Willmar tribune., 1908-10-14

Robbers in Slobodze, Russia, killed
IL members of Jewish family.
1t was reported that President Cas-
trO of Venezuela was seriously i'll and
might have TO turn over the govern.
ment to the vice-president.
Detroit won the American league
championship pennant.
Norman E. Mack of Buffalo. chair
man of the Democratic national com.
mittee, collapsed in his room at the
Auditorium Annex hotel, Chicago, from
overwork, hard cold and a chill.
Two more Ohio counties voted to
GUST the saloons
Ben Price, colored, charged with at
tacking his daughter, was hanged by
mob at Grandfloram, Tex.
The State bank of Danube, Mimi,
was dynamited and robbed of $2,30e.
Democrats of Rhode Island nomi-
mated state ticket headed by Olney
Arnold for governor.
Fog caused wreck on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad near Lancaster, Pa, in
which one man was killed and a num-
ber injured.
Anatomy hall, formerly the medical
building at the Minnesota state uni.
versity, was destroyed by fire. The
loss is $4,000.
Mabel Jackson of Chicago set fire
to her clothing by stepping on match
and was burned to death.
Eleven boys who escaped from the
reform school at St. Charles, ILL.,, are
believed to have set fire to lumber
yard there. The loss was $4,000.
A woman, believed to have been
Mrs. L. d. Draper of Saginaw, Mich,
committed suicide by leaping over
Niagara Falls.
Twenty thousand soldiers and sail
ors took part in the first of the pa.
rades in celebration of Founders week
In Philadelphia. A bronze tablet at
the city hall marking the site of the
encampment of the French army un.
der Gen. Rochambeau was unveiled.
The medical board of army officers
in the case of Col. William F. Stewart,
U. S. A., placed in command of the
ungarrisoned post at Fort Grant, Ariz.,
by President Roosevelt, reported that
| officer incapacitated from active sery.
ice.
Managers of % of the largest parks
and circuses in the country have
formed a syndicate controlling $32,-
900, 900 worth of park and circus prop
erty.
The janitor of one of the largest
public schools in the Bronx, New York
city, discovered charge of dynamite
in the foundation walls.
The ns-Mississippi congress
opened in San Francisco with a thou
sand delegates present.
While temporarily insane Jacob
Hemptling, aged 70, prosperous
farmer who lived at Atwood, KY, shot
and fatally wounded his wife, and
then killed himself
Eleven persons were killed, more
than a dozen were injured and 30 es.
capped death by the narrowest margin
in an incendiary fire which wrecked
tenement house ON Mulberry street,
New York.
The Belgian steamer Tiflis, picked
up 200 miles southwest of the
Bahamas, raft on board of which
was the sole survivor of the crew of
the American schooner Beulah Nc.
Cabe, which foundered in hurricane
War in eastern Europe was made
| almost certain by the announced de-
termination of Bulgaria to declare her
independence from Turkey and the
! virtual annexation of Bosnia and Her.
zegovina by Austria
Great damage was done by hur.
rlcane that swept over the Bahamas.
Manila bay was swept by a fierce
hurricane and considerable damage
was done in the city, but the Ameri-
can battleships were uninjured.
An explosion Of gas at the plant of
the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company's
works, No. 2, at Tarentum, a suburb
of Pittsburg, Pa, resulted in loss by
fire Of 100000 and threw 800 men out
of employment.
The International Congress on TIL.
berculosis, just before adjourning, put
itself on record in opposition to the
theory of DR.. Robert Koch, minimizing
the danger of human infection from
bovine tubercle bacilli.
Rear Admiral Sperry decided not to
give shore leave to any enlisted men
at Manila because of the cholera. The
feet was given joyful welcome by
the people and there was big marine
! parade in the harbor.
Foley, the county seat of Benson
county, Mimi, village of 1000 peo.
pie, was practically destroyed by fire.
AS the result of a report made by
the civil service commission, Presi.
dent Roosevelt removed Lincoln
Avery, collector OF the port at Port
Huron, Mich, and also directed the
removal Of Charles H. Daley, special
| agent Of the treasury at that place.