Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-05-20

Mary in Cleveland, O., were complete
ly destroyed by fire.
Enlisted men and petty officers of
the fleet were given a handsome re-
ception and ball by the ladies of the
California club, one of San Francis
cos most fashionable organizations.
Seven mine workers were instantly
killed and more than a dozen injured
in an explosion in the Mount Lookout
colliery at Wyoming, Pa.
Nearly every building in the village
of Barrytown Landing, N. Y, was de.
stroyed by fire.
Practically the whole population of
the village of Belleghem, Belgium, set
upon and killed man who was caught
in the act of robbing the famous
chapel of the Virgin.
E. H. Smythe of Beloit, Wis, a
wealthy retired farmer, committed
suicide on train.
One man was killed, another was
dangerously wounded, and a third
suffered broken bones when three
men shot up the town of Hanna,
Okla.
At the celebration in New York of
the one hundred and nineteenth ami
versary of the formation of the Tam.
many society it was decided to aban-
don the historic home in East Four.
teenth street and move uptown.
Tornadoes in Mercer and Henry
counties, Illinois, in the vicinity of
Madison, Wis, and in Oklahoma and
Texas killed several persons and de-
stroyed great amount of property.
st. Louis and vicinity were swept by a
violent gale.
President Roosevelt laid the corner
stone of the new home of the Interna-
tional Union of American Republics
in the presence of a throng of emf
nent persons.
Charles M. Krogh, an Omaha archi-
tect, tried vainly to kill his wife at
Beatrice, Neb., and then committed
suicide.
Roy Waller, aged Is, was arrested
at Lincoln, ILL.,, charged with threaten
ing Hiram L. Keays, a wealthy resi-
dent of Elkhart with death unless he
placed $500 in designated place.
The celebrated market and general
bazaar in Madrid called locally LAS
Americas" and we'll known to anti
quarians, was practically destroyed by
fire.
Judge A. B. Anderson, in the United
States court at Indianapolis, ordered a
decree of foreclosure entered for the
gas properties of the Fort Wayne
Gas company in the cities of Fort
Wayne, Anderson, Bluffton, Mont
pelier and other towns in the gas belt.
Miss Carrie AIDE, who said she was
going to Washington to kill President
Roosevelt, was arrested as insane at
Louisville,
In pitched battle at the Canadian
Pacific railway sheds near Owen
Sound, Ont, between striking long
shoremen and detachment of special
constables from Toronto, three men
were shot and two detectives dubbed.
During performance at a vaude.
vile house in St. Paul, Mrs. Bert
Swan, who occupied box, fired six
shots at her husband, an alligator
tanner, while he was on the stage.
None of the shots took effect.
Charles E. Bamford, a graduate of
West Point and who resigned from
the army as a second lieutenant in
September, 1906, shot and killed him.
self at his room at the Regent hotel,
Washington.
The Euclid Avenue Trust company
of Cleveland, O., made an assignment
to the Cleveland Trust company, in
the insolvency court.
Seventy-two men who for more than
"a hours had been facing death in the
raging sea near Fire island were
rescued from the crumbling hulk of
the big German ship Peter Rickmers.
Charges of rioting against Univer.
sity of Michigan students were all dis.
missed after the boys had reimbursed
the county.
While the Chicago and New York
express on the Baltimore & Ohio was
passing Hammond, w. Va, large
rock rolled down from the hillside
and crashed through the roof of the
smoking car, injuring three passen.
gers.
Miscreants attempted to wreck the
east-bound flyer on the Panhandle
road near Washington, Pa.
Fire Quilted the three upper floors
of the six-story department store of
Goldberg Bros. in Detroit, causing a
loss Of $4,000.
Isaac Williams, New York cotton
broker. committed suicide.
Charles Matthias, a well-known Chi.
cago journalist. committed suicide at
Hot Springs, Ark.
Fairyland park, summer amuse.
ment place at Memphis. Tenn, was
destroyed by IRE.
Secretary Of the Navy Metcalf r.
viewed the combined Atlantic and Pa
cific fleets In San Francisco harbor.
Admiral Evans was unable to take
part in the ceremonw and later relin-
pushed the command to Rear Admiral
Thomas and left for Washington.
The governments crop report for
May gives winter wheat's average
J condition @ 50 per cent. Of normal.