Willmar tribune., 1908-01-22

Fire Chief Harding sof Jackson. o.
was run over and killed while an
swering flre call.
Eight hundred unemployed men
marched to the city hall In st. Louis
and asked Mayor Wells for work.
Harvey Lockner of Tuscola, ILL.,,
while insane killed his wife, his baby
and himself.
Representative SABBATH of Chicago
introduced bill imposing tax upon
all dowrfes, gifts, settlements. or ad-
vances of property made in consid-
Grafton of or in contemplation of mar
riage by citizens or subjects of the
United States of America to persons
other than citizens or subjects of the
United States of America"
Smoke entering the Nixon theater
at Pittsburg, Pa, started panic that
was quieted by the efforts of detec-
tive.
Ten persons were hurt and tene-
ment house wrecked in New York by
three dynamite bombs, exploded pre-
sumably by Black Hand members.
The great Mexican gold mining
camp of Ell Oro was reported to be
burning up.
Testimony in the court-martial of
Gen. Stoessel at st. Petersburg
showed that the Russian soldiers de-
Tended Port Arthur with desperate
bravery, and called forth cheers from
the hearers.
Canon William S. Chase, rector of
Christ Episcopal church, New York.
was found guilty of contempt CT court
by Justice Marean of the New York
state supreme court for questioning
the legality of an Injunction. Sentence
was suspended. .s ..
The festivities in honor of the
American fleet at Rio were marred by
the illness of Rear Admiral Evans.
Samuel V. Proudfit Of Iowa, first as
sistant attorney in the Office of the at
torney general Of the interior depart
ment, has been appointed assistant
commissioner of the general land Of
flee. .
Prof B. M. Reynolds, for the past 30
years one of the best-known educators
of Wisconsin and Minnesota, died in
hospital at Morgan City, Ala.
The Citizens Telephone company of
Batavia, O., went into the hands of
receiver Monday.
That former Attorney General Jud-
son Harman will be candidate for
the Democratic nomination for presi-
dent of the United States was con-
firmed by John w: Hill Of Cincinnati.
Raisuli. the bandit, has joined Mu-
lai Hafid, the new sultan of Morocco,
and stin persists in his refusal to give
up Caid Sir Harry Mclean, except by
order of the new leader.
Secretary Taft has written a letter
to the president recommending an in
crease of the width of the Panama
canal locks from 100 feet, as at pres
ent planned, to 10 feet.
Emmett R. Olcott, well.known
New York lawyer, fell dead of apo
plexy.
Robert Maclay & Son, members of
the New York stock exchange, failed
for $1,500,000.
Edward KEEPER, who was tied to
tombstone in a cemetery for several
hours at night as part Of his hazing
at Rose Polytechnic institute, Terre
Haute, last fall, died in San Antonio,
Tex, as q result.
]. Gilman Chouteau. 72 years old.
descendant of the founder of st.
Louis, who was born in 1886 In the
first house erected in the city, died at
the hotel at which he had been living
for 22 years.
The socialists of Berlin, 10000
strong, made remarkable demonstra-
ton against the government and
Chancellor Won Buelow: because their
demand for direct universal suffrage
was rejected. There was great disor.
der in the streets and the manifesto
tions were helped along by about 30,-
600 sympathizers with the socialists.
Marvin r. Reynolds, 20 years old,
night clerk at the Olivia apartments
hotel in Joplin, Mo-, was killed, and
Mr.. and Mrs. John E. Stephens were
seriously injured by an explosion of
natural gas.
John Ullery of Indianapolis, Penn
sylvania freight conductor, was in.
stantly killed at Richmond, Ind, by
another freight train, of which his
brother, William Ullery, was en-
gineer.
The socialists organized suffrage
demonstration before the building of
the Prussian landtag in Berlin in which
a radical resolution demanding univer-
sal suffrage in Prussian elections came
up for discussion. They were dis
persed by the police, and Chancellor
Won Buelow said the government was
against manhood suffrage.
Paul Bowers, aged IA years, shot
and killed a negro burglar in his home
at Alverton, Pa.
New Jersey railway commissioners
report that from July 20 to December
l, 1907, 108 persons were killed and
1913 injured by railroads in the state.
George F. Evans, vice president and
general manager of the Maine Central
railroad, died at Vanceboro, Me.
Fire in the business section of AL,
bion, ILL.,, destroyed the Edwards Coun.
ty Bank building, the new National
Bank building, the telephone exchange
and four stores.
Terrorists of Warsaw threw bomb
at post car station, killing two men
and injuring ten, and escaping with a
large sum of money.
Henry Farman. the French aero