Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-05-13

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Secretary of War Taft and party ar
rived safely at, Colon.
Fire in New Orleans burned out F.
F. Hansell & Bros, booksellers, and
Stevens & Co., clothing, the loss being
| 100000.
Gov. Harris of Ohio ordered Adjt.
Gen. Critchfield to send state troops
to protect the towns of Aberdeen and
Higginsport, in the Burley tobacco dis
trict. Threats had been made to burn
these towns, as q result of the tobacco
war.
Loss of several lives and much DAM
age to property were caused by violent
wind and transforms in southern ILL.,
nois, Missouri, Arkansas and Missis-
sippi.
Miss Christina Bau, supposedly in
sane, shot and injured Louis Neveaux.
hotel clerk, in the principal street of
Montpelier, VT, and then killed her.
self.
Bert Devaney, a horseman of Wash
ington Court House, O., killed a COL
ored girl and a man and committed
suicide after company of militia had
surrounded him.
Judge Ball of Chicago held that mar
riages of divorced persons within one
year after the decree is granted are
invalid in Illinois, even if the cere-
mony occurs in another state.
Fire destroyed the New Aveline
hotel in Fort Wayne, Ind, in the early
morning hours and 20 or more per-
sons either persisted in the flames or
were killed by leaping from windows.
Many others were badly injured.
When rain stopped the searchers in
the ruins of the New Aveline hotel at
Fort Wayne, Ind, II bodies had been
found, nine of them identified and two
men were known to be missing.
BY the explosion of a charge of dy-
Mantle In the gangway of the Draper
colliery at Pottsville, Pa, Andrew Cav
alage was killed and three foreign Ia
borers were SO badly injured that they
are not expected to recover.
| New Jersey Republicans in conven-
ton voted down a resolution instruct
Ing their delegates to Chicago for
Taft.
Peruvian insurgents are reported to
nave gained possession of Cuzco.
Two privates of the Porto Rico pro-
visional regiment were shot during a
clash between soldiers and the insular
police, and one of the soldiers died.
Charles Kuppe, 60 years of age, a
music teacher of Cleveland, O., ended
the life of his invalid daughter, Mol
lie, aged ~, with chloroform and then
committed suicide by hanging.
Three persons were injured when a
f1ve-inch shell, civil war relic and
supposedly harmless, exploded in
Armory hall in Riverside, Cal.
Burton Koch, a Denver fireman,
shot and killed his wife, wounded his
mother-in-law and committed suicide.
The business districts of the towns
of Walkerton, Ind, and Coalition, O.,
We're destroyed by flames.
The Atlantic battleship fleet was
united once more, at Santa Cruz, when
the ships of the second squadron ar
rived from Monterey and the flotilla
of six destroyers joined it from San
Pedro.
| The steamer Minnie E. Kellon was
wrecked in storm near Newport,
Ore, and II of her crew were
drowned.
The government of Colombia be-
lieves the government of Panama is
intriguing with Venezuela to declare
war on Colombia.
British officials have unearthed a
native plot at Calcutta to kill Gen.
Kitchener and overthrow the govern
ment.
Judge Lands at Chicago, in 81
cases of the government against six
railroad companies, charged with VIC.
lations of the 2S-hour law, imposed
fines aggregating $13,5OO.
A ferry boat on the River Dneiper
capsized near Bykhoff, in the govern
ment of Mohileff, and 12O persons
were drowned.
Six persons were killed and four
seriously hurt in a tenement house
fire in Brooklyn, N. Y.
A tornado did much damage in
Springfield, Mo-, and the surrounding
country.
A gigantic conspiracy of spiritualis.
tic mediums and others to defraud
the late ]. T. Crumbaugh, a wealthy
banker, and to induce him to bequeath
his entire fortune to the mediums was
charged in the circuit court at Bloom.
ington, Ill.
Thirty-four brokers of Cincinnati
were indicted by a grand jury on
charges of running bucketshops.
Six express companies doing bust.
ness in Indiana brought suit in the
United States district court against
the members of the railroad commits
sion of Indiana to enjoin them from
reducing express rates.
A supposed attempt of the lawless
element in the little town of Verden
Okla, to take revenge on City Mar
shall Gillespie for his policy Of strict
law enforcement resulted in an in
cendiary fire which destroyed the prin
cipal business section of the town.