Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-03-25


whose bravery he had questioned in a
memorandum on the defense of Port
Arthur.
Judge Fremont Wood pronounced
sentence Of death on Harry Orchard al
Caldwell, Idaho, and recommended
that the state board of pardons com
mute the sentence to imprisonment.
The old warship Monongahela
burned to the waters edge at he1
station at Guatanamo bay. No one
was injured.
Postmaster d. ]. Smith Of West
Nyack, N. T., routed three safe blow
ers, seriously wounding one of them.
Trustees of the Beer Drivers and
Stablemen's union began suit against
St. Louis breweries for $1,100,00o fol-
alleged breach OF contract.
Three officials of the defunct First
National bank of Ladysmith, Wis,
were indicted for making false reports
to the comptroller of the currency.
Mayor Busse and other officials OF
Chicago received letters threatening
their death by means of a pistol that
would shoot poisoned steel points.
Night riders burned the home Of
Henry Hills, tobacco farmer of Shell
by county, Kentucky.
White residents of Port-au-Prince
fear massacre. despite the assurances
of President Nord Alexis. German and
British cruisers arrived.
The will of James Oliver, inventor of
the chilled pillow, proprietor of the
largest plow plant in the world and
the richest man in Indiana, was filed
for probate in South Bend, Ind. His
fortune is estimated to be from $780,
100000 to $63, 100000 and goes to his
relatives.
About $500 brewery employees in St.
Louis went on strike.
Tommy Burns, the American pugn-
list, knocked out Jem Roche, the Irish
champion in the first round in the
Theater Royal, Dublin, for the heavy
weight championship of the world.
Former Oil Inspector J. A. McDer-
mott of Minnesota made good nearly
$4,000 discrepancy in his accounts, due
to poor bookkeeping.
The plant of the J. J. Newman Lum-
Der company at Hattiesburg, Miss,
the largest sawmill in the state, burned
to the ground with 100000 feet of
lumber. The loss will approximate
100000.
The New Jersey Methodist Episco-
pal conference adopted a resolution
asking the United States senate to
close the Alaska-Yukon Pacific exposi-
ton on Sundays.
The emperor of Russia confirmed
the death sentence passed upon Lieut..
Gen. Stoessel, and also the courts rec
ommendation for communication of the
sentence to ten years. Imprisonment.
Secretary of War Taft told a large
audience in Plymouth church, Brook
Ign, that he believed the colored race
in America would continue to progress
in intellect, learning and industry, and
that its future was bright.
The Peoples National bank of
Aspin, COL, was Closed by order of the
comptroller of the currency in conse-
quence of the failure of it's officers to
put up $4,000 to make good the cap
ltal. which was impaired by loan.
BY division of 5 to the supreme
court of the United States affirmed the
decision of the United States circuit
court of appeals for the Eighth circuit,
imposing fines on the Chicago, Burling-
ton & Quincy Railway company for
granting, and the packers of Kansas
City, Kan, for accepting rebates on
shipments of packers products intend
ed for export.
Three persons, composing all the
male members of family, were
blown to pieces by dynamite at Acme,
Pa.
Mrs. Selma Mattson, charged with
killing her husband, Mikoli Mattson,
at Chisholm, Mimi, January II last,
by sinking a double-bitted ak into his
skull, was acquitted by jury.
The litigation over the disposal of
the London Times was ended by a
court order sanctioning the agree
ment under which a company will be
formed privately to take over the
newspaper and the business connected
with it.
Many Illinois religious and educa-
tional institutions, profit by the will
of the late Wesley B. Harvey, a
wealthy resident of Tazewell county.
Illinois Wesleyan university of Bloom
ington gets $4,000, Grand Prairie
seminary at Onarga gets land worth
$4,000 and the central Illinois con-
ference of the Methodist church re-
ceives land valued at $4,000.
The decision of the American gov.
eminent to send it's battleship fleet to
Australia has aroused the greatest en-
thusiasm throughout the common
wealth. When the announcement was
made public by the premier, Alfred
Deakin, before a huge crowd in Sgd
ney, the thousands of persons in the
audience responded by rising en- masse
and giving three deafening hurrahs for
the United States.
Gracio Elgueta, a lumber hand at
San Pedro, CAL, shot and probably
fatally wounded 11-year-old Margaret
Names, wounded seven-year-old Min
ME Shackleford twice, shot her grand
father, James Shackleford, through
both shoulders, fired at Mrs. A. Names
and was himself killed by. policemen.
Elgueta was rejected suffer of Mrs.
Names.