Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-26
BRIEF REVIEW Of
A Weeks EVENTS
RECORD OF THE MOST lMP0R.
1ANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEM.
lied FORM.
HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS
Information Gathered from All Quar-.
tiers Of the Civilized World and
Prepared for the Perusal Of the
Busy Man.

Prepared for the Perusal Of the
Busy Man.
A petition for the impeachment Of
Judge l.. r. Wiley of Shanghai, Judge
of the United States court of China,
was introduced in the house.
Information from unofficial and indi-
vidual sources evidencing the aggres'
siveness of Japan in Manchuria has
been accommodating in the state depart
ment at Washington. That this con-
dition is irritating in increasing de-
grees to China is matter of knoWl-
edge.
Millionaires, race.track followers,
clergymen, lawyers and legislators
were represented at the hearing be-
fore the joint senate and assembly
codes committee on the Agnew.Hart
hill at Albany, N. Y.
The American battleship fleet has
reached Callao.
Investigation into the affairs OF the
American Ice company, promoted and
formerly controlled by Charles w.
Morse, was formally begun In New
York.
The northeast storm, the worst in
years, ragged in northern New York
and rapidly added to the snow that
covers the whole Adirondack region.
w. H. Cresviston, on trial for the
murder of H. Wellington Stewart in
lola on the night of December 8, 1907,
was convicted of murder in the first
degree by a jury.
Mrs. John Angus and her two small
children were burned to death in their
homes at Tallyho, w. Va.
Both Secretary Taft and Whitelaw
Reid denounced talk of war between
Japan and the United States as "ridic-
ulous" and nonsense"
William Jones and wife were found
guilty by a Chicago jury of kidnapping
Lillian Wulff. The man was given 80
years and woman 25 years in prison.
President Roosevelt, in letter to
the interstate commerce commission,
told of the danger of strike on the
railroads over contemplated wage re-
auctions and suggested an inquiry into
the claim that the cut is made neces-
sary by adverse legislation.
Creditors made terms to E. r.
Thomas of New York in regard to the
control of his property and the re-
newal of loans
A New York paper printed cables
FOL If
for the purchase of the Philippines by
Germany.
Germany's imperial treasury de-
partment is considering the possibility
of government petroleum monopoly.
French soldiers had a serious en-.
gagement with the Moors at point
about Is miles southeast of Fedala,
Morocco. The French had two off,
GERS and several soldiers killed and 20
men wounded.
Mrs. Oscar Anderson and baby were
drowned while trying to ford the Dry
Glaze near Decaturville, Mo.
The Mexican government has raised
the ban against importation of rifles
into that country, providing the i'm
porters can show good cause for TAX
ing them in.
Because his wife threatened to get
divorce, l.. Asbury shot and killed
her and then killed himself at Seattle,
Wash.
The New York senate passed by a
vote of 30 to Z the Page bill providing
%1>a coS0 ~ ~ -
the government of New York city.
Reports that the marriage of Harry
X. Thaw and Evelyn Thaw is to be
annulled. or that they are to be d.
vorced, are denied.
The memorandum of the Japanese
government in reply to that of the
United States on the subject of emf.
grafton was handed to Ambassador
O'Brien IN Tokyo.
The Civic federation of Burlington,
Ia, has notified the mayor and other
city officials that gamblers must be
driven out.
Owen Wister, the novelist, was de.
feated for alderman in the municipal
election in Philadelphia.
Senator Knox introduced in the sen.
ate bill to establish a system OF
postal savings banks.
Gracey, KY, was visited by a band
of Is masked night riders. After tax.
ing possession of the telephone ex'
change and taking Town Marshal
Waters prisoner they terrorized the in.
habitants by firing guns and pistols.
In the Democratic primaries in Okla.
homa to elect delegates to the state
convention w. J. Bryan was Endorsed
by every one of the IS counties.
Peter Gruener, aged 40, copper
smith of Cincinnati, shot and instantly
killed his wife, and then shot himself,
dying shortly afterwards.
Marian Grey, affinity finder, was
convicted in the federal court at Chi
cago of using the United States mails
to defraud while conducting the Elgin
Searchlight club.
Smallpox appeared in the University
Of Illinois, and all students were or.
dered vaccinated
Frank Murdoch, well-known Re.
publican politician, died at his home
In Oneida, ILL.,, of heart disease, in.
duced by an attack of pneumonia
aged sc years.
Prof. W. F. c. Hasson of the AGA.
demic force at the naval academy at
Annapolis is dead. .s
Damage amounting to probably $751;
900 was done, oil paintings Of judges
who have presided in Brooklyn in the
last half century were water-soaked