Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-12-09

not stop the steady advance of the
revolutionists. Gen. Antoine Simon is
about to attack Jacmel, and will then
resume his march on the capital.
Mrs. Nicholas p, Errington of Chi
cago killed her 11-year-old daughter
Theresa and herself in Memphis no.
tel by means Of poison. Her husband
could give no explanation of his wife's
deed.
The government refused to let the
citizens of Pine Bluff, Ark, cut
through levee to save the town, and
every available man was put to work
strengthening the river banks.
The celebration of the diamond jubi.
lee of Emperor Francis Joseph began
with an illumination of Vienna more
gorgeous than anything ever before
seen. The crowd was SO dense that
two persons were killed and many
others injured.
Race riots in Prague became so
serious that it seemed probable mar.
tial law would be declared.
John Alan White, 20 years old, of
Walton, N. Y, student in the Yale
graduate school, committed suicide by
jumping from the top Of West Rock
to the ground below, distance of 100
feet.
DR. Randolph F. Hass of New York
committed suicide on the grave of his
wife.
A plot to overthrow the government
of President Ngueroa of Salvador was
discovered and frustrated. Martial law
was proclaimed.
Lee Levy and Adolph s. Asher, H.
quOr dealers, were found guilty in the
federal court at st. Louis of sending
improper advertisements through the
mails and of sending liquors bearing
improper labels by express. The case
is the celebrated gin-label affair that
played prominent part in the Prohi.
bition campaign in Tennessee.
All fourth-class postmasters in the
states east of the Mississippi river and
north of the Ohio river were placed
in the classified service by an execu.
tive order of the president.
The will of Mrs. William Astor OF
| New York, filed for probate, disposes
of real estate worth las much as $780,.
600 and personal property as much as
100000" Two daughters-Mrs. viii.
son and Mrs. Haig-are the chief
beneficiaries.
So expensive has been the campaign
| OF the department of agriculture
against the foot and mouth disease,
prevalent among herds of cattle in
New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan
and Maryland, that Secretary Wilson
will ask congress for an emergency
appropriation of 100000 for this
| work.
Two Japanese steamships collided
and sank of the port of Chefoo, China,
and 1t was reported that 700 persons,
including many Americans and Eu-
peans, were drowned.
The duke of the Abruzzi cabled to
Miss Elkins that he was unable to
overcome the objections to their mar
rage.
Citizens of Pine Bluff, Ark, held a
mass meeting to devise measures to
save the city, which was threatened
with flood. 1t was determined that
the channel of the Arkansas river
should be diverted by cutting through
a strip of land a few miles to the
north where horseshoe bend begins.
Citizens of Port au Prince, Hayti,
were thrown into panic by the steady
| advance of Gen. Simon and his army
of revolutionsts.
The supreme court of the United
States reversed the decision of the
United States circuit court for the
eastern district of Virginia, holding to
be unconstitutional the order of the
state railroad commission fixing a two
cent passenger rate on state business,
the effect being to uphold the order.
Edward Ward Vanderbilt of Brook
Ign, husband Of the "spiritualistic
bishop Mary Ann Scannell-Pepper-
Vanderbilt, was declared sane by a
sheriff's jury.
Three thousand persons were rem
dered homeless and hundreds of houses
inundated in West Guthrie, Okla, as a
result OF the overlooking of the Cot
tonWood river and it's tributaries. The
Hood was caused by heavy rain that
lasted two days.
TWenty-one out of 116 Chinese held
at the Pacific Mail dock in San Fran
cisco pending the decision of the i'm
migration officers as to whether or
not they were entitled to enter the
United States, escaped from the deten-
ton shed.
All the new light thrown on the muir
der of Adolphe Steinheil and Nine.
Japy, which occurred in Paris on the
night Of May 81 at the home Of the
artist. only strengthens the convic.
ton that Nine. Steinheil either stran-
gled the victims alone after admins.
tering a narcotic or poison, subse-
quently binding herself to the bed, or
had an accomplice in the person of a
professional criminal.
The Philippines coasting steamer
Pointing. carrying a large number of
laborers from Narvacan to the rice
fields in Pangasinan province, struck
a rock and sank during storm of
the town of San Fernando and about
100 persons were drowned.
Nellie Morton of Belleville, ILL.,, con-
fessed that she watched her sweet.
heart, Sydney Baker, chloroform aged
Peter Waeltz, who was found with his
skull crushed.
| President William A. Shanklin Of