Willmar tribune., 1908-10-28

/ train was ditched by spreading rails
at Nowicki Siding, a few miles south
of Metz, and the the cars were burned.
IL women and children and four men
perishing. The forest fires in North.
ern Michigan were reported to be
raging with most disastrous results.
Hundreds made homeless by Michi-
gan forest fires need shelter and food
and Gov. Warner issued an appeal for
help. Relief work was started prompt
ly In Detroit and elsewhere.
The verified known death list result
Ing from the forest fires in Pressure
Isle and Alpena counties, Michigan,
stands at IL, with several people still
reported missing and a growing prob
ability of severe loss of life in North
ern Pulawski and Krakow townships
In Presque Isle county.
Forest fires driven by high winds
were reported to be raging fiercely in
the Adirondacks.
Sugar Island, Mich, was reported on
fire from end to end. Near Detour
several towns were surrounded by for
est fires.
! Servians were enraged because an
envoy from Montenegro to Belgrade
was arrested by Austrians at Agram,
searched and detained for many hours.
About three thousand persons lost
their lives in the recent typhoon on
the China coast.
-Four men were killed by the burst
| Ing of a steam pipe on a barge near
| Manistee, Mich.
The Kentucky racing commission re-
voked the license of the Latonia
Jockey club, because the club violated
the rules of the commission.
The remains of prehistoric animal
40 feet long and % feet in height have
been found in the bad lands south of
Glasgow, Mont, by Barnum Brown of
New York, connected with the Ameri-
can Museum of Natural History.
Four homesteaders were killed near
Clayton, N. NJ, as the result of a tor.
nado and cloudburst Twenty other
persons were injured and many build
ings in the city were destroyed. Se-
we're storms did much damage at
Sharon Springs, Kan, and Lamar,
COL
Edward Mcdonald of New York shot
and killed himself and his fiancee,
Nellie Waldon, attempted to drown
herself.
James Howard Airport, reputed to
be millionaire of Liverpool, England.
and Miss Ray Buoy, an English girl of
% years, were held at Ellis island for
deportation to England
The reception accorded the Ameri-
can Atlantic fleet by the government
and people of Japan is conceded by
the American naval officers to be the
heartiest and most perfectly carried
out OF the many receptions received by
the fleet since it sailed from HAMPTON
Roads.
DR.. Marcus Tessler, a well-known
physician of st. Paul, Mimi, killed
himself with poison.
The battleships Alabama and Maine
arrived from their round-the-world
cruise
The Aerial Navigation Company, in.
corporated for the purpose of operat-
Ing an aerial freight and passenger
line between Boston and New York,
gave contract for a Baldwin dirigible
balloon.
Two men were killed and Is per-
sons injured in a trolley car collision
in Kansas City, Mo.
Fifteen business houses in Shell.
rock, 1a., were burned, the loss being
S150,O00.
w. l.. Culbertson, for 35 years the
president of the First National bank
of Carroll, Ia., committed suicide by
shooting.
Deputy Warden C.. B. Peyton and
four Flathead Indians are dead as re-
suit of pitched battle between Pey-
ton, his assistants and a band of In
dians near Hollands Prairie, Mont.
The drought which prevailed in Kan
sas and Missouri for nearly two
months was broken by drenching
| rains.
Rev. N. X. Fielding, president of the
Illinois State Gaelic Athletic associa.
t1on and prominent among the Roman
Catholic divines of Chicago, was shot
at twice by stranger as he was about
to step from the vestibule of the Cor.
pus Christi church.
The American fleet anchored in
Yokohama harbor and the entertain
ment of the guests was begun by the
Japanese on lavish scale. Admiral
Sperry and many of his officers went
to Tokyo.
The king of Italy, it was stated in
Rome, has consented to the marriage
of the duke of the Abruzzi to Miss
Katherine Elkins.
Catholics of st. Louis laid the cor
ner-stone of the great new cathedral
which is to cost more than 81, 900, 900
when completed.
Miss Anna Carson, teacher in the
Urbana Qll.) public schools, went to
Decatur and committed suicide by
shooting herself in the head.
Arnold Luetgert, brother of Adolph
Luetgert, the Chicago sausage manu-
facturer who died in Joliet peniten-
tiary after being sentenced to a life
term for the murder of his wife, shot
and killed himself in Elgin.
Capt. Peter c.. Hams and his
brother, T. jenkins Hains, were in
dicted in New York for the murder
| of William E. Annis.
Judge David B. Howell Of Newark,
N. j. committed suicide by shooting