Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-01-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS
Five persons were injured and two
street cars were riddled with stones
at Muncie, Ind, in riot that followed
an attempt of the Indiana Union Trac
ton company to run cars manned by
strike-breakers. The strike followed
the refusal of the company to sign
again the wage agreement that has
been in effect for five years.
Fire that brought death to Charles
Figone, eight years of age, fatal in
jury to Louis Figone, 16 years of age,
and almost cost the lives of so others,
broke out in the coal yard of Antonio
Figone, in San Francisco, and caused
damage to the extent of $4,000.
j. w. Belknap, wealthy lumber.
man, was dangerously injured, H. A.
Kemp was hurt, and Charles Fl. Tidy
and a housemaid, had narrow es.
cape from being burned in their beds
at Greenville, Mich.
A suit to Dust Peter Everhardy
from Office as mayor Of Leavenworth,
Kan, on the charge that he failed to
enforce the prohibition law, was
filed by the attorney general
A Pennsylvania passenger train COL
lided with an engine at MOntandon,
Pa, and a dozen passengers were
hurt.
At Collinsville, Ill.,, the explosion of
a lamp in the home of George Steger
set fire to the house and three chill
dren persisted in the flames.
Two men were killed and Is others
were injured by an explosion in con-
verter No. of the Edgar Thompson
plant of the United States Steel cor
poration at North Braddock, Pa.
While crossing the mountains with
government mail for Rocky Bar, a
mining camp in Gilmore county,
Idaho, George McKenna was frozen
to death.
Mrs. Mary Ramsey Wood died at
Hillsboro, Ore, aged 119 years.
Miss Augusta Fahrm, aged %, cash
Ter of the A. E. Johnson Steamship
agency Of Minneapolis, was arrested
and locked up in the city Jail on a
charge of embezzling about $1,000 of
the company's funds.
Owen Moran, champion feather
weight of England, made a draw fight
of Is rounds with Abe Attell, cham
pion of America, at San Francisco.
Marshal Murdoch, editor and pro-
prietor of the Wichita Eagle, father
OF Congressman Victor Murdoch and
one of the best-known newspaper men
in the United States, died, aged 70
years.
At Dillon, Mont, Fred Baker shot
and killed E. A. Lawrence, who was
to have married Bakers 16-year-old
daughter at three o'clock.
Three white firemen were badly
wounded in fight in the Japanese
quarters of Vancouver, B. c.
Affairs of the Seaboard Air Line
Railroad company reached a crisis,
and after long conference of the
voting trustees it was decided to
make application to the courts for a
receiver.
George A. Fisher, a building inspec-
tor OF Newark, N. j., was shot and
killed by a burglar.
Edward Hutchinson, the Baltimore
4 Ohio railroad station agent at Clar.
ington, o., was robbed and murdered
and the station burned.
Rev. Jere Knode Cooke, who eloped
from Hampstead, L. l., with Floretta
Whaley, was found in San Francisco
and then disappeared again.
Charles II. Perry, who travelled with
circuses for 16 years, figuring as the
skeleton man, was found dead at
Providence, r. I.
Mgr. Thomas F. Kennedy, rector of
the American college at Rome, was
consecrated as titular bishop of Ad-
rianapolis.
John Lambert, the well-known artist
and portrait painter, died at his coun-
try home in Jenkintown, suburb of
Philadelphia, aged as years
Most Rev. Daniel Murphy, arch
bishop of Hobart, Tasmania, is dead.
He was the oldest Catholic prelate,
being consecrated October II, 1916.
John Chandler Bancroft Davis, for
the past "a years reporter for the Uni.
ted States supreme court, and former.
ly United States minister to Germany
died in Washington.
The Russian duma made an appro.
priation of $7,500.000 for famine suf-
ferers.