Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-03-18


State Senator-Elect D. S. Kemp
was shot dead in duel at Amite, La,
by G. F. Hyde, prominent Demo.
cratic politician.
The White House at Washington
was the scene of the opening of the
first International Mothers congress.
An ancillary bill was filed at Hous-
ton, Tex, in the federal court asking
a receivership for the International
& Great Northern railroad.
Joseph Genetti, an Italian miner,
pleaded guilty at Belleville, ILL.,, to
murders by an internal machine and
was sentenced to term of As years
in the penitentiary.
A Swede, apparently insane, fusil-
laded the royal castle at Christiania
with Remington rifle. King Haakon
was away.
Warran Mckay, native of Canada,
killed his wife and three children at
his Tenino (Wash.) home and then
committed suicide.
Representative Jesse Overstreet of
Indianapolis was selected for tenn
porary chairman of the state Repub-
lican convention.
That there are serious defects in
the construction, of American battle
ships was charged by Capt. c. MGR.
WinslOw and Commander A. L. Key
before the senate committee.
-Four negroes were lynched at Van
Cleave, Miss, by mob of 30 men.
Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou
transmitted to congress recommend
alton for an appropriation for the
erection Of a hall of records in Wash
ington.
A bold attempt was made Tuesday
to rob the Merchants bank in Omaha,
Neb., by man thought by the police
to be lunatic.
One of the buildings of the San
Francisco and county almshouse was
burned and three patients lost their
lives.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw instituted pro-
ceedings in New York for the annul-
ment of her marriage to Harry X.
Thaw. The action was based on the
allegation that the defendant was in
sane when the union was contracted.
Ambassador Takahira addressed the
Japan society in New York.
James Rathbun shot and killed Mrs.
'Rathbun and then committed suicide
in Omaha, Neb.
King Alfonso visited Barcelona,
Spain.
The Country club, one of the most
exclusive social associations in the
south, pleaded guilty to selling liquors
in violation of the state laws at Mont
gomery, Ala.
Napoleon's Union school, Toledo
O., the largest building of the kind in
the state, was destroyed by fire. A
repetition of the Collinwood horror
was averted.
A score of New York firemen were
injured, several of them seriously,
hundreds of persons were driven from
their homes and many buildings were
threatened by a fire.
A fierce forest fire ragged in the
vicinity of Tomahawk, N. C. Four
men of the community, one white and
three negroes, burned to death.
One hundred masked might riders"
rode into Birmingham, KY, shot six
negroes, one of them fatally, and
whipped five others.
Mrs. Rheus Miller, said to be the
only actual daughter of the revolu-
ton in New York, died at the home
of her daughter in Mount Vernon,
N. Y.
Eight firemen were injured and
eight business houses damaged to the
extent of $125,O00 by a fire which
threatened the entire business section
of Williamsburg, Pa.
Several thousand unemployed men
of Philadelphia will receive employ
ment on public works, in all probable
ity in about a month, by the passage
of the $10,OOO,OO0 loan.
Edward Doan of Saginaw, Mich.
and John Milwise of Sebewaing, Mich,
got lost on the frozen Saginaw bay
and reached shore after so perilous
miles on honeycombed ice.
Officers, committeeman and friends
of the National immigration league
held meeting in New York to discuss
problems of immigration in their vari-
Gus phases.
Five arrests were made in Newark,
N. j., of persons connected with the
presentation of "A Millionaire's Re-
venge," based on the Thaw tragedy,
which the New Jersey officials say is
immoral.
Prince Ludwig Menelik of Abyssinia
has been expelled from Germany as
an undesirable foreigner.
Testimony was adduced before the
senate Investigating committee on
naval affairs showing that the loca-
ton of the armor belt of American
battleships was too low.
The Democratic members of the
house committee on banking agreed
to report Williams minority currency
bill as a substitute for the Fowler bill.
The California supreme court vir-
tually released former Mayor Eugene
E. Schmitz of San Francisco, convict
ed of extortion from French restau-
rant proprietors and sentenced to five
years in the penitentiary.
After an eight-day visit, the Ameri-
can torpedo flotilla sailed from Lima
Peru, for Panama.
Raminez Arbelaez, the Colombian
charge d'affaires, died at Lima, Peru.
A battle between farmers and three