Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-12-16

The State bank of Maize, Kan, was
entered by burglars, who dynamited
the safe, securing $4,000.
Miss Helen Chaffee, daughter of
Lieut.. Gen. and Mrs. Adna r. Chaffee,
was welded at Los Angeles to Lieut..
John Hastings Howard, U. 8. A.
The government decided that the
withdrawal of troops from Cuba shall
be gradual. running into April.
Capt. James Waters of the British
steamer Horribly Castle, which has ar
rived at Norfolk, Va, says the vast
tract of still water in the Atlantic
known as the Sargossa sea has dis
appeared.
Congress gave up the day to hear
ing President Roosevelt's message.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier, premier of Can
ada, was shaken up by the ditching of
his train on the Great Northern at St.
Vincent, MINI.
An unknown person in Chicago sent
~ $1,000 bills to the government con-
science fund.
The United States cruiser Yankee,
just released from Spindle Rock at
Buzzards Bay, sank near Peinkezee
island, her crew of $50 men being
saved.
The receivers of the Westinghouse
Electric & Manufacturing Company
and the Securities Investment Com
pany were discharged in the United
States circuit court at Pittsburg, Pa.
The United States cruiser Yankee.
which had been aground in Buzzards
bay for ten weeks, has been floated.
The Round Mountain Banking cor.
poration of Round Mountain, New,
closed It's doors because of bad loans.
Malvern Hill, the historic colonial
residence II miles below Richmond on
James river, belonging to William H.
Hall of New York, was completely de-
stroyed by fire.
Francisco Martinez abducted Mag.
sic Garcia, 16 years old, after killing
her parents in Las Animas county,
Colorado. Being pursued by officers,
he slew the girl and himself.
The auxiliary cruiser Panther, pre-
ceding the Atlantic fleet, arrived at
Colombo, Ceylon.
The celebration of the tercentenary
OF John Millions birth was begun by
gathering of eminent men in the
theater of the British Academy in
London.
City councils of Anaconda and Mis-
soula, Mont, protested against pros
pected interference in the Anaconda
copper plants by the government be.
cause the fumes killed vegetation
Harold Burns, for whom the police
have sought for two years on charge
Of promoting million-dollar business
directory swindle in northern Illinois
cities, was captured in Chicago.
Three masked men held up the East
Side bank of Portland, Ore, secured
$4,000 and escaped.
Adolph Schultze of Schenectady, N. Y,
shot and killed one of a crowd of boys
who were snowballing him.
The case of Mrs. Florence Maybrick
and her mother, Baroness Won Rogue
of New York, involving title to land
said to be worth about $2,500,00 was
decided in their favor in the chancery
court at Richmond, Va.
Both houses of congress convened
for the second session of the Sixtieth
congress. Little was done the first
day except the swearing in of Sena-
tors Cummins and Page and of seven
new representatives.
Mrs. Emma Russell Chesebrough,
wife of noted yacht designer, COM
mitted suicide at her home in Bristol,
RI
Eleven soldiers were killed and &c
other injured by an explosion in the
magazine at the Calcutta military
station.
Wreckage which has come ashore
at Cape Ray leaves little room for
doubt that the sturdy little steamer
500 City, which for 20 years piled as
| an excursion vessel on the Great
Lakes, went down with her crew in
the midst of the gale that dashed the
| Newfoundland coast for two days.
She was on her way to the Gulf of
Mexico and carried a crew of % men.
Mrs. Abbie Rice completed her testi-
mony in the Davis trial at Omaha by
relating the extraordinary agreement
which she says Dr. Rustin made with
Davis, whereby Davis was to kill the
physician in return for poison with
which to commit suicide.
President Roosevelt pressed a but.
ton that gave the signal for the open.
ing of national apple show in Spo.
kane, Wash.
Excitement incident to closing the
National Exchange bank at Spring
field, Mo-, was aggravated when w. O.
Oldham, cashier of the State Savings
bank, tried to shoot H. B. Mcdaniel,
president of the Union National bank.
He fired one shot but missed.
Thomas F. Gilroy, Jr., receiver of
the Fidelity Funding Company of New
| York, which went into bankruptcy on
October % last, announced that stock
| holders and creditors of that corpora
ton would lose more than $5,OOO,OOO
as result of the failure. The cred
itors are mainly Catholic churches,
priests and nuns.
OBITUARY.
Gen. Hugh Cameron, known as the
Kansas Hermit" died of apOplexy in