Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-07-01

wa SO~AASyS AAAAAOAo, NOAAAAAIICu oulC1uG
because the Mississippi river floods
had greatly damaged the Whitecamp
lands.
Democrats of Georgia elected an I'm.
instructed delegation to the national
convention at Denver.
The Toledo Ice and Coal company
pleaded guilty in the United States
court on three counts to receiving re.
bates from the Ann Arbor Railroad
company and was fined $3.50 on each
count.
The war department has perfected
plan for the virtual amalgamation
into trained army of 100000 men
ready to answer the call of the presi.
dent Of all the regular and National
Guard troops in the United States.
Cholera has broken out among the
troops at Camp Gregg, near Manila.
Three scouts and one civilian have
died from the disease and the camp
has been placed under quarantine
regulations.
The troops Of the shah of Persia
bombarded the parliament building
and many were killed.
Six hundred women held a mass
meeting in Brownsville, Brooklyn, and
declared their intention to fight
against the increased prices of meat
and fowl. They also paraded, and sew
eral meat stores were stoned
Flames destroyed the business sec.
ton of Three Rivers, Que, the loss be.
ing more than $1,00O,0OO.
A fire at Port Chester, N. Y, de.
stroyed block Of buildings, occupied
chiefly by business firms, rendered 40
families homeless and entailed loss
Of 100000.
The jury in the land fraud case at
Washington, after being out Is hours,
returned a verdict finding Frederick
A. Hyde and Joost H. Schneider guilty
and John A. Benson and Henry P.
Dimond not guilty.
The Citizens bank of Dover. Ky..
closed it's doors and it was discov-
cred that neither single piece of pa
per nor cent of money was in the
safe.
Leon Delagrange, the French aero
pianist, surpassed all previous records
at Milan by flying for 16 minutes and
30 seconds. During that time his ma
chine was from ten to 10 feet above
the ground.
A second son was born to Queen
Victoria of Spain.
Mrs. Olloway was shot and killed by
Harry Crawford, wealthy retired
farmer near DEBORAH, Ia. He then
killed himself. 1t is said that Craw-
ford was in love with Mrs. Olloway.
AS result of two murders in Sa-
bine county, committed by negroes,
and of which white men were the VIC
Tins, there was wholesale lynching,
five negroes being hanged to tree,
another shot as he ran, two others
shot and thrown in the creek bottom,
and the ninth shot as he stood at the
gate of one of the murdered victims.
Meyer Newman, New York dia-
mond salesman is supposed to be held
for $4,000 ransom by kidnapers.
Twenty-four companies manufacture
ing wrapping paper were fined 81 900
each by Federal Judge Hough in New
York on their pleas of guilty of vio-
lating the Sherman antitrust act.
Pope Plus has been presented with
wireless telegraph apparatus which
will be placed on top of the cupola of
st. Peters.
One man was killed and two were
fatally hurt by the explosion of a
locomotive boiler near Inlay City,
Mich.
At Cleveland, O., John Kelly, IS
years old, a retired contractor and
real estate dealer, fatally wounded his
wife, Margaret, 70 years of age, and
then tried to commit suicide by beat
ing out his brains.
Three successful flights, one of
which is said to be the longest ever
made In public by flying machine in
America, were accomplished by the
new aerodrome No. 3. known as the
Curtiss "Junebug," at Hammondsburg.
N. Y.
Mrs. Mary Farmer was found guilty
at Watertown, N. Y, of the murder of
Mrs. Sarah Brennan, and was sen.
| fenced to be electrocuted.
Mrs. James Comstock, of Sunbury,
threw herself in front of a fast pas
senger train and was decapitated.
| James Cantillion of Marionette.
Wis, professional ball player, who
was totally blind, regained his sight
at Bellevue hospital, New York, dur.
ing a fit of Mysteries which followed
his surgeons announcement to him
that his case was considered hopeless.
r. M. Sallier and Edward Jones, cat
tlemen, were both killed in a duel near
St. Vrail, N. NJ.
A plot to blow up the plant of the
Badger Brass Manufacturing company
in Kenosha, Wis, at an hour when
hundreds of people would be at work
in the place was uncovered by de-
tectives.
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