state against
James H. Parrish, an Owensboro (Ky.)
banker, charged with receiving a de-
pOsit when his bank, the Owensboro
Savings Bank and Trust Company,
was insolvent, reported that it could
not agree, and was discharged.
Father James A. Kelly of Paterson,
N. j., on his way to Ireland, fell or
jumped overheard from the steamer
Arabic and was drowned.
Six robbers, after dynamiting the
safes of the Farmers State bank at
keene, Neb., and the Commercial bank
OF Gibbon, Neb., engaged in a pitched
battle here with a number of citizens
and escaped in an automobile with
$500.
Enraged because his former sweet
heart, Miss Maud Hartley, had reject
ed him, James B. Harmon, the 1S-year.
old son of Police Sergeant James M.
Harmon, shot and killed her on the
street in Somerville, Mass.
The four men convicted in the Penn
sylvania capitol fraud case were SEN
fenced to two years in the peni-
tentiary, $500 fine and costs, the maxi.
mum punishment allowed by law, and
were released on 100000 bail on su-
persedeas.
Frank Cain, city marshal of Higbee,
Mo-, was shot and probably fatally
wouh ded and Elmer Magruder was in
stantly killed in the city Jail by three
men whom Cain had arrested on a
charge of robbing a railway station at
Salisbury, Mo.
Eleven deaths have occurred and Is
men are seriously i'll at Keithley
camp, Mindanao island, as a result of
the men of the Eighteenth infantry
drinking calumbic acid, vegetable
compound extracted from the calumba
root.
The Council of Jewish Women,
through DR.. Cornelia H. Kahn, chair
man of the committee on purity of the
press, has issued an appeal to newspa-
pers for the elimination of indecent
details in the published evidence at
murder and divorce trials.
Arizone Lyle, St. Louis carpenter,
and his brother, William A. Lyle, q
railway clerk. have been Informed that