Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-03-18
BRIEF REVIEW Of
A Weeks EVENTS
RECORD OF THE MOST jMPoR.
TANT 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.

tiers Of the Civilized World and
Prepared for the Perusal Of the
Busy Man.
Nine. Anna Gould, accompanied by
her three children, sailed from Cher
bourg for New York.
Harry X. Thaw was served with d.
vorce summons in the proceedings
brought by his wife, Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw. to annul their marriage. Mrs.
w. c. Thaw was also served.
Details of alleged frauds In the
Louisiana Democratic primary elec'
ton We're placed before the Demo-
cratic state central committee.
John B. Lindsey, at Macarthur, O.,
was acquitted of the charge of having
attempted to bride Prosecuting At
torney Miller.
Methods of meeting competition and
gaining the oil trade of a locality were
testified to in the Standard Oil custer
suit at Cleveland, o.
Coroner Burke rendered his de-
cision in the Collinwood CO., school
fire Conditions existing are blamed,
but no fault is charged to any one.
Senator Clarke of Arkansas de-
nounced pending currency bills in II
speech in the senate, declaring that
no currency legislation should be en-
acted until an investigation is held as
to the causes of the panic.
Gov. Guild of Massachusetts has re-
ceived official notification that the
king Of Italy had nominated him a
grand officer of the Crown of Italy.
The Kansas conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church at Topeka,
Kan, exonerated DR.. j. r. Mcfarland
of heretical charges.
Mrs. Beatrice Thomas Metcalf, who
attempted to shoot Attorney S. r..
Hamill of Terre Haute, Ind, was COM
mitted to hospital for the insane.
Butter makers from nearly every
state in the union assembled at St.
Paul, Mimi, for three days conven-
ton.
Reports to the New York and New
Jersey Metal Trades association show
that 5000 of it's 10000 members are
out of work.
Anthony J. DreXel Jr., and two 9TH
FRS were injured in Philadelphia when
their automobile was hit by a trolley
car.
President Castro of Venezuela has
refused to arbitrate claims made by
American citizens as requested by the
United States government.
President Roosevelt has directed
Herbert Knox Smith of the bureau of
corporations to investigate the meth
DDS of stock trading with a view to
Furnishing the basis of possible future
legislation regulating such practices.
In connection with the report of the
senate committee on military affairs
On the Brownsville riot, which was
made to the senate, the president
transmitted message.
A partial itinerary for the battleship
feet after finishing target practice at
Magdalena bay was announced by the
navy department at Washington.
Harry Orchard, before Judge FIRE.
mont Wood in the Caldwell, Idaho,
district court, was allowed to with
draw his former plea of not guilty.
The Porto Rico house of delegates
by large majority passed bill au-
thorizing the insular government to
operate a lottery under the super
vision of the insular treasurer
Charles w. Morse and Alfred H.
hnI
United States circuit court at New
York to joint indictment of 20
counts.
Miss Sarah Chamberin Weed of
Philadelphia shot and killed Miss
Elizabeth Baily Hardee of East Sa,
vannah, Ga, and then committed sui
eide at a fashionable Boston school.
The khedive of Egypt, accompanied
By the duke and duchess of Connaught,
were present at Helopolis at the first
automobile races held in Egypt.
The farmhouse of John Denthitt,
near Westboro, Wis, was destroyed
by fire and three small children were
burned to death.
China, fearing that Japan was seek
Ing preteXt for trouble. apologized
for hauling down the Japanese flag
and proposes to release the Tatsu
Maru, only recognizing force ma
jeure."
Discharged section hands are
thought to have been responsible for
an attempt to wreck a PENNSYLVANIA
suburban train in Chicago.
The Argentine elections resulted In
complete victory for the existing
government
David Waldo, a wealthy horseman
well-known throughout the United
States, and who formerly owned a
race track, was killed near Indepen.
dence, Mo-, in runaway accident.
Twenty-six railroad laborers were
overcome by gas in the PENNSYLVANIA
railroad tunnel at Baltimore, Nd
-Four died and ten badly affected.
The knickerbocker Trust company
New York, which suspended business
at the beginning of the financial panic
resumes business soon.
The Democratic state committee Of
Minnesota, after bitter fight, adopt
ed resolution indorsing Gov. John 4
johnson of Minnesota for the Demo
cratic presidential nomination.
At the age of 105 years, Over
Priester, oldest confederate veteran
died at Salkehatchie, s. C.
Fire which started in a paint sho1
at Peoria, Ill.,, caused $4,000 dam
age.