Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-12-02

" quarantine pennsylvania ana new
York. The East Buffalo stock yards
were closed.
Several children at Danville, Pa,
were reported to have contracted the
foot and mouth disease, an outbreak
of which among cattle caused the
states of New York and Pennsylvania
to be quarantined.
Several cattle infected with the foot
and mouth disease were found in
Philadelphia and ordered killed.
Herds of cattle infected with foot
and mouth disease were found on five
farms near Detroit, Mich, and after a
conference between Secretary Wilson
and other officials the state was quar-
antined.
Three firemen were seriously in
smoke during fire at the new Hotel
Monroe in Butler, Pa.
The hospital ship Relief is several
days overdue at Manila and some con-
Germ Is felt for her safety.
Mrs. Georgianna Sampson of Pal
AAAS e3 Az L. "AuO" VI 0SaAp-
son, nephew of the late Admiral
Sampson, was arrested charged with
the murder of her husband, whose
death was at first said to be suicide.
DIR. O. S. Mills, house physician at
the Columbus co., insane asylum,
committed suicide at Gallipolis, O., by
shooting.
Two tornadoes worked havoc in
western Arkansas. About thirty lives
were lost and vast amount of prop
erty In many towns destroyed.
Reports from Pittsburg say that
Theodore N. Barnsdau and associates
have practically obtained control of
all gas territory west of the Missis-
sippi river, having recently acquired,
1t is rumored, control of the gas fields
of the states of Oklahoma and Kan
sas.
While playing duel, Robert Warren.
13 years old, of Marquette, Mich, was
shot and killed by Robert Miller, Is
years old.
Gov. Joseph w. Folk decided that,
under the Missouri statute, all the
electoral votes of the state should go
to William H. Taft.
Fire damaged the Star block in the
heart of the business district of Rock
Island, ILL.,, to the extent of $4,000.
S. B. Tremble, Chicago bond
broker, was accidentally shot and
killed by DIR. Frank Stuart of Marshall,
Mich, while they were hunting near
Ellsworth, Kan.
Gross Misrepresentation. of values
and Justification of accounts on the
part of the management of A. Booth
& Co. of Chicago, are indicated clear.
ly In the condensed report of the char
tered accountants who have made an
examination Of the company's books
and its business affairs.
Following a neighborhood quarrel at
Carona, Kan, Hezekiah Stradler,
carpenter aged 20 years, slashed Mrs.
Butts. his next-door neighbor, with a
razor, cutting her head entirely off.
Speaking in the house of lords,
Field Marshal Lord Roberts declared
that the lack of military force suffi-
cient to make hopeless the attempt of
an invasion would in all probability
be the cause of the loss of Great Brit
AIMS supremacy at sea. In a studied
speech he pointed out the comparative
ease with which Germany could land
an army on the shores of England.
Under the present conditions England
would be forced, he said, to submit to
most humiliating demands.
Henry M. Flagler and Samuel C. T.
Todd were the men who really created
the great Standard Oil trust, according
to John D. Rockefeller, whose cross
examination in the suit to dissolve the
combine was continued.
Sensational reports were in circula-
ton In Panama to the effect that what
is known as the south toe of the
Gatun dam of the Panama canal had
sunk
Miss Lillian Mckee, supervisor of
art In the North Side high school of
Pittsburg, and w. S. Bell, we!l-known
and wealthy photographer, were run
down by a passenger train, Miss Nc
Kee being killed and Mr.. Bell badly
injured.
Girth Spencer, a young farmer of
Owen, Ind, was accidentally shot and
killed by Miss Ida Reinhart, to whom
he was engaged to be married Christ.
mas day, at the girls home in Louis.
Vile. Ky.
United States Judge Taylor at Cleve.
land, O., granted an Injunction against
the American Telephone & Telegraph
Company lBell long-distance SYSTEM
and the Central Union Telephone Com
pany BELL company operating in Ohio,
Indiana and 1llinois), restraining them
from interfering with the business of
the Independent companies operating
IN those and adjoining states.
The bank of Sweet Springs, at
Sweet Springs, Mo-, was robbed of
$500 in currency by professional
craftsmen who blew open the vault
with dynamite.
Conveying to the American govern.
ment the gratitude of the Chinese peo.
pie for remittance of a debt amounting
to nearly $14,000,000, Tang Shao vi,
a powerful figure in the affairs of the
Chinese empire, arrived in San Fran
cisco on the steamer Mongolia. With
him was Prince Tsai Flu, a member of
the royal family. and a large retinue.