Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-12-09
HAPPENINGS
Of: A WEEK.
Latest News Told
in BriefeSt and
Best Form.
PERSONAL.

PERSONAL.
Representative Theodore Burton OF
Cleveland, O., has been offered by
President-elect Taft the portfolio OF
secretary Of the treasury.
Robert F. Maddox was elected may
or OF Atlanta, Ca, by majority OF
5000 votes over James G. Woodward
regular Democratic nominee and
twice mayor of the city.
President Roosevelt appointed Daniel
J. Keefe of Detroit, Mich, commission
er-general Of immigration to succeed
the late Frank p. Sargent.
Herbert l.. Satterlee Of New York,
son-in-law of ]. Pierpont Morgan, was
offered the position of assistant secre'
tary Of the navy.
Ned w. Barton, former assistant
examiner in the patent Office, pleaded
guilty to four indictments against him
charging fraud in electric light pat
ents and was sentenced to three years
in the penitentiary.
Samuel B. Donnelly of New York,
the wly-appointed public printer,
took the oath of Office and filed his
bond.
Timothy l.. Woodruff, chairman OF
the New York Republican state com
mittee, eliminated himself from the
senatorial race in favor of Secretary
of State Elihu Root, after conference
with President-elect Taft.
President-elect Taft always alb
stemious, declares he has become
teetotaler.
William Jennings Bryan had mar
row escape from a death hug from q
bear which he was trying to kill In the
mountains about 60 miles from Chi
huahua, Mex
Frank H. Hitchcock has been Of
fered and has accepted the position OF
postmaster general in the Taft cabinet
that is to be.
John Gardner Coolidge, the Ameri-
can minister to Nicaragua, resigned
from the diplomatic service.
GENERAL NEWS.
Nord Alexis, president of Hayti, was
deposed by the people of Port au
Prince, attacked insulted and cursed,
and took refuge on a French vessel
Gen. Legitime was proclaimed his sue
cessOr.
Burglars blew open the safe of the
First National bank of Pepperell,
Mass, took $4,000, and escaped in an
automobile.
The Federal Council of the Church
of Christ in America was formally
opened in the Academy of Music at
Philadelphia with impressive ceremo-
MES.
A prepossessing and richly-gowned
young woman, who had registered at a
Brooklyn hotel as Mrs. S. H. Falconer
of Sioux Falls, S. D., committed sui
eide by shooting.
Fire destroyed the clothing and jew
elry store of Anthony Shapiro at Dick.
son City, Pa, and Mr.. Shapiro, a son
and daughter and Mrs. Shapiros par.
entS lost their lives.
Lystia Wahoo Winnebago, a girl stu.
dent at Carlisle Indian school, eloped
with Joseph Twin, an Indian from the
west.
British officers working among the
Sikhs and Hindus of the Pacific coast
unearthed the details of a proposed
uprising against British rule in India
to take place in April.
Pu-Yi, the three-year-old son OF
Prince Chun, assembled the Dragon
throne and was crowned emperor OF
China under the name Of Hsuan Tung
The business section of Beckville
Tex, was burned, the loss being
100000
The will of the late Delos Blodgett
of Grand Rapids left an estate valued
at s12,O0O,0O0 to his three children.
News was received of the sinking
of the Japanese steamer Ginsei Maru
20 lives being lost.
The Stearns Salt & Lumber Company
of Ludington, Mich. was fined $4,000
for accepting rebates from the Pere
Marquette
Martial law was proclaimed ir
Prague because of the riots between
Czechs and Germans.
While out hunting rabbits, Will
Hough, aged IS years, shot and killed
his brother Guy, aged Is years, near
Mason City, la.
The Atlantic battleship fleet sailed
from Manila for Colombo, Ceylon.
In his annual report for the fiscal
year Postmaster General Meyer gave
the total receipts for the year as
$2OS, 351 1856. thereby showing a deficit
of $16,S75,222, the largest in the his
tory Of the department.
Chief of Police Biggey of San Fran
cisco was drowned off Alcatraz island
The department of agriculture or
dered a quarantine against the entire
state of Maryland so far as cattle and
sheep, ETC., are concerned, on account
of the appearance of foot and mouth
disease.
Canada will be represented at the
Seattle exhibition next spring, the
government having decided to make
an appropriation.
Wright and Alexander, American
tennis players, were defeated in Mel
bourne. Australia, in the contest for