Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-11-25

Mrs. Kate Cigrand of Chicago
claims the estate left by Jacob
Cigrand of Rockford, ILL.,, asserting
that she is his widow.
At an interview between Emperor
William and Chancellor Won Buelow
the emperor made formal promise to
his people that in the. future he would
not act except through the chancellor
and his associate ministers.
Famous old Lookout Inn, on the
crest of Lookout mountain, was
burned to the ground, together with
all its contents, and four cottages.
Fifty state convicts employed in the
mines at Pratt City, Ala, formed a
conspiracy to set No. 3 mine afire and
escape during the confusion, and as a
result eight of them were burned to
death, one is missing and the other
Al were safely locked in the stockade.
Witnesses in the trial of Ray Lam
phere at Laporte, Ind, told of the
love affairs and quarrels of Lamphere
and Mrs. Belle Guinness and of his
threats against her.
The Hawaii Shimho of Honolulu
published what purports to be text
of new treaty between Japan and
the United States, the official an
nouncement of which, it says. will not
be made until next February.
Mrs. Sophie Eastman, daughter of
the late Carter Harrison, former may.
or of Chicago, was married at Ashe-
! vile, N. c., to Baker E. Edwards of
| Norfolk, Va.
The plant of the 1ndianola Miss. }
Cotton Compress & Warehouse Com
pany and several adjoining buildings
were destroyed by fire. the loss being
| 100000.
Emile Stricken was killed while
driving an automobile in a race at
Birmingham, Ala, the tires of his car
exploding.
The Citizens National bank of
| Monticello, KY, closed it's doors on &C.
count of shortage Of $4,000 in the
cashiers department.
Denver celebrated the f1ftieth ami
versary of its founding with big
| banquet.
The racing balloon United States,
which started from Los Angeles
| crossed the Sierre Madre mountains
and then was blown back almost to
the starting point
The demurrer of the New York, New
Haven & Hartford railroad to the bill
OF information by Attorney General
! Malone of Massachusetts, to prevent
the New Haven railroad from holding
stock of the Boston & Maine railroad,
was sustained by Judge Loring.
The schooner Jennie Thomas of
Savannah, Ca, was abandoned at sea,
the crew of seven being rescued by
the steamer Afghanistan.
Herman Billick of Chicago for the
fourth time was sentenced to death.
the date of his execution being set at
December II.
The contributions of the Demo-
cratic national committee during the
presidential campaign recently ended
were not sufficient to meet the ex-
penses of the campaign, according to
Norman E. Mack, chairman of the
! committee. Mr. Mack said that he
would make the deficit good out of his
own pocket.
Six men were instantly killed and
another dangerously injured at Els
worth mine No. /, in Washington
county, Pennsylvania, when a cage
fell 2S5 feet down the shaft.
Secretary of War Wright told the
house ways and means committee that
he favored limited free entry on
sugar and tobacco from the Philip
pines.
The fourteenth annual meeting of
the National Municipal league. the six
teenth national conference for good
city government and the fourth annual
meeting of the American Civic associ-
alton assembled in joint convention in
Pittsburg, Pa.
The United States government has
sued the American Sugar Refining
Company for forfeitures and customs
duties amounting to $3,624,121, alleg-
ing fraud in weighing shipments.
The bodies of Deputy Game Warden
julius Salmonson of Michigan, his
brother Martin and Deputy Sheriff ].
c. Hazeltine were found in White
lake.
| Morris Haas, who shot Francis J.
Heney, shot and killed himself in his
cell in the county Jail at San Fran
cisco. Mr.. Heney was stated to be re-
covering rapidly.
Two trainmen were killed and two
badly injured by the explosion of a
freight engine at Hayti, Mo.
| Muskingum, Tuscarawas and Han
cock counties, Ohio, voted out the
saloons
In a football game at Monmouth. III.
between Knox college and Monmouth
two of the Monmouth players, Nc
Kiterick and Richards, were badly
hurt.
Rev. George Brinley Morgan, D. D.,
rector for the last % years of Christ
Protestant Episcopal church of New
Haven, Conn, was run down by an
automobile and killed
George A. Burnham Of Detroit.
Mich, general factory manager for
Morgan & Wright and we'll known
among automobile men, was accident
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