Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-09-02
GENERAL NEWS,

Nearly 30 miners are believed to
have persisted in Hailey-Ola coal mine
No. I, at Haileyville, Okla, when
fire destroyed the hosting shaft and
air shaft and cut off air from the men.
Floods at Augusta, Ga, did immense
damage to property. demoralized bust.
ness, stopped all traffic and caused
several Deaths
A terrific downpour of rain lasting
more than "a hours and attended by
the coolest August weather New York
sponsible for two deaths and great
property damage.
Earl Trey, an apprentice on the
training ship Pensacola at Yorba, CAL,
is said to have been so severely haZed
that he probably will lose his eyesight.
Macrena Kavorzoof, 10 years old,
confessed at Valdez, Alaska, that she
induced George Postriakoff, whom she
loved, to kill her husband, Peter S.
KavOrZOOf, a woOdman, at their home
on Afoguak island.
AS a result Of an attempt by David
and William Webb, brothers, to carry
out threat to do up j. W. Culpep-
per. a grocer, of Tulsa, Okla, David
Webb is dead, William Webb fatally
wounded and Culpepper is seriously
injured.
Snow fell in Baltimore and other
parts of Maryland
Mrs. Kate Howard, leader of the
mob in the recent race war in Spring
field, Ill.,, killed herself by swallowing
poison while being taken to the Jail
following the return of an indictment
against her charging murder.
The police of Warsaw captured a
band Of swindlers who have carried
on an extensive and lucrative business
in the sale Of spurious government
bonds of the so-called lottery issue.
Yeggmen robbed the State bank of
Geneseo, n. d., of $4,000.
Two negroes entered the home of
Mrs. Virgil Bassett in st. Louis,
choked and locked her up, robbed the
house and set it on fire.
The American battleship fleet sailed
from Sydney for Melbourne
The national rifle team match for
the national trophy, authorized by
congress, and $500 was won at Camp
Perry, o., by the United States infan.
try team.
The post Office at Rushville. Mo-,
was yobbed Of $500 by burglars who
had failed to loot the bank there.
After big harmony meeting of
Iowa Republicans Gov. Cummins
called a special session of the legis-
lature to so amend the primary law
that Republican voters can select a
successor to Senator Allison.
Tommy" Burns, the American
heavyweight pugilist, won from Bill
Squires in the thirteenth round Of
their fight at Sydney, N. S. W.
John Stansberry, farmer aged q,
who lived near Columbus, O., died
within 20 minutes after he had been
stung by a bumblcbee.
Two mep arrested in Detroit on the
charge OF passing counterfeit money
gave the names of Lucien p. F.. Tull
auditor of the New Amsterdam Gas
company of New York, and Richard
w. Meacham, Dayton, O., traffic man
ager for the National Cash Registe,
company.
Daniel Rhoeder, grocer of
Streator, ILL.,, and William H. Wright
were arrested for raising two-dollar
bills to $40 and confessed their guilt
Heavy frOsts We're reported from
Minnesota, North Dakota and north.
crn Wisconsin,, the fax crop being
badly damaged.
Striking cap makers and strike.
breakers engaged in fierce riot in
Cleveland, o., and police were com.
PEELED to fire on them.
Mrs. Joseph MacEey rescued a
friends little daughter from a train
in Peoria, ILL.,, but in doing so was
struck down and killed