Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-06-10

City, Kan, the proposition to substf
tute the commission form of govern
ment for the present one was de.
feated.
/ Federal Judge Lacombe at New
York decided that Mrs. w. B. Leeds
must pay 60 per cent. duty on the
$4,000 pearl necklace she brought
from France.
Grant Poole, who killed Mrs. E. H.
Orvis in the Methodist church at Oak
field, Wis.,, was caught by a farmer
near Ladoga.
For perhaps the first time in history
there will be a fair election in Central
America the first week in July, when
Panama chooses it's new president.
The campaign has become so threaten.
ing that it has been decided to guard
the polls with United States marines.
| Herman E. Schnabel, inventor, pio-
neer barb wire manufacturer, old
friend of John w. Gates and Isaac ELL
wood, and one-time millionaire, shot
himself dead in Chicago.
The Cunarder Mauritania broke the
record for the long course from
Queenstown to New York with but
three propellers working.
| kurds have massacred more than
200 Armenians near Urumiah and be-
sieged that city, and war between
Russia and Persia is feared.
Bert McMillin, ranch foreman near
La Belle, Mo-, killed his wife, two lit
tie children and himself.
Four men robbed the state bank Of
Cuba, Kan, and escaped with between
$4,000 and $4,000 after a fight with
citizens.
The accident to the Red Star line
steamer Vaderland, over which con-
siderable anxiety had been felt on &C.
count of rumors that she had gone
ashore or had been in collision with
another vessel, was very slight, con-
sisting of disarrangement of her ma
| chinery.
James Brimmingstahl, under arrest
| at DoWagiac, Mich, on charges of
murder, was released because his wife
was the only witness against him.
The supreme court of the United
States affirmed the decision of the
United States circuit court for the
eastern district of Missouri in the ex-
tradition case of H. Clay Pierce of the
Waters-Pierce Oil company of St.
Louis, holding him subject to extradi-
ton to Texas, where he is under in
dlctment on charge of perjury.
By consolidation into the Fifth
Third" National bank two of the old
est and strongest national banks in
Cincinnati ceased as independent in
stitutions.
Allentown, Pa, was terrified by a
severe earthquake.
Adolph Steinheit, well-known
painter, and his motherin-law, were
strangled by robbers in Paris.
| The currency commission appoint
ed by Vice-President Fairbanks and
| Speaker Cannon under the terms of
the Aldrich-Vreeland bill, held it's first
meeting and organized by electing
Senator Aldrich chairman and Repre-
sentative Vreeland vice-chairman.
F. L. Wood, young aeronaut, made
| a parachute drop at Passaic, N. j.,
fell into the Passaic river and was
drowned because he was entangled in
| flag he carried.
Three young boys held up Great
Northern train near Great Falls, Mont,
and robbed the passengers. They
were arrested and confessed.
Peter H. Jetberg of Amherst, Wis,
was found robbed and murdered in
Neenah, Wis.
Society women of England and
France were passengers in several of
the 81 balloons participating in the
international aeronautic contest which
started from birmingham, Eng.
William Eidelman, his wife and two
children were drowned near Riverton,
N. j., their boat being upset.
The eight new bishops of the Meth
odist Episcopal church were conse-
Grated at Baltimore, Md.
Almost simultaneously in Washing.
ton and New York, indictments were
returnedl against Theodore H. Price,
the cotton OPERATOR; Frederick A.
Peckham and Moses Haas, both of
New York, and Edwin S. Holmes, Jr.,
formerly assistant statistician of the
department of agriculture, for alleged
participation in government crop re.
port leaks.
Judge James S. Young of the United
States circuit court at Pittsburg ap-
pointed receivers for the Wabash
Plttsburg Terminal Railroad company,
the Gould line over which the Wabash
system gained entrance into Pittsburg
several years ago, and an important
link in the proposed Gould trans-con-
t1nental system.
The battleship Kentucky was quar-
antined because case of smallpox de-
velOped aboard.
Twenty passengers were seriously
injured when the observation parlor
car on the Royal Blue Flyer train on
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad left the
rails two miles from Garrett, Pa. and
plunged down an embankment.
The body of George Clinton, first
governor of New York, was taken to
Kingston, N. Y, for final burial.
The inhabitants of Samos, a Greek
island off the west coast of Asia
Minor, are in revolt against the prince
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