Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-03-04

T. A. Mcmillan, a blind book agent
who travelled for Chicago house, died
at the general hospital at Kansas City
of a bullet wound received in mys-
terious manner in rooming house.
Three persons, servant girl, the in
FAINT child of Mr.. and Mrs. M. ".
Owens and brother of Mrs. Owens,
persisted in fire in store at Hines,
MINI.
Lieut.. Gen. Stoessel. condemned to
death for the surrender of Port Ar
thur fortress to the Japanese, has
petitioned Emperor Nicholas for full
pardon.
The special train bearing the
Charles Gates Mexican touring party
was derailed at Orville, Tex. Thirty
people were injured.
Hearing in the second criminal pros
ecuti0n growing out of the sensational
Hartje divorce case was begun before
Judge James r. MacFarlane in Pitts
burg.
Two indictments were handed
down in New York by the federal
grand jury against Joseph M. Giordani,
who was recently arrested there for
alleged counterfeiting of the paper
money of Hayti.
j. L. Munzer, member Of wealthy
New York family, committed suicide
by shooting himself in the head at San
Francisco.
The secretary of the treasury has
announced call upon national banks
for $35,000,000.
Judge Lanning in the United States
circuit court at Trenton, N. j., made
an order for the receivers of the West
inghouse Lamp company to turn back
the business to the company.
The Italian senate sitting as high
court convicted Nunzio Nazi, former
minister of public instruction, of en-
bezzlement from the state treasury.
A congratulatory telegram to Presi-
dent Roosevelt relating to the fleet
was received from Jose Pardo, presi-
dent of Peru, and replied to by the
president.
The estimates for the British de-
Tense forces for the current year dis.
appointed the peace party. for, instead
of showing reduction, as they had
hoped, the combined estimates for the
army and navy show an increase of
100000.
Ransom A. Youngblood, ex-president
of the Coal Belt National bank of
Benton, ILL.,, and the Salem bank of
Salem, Ark, pleaded guilty to embez-
cling $4,000 and was Immediately sen.
fenced to serve an indeterminate SEN
tence.
Louis Barber, aged As, killed his sis.
ter, Mrs. Jerome Lewis, aged IS, at
their home in Medina, N. Y, and then
inflicted probably fatal wounds on
himself.
An inquiry of an informal kind is
being made by the naval officials re.
garding the threatening letter alleged
to have been written by one of the
"Black Hand" threatening the naval
magazine at Iona island.
The question whether the railroad
rate law repeats the Elkins clause
prohibiting rebates by railroads was
decided negatively by the supreme
court of the United States.
A conference of the chief school of.
ficers of the states and territories with
the United States bureau of educa-
ton, was held in Washington, D. C.
William H. Prescott, vice president
of the United States Envelope com.
pany and one of the most prominent
envelope manufacturers in the coun.
try, died at his home at Rockville,
Conn
Speaking in favor of the passage of
the ocean mail subsidy bill in the sen.
ate Senator Gallinger reviewed the
conditions under which the merchant
marine Of this country is operating.
Fifty persons at Solomon, Kan,
were made i'll from the effects of eat
ing canned fruit. Four persons were
in serious condition.
The murder of Rev. Lee Heinrichs
brought forth the startling accusation
from Chicago priests that anticlerical
agitation by group of Italians has
taken form in Chicago.
A class system of treating tubercu.
losis undertaken by Emmanuel church
in Boston shows that lives can be
saved at 1920 each.
The new education bill was intro.
duced in the English house of com.
mons by Reginald McKenna, president
of the board of education. The bill is
intended to regulate the conditions
under which public money may be
applied.
Fire broke out in Colon and property
to the value of $4,000 was destroyed.
The fire brigade at Cristobal assisted
the local brigade.
Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, who
submitted to an operation for the re-
moval of an abscess in the ear, is re.
covering.
An Italian bomb explosion occurred
in Brooklyn, N. Y, when Peter Lo-
cato's music store was wrecked.
One fireman was killed and six in
jured during fire in a six-story block
in Tacoma, Wash.
The Green Mountain Savings bank
of Marshalltown, Ia, capitalized at
$1,000, closed its doors. State Bank
Examiner Windsor was placed in
charge.
The trial of Raymond Hitchcock, the
comedian, on an indictment which re-
suited from charges preferred by
young girl, was postponed week in