Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-01-15

The Nebraska Republican state COM
mittee fixed the state convention for
March IL at Omaha and declared for
Taft.
Capt. Daniel Ellis, aged 70, the cele-
brated union scout of East Tennessee,
died at his home near Elizabethtown,
Tenn.
A schooner was wrecked on the
Diamond shoals, near Cape Hatteras,
and only two Of the crew of seven
were saved.
A radical bank bill was presented
in the Illinois house at Springfield by
Representative Templeman. It pro-
vides that losses by depositors owing
to failures shall be shared pro rata
among banks.
Attorney General Bonaparte direct
ed the various United States attor-
neys to institute suits against a large
number of railroad companies to re-
cover penalties incurred by them for
alleged violations of the safety ap.
pliance law.
Isaac Kushemon, 17-year-old New
York boy, who was q bank messenger
and disappeared, was arrested on his
return from Europe, charged with TAX
ing $500 collected for the Bank Of
North America.
Running at a speed Of 30 miles an
hour the second section Of an excur-
sion train on the Southern railway
from Cleveland, O., known as the
Collver special, and bound for Florida
points. plunged through q trestle over
Copper Mine creek, about so miles
west Of Atlanta, Ca, and three train
men were killed. two women fatally
injured and 80 other passengers
hurt.
Rev. D. I. McDermott, rector of
Catholic church in Philadelphia, re-
fused to permit lodge of Hibernians
to attend funeral in the church, and
made serious charges connecting the
order with the Molly Maguires.
Indicted by the federal grand jury
for the over-certification of Is checks,
representing in the aggregate over
100000 and drawn by the firm of
Otto Heinze & Co. on the Mercantile
National bank, F. Augustus Heinze,
the copper magnate and former presi-
dent of the Mercantile National bank,
himself to United States
Commissioner Shields in New York
and later was released on $4,000 bail.
Waiter c. Stewart, superintendent
of the municipal lighting plant of St.
Joseph, Mo-, and other persons were
indicted for fraud by means of pad
ding pay rolls.
The long overdue Mount Royal of
the Canadian Pacific railways Allan
tic service steamed slowly into
Queenstown. Heavy weather and
trouble with her boilers compelled her
to put back.
At Springfield, ILL.,, Judge Creighton
appointed the Sangamon Loan and
Trust company receiver for the Me-
chanicsburg Coal company of Me-
Ill.
The students Of Washington uni
versity at st. Louis held a meeting
and formulated demands upon the
faculty to reinstate Student j. Allen
Stevens, recently expelled, on threat
of general student strike.
Senator Aldrich introduced in the
senate the currency bill which for
some time had been under considera-
finn hy Pop,,h13ooc xooroLo.. "a 49,
senate.
Gagged with his own handkerchief.
tied by the feet to the iron upright of
the elevated railway and robbed of
$500 in cash and $500 in checks, was
the fate that befell J. Ward Flock, a
collector for Libby, Mcneil & Libby,
of Chicago.
Harry Gordon, formerly president of
the Tippecanoe club, committed sui
eide in Cleveland, O., by shooting in
the head after swallowing morphine.
Despondent because of ill health
and financial difficulties, M. A. Horn,
merchant, councilman, bank director
and stakeholder in manufacturing
concerns, drowned himself at Def.
ance, o.
While the selection of Baron Taxa
hira, Japanese ambassador to Italy, to
succeed Vfscount Aoki at Washing.
ton, has not been officially announced.
1t Is admitted at the foreign Office in
Tokyo that the appointment has been
decided upon.
A daughter was born to the duchess
OF Manchester, who was formerly
Miss Helen Zimmerman of Cincinnati.
at Kylemore castle, Ireland.
Seven hundred and forty thousand
dollars is missing from the Bank of
Yucatan. Fernando u. Rodriguez.
sub'director, and Mateo Ponce. ex-
cashier of the bank, and ten other per.
sons have been arrested.
Maj. Henry Ward Wells. a veteran
attorney of Peoria, Ill.,, and one of the
trainers Of the Illinois constitution in
1870, died, aged "a years.
c. Snider and wife were found shot
to death in their burning house at
Carbonate. Ill.
Richard A. Ballinger resigned as
commissioner of the general land Of
flee and Fred Dennitt was appointed
to succeed him.
George L. Chase, president of the
Hartford Fire Insurance company.
died in Hartford, Conn.
United States District Attorney
Sims In Chicago asked the federal
court of appeals to increase the super.
sedeas bond Of the Standard Oil COM
pany of Indiana to $29,240,000, the