Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-06-17
GENERAL MEMS.

Settlement of further contests by
the Republican national committee
gave William H. Taft 5O4 votes, or
more than enough to nominate on first
ballot.
A pouch of registered mail from
Los Angeles for New York, containing
upwards of $4,000, was stolen after
reaching Kansas City.
w. F. Burns of Jackson county, S.
c., while on a bridal trip across
Panther mountain, in Greenville coun.
ty. was robbed of his pretty young
wife by gang of six men, after he
had been bound beaten and robbed.
The United States Brewers assO-
citation at it's closing session in Mil
waukee adopted a platform of prin-
ciples in which it pledges itself to the
abolition of the immoral saloon and
to the cause of temperance in the use
of intoxicants in the broadcast sense.
The United Confederate Veterans
elected Gen. Clement A. Evans of
Georgia commander-in-chief and de-
cided to meet next year in Memphis,
The great elevator of the Tri.State
Grain company at Hammond, Ind, and
100000 bushels of corn were destroyed
by fire.
According to the school census, Chi
cago now has a population of about
2,14O,000.
Joseph Letter of Chicago and Wash
ington and Miss Juliette Williams of
Washington were married at the home
of the brides parents.
Miss Margaret Sargent of Sioux
City, Ia. found her mother and man
named Joe Ford dead with bullet holes
In their heads.
Archbishop Nixon exarch of Geor-
gia. was assassinated in Tiflis by rev.
olutionists.
A monument to the Russian dead at
Port Arthur, erected by Japan, was
unveiled
An 11-year-old boy at St. Joseph,
Mo-, wrecked freight train to obtain
coal
The Montclair On. j. council adopt
ed an ordinance providing a five dol
lar fine for the owner of every dog
that banks after p. m.
M. Guchkoff made bold attack on
the grand dukes in the Russian duma,
demanding their retirement from the
army.
Miss Mabel Cutler, daughter of the
governor of Utah, eloped with and
married Thomas E. Butler, driver of a
delivery wagon.
Oregon's Democratic convention in.
structed its delegates for Bryan.
Flames destroyed about a block of
dwellings in New Orleans.
One man was killed and a score in.
jured when a crowded St. Louis street
Car jumped the track.
The Russian duma by vote of 1914
to 49, administered crushing defeat
to the ministry in rejecting the pro.
posed expenditure of $5,5OO,OOO to lay
the keels Of four new battleships.
The Venona of Boston won in class
c in the ocean yacht race from Mar.
blehead to Bermuda.
Fire of unknown origin DESTROYED
the plant of the Gallipolis CO., Foun
dry & Machine company, entailing q
loss of $4,000, with insurance OF
$4,000.
Mrs. Yates, widow of the war gov
ernor of Illinois, was reported critic
ally i'll at her home in Jacksonville.
A tornado which passed near &c.
neva, Neb., caused two deaths, fatally
injured two other persons and de.
stroyed several thousands of dollars
worth of property.
A four-year-old child, lost in Mich
igan swamp near Calumet for fou,
days, was found alive.
Stacy Matlock, chief of the Pawnee
tribe of Indians, and Miss Blanche
Bill, Pawnee girl, will be married n
Carlisle, Pa, where the young woman
1s attending the government school.