Willmar tribune., 1908-06-24

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Security National bank, Minneapolis
committed suicide By jumping int.
Lake Minnetonka at Breezy Point.
Mrs. Mary Stuart Coffin, the onl,
practicing woman lawyer in Detroit
Mich, committer suicide by takin,
laudanum.
The plant of the Royal Coal Min,
company at Argentine, Pa, was de
stroyed by dynamite, the loss bein,
$4,000.
Fifty Japanese fishing boats wer,
wrecked in storm, $50 men bein,
drowned.
The battleship Georgia made the
worlds record, taking on board 1,77!
tons of coal in five hours and IL min
utes.
The supreme court of Arkansas de
clded that the Amis anti-racetrach
betting law is constitutional.
The worlds centennial congress-
held exercises at the grave in Glena
Falls, N. Y, of William ]. Clark,
founder of the temperance movement
in America.
Pine Plains, N. Y, the concentra-
tion camp of the federal soldiers and
national guardsmen, was torn up from
one end to the other by a violent
storm. Tents were all blown down
and many horses stampeded.
The Hull-Prouty congressional elec-
t1on In Iowa resulted in a tie, and
must be settled in the courts.
A motor car ran away and plunged
into the North river in New York,
two women, one man and child being
drowned.
Grand Army men hauled down a
confederate flag which was hoisted by
printer In Ossining, NJ Y
A wireless message from Capt. Rob-
erts of the steamer New York. which
left New York for Southampton, an
nounced that Miss Marion r. Hilford
was aboard without funds or change
of clothing.
The Louisiana house of representa-
! tives indefinitely postponed considera-
| ton OF the Doussan bill providing for
referendum on statewide prohibi-
ton.
The physicians of Gov. William NJ.
O. Dawson of West Virginia have in
formed him that he has developed tu-
berculosis.
J. E. Hall of Lawrence and Daniel
Matthews of Arkansas, Kan, the lat
ter university student. were killed
by live electric wire at the Univer-
sity OF Kansas at Lawrence.
The application of Albert H. Patrick,
who is serving life sentence in Sing
Sing prison for the murder Of William
Marsh Rice, an aged Texan millionaire,
for writ of habeas corpus was de-
MED by Judge Lacombe in the United
States circuit court at New York
Evelyn Thaw and her husband have
become reconciled and will not be sep
arated, according to statement made
by Daniel O'Reilly, Evelyn Thaw's
counsel.
heterogeneous Hartman, a rancher
and stockman of Rio Grande, desert
station on the Santa Fe, was shot and
killed there by Justice of the Peace
Stanley O. Houghton.
The Democratic state convention of
Colorado instructed for Bryan.
Darius Hicks, a wealthy farmer,
committed suicide by shooting at his
home near Blandinville, Ill.
Two physicians in the Roosevelt
hospital, New York, performed the del
icate operation of sewing up human
tphO0rt fhot ho1 l,,
dagger thrust.
An attempt to assassinate Gen.
Piquart, French minister of war, was
made by man named Bellanger
The warships of the Atlantic fleet
began assembling in San Francisco
harbor preparatory to their long trip
home.
The state of Zulia, Venezuela, is af-
t1icted with plague of locusts.
EmperoRWilliam received DIR. Hill,
the new American ambassador to Ger
many.
w. J. Vanderbilt's colt Northeast
won the Grand Prix de Paris
Ney Dunno, captain of the Univer~
sity of Minnesota football team, COM
mitted suicide after quarrel with his
sweetheart
Negro wizards in Cuba killed a
young white girl to use her blood as
a consumption cure.
Byron Pfautz of Lisbon, Pa, stu
dent at the University of Iowa, was
drowned in the Iowa river by the cap
sizing of a canoe.
Mrs. Daniel Cooper of Cadillac,
Mich, who was insane, killed her hus-
band, five children and herself.
The five defendants in the Pennsyl-
vania capitol Doodle case were found
not guilty.
The torpedo test on the monitor
Florida at Fort Monroe was success
full, the damage done being largely
localized.
In the Republican state primary in
South Dakota, Crawford (progressive)
defeated Kittredge (stalwart) as can
didate for the United States senate.
Fifteen thousand woman suffrag gists
paraded the streets of London.
Ten robbers, heavily armed, invaded
the customs office at Tiflis and killed
the official in charge and his four as
sistants, decamping with $4,000. The
police pursued the robbers, killing
three.
| The Lusitania beat the Mauretania's 9
record on the western passage by
seven minutes.
Gov. Wilson of Kentucky pardoned
Caleb Powers and James Howard. con-