Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-03-11

President Roosevelt appointed
Charles D.: Sigsbee, son of Rear Ad.
miral Sigsbee, and a number of sons
of deceased naval officers as mid
shipmen.
A bill to tax the sale and transfer
Of stocks was introduced in the house
by Mr.. Hepburn.
Lucian s. Blanchard, prominent in
public affairs in Iowa for the last 40
years, as lawyer, Judge, representative
and senator, died at Oskaloosa, la.
At Allenstein, east Prussia, Capt.
Won Goeben, who killed Maj. Won
Schoenbeck, fellow officer and has
been awaiting court-martial, commit
ted suicide.
The marriage of Miss Cornelia Har-
riman, daughter of E. H. Hartman,
to Robert Livingstone Gerry, son of
Elbridge T. Gerry, took place in New
York.
Federal legislation is called cause
of the recent financial panic in the an
nual report of James McCrea of the
Pennsylvania Railroad company.
According to statements of Mis-
souri, railroad officials published at
st. Louis, about 10000 employees have
been dismissed.
James Oliver, the millionaire plow
| manufacturer, died at South Bend,
Ind. The cause was general debility
and heart disease.
Before the Oakland, CAL, grand jury
Baby john Martin confessed that
his mother had planned to kill William
J. Dyngee, the millionaire cement man.
ufacturer.
Deputy Scott of Exeter arrived at
Concord, N. H., bringing the necessary
documents to demand the extradition
from France of Paul E. Roy, accused
of the murder of George A. Carkins
Adjustment was secured.
The Banco de Minero, at Chihuahua,
owned by Ambassador Creel, has been
robbed of $3.50 Mexican money.
| Formal notice of the creation of the
Republic of the United States of Rus
STA, in place of the Russian monarchy,
was sent to President Roosevelt and
to the head of every European nation
from New York by the republican ad-
ministration of the provisional govern.
ment of Russia.
The interstate commerce commits
sion at Washington decided to deny
all petitions for the extensions of time
within which to comply with the So
called hours of service law-the nine
hour law.
| Every coal operator in the Pittsburg
district is preparing for a strike of
the coal miners on April 1.
John Benham of Cincinnati, a fire.
man, was killed, Frank Brown of
Maysville, KY, fatally injured and
three other trainmen seriously hurt in
a head-on collision.
Bishop w. w. Duncan, of the Spar.
tanburg, S. c., Methodist Episcopal
church South, is dead.
The total wheat clearings from the
Pacific coast for the week ending
February 20 amounted to 694,730 BUSH
els, all of which was consigned to the
United Kingdom.
More than 5000 granite cutters and
quarry men are affected by suspen-
sion of the New England plants owing
TO failure to agree on wage
SCALE
Thomas B. Wanamaker of Phila-
delphia, son of John Wanamaker, the
well-known merchant and former post
master general, died suddenly at Liv-
erpool.
Hypodermic injections of a serum
similar to that used in the treatment
of diphtheria are being successfully
employed in scarlet fever cases in
New York, according to doctors in
hospitals on the East side.
Seven terrorists, condemned to
death for completely in plot against
the lives of Grand Duke Nicholas
Nicholaievitch and NJ Chtcheglovitoff,
minister of justice, were hanged in st.
Petersburg.
! District Attorney John F.. Weiss
ordered the release of E. C. Humph-
reys, who was arrested at Harrisburg,
Pa, charged with having attempted to
influence the jury in the capitol con-
spiracy case.
Andrew Hamilton, formerly counsel
to the New York Life and other in
surance companies, and in charge for
many years of insurance litigation and
legislative matters, was found dead
in bed at Albany, N. Y.
Advices from Gen. d'Amade, COM
mander of the French forces in Mo-
rocco, report another furious fight
with the Madakara tribesmen, in
which the French were victors.
Breckenridge hall, one of the largest
dormitories of Central university, Dan
vile, KY, was destroyed by fire. The
loss is about $4,000.
| Fire destroyed one of the largest
business buildings in Albert Lea,
Mimi, entailing loss of 100000.
The British expedition under Maj.
Gen. Sir James Willcocks, which has
been engaged in the Bazaar valley,
India, in Furnishing the Zazkakhels,
has come to an end.
It was announced at Pekin that the
Chinese government will surrender
the Japanese steamer Tatsu Maru,
which was seized by customs cruisers
f. V. Mum, Sc years old, died at Be-
lott, Wis, of paralysis. He was for
many years secretary and treasurer of
the Fire Underwriters Association of
the Northwest.
Fred Dolph was murdered while he
| silent in Clinton Ia His head was