Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-07-08

Stock Yards from 81 to 81 per car.
BY direction of President Roosevelt,
Secretary of War Taft issued orders
to the commanding general of the de-
partment of Texas, at San Antonio,
to send sufficient number of troops
to Del Rio, Ell Paso and other points
in Texas to aid the civil authorities in
preserving order. This action was
decided upon as a result of the re.
quest from the Mexican government
that the United States do its utmost
to prevent any violation of the neu.
trality laws. Mexican troops attacked
and scattered the bandits who raided
Matamoras.
At Friedrichshafen Count Zeppelin's
airship stood brilliantly the longest
and most searching test it has yet I'm.
dergone. It remained in the air for
six hours and three-quarters, attaining
an average speed of 34% miles an hour
throughout.
The Equitable Life Assurance so.
ciety is to erect in New York an Office
building of g. stories, 900 feet high.
Philadelphia police assert that DR..
William H. Wilson was poisoned by
cyanide of potassium in a bottle of ale
sent him by young man of that city.
member of whose family died under
the physicians care.
Ten passengers were injured, none
fatally, in Pittsburg, when the con.
troller of street car exploded, the
red-hot debris of the mechanism being
blown into the car.
The Louisiana legislature passed
the Shattuck-Gay bill providing for
high license in the state.
Jealous of his young wife and mis-.
taking his son for another man, julius
Turner, 68 years of age, wealthy
farmer of Clay City, ILL.,, shot his wife
to death, seriously wounded his IT,
year-old son and attempted to commit
suicide.
The Swiss Aero clubs balloon Cog.
nae has succeeded in crossing the
Alps. This feat has often been at
tempted, but never before accom-
plished.
Dr. Peter v. Burnett, a specialist in
diseases of the eye, ear and throat,
committed suicide by leaping from the
roof garden of the Mount Sinai hos
pital in New York.
Seven persons were killed and more
than 60 injured by a tornado that de-
stroyed many houses in Clinton, Mimi
The town of Pukwana, s. D., was near
~ wiped out by tornado but no one
was hurt.
Mrs. Julius Kruger and three of hes
children persisted in fire at Milwau
kee. Kruger and one son were res
cued. seriously injured
Mamie Fisher and Miss Anna Tay-
lor were drowned near St. Joseph, Mo-.
by the upsetting of a boat.
Fire caused by the explosion of 4
kerosene lamp destroyed the Green
Mountain Falls hotel, at Green Noun
tain Falls, a summer resort Is miles
west of Colorado Springs, Col.
Sixty inmates of the MARYLAND
school for boys revolted and escaped,
score being recaptured.
Matthew Ford, town marshal of Os.
borne, Mo-, killed a robber in an e..
change of shots.
Five persons were drowned in &
flood near Wellington, Kan, caused
by cloudburst.
An explosion and fire in a San Fran.
cisco grocery store caused the death
of four persons and the injury OF
three others.
The California limited on the Santa
Fe went through burned bridge near
Hardy, AriZ., two trainmen and a pas
senger being killed and 20 persons
hurt.
William D. Sloat, a New York pa
per merchant, committed suicide while
respondent because of i'll health.
Charles R. Rose, son of James A.
Rose, secretary of state of Illinois,
eloped from Springfield, ILL.,, with Miss
Blanche Conner of Princeton, ILL.,, a
stenographer for the state board of ag-
riculture, and the two were married in
Chicago.
Fire at 1onia, Mich, destroyed two
passenger depots, church and other
buildings.
Tho Democratic state convention of
Vermont refused to instruct its dele
gates for Bryan.
The sultan of Turkey has conferred
the order of Chefakat on Mrs. Theo-
dore Roosevelt and Miss Roosevelt.
Raymond Wells, son of a Chicago
bank president, fell from a fourth
story window and was killed.
Three delegates to the General Fed
GRAFTON of Women's Clubs at Boston
were seriously injured at Newport, r.
l., when a tally-ho coach was upset.
Another delegate, Mrs. Sarah Shute
of Coon Rapids, Ia, died of heart fail
ure.
Five persons were killed in q wreck
on the Chicago & Northwestern road
near Chadron, Neb.
Harvard won the varsity boat race
from Yale. Griswold, the Yale stroke,
collapsed a mile and a half from the
finish. Secretary Taft and the family
OF President Roosevelt were among the
spectators.
The list of honors accorded on the
occasion of the official celebration of
King Edwards birthday was issued.
Four new peers have been created, ten
new privy councillors, II baronets ana
Is knights.
Five persons, including a mother
and her three children, persisted in
fire in Chicago that followed an ex-
plosion in q cehmical works.
Every claim set up by the state OF
Illinois against tho Economv Y,oh+