Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-26

Heavy snowfalls and high winds
throughout the states of the middle
west partly tied up rail tra1ic and
caused serious interruption Of bust
ness. In southern Indiana there was
great suffering due to the floods.
1t has developed that R. Fred An
derson, who committed suicide at
Cobalt, Ont, was the absconding treas
urer of Jennings township, Missaukee
county, Michigan.
A. Wengler of Chicago broke the
worlds record at the Cincinnati
tournament by bowling $50 points.
The Friend paper mills at West Car.
rollton, O., were damaged by fire.
V. K. w. Koo, Chinese, has been
selected as one of the Columbia uni
versity debaters who will oppose the
mixed trio at Cornell.
Following an operation for a twist
Of the bowels, Senator Asbury c. Lati-
mer Of South Carolina was said to be
in critical condition in Washington.
Twenty-eight miners were impris-
oned in the Midvale colliery near
Mount Carmel, Pa, by the breaking of
dam, but it was believed all were
alive and would be rescued.
Third Engineer William Davis, one
of the men suffering from yellow fever
on the steamer Crispin in Galveston
roads, died. -
The Merchants National bank of
Portland, Ore, reopened for business
after remaining II weeks in the hands
of bank examiner.
Charles w. Morse, the New York
| financier, was indicted again, for
perjury while testifying before the
grand jury.
Mrs. Andy Baker and her fiveyear-
old daughter of Rainsley Place, KY,
| were accidentally burned to death.
Ensign & Sons private bank in
Northwest, Pa, closed it's doors. The
institution has been in existence since
1858.
Rev. Father Andrew Salmon was in
stantly killed and Father Murphy was
perhaps fatally injured at South Bend,
Ind, when their cutter was struck by
an electric car. Both priests have
been connected with Notre Dame col
lege.
Rumors were current in Paris that
King Alfonso of Spain had been as
sassinated, but no confirmation or de-
NAL of this could be obtained.
Gov. Deneen issued a proclamation
designating April "a as Arbor day and
October "a as Bird day in Illinois.
In an heroic attempt to rescue her
six-year-old companion, David Rogers,
from in front of an approaching train
at Cartersville, Ga, Lilly May Kline.
IL years old, was struck by the train
and both were crushed to death.
John F. Randolph of West Orange.
N. j., treasurer of the Edison Manufac.
turing Company, of which Thomas A.
Edison is president, committed suicide
by shooting himself in the head.
Virgil Mcknight, member of the
Kentucky legislature from Mason
county, died of cardiac asthma.
William Sells, son of one of the
three brothers who organized the ia.
nous Sells Brothers circus combina-
tion, died suddenly in New York.
Frank H. Hitchcock, former first
assistant postmaster general, resigned
and took official charge of the Taft
boom in the east and south.
William L. Day, son of Associate
Supreme Court Justice William R.
Day, was appointed United States dis
trict attorney for the northern district
o. Ohio
Douglas H. Riker, New York pub
Usher, i'll in bed with pneumonia, bat
TIED for life with an Infatuated bulldog.
He finally smothered the animal in
the bedclothes.
A horse crazed with blind staggers
plunged into a New York restaurant
and injured half dozen persons.
Man for man, gun for gun, and ship
for ship, the American navy is second
to none in the world, according to the
report of Admiral Converse, called
forth by the many criticisms recently
made in magazines and otherwise.
The navy department was oficially
advised of the arrival of the American
| torpedo boat flOtilla at Talcahuano,
Chile, four days ahead of the schedule.
Charles w. Morse, financier and
promoter of many large combinations.
returned from his brief trip to Europe,
was arrested in his stateroom when
the steamer Etruria reached quaran-
tine in the lower bay at New York,
and was released on $4,000 bonds.
He issued a statement declaring his
innocence.
The socialists of Soligen, Prussia,
| assembled around the city hall and
| chee:ed for universal suffrage. The
police charged the crowds, scattered
them and arrested many Of the dis
| turbers.
Capt. N. B. Thistlewood Of Cairo,
ILL.,. Republican candidate for congress
in the Twenty-fifth Illinois district,
was elected to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of George w. Smith last
November.
Following fight on the tug Annie
r. Wood of Providence, bound from
Newport to Fort Greble, BENJAMIN
G. STEVENSON, son of Congressman
STEVENSON of Crookston, Mimi. fell
or was pushed overheard and drowned
Bert Hendersliter, son of Mrs. Bell
Taylor and stepson Of Nathan Taylor,
who was murdered in the rear of his
confectionery store at Creston, Ia,
confessed that he fired the shot which
ended Taylor's life.