Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-05-27

awarded Is bronze and Is silver med.
ais. $13,950 in cash payments and
monthly payments to four persons.
Seven young society persons Of Clar'
endOn, Ark, were drowned when the
gasoline tank of their launch ex.
ploded.
Fire destroyed half the business
section Of Russell, Man., the loss be-
ing $4,000.
Four persons were injured when a
BLACK hand" bomb was exploded in
a New York tenement house.
Forty-six members of the New York
cotton exchange were subpoenaed by
the federal grand jury, presumably in
connection with the case of Edwin s.
Holmes.
Night riders near Lancaster, KY.
prayed and sang hymns as they burned
a large tobacco barn.
John E. McGaughey of Indianapolis,
Ind, former county commissioner,
committed suicide because his name
had been connected with official scan
dals.
With much pomp and ceremony the
body of Rt. Rev. l. F. Horstmann,
bishop of Cleveland, was inferred at
that city.
Rioting became more serious in
Cleveland. Strikers burned a car and
in pistol fight with guards four men
were shot,
AS a result of the explosion of an
old cannon which was being used to
fire a salute to the passing Atlantic
fleet near Eureka, CAL, one man was
instantly killed, three women and one
boy dangerously hurt and dozen
more slightly injured.
Because he was about to be mar
ried again George Sterry of New
York, u years old, was shot and killed
by his son George Sterry, Jr. The
younger man committed suicide.
The big United States collier Vestal
was launched at New York and
christened by Admiral Goodrich's
daughter.
The Allegheny National bank of
Pittsburg, Pa, suspended as a result
of big thefts of which former Cashier
William Montgomery is accused.
AS a direct result of the suspension
of the Allegheny National bank,
Carothers & Co., one of the biggest
brokerage firms in Pittsburg, were
forced into bankruptcy and Attorney
F. c. Patterson was appointed re-
ceiver.
The Arkansas legislature failed to
convene in pursuance to a call issued
by Speaker Allen H. Hamiter, while
he was acting governor, and as the re-
suit there will be no extraordinary
session of that body.
A flood in northern Wisconsin did
much damage in Mellen and other
places, driving many families from
their homes.
The attempt by the members of the
state board of arbitration to bring
about peace between the Municipal
Traction company of Cleveland, O.,
and its striking employees resulted in
a failure. Violence broke out again,
non-union employees being beaten, sew
eral cars dynamited and trolley wires
cut.
Postmaster Dury of Two Harbors,
Mich, accidentally shot and killed
himself
Miss Ethel Burroughs, a senior in
Smith college, was killed in a run.
away accident at Northampton, Mass.
Two men lost their lives and prop.
erty valued at $35O,O00 was destroyed
by fire in the plant of the Lake Su-
perior corporation in the Canadian
500, across the river from Sault Ste.
Marie, Mich.
Midshipman Arthur Linford Lucas
Of Cleveland, o., one of the graduating
class in the Annapolis academy, was
drowned and Midshipman Carl D. Hib.
bard of Mortified, Mimi, nearly lost
his own life in an effort to save that
of his friend.
Inmates of the overall factory OF
the state reformatory in Pontiac, ILL.,,
mutinied against their foreman and
tried to kill him, with the result that
Henry Williams, negro, aged 25, is
in the hospital with three bullets in
his body.
Congressman Frank Clark Of the
Second Florida district was caned by
ex.Gov. w. S. Jennings, cousin OF
W. ]. Bryan, in the lobby of the Hotel
Aragon, Jacksonville, Fla, because he
called Jennings a CRATER.
Peter Rathgaber of Chicago lost
$500 by the wire tapping" swindle.
The conference OF governors al
Washington on conservation of the
nations natural resources ended afte,
the adoption of a declaration of co
operation and suggestion that the
president call the conferees together
again in the future.
The right of President Roosevelt
summarily to dismiss negro soldie,
of the Twenty-fifth infantry for al
legged participation in the riot a
Brownsville, Tex, was sustained BY
Judge Hough in the United States dis
trict court at New York.
OBITUARY..
William H. Marsh of Brooklyn died
of hydrophobia as the physicians had
predicted.
John A. Hamlin, founder and owne,
Of the Grand opera house, Chicago
| died of heart disease.