Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-08-19

uepdItuleNI Ol commerce ana LABOR IN
Washington.
AS a result of an explosion of fire.
damp in the Dhdweiler mine, five
miles from Saarbruekin, Germany,
Is persons were killed and six badly
hurt.
Bandits robbed railway stations at
Crown Point and Griffith, Ind, of
nearly $1,000 in money and tickets.
Miss May Williams of Kansas City,
Mo-, who won prize last spring as
the most beautiful girl in Missouri,
committed suicide because her prof.
ected marriage was about to be pre-
vented by her removal to an industrial
school,.
Chief Wilkie of the secret service
announced that many SIS bills raised
to $40 were being circulated in Texas,
Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi.
Fire in residence and millinery
store at Wheeling, w. Va, caused
the death of Clara, Mamie and Mar
garet Gavin.
Pittsburg police unearthed an al
legged conspiracy of department store
employees that had resulted in the
theft of $4,000 worth of goods.
At Dallasburg, O., Levi Fannan, q
farmer, 70 years of age, shot and ia
tally wounded his wife and seriously
injured his daughter Efie, aged Is
years, and then took his own life.
King Edward and Emperor William
met at Cronberg and had long con-
ference on European affairs, after
which Edward left for Ischl, Austria.
The village of Kootenai, Idaho, with
800 inhabitants, was destroyed by a
forest fire.
Thomas Robinson of Winnipeg, one
OF the best known barristers in Can
ada, jumped from train while de.
liriOus and was killed.
Fire destroyed the mining camp of
Ripetown, New, the loss being $780,
900.
The railroad commission of Texas
filed formal complaint with the in
terstate commerce commission against
67 railroads and other common car
riers, alleging a conspiracy on the
part of the defendants through the
Southwestern Traffic association for
the suppression of competition aud
restraint of trade in the recent action
increasing freight rates to common
points in Texas.
Eight men were killed, nearly
score of others more or less seriously
injured and thousands of dollars
worth of property damaged by the ex-
plosion of boiler in the York (Pa.)
rolling mill.
Three persons were killed and many
injured in collision between two
limited traction cars on the Western
Ohio Traction line, nine miles north
of Piqua.
The convention of the Republicans
of Tennessee designated as "The
Homerulers" nominated a ticket head
ed by T. Asbury Wright of lockwood
for governor
BY order of its directors, the Bank
of Arton, Okla, was closed pending
an investigation of it's affairs by the
state bank commissioner. w. H. Rey-
nolds, cashier, is missing.
Mrs. Daniel Leroy Dresser was
granted an absolute divorce at Sioux
Falls, S. d., from Daniel Dresser, pres
ident of the Ship Building Trust and
of the Trust Company of the Repub-
lie of New York city, on the ground of
desertion.
Dispatches from Constantinople es-
tablish beyond doubt the fact that
Mehmed Ali Bey, the Turkish minister
at Washington, has been recalled.
The flag of the American consulate
at Tabriz, Persia, was shot down by
loyalists.
At the International Historical con-
gress in Berlin American Ambassador
Hill announced that Adolphus Busch
of st. Louis was ready to give $4,000
towards the Germanic museum build.
ing at Harvard.
Capt. Baldwin made a successful
flight of five miles in his dirigible bal
loon designed for the army, and de-
clared himself ready for the official
tests.
Mrs. Bertha Hood, 30 years old. was
shot and instantly killed at her home
in Brooklyn by Ernest Seitz, "a years
old, who also shot her baby and him.
self.
The Gloucester fish schooner Mag.
gle and May was run down by the
German school ship Freya 60 miles off
Halifax harbor and nine of her crew,
including Capt. Erick McCarthoran,
persisted.
Four children lost their liyes and
five persons were seriously injured in
a fire which practically destroyed a
five-story tenement building in New
York.
During a riot at a camp of Austrians
near the smelter town of Garfield,
Utah, Constable Ben Culley and Sam
Nekis were shot and baby was
killed.
The Western Passenger association
refused to grant reduced rates for the
Bryan notification meeting at Lincoln,
Neb.
Boston was struck by a severe
storm that deluged the city, doing
much damage.
Ten municipal officials of Mile End
parish, London, charged with grating,
were convicted otter trial lasting
month.