Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-06-03

Benton, ILL.,, and set fire to the house.
The husband arrived just in time to
save her life.
| Election of eight bishops was COM
pleted by the Methodist conference
at Baltimore.
Enraged farmers near Belleville, ILL.,,
nearly lynched negro who had
robbed a saloon.
Sadie Butler shot and killed w. H.
Simpson, locomotive engineer with
whom she was infatuated, at Roanoke,
Va, and then committed suicide.
After separation of 30 years, j. L.
Carr of California and Miss Belle Og.
den of Clarksburg, w. Va, who had
been childhood sweethearts, were mar
ried in Cincinnati, o.
1t has been decided not to withdraw
any Of the United States troops from
Cuba at the present time.
Pope Plus has decorated A. B. Nc
Donnell, banker of Chippewa Falls,
Wis, with the order of st. Gregory
the Great.
Street car men of Cleveland, O.,
voted to continue the strike.
| Fourteen persons dead, others MISS
ing, property valued at millions of dol.
lars swept away, thousands homeless
and being cared for by charitable as
sociations, train and wire service de.
moralized, were the results of the
flood In northern and central Texas.
In Oklahoma much the same condi.
tons existed.
Fines amounting to $1,000,00 as
sessed against post Office clerks for
breaches of discipline, have been de-
clared illegal and will be RENTED.
| Two steamers went ashore and two
others collided in dense fog In the
vicinity of New York.
J. O. Davidson, cashier of the Wood
vile (Miss.) bank, committed suicide
by drinking carbolic acid.
The general conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal church put itself on
record as indorsing unqualifiedly the
work of the Anti-Saloon league and
| also favoring local option.
Three bold bandits tried to rob
three bank messengers of $4,000 on
| a crowded street and in broad day.
| light in New York, but were foiled by
the messengers, who were helped by
plucky restaurant waitress.
Mrs. Ellen French Vanderbilt was
granted a decree of divorce from AL
fred GWynne Vanderbilt and awarded
the custody of their only child.
Fred Tracy, member of the Okla.
homa constitutional convention, editor
of the Beaver Herald, member of the
| Democratic state committee and one
of the bestknown politicians in the
state, was indicted by the federal
grand jury for robbing the post Office
at Beaver City.
Justice Morschauser of the New
York supreme court decided that
Harry x. Thaw was still insane and
must remain in the asylum, and that
his commitment was not illegal.
Brig. Gen. Mackenzie, chief of en-
| gineers, the oldest officer on the &C.
tive list and the one of longest serv-
| Ice, was retired on account of age.
Justice Budenbender of Hoboken
denied that he married Anna Gould
and Prince de Sagan.
President Howard Elliott of the
Northern Pacific railroad said that
| crop indications were better than ever
before in the northwest.
George P. Andrews, general man.
ager of the Hero Mining. company at
Joplin, Mo-, was drowned in an un-
der ground stream.
The United States circuit court of
appeals in Minnesota affirmed the
United States circuit court conviction
and the fines imposed on the Omaha
railroad and its general freight agent,
H. H. Pearce in the grain rebate cases
levied last year in Minneapolis.
Trolley car collisions resulted in the
death Of three persons and the injur.
ing of 4S in Philadelphia and the death
of one and injury of 20 in San Fran.
cisco.
Ernst Terwilger of Newark, O.,
strangled his young wife to death
while in drunken rage and was
threatened with lynching.
w. H. Howard, wealthy commits
sion merchant of St. Louis, was struck
and instantly killed by lightning while
playing golf at the Glen Echo Golf
club.
Rev. Father Joseph F. Lubeley, aged
80 years, pastor of St. Joseph's Cath
olic church of Salisbury, Mo-, was
stabbed twice with pocket knife and
perhaps fatally injured in church by
Joseph Schuette, prosperous farmer
and member of the church, who is
believed to have become suddenly de-
! mented.
The Laporte county Qnd.) grand
jury returned seven true bills against
| Ray Lamphere. Mrs. Belle Guinness
also was indicted, in order that
true bill might BE found against
Lamphere as accessory in the murder
of Andrew Helgelein.
! Mrs. Rosie Aronwall an inmate of
the Home of the Daughters of Jacob
at New York, celebrated her one hun
dred and seventh birthday with a
party. One man present was 106
years old, and the oldest woman there
was 112.
The Illinois supreme court issued
writ of mandamus against the mayor
and members of the city council of
Alton requiring the city officials to
permit Ambrose and Minnie Bib,
negroes, to attend the same school in
which white pupils are taught.
| MayOr Mcbride Of Paterson N