Willmar tribune., 1908-10-07

steam ferry boat Stambul outside the
harbor of Smyrna. One hundred and
forty persons were drowned.
Rev. F. M. Hill and his bride of a
few days were drowned near Chaplin,
Ky.
The annual convention of the
League Of American Municipalities be-
gan its sessions in Omaha, Neb, with
large attendance.
Christopher Crezise, treasurer of
Gilpin county, COL, killed the daugh-
ter of his landlady and committed
suicide.
The business section of Michel, B.
c., was almost wholly destroyed by
fire.
Mrs. George Cook and Mrs. Kate
Floyd, sisters, were burned to death in
a farmhouse near st. George, Me.
Manufacturers of railroad material,
representing hundreds of millions of
dollars in capital, met at the Waldorf
Astoria hotel, New York, to form an
organization to combat the attacks on
railroads from legislative and other
sources.
The United States steamer Tarlack
was caught in gale and driven
ashore on Borongan island, one of the
Samoan group. It is thought the YES
sci will be a total loss.
How the Standard Oils correspond.
ence with Foraker, McLaurin and
others came into the possession of Mr..
Hearst was explained in a statement
made by John D. Archbold, vice-presi-
dent of the big corporation. He as.
serts they were stolen by a former
employe of the company.
The National Irrigation congress
opened at Albuquerque, N. NJ, and at
tracted large and enthusiastic crowd
to the convention hall.
Charles Edward Davis was bound
over to the district court at Omaha to
answer the charge of murder in the
first degree for the killing of DR..
Frederick Rustin.
Ninety-three heroes who within the
last year have saved the lives of
drowning persons in the waters around
New York were presented with medals
or certificates of honor by the United
States Volunteer Life-Saving corps.
Miss Katherine Hord, member of a
prominent family, was almost instant
ly killed; Robert Payne, young So
ciety man, was crippled, and four
other persons were severely bruised
when an automobile collided with
street car in Louisville, Ky.
Twelve Ohio counties voted under
the Rose law and all went "dry' by
majorities ranging from a few hun
dred to more than 1000. The number
of saloons affected is 2S9.
The Wisconsin supreme court de-
clared unconstitutional the eight-hour
railroad telegraphers' law, which was
enacted at the 1907 session of the leg
islature.
The tourist steam yacht Argonaut,
from London for Lisbon, was sunk
near Dover by collision with a steam
er. Her passengers and crew, ESQ in
number, were saved
The police of Budapest arrested two
anarchists. suspecting of plotting to
assassinate King Alfonso of Spain. :
Lord Rosslyn went broke in the
test of his roulette system against
Sir Hiram Maxim, losing $4,000 in
dummy" money.
Thousands of native houses have
been washed away and there has been
heavy loss of life in the Hyderabad
and nn1non 1ict rs T,>I M
suit of the floods which followed an
unprecedented rainfall.
At Dusseldorf, Rhenish Prussia,
Capt. Won Abercron and Lieut.. Won
Goltzheim, well-known aeronauts, had
miraculous escape from death during
the course of an ascent in a spherical
balloon. When they were 5000 feet in
air the gas bag burst, but after fall
OF 1900 feet the envelope spread out
like parachute and the balloon came
down gradually.
While playing with the scrub team
against the Yale varsity football
team, Lewis Baker Warren of New
York, a member Of the class of 1910,
Sheffield Scientific school, was kicked
on the head and rendered unconscious.
Drunken men who had been to a
blind tiger near Anthras, Tenn,
fired into a crowd of church-goers,
killing three men and fatally wound
ing the pastor.
Illinois Centrals fast Diamond Spe-
cial, south-bound, ran into an open
switch at Divernon, 20 miles south of
Springfield, and was ditched. A little
girl near the tracks was killed by
fragments and the engineer and fire.
man were injured.
In the presence of crowd of women
shoppers at the Fourteenth street sta
tion of the Sixth avenue elevated rail-
road, New York, well-dressed woman
OF rs threw herself in front of a mov-
ing train and was so terribly injured
that she died few moments later.
The Prussian Academy of Science,
an association of eminent men under
the patronage of the government, has
inherited the sum Of $500, 900 from a
banker named Sampson. The money
is to be expended for scientific pur-
poses.
Fire in Fond du Lac, Wis, DESTROYED
several churches, seven dwellings and
other buildings, the loss being $780,
900.
At West Union, 1a., Walter Whit
beck was convicted of murder in the
first degree for the killing of his ia,