Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-06-17

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were decided In favor of Taft.
Edward VII, king of England, and
Emperor Nicholas exchanged royal
visits on the waters of the Bay OF
Reval in the Gulf of Finland. 1t was
notable meeting and one which may
have q far-reaching effect in the world
policies OF the futue.
Property damage to the extent OF
10000 was done in Guthrie, Okla, by
a violent wind and rain storm.
Representatives Of the large steel
interests agreed on q general reduc.
ton in prices Of finished steel prod.
ucts.
Three hundred persons, including
Marquis de Dion, were poisoned by
ptomaines at a banquet of the Auto.
mobile club Of Paris. One person ie
dead and many others are in serious
condition.
Fire In the business district Of En-.
mis-, Tex, did $4,000 damage.
Mrs. Thomas Murrill of Breathitt
county, Kentucky, killed Miss Mary
Terry, for whom Murrill had deserted
her.
Two persons were killed and five
others injured when an apartment
house in course Of construction in
Washington collapsed.
Sam T. Stevenson, former secre-
tary of New Orleans Local No. II,
Typographical union, was arrested in
that city with $4,000 of the unions
funds.
Nine persons were killed and 65 in
jured by rear-end collision of a
freight with . passenger train at Roc
capietra, Italy.
Twelve people were injured, two
probably fatally. in a street car col
lision in Chicago.
Secretary Taft was given 16 more
contested seats by the national COM
mittee and his managers refused to
consider a proposition that opposing
delegates from Louisiana be seated
with half vote each.
Roy A. Gormley, a Detroit grain
broker, ended a weeks debauch by
committing suicide in his apartment
at the Auditorium Annex, Chicago.
1ncendiaries set fire to the old St.
Paulus church at Berlin while 1900
persons were gathered to hear the
famous Dominican monk Bonaventuri.
Only the GOODNESS of the clergy pre-
vented a holocaust.
On claims aggregating 1921, O47
due the National Car Wheel company
of New York, the Wheeling & Lake
Erie railroad was thrown into the
hands of a receiver at Toledo, o.
One man was killed and one woman
and two children badly injured, and
damage estimated at $15O,00O was
done in Port Huron, Mich, and VI
cinity by severe wind and electrical
storm.
The Hotel Gramatan at Bronxville,
N. Y, and the new Cliff hotel at New
port, R. l., were destroyed by flames
Nine hotel keepers and business
men of Galesburg, ILL.,, were arrested
for violating the local option law.
For kindness shown his wife in her
sickness, Giles Gilbert, a Duluth pr
oneer who died a few weeks ago, left
$4,000 to Miss Edith Balm, a music
teacher of Chicago.
Mrs. Hugh Mclaughlin. widow of
the Democratic leader of Kings coun-
ty, New York, received notice from
Rome that the pope had conferred
upon her the title of marchioness in
the papal nobility.
The schooner yacht Dervish, owned
by Commodore Henry Morss of the
Corinthian Yacht club, won the ocean
race from Marblehead to Hamilton in
Glass B.
Four men were killed and ten in
jured by the bursting of steam pipe
on the armOred cruiser Tennessee
while she was on a speed trial near
San Pedro, Cal. Rear Admiral Sebree
and other officers had narrow escapes
from death or severe injury.
Two OF the seamen hurt by the
bursting of steam pipe on the cruis-
er Tennessee died of their injuries,
making the number of fatalities six.
Tornadoes in Iowa and Wisconsin
killed several people and caused great
property damage.
The police of Lisbon discovered and
frustrated plot to blow up with
bombs the members of the Portuguese
royal family at a religious feast.
George w. Arndt, secretary of the
Los Angeles Chamber of Mines, com.
mitted suicide by shooting.
Secretary Metcalf announced that
the two new battleships authorized at
the last session of congress would be
named Florida and Utah.
Adolph Spreckels, the millionaire
yachtsman, married Miss Elsa de
Brettville, daughter of an old resident
of San Francisco, in Philadelphia.
After holding the police at bay for
six hours DR.. Joseph Pospiseil, an en-
ploye of the pension office at Wash
ington, shot himself through the brain
while insane.
Eight persons were killed and a
score injured in head-on collision on
the Washington, Baltimore & Annapo-
lis electric railway between Annapolis
and Camp Parole
Gregory Grey of Laporte City, Ia,
made will leaving his $4,000 estate
to a poor man who had befriended
him, and ten minutes later he died.
Six men were sufIocated in a mine
at Gladstone, Col.
Leaving the other warships of the
Atlantic fleet to follow a month later,
the battleships Maine and Alabama,
designated as special service squad