Willmar tribune., 1908-08-05
GENERAL NEWS.

A6NcnAI NE"Ss
One man was killed and 4 score
wounded in all attempt of mob to
storm the jail at Pensacola, Fla, and
take out Leander A. Shaw, a negro
who assaulted Mrs. Lillian Davis. The
mob finally secured the negro and
hanged him.
An unidentified woman was mur-
dered in Brooklyn and her body
wrapped in an Oil-sOaked mattress
and burned.
G. Winthrop Sands, stepson of w.
X. Vanderbilt, was killed just outside
the grounds of Mr.. Vanderbilt's coun-
try seat. the Chateau St. Louis de
Poissy. 20 miles from Paris, by the
wrecking of his automobile. He was
pinned under the car, which exploded,
and was shockingly manned and
burned.
After an all-day conference of the
leading government prosecuting OFF,
GERS and Frank B. Kellogg of Minneso-
ia. it was announced by Attorney Gen.
eral Bonaparte at Lenox, Mass, that
every effort would be made to secure
revision of the recent decision and
opinion of the United States circuit
court of appeals in the case of the
Standard Oil Company of Indiana.
Two prominent Brooklynites, Col.
Edward E. Britton, formerly presi-
dent of the Eagle Savings and Loan
company of that borough, and Fred
erick II. Schroeder, formerly second
vice-president of the same institution,
were arrested after being indicted on
q charge of grand larceny.
Sayyid Muhammed, the Persian Ma
tionalist leader and the foremost ora
tor of the recent parliament, called
the Persian Mirabeau," was assas-
sinated at Hamadan, presumably by
agents of the shah.
Frank T. Wells, aged 21, of Keno
sha. Wis, was arrested in Cambridge,
Mass. as fugitive from justice. He
is wanted at Kenosha on the charge
of larceny of $4,000 from the First Ma
tional bank of that place, on October
-. 1907.
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for the annulment of her marriage,
Grover Willoughby, 21 years old, shot
and killed his 17-year-old bride of less
than a week at Lebanon, Mo-, and
killed himself.
Tony" Martin, said to come from a
prominent family of Quincy, ILL.,, was
arrested charged with robbing the res
idence of J. E. Murphy of Peoria.
Mexican troops and revolutionists
had an engagement in Mexico opposite
Comstock, Tex, and two American
residents of Mexico were killed.
John Schultz, paying teller of the
First National bank of Racine, Wis,
disappeared and his accounts were
found to be $4,000 short.
Following up his crusade against
ihe appearance of unclothed women
in the Paris theaters, Prefect of Police
Lcpine has given orders that the sale
Of obscene pictures on the bouleyards
be suppressed.
The Manitoban government an
nounced that 10000 men are needed
to harvest the wheat crop in western
Canada.
Thirty-siX prominent bookmakers of
New York were indicted for violating
the anti-gambling laws.
Returning to his wife's home after
an absence of 16 years, Louis Armor,
aged so, murdered the woman in To-
1edo, fired bullet at his daughter and
tried to commit suicide.
Thomas L. Redton, formerly city at.
torney Of Lead. S. D., committed sui
eide because of i'll health.
A fight in the gallery of Philadel.
phia theater caused a mad fire panic
Ill which many persons were injured.
BY the final official count of the bal
lots cast In the Seventh Iowa con.
gressional district in the primaries.
Capt. Hull secures the denomination
over Judge S. F. Prouty by 40 votes.
The school census of Chicago shows
the city's population to be 1929
the increase in four years being 208.-
1872.
Saie-blowers robbed the jewelry.
making establishment of the Thomas
]. Dunn company in New York of
$4,000 worth of property.
The funeral of Bishop c. Potter of
the diocese of New York was held in
Cooperstown and the body taken to
New York city.
In desperate battle between Mex.
lean troops and Papago Indians in the
Altar district Of Sonora. 10 Indians and
1--we soldiers were wounded.